Grandpa Cars -- Smog Era Cars -- Land Yachts

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  1. GoT

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    late 70s American cars were mostly horrid abortions.

    Still using engineering tolerance from the 50s while Japanese/Euros were using robots and space age tolerances.

    USA caught up rapidly in the 80s though
     
  2. Hormesis

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    Look at these poor officers with only one light on top...o_O
     
  3. avvie

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    Yep...thankfully Lee Iococca came along and saved us with the Chrysler Reliant K! MURICA!!
     
  4. Smash

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    Damn it's ugly. Now I know where Volvo got their inspiration from:
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  5. Oilers27

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    Those big dirt roads were landing strips for the airplanes coming with goodies from Columbia.
     
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  6. The Hammer

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    Slow day, maybe some nostalgia on a weekend when people are visiting their families.

    Picture of a 1972 Fleetwood 75 -- for when you want to be the biggest son of a ***** on the road.

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  7. GoT

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    stumbled across this and I LOL'd worth 4mins
     
  8. GrayGhost1951

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    Total BS. The japs never did anything innovative except make things lighter and cheaper. The jap version of R + D is not research and development - it's ripoff and duplicate. When gas was under $1.00 no one thought twice about buying a big American car, but when it went over that the japs had a field day. Then the car companies here were caught in the emissions mandate, which they had to band aid every car with so they could barely run. Finally they switched everything to throttle body then pure fuel injection, and now they are all pretty much the same. Many buy the same parts from one manufacturer - think Tanaka for airbags. Remember, Henry Ford embellished the assembly line (copied from gun manufacturers) in the early 1900's. The Euros had a head start in making autos, but the US caught up pretty quick. In fact, when the US started making 12 cylinder engines, and pilots from the first world war were taking their cars over to Europe, Enzo Ferrari fell in love with the sound and copied it for his cars. So give some credit to the good old USA.
     
  9. GoT

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    do you know what engineering tolerance means?
     
  10. GrayGhost1951

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    Yes. Do you really care what the tolerances are on a shytbox from japland? That said, I will admit that during the late 70's there were some terrible issues in building cars in the US. No one really cared anymore, because all the performance had gone out of them, and they really weren't any fun to drive. People were buying foreign cars for gas mileage and the big 3 had some real issues with employee wages and morale. But to think something is that much better made just because it comes from somewhere else is silly. The only way that holds true is with Mercedes or BMW, but you pay out the butt to buy them, and even worse to fix them.
     
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