I looked at them as cheap transportation as I was only making $2.25 an hour and found new cars rusting on the dealer's lot. I ended up buying a used Datsun 510. Good decision!
@@ghw7192 Oh yeah. Good choice. Datsun was using recycled sheet metal from American cars and had tendency to rust through in the middle of a panel no where near any welds or seams.
I had two Valiants and a Gold Duster when I lived in upstate NY and you're absolutely right. I never had significant engine or transmission problems, but had to fix serious rust problems on the unibody/frame on each one. On one of the Valiants, the frame broke at the right front torsion bar while I was driving...luckily, I was in town and driving slowly. But, they were cheap used, my brother taught me how to take care of engine maintenance and repair (we laid together under it one dark cold January night changing the clutch in the driveway...), and I just used them until I used them up!
Lmao, I only like the new cheap ones for the MPG here in CALIFORNIA SoCal. I have my 67 Buick Special Deluxe that was Bought new by my great grandparents. My daily is a 14 Challenger R/T Classic in Plum crazy Purple I bought new and I get 13 city 15 freeways. The gas in Socal was 7 dollars a gallon last summer.
The slant 6 is considered one of the best engine ever made. The taxicabs used them because they were durable. Similar to what people do now using Toyota for taxi cabs. I bet Hyundai wishes they had an engine like the slant six and a transmission like the three speed bulletproof automatic that Chrysler had.
I am a Corvette, mustang type guy of this era But I inherited a Dodge dart gt, hur 2:00 st 4 speed 340 and it was funny fast impressive and fun. It had no issues except some traction off the line and not especially great handling.
I liked the old Valiants. The Dodge Dart was the exact same car. 1975 was a bad year for all American cars, as that was the first year of the dreaded catalytic converter which choked ALL of the 1975 vehicles.
Government regulations made it a bad era for all cars, even the Japanese cars. Honda Civics looked like black spaghetti under the hood with all of those hoses to try to cope with government stupidity.
Gee, great unbiased reviews😮lol. I had a '68 Dart w/a slant six that was one of the best most reliable low maintenance cars I ever owned. This dude is baked.
Wow, this is full odd crap! The Aspen/Volares were troublesome, but not the Darts and Valients! I owned a 73 Dart. It was pretty much trouble free and the 225 slant 6 lasted over 250 k miles! We had a rental fleet whilst made up of Darts and Valients. They were rock solid! The 225 is one of the most dependable engines ever made.
You’re talking about the car being an under performing car however the polara pursuit of this year was one of the most loved of the Mopar police cars that was ever made. Officer praised this car because of it’s performance and handling.
In 1974 my dad traded his 1972 Grand Prix for an economic new Subaru. Within 6 months he traded that in on a new Cadillac. I guess for him luxury and power to get on the LA freeways was more important
The 1972 Dodge Polara did 142 mph! Quickest 4 door car of that year! These were bulletproof reliable!!! Best handling fullsize cars of the era.. They did not float and wobble the GM/Ford products did..Mopar used torsion bar suspension.Mopar did drive a little rougher than GM/Ford but they handled ten times better! Dodge had Sub Frames not a heavy full frame as you said! The 318 performed the same as a Chevy 350 even the 400 small block Chevy! Ford 351 and Oldsmobile 350!! Dart and Valiants were bullet proof reliable as well...Slant 6 and 318,340 and 360 engines were bulletproof engines! The 1978 LeBaron was NOT made for the YOUTH WTF!! They were luxurious and sold 130,000 units in 1978! Thats good for a upper price class car! The car was fresh and in style for what was around!
What happened with the Valiant/Dart was a lack of quality control around 1975 transforming ot from a rock solid reliable car, to one plagued with the quality issues shared with all the Chrysler products from Valiant to Imperial. Witness the Lean Burn system, the Aspen/Volare twins, the 2-barrel Super Six.
GM cars were no better than Chrysler in the 70’s. That’s when Datsun, and Toyota got their feet in America and Honda was bringing the civic. The rest is history.
I owned a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba with the Lean Burn system. The vehicle could be scary with this system because the engine would just shut off while cruising down the highway at 60-70mph, and the cause was failure of the Lean Burn.
