The 70's thread

[Rooster]

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Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. The album that stands the test of time better than any other.

[Derron]

Drugs, drinking, pussy, music.

[Softball Bat]

Carson was king of the '70s.

Here he is with a drunk Ed McMahon...

[Carson]

[smackaholic]

I'll see your drunk Ed McMahon and raise you a drunk pair.....

[smackaholic]

We bought drugs from total strangers and never had to worry about it (although now I'm incredulous at my doing that for so many years). Waaaay too much drinking, drugging and partying. Puts a big smile on this old face just thinking about it.

I had hair...lots of hair.

Greatest muscle cars ever.

My dad drove this exact machine:



Wish I'd had the money to buy it. I had a POS Cougar...beautiful, but an old, used up POS when I got it.

Best music period hands down. I know everyone says that about their teens and early 20s era, but in the late '60s and the '70s there was so much experimentation. Bands had unique sounds. You could hear two notes and know who the band was, whereas since then everything is so homogenized. Jethro Tull's music didn't sound anything like Black Sabbath's. Jon Lord's organ and Ritchie Blackmore's guitar. Wishbone Ash's twin leads. Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi took Cream's formula to new levels. ABB didn't sound like anything we'd heard before. On and on and on...hundreds and hundreds of bands that had their own sound. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK!!! It was GREAT!

Girls. Oh man. Girls. Long hair, tight bell bottom jeans. Bare midriffs. More 'tang than should be legal. Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

There were things great about the 70s, music being number 1.

But cars?

The 70s started out strong, but faltered early. By 1974 that Mach 1 became this.....



My first car was that turd, regrettably. The 70s and first half of the 80s was the automotive dark ages. By the late 80s, the auto biz started a recovery.

[Dinsdale]

I still have my mom's 78 Mach1 (the coolest Mustang II there was). Less than 50K on it. TTop. And it still needs a bunch of work. Very difficult to get parts (and no, it's nothing like a Pinto).

[Mikey]

[Mikey]

[Mikey]

[Goober McTuber]

The 70's thread? That was 40 years ago. You expect me to remember that shit?

[smackaholic]

We expect you to remember the 70s clear as a bell. We know you'll forget yesterday. It's sort of the way age related dementia rolls.

I learned this back in the late 80s. I came home on leave and my grandma asked me who I was (I was her favorite grandchild). She then asked about her sister Ella, who died before I was born.

[Goober McTuber]

I was pretty high in the 70's.

For Melty, it was ages 6-16. Highlight was finger-banging his sister. Probably still true today.

[Derron]

I still have my mom's 78 Mach1 (the coolest Mustang II there was). Less than 50K on it. TTop. And it still needs a bunch of work. Very difficult to get parts (and no, it's nothing like a Pinto).

They may have been a bit ugly, but the Cobra model had a 302 4 barrel and 5 speed and would flat get with the program. Buddy had one, I had to teach him how to do burnouts with it.

[Goober McTuber]

I was pretty high in the 70's.

For Melty, it was ages 6-16. Highlight was finger-banging his sister. Probably still true today.

Except I don't have a sister. Must have been my brother.

[smackaholic]

78 did have the 302. Don’t know if it was a 4 barrel. I doubt it was a 5 speed. More likely a 4. The much improved Fox body which arrived in 79 I think had the first 5 speed.

Mine was a 74,first year of the II. It had the dreadful solid lifter V-6. It might have made 5 hp more than the 2.3 4.


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[L45B]

^ Government office, 2019.

[Mikey]

I was pretty high in the 70's.

For Melty, it was ages 6-16. Highlight was finger-banging his sister. Probably still true today.

Except I don't have a sister. Must have been my brother.

The truth will always come out eventually.

[Mikey]

Mustang II...Boredom Zero.

[Mikey]

No, but you were finger-banging your brother.

[Dinsdale]

They may have been a bit ugly, but the Cobra model had a 302 4 barrel and 5 speed and would flat get with the program. Buddy had one, I had to teach him how to do burnouts with it.

Mine has the 302 (there wasn't a 4BBL available on any model, nor a 5 speed. Mine's a C6 3 speed.) In order to do a burnout, it required putting more than about 1/4 ounce of pressure on the gas pedal... not sure it needed much instruction. Very restricted exhaust, rated at like 140HP or something like that. But didn't weigh much, and on the rare occasions it hooked up, it was a rocket ship up to about 45MPH, then the party ended quickly.

The TTop model was much better looking, slightly different lines.

Looks just like this (same color, but factory white wheels):

[Dinsdale]

The 70's died in obscurity. The 80's pioneered the 70's.

Sin,
Dr Phibes

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

The 70's died in obscurity. The 80's pioneered the 70's.

Sin,
Dr Phibes

[Dr_Phibes]

Interesting decade, some autistic Germans took a crack at pop music. While they did sell a few singles, they just looked and sounded like a confused karaoke band. If you need to namedrop and can't remember what Gary Numan's band was - look up Kraftwerk.

