What was hot in the 1970's (man)?

My Essex was finished in 1979. Pretty typical backyard-built streetrod for the time...


Interior and dash shots...




ANd yeah...I remember the girls in the super short cutoffs. Drooooooooooooool!!

 

Hilarious. Mags, sidepipes, T/A's, green flames........that was my older brother. Just gotta laugh.

 

These in the package tray...and an IN-DASH 8 Track that you hacked up the cherry 56 Chevy dash to slam it into.

 

Ya'll didn't like the 70's????????????? The 70's were FAR OUT, MAN!!!!!!!
Larry T

 

Hairy muff's and Vans ....ya man ..... Vans. My uncle started a van club in the early to mid 70s and the club is still around today,he has long got out of the van scene but still has his original club jacket.

 

I turned 18 in 1974 so I was right in the middle of it.

What everybody else said but a couple more:

"Panel" paint jobs like these.

"Rainbow Tape", it was actually silverish but turned colors in the sun.

"Pop Top" chains. Pull off a pop top and bend the tab through the loop of the next pop top linking them together. These were real common in vans.

Heavy metal flake paint.

Pearl paint.

Chrome 3 spoke steering wheels with wood rims!

 

oh, the horror of the pop-up sunroof...

 

Just dragged my 28 rpu home in 75. Bush car....free. I loved my 67 390 fe 4 spd. Went to memphis for my first major street rod run. Didn't have a complete hotrod at the time.

 

I remember the bumper sticker, Ass, grass, or gas...nobody rides for free.

The 70's were a fun time... what I remember of it...

Cars with air shocks, Vans, big N50 tires in back, side pipes, cruising, hot pants. Lets see some more pics of 70's cars.

 

This guy....

 

And these....

 

Burt Reynolds in Hollywood & Porn.

Iron on t-shirts

The Roxy

and Vans (they will come back)..cant beat quadraphonic surround sound and a disco ball.

 

Air shocks-----check
Side pipes-----check
350-----------check
12 bolt posi---check
miles of smiles-check
Larry T

 

Here are my cars from around 1978. I built the 55 from a junker that I bought in 72, but I had bought the 40 in 1977 and I was still working on "knocking the ugly off of it"! If I were you, I would just clean it up and make it your own. There's not much from the 70's that should be brought back.

 

the vega is too early, i was concieved in 72........in one just like that.......to stoned parents....lol......at the.......no one said it.......DRIVE-IN!

 

Everyone I knew had an 850 double pumper on a stock 327. What was with that? was is suppose to do the speed of sound because of it. It would look like the Alaskan pipeline sprung a leak coming out the tail pipe.

 

The guys who were really gettin all the Bush were taking this Vista Cruiser roof and sticking it on their vans.

 

Graduation From University in 1969

Jungle Pam by far #1

my other cars: 65 Comet HT, 60 Vette custom/gasser

and my daily ride then but not HAMB friendly This:

 

Whites, painted rims, Merc caps and bias-plies!!
Not everybody ran fat tires and Tru-Spokes in the 1970's! Not me.... I couldn't afford 'em! My '39 coupe in 1975:

 

Jungle Pam and Gene Simmons Tongue! Oh and BIG bush... as I recall from my old mans Oui mags under the bathroom sink! (in arms reach of the shitter!!!) D.O.B. 1971

 

Streaking!!!

 

I'm starting to get flashbacks reading this........really man.....stop....you're freakin' me out.....

 

Six shooter water bongs!!!!

 

Denimachine (see post 19)

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=163749

 

Marantz, Pioneer, Kenwood, Sansui and Led Zep IV.

 

In England it was Transit vans covered in Murals, Morris Minors with murals and lettered tyres, buttoned dralon interiors, Camaro's called "Mister Rainbow" covered in metalflake of every colour, Fad and C Cab T's (one with a V12 even!!), and the occasional helicopter turned into a hot rod...... I kid you not! There's a few message boards out there about Rodding in England back in the day.

 

Pennys t-shirts with big bell Levis and hush puppy shoes......oh yeah and black light posters.

 

In the 70's Street Rod wasn't a dirty word and Street Rodders didn't wear gold chains !
It was a time about building cars to use and taking pride in what you could do and not what you could Buy ! There was no parts industry as today unless you needed
Model A 32 or 34 chassis parts .
Your car looks very 70's . You used to be able to buy the Crushed Velvet pre sewn
with the diamonds already in it .Big 4 doors could haul a family and a trailer hitch on
the car could haul a tent trailer for weekend campouts .They used to call them
"Rod Runs" It used to be fun .If you are a real old time Rodder you probably did some
of this . Some of my favorite sayings of the time were "Take Your Rod out and Play with it ". "Street is Neat " and "Trailered Cars Suck "
Ah the good old days !

 

Shag carpet
Thrush Hush
Mild race cams
Mallory Ignition
CobraCB with power mike & linear amp
8 Track, Grand Funk Railroad, Chicago..