By 1974 all power was going away. All American vehicles if v8 sucked fuel.this video said that the ride quality of the dart was bad. I had one and it was great. If you were on back roads driving like your ass was on fire and head was catching it may not do so good at times one thing I can say is I out ran many cars back then with that little dart. 74 killed everything back then.
You had to be there. We had theplymouth in Phoenix. Decent MPG ,a/c worked great ,slant six just ok for transportation. Not a Hot Rod. Came back to Illinois (yes I know) bought used Vega 6 cyl wife drove 70+ miles a day until windshield rotted out 2-3 years. Great little car. Like I said you had to be there. They did their job.
So true I had 76 civic cvcc 1 car 4 head gaskets and areal drain on my wallet And even sadder I traded my 67 2 door dodge dart with a 225 ss in it Good old mom let trade it And we both regretted it
This guy doesn't know a thing about cars. Nobody ever said a 73 Delta 88 with a 455 was sluggish. He clearly has never owned any of these vehicles as his reports are a joke.
As for the Buick Skylark. They were always top of the line in the A body lineup. In 1970 and 1987, they were the fastest muscle cars. Even beating the HEIM CUDA in 1970. I'm not sure where you're getting you're information but it's very wrong with a Buick being cheap and for poor people. Buick has always been next to Cadillac.
The Chrysler leaning tower of power would far outlast anything on the road at that time. As for the big land yacht's, these were not built for handling. They were built for ride. I drove a 77 Caddy . Never had a problem in town. Its unfair to judge these cars by todays standards. The oil embargo is what killed the big cars. Gas prices doubled and tripled. Cars today are not nearly as comfortable as those cars were.
You might be right about some of these cars, but way wrong on the Dodge Dart/Duster! Both vehicles were fantastic values & the slant six engine could easily get 150k to 200k miles, if properly maintained! I'm 78 & to me, the Dodge Dart still looks 'hot' after 50+ years!
Who the F is this guy. generic photos of cars and components that are not relevant to the models being discussed. The Valiant models he is showing are from the sixties. I sever my apprenticeship on them, went to college on Chrysler's dime, have a mechanical engineering diploma. The cars were unbreakable and outsold V W Beetles in our country at the time ,where not bought by poor people but informed people, Please pack up and go home.
All those cars you mentioned did have baseline power trouble. But on most of those cars you mentioned you could work in your driveway for a weekend and on Monday you had a four barrel carb a stronger fuel pump, headers, advanced timing, and better shocks. Show me a middle of the pack car that today that the average Joe, without breaking the bank, could do that, on his own, not with a team of mechanics. Besides my brother had a 73' dart with a 318ci four barrel he built that was a real rat killer in its day. Like today people will make cars have more performance, especially when you make it easier.
Your crazy, the Pontiac LeMans was a beautifully designed car. The inside was pontiac all the way. It may have used more has but it was a looker all throughout the 70s.
Who ever did the research did no live in the 70s all of the cars suffered from the same problems. The 70s are not the 2000. Gas at 59 cents we didn't care about fuel mileage. Yes we had a embargo but all it was a shortage and a inconvenience. After the embargo we forgot about the mileage. Also the imports of the 70 were pure cheap, underpowered , fuel misers. They were not the imports of today. 70 s were he hay day of Detroit power and big cars.
I remember all of these cars most of them I drove or rode in and owned a few. The only CRAP was the Dodge Darts Plymouth Valiants Ford Fairmonts Chevy Vegas, Chevetts, Ford Pintos. The others were comfortable smooth riding running cruisers. Obviously not many cars back than got great gas mileage except for small strip down boxes and only sport cars and some muscle cars had precision handling.
@@rickcole6990 My brother had one and yes, at least the 4 cylinder version. But, MB used the same AC compressors as my brother's Mustang, which was nice.
Shit cars were definitely more apparent in the eighties. Though opinions differ, some of the cars on your video were not crap, especially the Buick Skylark. The Ford Fairmont was a pos, but that would be obvious.
When these cars were new they were mostly good. You are showing run-down, unmaintained cars and thats why they are crap. I had a 73 Dart Custom 318 and a 74 Valiant Brougham 225 and they were fabulous cars. I would buy a new one over the cars they sell today. In a nutshell, you have no idea what you are talking about. How about showing a beat-up Lincoln? Same idea.
