chargervert
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My friend bought this Magnum for under a grand. Running driving 360 4 barrel car with T tops. These are great entry level Mopars.
Why so much hate for anything built after `71?
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I'd kill to have this 76 Fury Sport back... but I'm still a 64 to 70 fan!
Just a pic I found. It looks great to me.
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My buddy worked at an auction house in Boston back in the late `70s - early `80`s and bought a `78 Magnum XE thru them. It was a loaded former Chrysler exec car, just a 318 but power everything, ice cold air, ran and drove great.
1974 and I loved it
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Mom's '73 Grand Am had the most torque of any car I've ever driven. If you mashed the pedal from a stop, it wouldn't move. (No power braking at all.) It chirped second even with an automatic and posi. Mash the gas at 30 mph and it still smoked the tires.
Pontiac 455. Maybe it was a freak. She liked the color but it had every go fast option Pontiac could put on it. Some say some GAs got the SD455, but Pontiac says no.
Pontiac 455. Maybe it was a freak. She liked the color but it had every go fast option Pontiac could put on it. Some say some GAs got the SD455, but Pontiac says no.
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I would add movies were bad as well.
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I wouldn't lump together "anything after 1972".
Trucks still held their own, but they
didn't rely on high horsepower numbers to get
the job done. Nor were they subject to the CAFE
standards of a car during this timeframe.
Cars really went downhill with the advent of
plastics in a vehicles' interior. Mostly in the
mid 70's to mid 80's. They made for a horrible
fit and finish.
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I wouldn't say that there is so much hate for '72 & later Mopars, rather, there's just not a lot of love for them.
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Pretty much everything in any mid-1960s car's interior is finished with plastic materials of some sort; door panels, dash pieces, rugs, console seat material, headliner, etc.
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torredcuda
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Many think E-body interiors are crappy and cheap due to the all plastic door and quarter panels.
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I`ve had many outright say anything `72 and up is garbage, not worth anything and should just be junked - they are out there.
The whole car business change by the mid 70's. Just like the EV move now, we had a gas shortage, politically created.. Car haters were in charge. Plastics took over and unleaded gas was going to eliminate all earlier leaded cars and an era was coming to a close. It took a long time for technology to squeeze hp back under the hood and the haters are still out there.
Remember, just like prohibition, it happened due to a powerful, decades-long coalition of reformers, protestants, and women's groups aiming to eliminate alcohol-related social issues, like domestic violence, poverty, and political corruption. The world's one big circle jerk, money always talks.
Remember, just like prohibition, it happened due to a powerful, decades-long coalition of reformers, protestants, and women's groups aiming to eliminate alcohol-related social issues, like domestic violence, poverty, and political corruption. The world's one big circle jerk, money always talks.
torredcuda
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More plastic use started with the E and `71 B bodies. Way nicer interior in this `78 Cordoba than most muscle cars.
thread title answer...car snobbery! people can have a personal opinion of their likes and dislikes, they just need to keep the dislike to themselves. A lot of people think they're entitled and should be seen and heard...(definition of a miserable a-hole)
Personally, I like most cars, love several, dislike only what car manufactures try to shove down our throat since greed took over pride of product.
I'm a MOPAR preference guy, but like and have and will own all American car makes, regardless of year.
It takes a pretty small brain to show disdain for someone else car merely to express your opinion to inflict pain on others. Plenty of these cliques in car clubs, I don't associate with this type.
Personally, I like most cars, love several, dislike only what car manufactures try to shove down our throat since greed took over pride of product.
I'm a MOPAR preference guy, but like and have and will own all American car makes, regardless of year.
It takes a pretty small brain to show disdain for someone else car merely to express your opinion to inflict pain on others. Plenty of these cliques in car clubs, I don't associate with this type.
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I only own one classic now, but have probably owned more new mopars than anyone on here. Mopar or no car is a comment that is senseless. We can all love cars for what they really are, a time machine and a tool used to take us to a place that makes us smile, regardless of what that choice may be. This is a mopar website, but it's full of car lovers. It's about the smell of gas..........
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The OP stated with his first post the negative reactions he was talking about were on Facebook and Forums.
So it’s probably more a reflection of the cesspool that is social media today than it is on a reflection on people in general.
Keyboard wizards, many of whom probably never even owned a vintage car, sit in their basements and post away, more often than not trying to fit in with the herd posting than express an independent intelligent opinion, let alone one based on their own actual experience.
So a few guys post negative things on post 72 cars, and then you get all the mommy’s basement dwellers chiming in looking to fit in and get acceptance from their online peer group. Sadly that is the world we live in.
My unsolicited advice is do is think for yourself and try to tune out the online noise as much as possible, and try to resist the temptation to post crap about something just because that is what everyone else online is posting and you want to fit in!
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I think the 70's b-body interiors were much better. Other than the Charger, the 60's b-body door panels were a piece of vinyl covered cardboard in between the car door frame.
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