History What us trad rodders were doing in the 70's...

We use to put them on everything back then,those and the Hemi mufflers.They were $10 a piece back then from Chevrolet. My Falcon has the aftermarket version of them, I think Thrush but I don't remember for sure, but the aftermarket never captured the sound of the real Corvair's.

 

Got em' on my '53 Studee, now that they've been on for awhile, they have really developed a
throaty sound...
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I remember that aftershcool episode.....

That pic of the shirtless guy with the mopar reminds me off all the older guys with cars that used to visit the guy 2 doors down from me with the 67 mustang fastback and then 68 Barracuda... all i had was my banana seat bike with the hurst slick on the back and I would ride by their house and try to make the longest skid mark I could thinking it was like a burn out lol

 

We used to call that Square Sittin' and Whore Honkin' in the small town I live in for awhile.

 

I know that guy, uh real well.

 

Me with my brother's V8 Mav. This is technically in 1980, but as stated before, it was the '70s where I grew up until at least '85!

 

man its still the 70s at my place!! and it always will be....

 

1974...swapped my 68 GTO for this 57 belair. Had a 283, muncie 4 speed. I built a 11 to 1 327 and kept the muncie...car had headers and header-mount purple hornies. The mufflers were the ones with turn downs..no tailpipes. Man! It was LOUD!
Had 8 inch corvette ralleyes on all 4.

 

Groowy Website!!!
Got some paint ideas........Ideas...?

 

Good swap. It was turning around at that time,the whole Muscle Car scene had grown a little tired.
And Man, were there some great deals to be found at that time!
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The cars in my High School Parking lot were; '69 Trans Am, Boss 302 Mustang, Hemi Charger, Cuda's, GTX, Super Bee, '69 Z/28 pace car, etc. The only real vintage tin was a '55 Dodge panel truck, with a Max Wedge. Oh yeah, and my '63 Olds Dynamic 88 4 door party wagon. The parking lot usually smelled like burnt rubber, high octane gas, and weed.

 

I remember POGOS, wasn't it at 21st and Amidon(North Meridian) in Wichita?

 

This was around '77 or so, sittin' in my mom's driveway:





Still got it, put it back to stock many moons ago...

 

I think it was a kind of a blurrrrr, a lot of the '70s are a kind of a blur.

 

i would put it back the way it looks here ,but its your car very cool

 

In 1970 my wife and I found out we were going to have our first child and she wanted me to give up my bike (67 Triumph TR6C) She wanted a small family car. I bought a 1970 Duster 340. It was still sold as a Valiant Duster and my brother had a couple of Valiants over the years. She liked them.
Good news
Because it was still under the Valiant badge it was insured as a compact.
Bad news
The first time the wife drove it her baby hormones kicked in and I thought she was going to kick me out of the car.
Two days later she fell in love with it. Go figure! We drove that car for 14 yrs.
We've been married over 45 happy yrs now.

 

I remember this commercial when I was a sprog...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNDdTuof-Ys

 

Man not only is that a great little page, my old man is on it and 3 cars ive done work on!

 

Details, Man, Details,...fill us in. Which three cars?
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I was driving down a particular street today and passed this '72-'74 Barracuda that's been sitting on the side of the same house for the last few years and thought of this thread..

Ansen slot wheels, white-letter tires, stock blue paint with the white stripe down the side. I can't recall if it had a vinyl top and while it certainly wasn't sitting high out back, I sure wouldn't change a thing on that car.

Too bad the guy won't sell it, from what a friend tells me. Wonder if he'll let me take pictures of it.


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Bitchen...

Hairy!...

Yikes!...

 

Dolemite called, he would like you to return his interior.

 

I was drivin and working on tri 5's and a '56 Olds 88.

 

jive turkey!

 

Hey fellas I just realized something funny. I went over to scroll that page again which I do from time to time and it just occured to me, I didn't own a camera in the '70s. Any pics that I have from that time period were taken by someone else and given to me.

 

I've seen a lot of things but that's got to be the first time I've seen someone paint their tail pipes orange

 

I dig the Nomad with the rallys...

 

I was a little late for the 70's, this was very early 80's;

 

Great Kiwi Kev photo in that link.