Had a 1968 Chevy Nova. Our dad bought the car new, great basic wheels got 17 city and 23-24 hwy, then we bought the 1973 version of the nova-TOTAL LEMON. only got 14 city and maybe 18 hwy-had a bunch of the early pollution crud on it(various pumps, valves,hoses etc) both cars had the 250 in line 6.The 73 nova was always hard to start and had severe hesitation..Well a friend who was a mechanic in the town we lived in told us "hey bring that nova over, Ill rip out all that pollution crap-re-tune to 1968 specs and it will 'go like a raped ape!' And he was right, ran much better and got 24 hwy 18 city-then the rust got it!!!
That's weird about the Plymouths and Dodges because I always thought those cars had extreme longevity. All plymouths and Dodges, little ole ladies would drive them for 100 years. I had a next door neighbor who had a 1969 Dodge Dart and she drove that car until the day she died and never got another.
Dang. Pick on American cars why don't you? Ok Greed and cost cutting was a big black eye for North American car manufacturing but our parents bought that crap and we survived.
Those old cars you work on without all the gidgets, gadgets. These new poc have trackers, and chips that fail. Screw that, give me a old beater, and I'll ride like the wind.🤣
Video should be retitled "13 Cars you wish you didn't sell or wish you could have today"😂😂 Most of today's new cars are overpriced, lookalike plastic blobs made for people who have no taste. At least these old cars had style😎
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. I had the LeMans and it was a beast with a ride like a cloud. Same way with the Mercury Montego. A little paint, air suspension lift, some slot mags, M-50, raised letter tires, a $100 429 from the junk yard, $400 in new engine parts and weekend, and you had a real runner that would easily keep up with the Trans Am, Camaro, Olds 442, and Nova. I also had two 340 Dusters that survived just about anything I put them through. I'll hand it to the guy on the abortion they branded as the Nova after 74' though. Quite frankly, Dodge/Plymouth/ Chrystler were out of the muscle car game by 1975. The abomination that became the "Charger" and the end of the Cuda in 74' put an end to Mopar's muscle reputation, followed by Ford for the blasphemy of the Mustang, Comet and Falcon. All Ford has left was the bulky Torino, Cougar and Montego, all pretty much the same car. As for "poor"... that would be anything, at all, that was foreign, followed by the Vega, Pinto, Mustang, Comet, Dart, Gremlin, Hornet and Pacer. By 1978, all that was left was the Trans Am and Camaro. The only thing to ever come close after that, until the more recent Camaro, Mustang and Challenger, was the 80s Grand National. Now the part that tells the whole story. They marketed "innovation", "Technology" and "Safety" while abandoning/sacrificing comfort, style, quality and their prized propaganda, fuel savings. I currently have a Gen 6 Camaro, that I absolutely hate. This car, for all of its hype, weighs 200 lbs MORE than the 1978 Lincoln Continental, gets about the same gas milage, and rides a skateboard or western buckboard. Its absolutely infested with pure Rube Goldberg engineering and excessive unnecessary, unessential girlie gadgets, several CAN-BUS data networks, sensors, ECU, TCU, BCU, ABS, tire monitoring, LINBUS HVAC and "Info-tainment" garbage, adding thousands to the price to purchase and maintain, topped off by a mountain of plastic, foam, and cheap aluminum suspension and engine components. Try designing a car with nothing but a battery, voltage regulator, coil, distributor, plugs again, with a typical easy access engine mouth fuel pump and 650cfm carburetor. Try a very simple, straight line, point to point, timing chain with no "designed to fail" nylon chain guides that causes the valves, heads and top of the pistons to be destroyed if, I mean, WHEN the chain fails. Just give us a car with manual controlled transmission, HVAC, headlights, turn signals, brakes, wipers, lighter, radio and call it a day, ok? AND !!! Don't be preaching at us about "emissions" and the environment either, when every manufacturer is pumping out millions of low mpg Cummins diesel trucks and bulky, top heavy, overweight, SUVs deigned to grunt with a four cylinder, aluminum block, piece of crap engine. (No, I didn't sit here and type all of this...again" 80% was a cut and paste from a memo I wrote to management when I spent 30 years in R&D with GM, Mahle, Delphi and a crash facility research group.)
