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The $5,000 Challenge, Stuck in the ’70s Edition

Posted April 27, 2015 10:30 AM by dstrohl
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In the future, it's highly unlikely that anyone will look back at 1970s with wide-eyed awe, at least from an automotive styling perspective. For those of us who came of age in and around the decade, however, 1970s cars may well have been our first automotive objects of desire, and as cars of the 1960s grow ever more expensive, those from the 1970s become, perhaps, more appealing. This installment of the $5,000 Challenge focuses in on cars from the era that gave us, for better or for worse, Saturday Night Live, disco and The Pet Rock; which one would you most like to adopt as your own project?

The $5K challenge returns. See the results here.

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04/27/2015 2:59 PM

I am not so sure about the car aspect of the70's but locally I am seeing more and more 70's pickups and even some farm trucks getting restored and back on the road now in regular use.

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04/27/2015 8:08 PM

'73 Z-28 Camaro with a 302 SB, 4 speed and not much else. First car I ever spun out in, still remember the 360° view as it went around!

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04/28/2015 8:15 AM

"So that's a Matador!"

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04/28/2015 11:58 AM

I have fond memories of full bodied American cars where there were struts extending from the frame to the fenders. These where visible in the front wheel wells, kind of like the Hollywood prop of an old west saloon.I imagine they were there to keep the fenders from flapping.

This is part of the reason that the market shifted to foreign cars.

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