Some '70s Flashback

[stokester]

I'm going through some old magazines and found this November 1976 issue of HOT ROD magazine.

Got to love the Ford advertisement.

"From new with-it colors to soft shag for comfort..."

And of course, all the hot girls hanging around...

[The Magic Ratchet]

I remember those! My sister-in-law bought a brand new Cruisin' Wagon just like the one in the picture. She had it for a long time but with no place to keep it inside, it looked pretty sad by the time she got rid of it. I don't remember the wagon having shag in it.

Lou Manglass

[Uncle Buck]

Shaggin wagons,  small and large! The small one for the small "fun sized" girls, like a Snickers you know! 

[stokester]

"If this van's a rockin..."   

[goodfellow]

As a card carrying member of that generation and given the cookie cutter cars of today, I’d take any one of these 70’s rides. They’re pretty damn cool!


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[slip knot]

It may have some cool striping but its still a Pinto and a Pinto wagon at that. I had a 72 pinto fastback with the 1800cc motor and 74 wagon with the 2300?cc motor. The wagon was a real dog with the little C4 automatic. it would often get run over by its own shadow.

[goodfellow]

It may have some cool striping but its still a Pinto and a Pinto wagon at that. I had a 72 pinto fastback with the 1800cc motor and 74 wagon with the 2300?cc motor. The wagon was a real dog with the little C4 automatic. it would often get run over by its own shadow.

I agree that the Pinto wasn't an outstanding car, but for the time it filled a niche very well. Original price was $1995 and Ford raided the European parts bins and European Escort engines. The engines were robust and well engineered, but the American designed body and chassis left a lot to be desired. I knew several families at the time that purchased early 70s Pintos as a second family car (i.e. mom's car), and they were still on the road well into the 1990s when they were relegated to "third car status" for high school and college age kids. Those engines and transmissions took a beating and kept on going -- especially the 4-speed. You couldn't kill that transmission no matter how many student drivers in the family blasted away at it.
Parents loved Pintos because they were slow and slower (no racing). Of course the gas tank fiasco killed the car eventually --

The Pinto even had the European Cologne Capri V6 engine in its later years. -- THAT was a great engine! I owned a 1973 Capri with that engine and it was a wonderful driving sports coupe. Loved that thing.

[muddy]

I was born in the wrong decade.

Sent from my twisted mind of the mudman

[stokester]

And of course AMC is in the picture bringing out the AMX badge and putting it on a Hornet.

[john k]

The Pinto picture is stuff of nightmares.  The colorful striping didnt fare well if left in the sun, as did anything with siilver paint.  A 71 with the 1700cc was so under powered, I pulled out to pass a slow truck, hit a head wind, at 40 mph it slowed down at full throttle in 3rd gear.  But then the government saddled us with the national 55 mph speed limit, so it wasnt a big hardship. 

[stokester]

The Pinto picture is stuff of nightmares.  The colorful striping didnt fare well if left in the sun, as did anything with siilver paint.  A 71 with the 1700cc was so under powered, I pulled out to pass a slow truck, hit a head wind, at 40 mph it slowed down at full throttle in 3rd gear.  But then the government saddled us with the national 55 mph speed limit, so it wasnt a big hardship.

This is what you needed to do...  swapped in a Blown 351 Cleveland
From the same issue..

[skfarmer]

i hesitated when i opened this.  i was hoping it wasn't  a 70s full bush centerfold.......... 

or was i? 

[goodfellow]

i hesitated when i opened this.  i was hoping it wasn't  a 70s full bush centerfold.......... 

or was i? 

  … at the time, and given our age, nobody I knew cared about that little “inconvenience” — LOL


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[skfarmer]

i hesitated when i opened this.  i was hoping it wasn't  a 70s full bush centerfold.......... 

or was i? 

  … at the time, and given our age, nobody I knew cared about that little “inconvenience” — LOL


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[Uncle Buck]

i hesitated when i opened this.  i was hoping it wasn't  a 70s full bush centerfold.......... 

or was i? 

  … at the time, and given our age, nobody I knew cared about that little “inconvenience” — LOL


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Roger that on the inconvenience!