Your voice has a resonant timber and an extremely good elocution. Your delivery is totally spot-on, given my collegiate experience in broadcasting. How do you do it?? Best..👍🏻🙏🏻
Why not do some research? I have driven high mileage 20+ year old DArts and Valiant without problems for years. A 75 Dart V8 has no "mechanical issues " whatsoever, and handily outaccelerated most foreign "prestige" makes from Europe. Get your facts right!
My mom had a 1965 Pontiac Catalina and when she traded it in she got a 1974 Ford Mercury Monterey and the 1965 Pontiac Catalina became a Collector's Item. The car was not in mint condition and she traded it in a year before the classification.
The 75 Plymouth valiant was one of the more luxurious valiants of that body design. You guys are saying that it was a very sparse design, however that added woodgrain on the doors and the cursive on the floor mats and the software upgraded seats over years past, made it a much nicer and more comfortable car. The 70/73 valiants tended to be much more sparse than the later models
Yeah...I happened to own a couple of these cars since I didn't have the big bucks at the time.... think you could have presented this with just a bit more politeness than making their owners look like shit... just saying 🤨😡🖕
I had a '74 Dodge Dart Swinger Hardtop that I thought was a damn good looking car. The biggest thing I hated about that slant six engine is that it would sometimes stall out going around corners.
The video should be titled "13 Random Average '70s Cars I Happened To Have Some B-roll Footage Of, And Made Up Random Things About To Detract From Them." The funniest part: Calling the AMC Rebel "bland" and "conservative" while showing one with "The Machine" package, with the hood-mounted tach, scoop, factory slotted mags, and that crazy red, white, and blue paint scheme. "Bland" indeed.
To each his own. I had a Valiant with a slant six, one of the best cars I ever owned back then. A shitty car that I owned was the Corvair. Oil burning smoker that was unstable and always breaking fan belts. Maybe got about 14 mpg, whereas the Valiant got about 19mpg. I also had a couple of Polara’s. 440 cid engines which were pretty fast and burned a lot of gas, but reliable and easy to resell within my peer group at that time. Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge were all from the same company and they were known for their durability and comfort, and for being fuel guzzlers. It wasn’t until the EPA started putting standards on vehicles that they started having problems as they began testing ways to conform to clean air standards. The American car industry struggled with quality issues from the late seventies until the mid nineties as far as I remember. It wasn’t until the standardized emissions control systems were implemented that the cars became more reliable and better on fuel efficiency and eventually the designs got better too. Now with all that being standard and the newer safety systems that are becoming standard, the cars are better than ever as far as reliability. Looks like the gov is planning on them all being autonomous eventually. THX 1138, that’s what we’re coming to. Watch the movie, George Lucas had it figured out long ago. He was unusual for a kid from the Central Valley. But he wasn’t wrong.
I own a 1975 valiant who is my first car I got it 1986. It had 90,000 miles on it and I ran that thing in the ground me and my buddies. It was great on gas. It was reliable and when I was done with it, I put 200,000 miles on it so I don’t know how this made this list other than being yes generic looking.
Say what you want about it, but the '72 Dodge Polara was our beloved Family 👪 Car 🚗. When we went to Thailand 🇹🇭 in 1976 it came along with us. When we left to return to New York in '77 we had to leave it behind. I still remember somewhat the appearance of the parking lot where we left her. Now ofttimes when I see any image of a '72 Dodge Polara I can't hold back the tears 😢 of nostalgia especially if it's candy apple brown because that was her color (I only use a female pronoun in this case because the car was so beloved that she was like a family 👪 members.) To our dearest '72 D.P., I'll never forget all the beautiful times we saw together ❤. Wherever you are now, I still love 💘 you...just so very much. ❤❤❤
The content here is downright offensive. Way to throw shade on American cars. Pronouncing LeMans as Lemons is also offensive. (AI-- not exactly progress)
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A Valiant with a Slant Six and a Torqueflite would run forever provided you did your maintenance. Rust issues would get it long before mechanical.
I looked at them as cheap transportation as I was only making $2.25 an hour and found new cars rusting on the dealer's lot. I ended up buying a used Datsun 510. Good decision!
@@ghw7192 Oh yeah. Good choice. Datsun was using recycled sheet metal from American cars and had tendency to rust through in the middle of a panel no where near any welds or seams.