[Derron]

Mine has the 302 (there wasn't a 4BBL available on any model, nor a 5 speed. Mine's a C6 3 speed.) In order to do a burnout, it required putting more than about 1/4 ounce of pressure on the gas pedal... not sure it needed much instruction. Very restricted exhaust, rated at like 140HP or something like that. But didn't weigh much, and on the rare occasions it hooked up, it was a rocket ship up to about 45MPH, then the party ended quickly.

Probably so. I was pretty much high from about 1973 to 1983 when I had kids. All I know was I abused the shit out of my buddies car because he was more fucked up than I was every time we got in it. My daily driver in those days was a 1969 El Camino SS with a 454. Piss poor on gas and tires but a blast to drive. Way to fuckin light in the rear end for the 454.

[Screw_Michigan]

We didn't have nearly as much to worry about - that much is certain!

Nuclear annihilation

Being drafted into war

[Smackie Chan]

We didn't have nearly as much to worry about - that much is certain!

Nuclear annihilation

When was that taken off the table?

[Screw_Michigan]

When was that taken off the table?

Good point.

[smackaholic]

I still have my mom's 78 Mach1 (the coolest Mustang II there was). Less than 50K on it. TTop. And it still needs a bunch of work. Very difficult to get parts (and no, it's nothing like a Pinto).

The V-8 does make it quicker than the pinto, but, in essence, the Mustang II was a Pinto that wasn't spending enough time at the gym. Same suspension, brakes, drivetrain (other than the V-8). It was pretty much the poster child for how laughably bad 70s domestic compact cars were.

Thank g0d, they don't "mak'em like they usta'"

My old man had a Pinto at about the same time. It was a 4 speed. And it was actually more fun to flog on back roads than the 'stang was.

[Dinsdale]

The V-8 does make it quicker than the pinto, but, in essence, the Mustang II was a Pinto that wasn't spending enough time at the gym. Same suspension, brakes, drivetrain (other than the V-8).

WRONG!

The smaller engines were the same (no V8 option for the Pinto), but other than that, every part you mentioned is different. If they were the same, I could find parts for mine.

[Mikey]

The V-8 does make it quicker than the pinto, but, in essence, the Mustang II was a Pinto that wasn't spending enough time at the gym. Same suspension, brakes, drivetrain (other than the V-8).

WRONG!

The smaller engines were the same (no V8 option for the Pinto), but other than that, every part you mentioned is different. If they were the same, I could find parts for mine.

Not even close. My mom had a Pintoilet and I drove it a lot.
Quite a comedown from the 318 Belvedere she had before that, which is the car I learned to drive in. That thing looked like your Grandma's car but could really get it going.

[Dinsdale]

A Mustang II is a Ford Fairmont with a different body. Which, unfortunately, shared very few parts with a Pinto.

[BSmack]

Pintos weren't so bad once they figured out how to stop the cars from blowing up when hit in the back.

[smackaholic]

Dins, you are confusing the Mustang II with the fox body which followed it. It was based on the fairmont.

1979–1982
The 1979 model year Mustang was based on the Fox platform. This chassis was "Ford's initiative to build a one-size-fits-all car to serve as a two-door sports car and a four-door family car" with its initial use by the larger Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr twins that debuted in the 1978 model year.[4] "Ford built the 1979 Mustang around a platform it would share with more humble cars in the Lincoln-Mercury-Ford corporate family in order to keep development and construction costs down."[5] Body styles for the Mustang included a coupe (notchback) and hatchback. Two trim levels were available: the base model and the more luxurious Ghia model. The wheelbase dimension was 4 inches shorter than the Fairmont/Zephyr series at 100 inches (the same as the outgoing European Ford Capri and 6 inches longer than the Mustang II).

The second-generation Ford Mustang, marketed as the Ford Mustang II, is a pony car that was manufactured by Ford. It was introduced in showrooms during September 1973, in coupe and hatchback versions for the 1974 model year, in time for the 1973 oil crisis.[3] The Mustang II had no common components with the preceding models and shared its platform with the subcompact-sized Ford Pinto.[4][5][6][7]

This is from wiki, which occasionally is right.

[Kierland]

It’s pretty easy to find Mrsdale talking shit and being all wrong and stuff.
But, he doe,s know h,ow to use, a com,ma.,

[Smackie Chan]

Pintos weren't so bad once they figured out how to stop the cars from blowing up when hit in the back.

I went to school with the plaintiff in the case against Ford in which the jury awarded the largest punitive damage amount at the time ($125M, which a judge later reduced to $3.5M). Dude was a dick (and not just because his name was Richard), and the accident fucked him up pretty bad. His face looked like someone took a huge wad of bubble gum and stretched it over his grill, and his nose, ears, and most of his fingers were burned off. I don't wish shit like that on anyone, but if I did, it would be him. Total douche.

[Dinsdale]

This is from wiki, which occasionally is right.

Gee, who should I believe?

Wiki, or multiple Ford dealerships which have tried to get me parts?

Hmmmmm, tough call.