Thread: Cars of the '70s

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Being a performance buff.. the first couple years of the decade were okay... but then performance fell off, as compression ratios went in the tank.

From a styling standpoint, some of the new cars were sleeker than the '60s models. The GM F-body Camaros and Trans Ams were neat. I bought a '76 T/A... flared the fenders, and put some TruSpoke wires on it. Not even close to the performance I was used to... but it looked neat.

It was also the decade of plastic parts... which started showing up everywhere on the cars. Unfortunately they did not yet have the technology to produce parts that would endure very well.