I owned Valiant when I was 16.
@@Intrepid-d4o I did too! A 1969 Plymouth Valiant 100.
I had two Valiants and a Gold Duster when I lived in upstate NY and you're absolutely right. I never had significant engine or transmission problems, but had to fix serious rust problems on the unibody/frame on each one. On one of the Valiants, the frame broke at the right front torsion bar while I was driving...luckily, I was in town and driving slowly. But, they were cheap used, my brother taught me how to take care of engine maintenance and repair (we laid together under it one dark cold January night changing the clutch in the driveway...), and I just used them until I used them up!
The dart and the valiant were basically the same car. To slam them twice is pointless
....and also false, few cars are that durable!
I would take any of these low cost beaters over the so call new cars today, I can work on these old rides
Lmao, I only like the new cheap ones for the MPG here in CALIFORNIA SoCal. I have my 67 Buick Special Deluxe that was Bought new by my great grandparents. My daily is a 14 Challenger R/T Classic in Plum crazy Purple I bought new and I get 13 city 15 freeways. The gas in Socal was 7 dollars a gallon last summer.
The slant 6 is considered one of the best engine ever made. The taxicabs used them because they were durable. Similar to what people do now using Toyota for taxi cabs. I bet Hyundai wishes they had an engine like the slant six and a transmission like the three speed bulletproof automatic that Chrysler had.
The Dodge Polara was used by numerous police departments across the United States. In my opinion a few million police cars speak for itself!
I wish I still had my 1972 Dodge Dart .. The slant six never failed me.. It was still in mint condition when I sold it in 1986 for 200 bucks..🥃😎👌
New drinking game: take a shot each time he says "Rapidly changing environment"
Don't knock it . I was very easy to have the same script for each car, just plug in different names
I kad a 70 skylark that and a 70 Riv were the best cars I ever had
Those Valiants were far better then the crap they make now.
Yes I had one my boyfriend got a 74 valient for 400 dollars in 1986
Took that car on long trips. Good car.
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I love that I owned at least two of these cars. They were known as "beaters" when I had them.
Criticism of cars from before the producers were born shows they know nothing about cars.
I am a Corvette, mustang type guy of this era But I inherited a Dodge dart gt, hur 2:00 st 4 speed 340 and it was funny fast impressive and fun. It had no issues except some traction off the line and not especially great handling.
Absolutely true. Morons of the new car buffs of Honda civics ..
I had a 1971 Polara Custom 4 door hardtop with a 360 engine and a 2 barrel carburetor. That thing would MOVE!!!!
I liked the old Valiants. The Dodge Dart was the exact same car. 1975 was a bad year for all American cars, as that was the first year of the dreaded catalytic converter which choked ALL of the 1975 vehicles.
Government regulations made it a bad era for all cars, even the Japanese cars. Honda Civics looked like black spaghetti under the hood with all of those hoses to try to cope with government stupidity.
It did!! Best. 👍🏻☮️
The 1970s cars had a distinct interior smell I still miss in 2024
How about the Ford Pinto with the gas tanks that exploded whenever one was rear ended?
I would take any of these (shit ) cars over any of the modern ones
Who or where did you hear this BS because its all wrong. I bought and sold these cars then. These cars were much better quality than today's SHITBOX's
Gee, great unbiased reviews😮lol. I had a '68 Dart w/a slant six that was one of the best most reliable low maintenance cars I ever owned. This dude is baked.
Or just ignorant.
I loved the LeMans, Skylark, Nova in particular. Any year Impala before 1980 would be a fun car to cruise in.
Wow, this is full odd crap! The Aspen/Volares were troublesome, but not the Darts and Valients! I owned a 73 Dart. It was pretty much trouble free and the 225 slant 6 lasted over 250 k miles! We had a rental fleet whilst made up of Darts and Valients. They were rock solid!
The 225 is one of the most dependable engines ever made.
You’re talking about the car being an under performing car however the polara pursuit of this year was one of the most loved of the Mopar police cars that was ever made. Officer praised this car because of it’s performance and handling.
In 1974 my dad traded his 1972 Grand Prix for an economic new Subaru. Within 6 months he traded that in on a new Cadillac. I guess for him luxury and power to get on the LA freeways was more important
Id take em all today
Wasn't that a "Blues Brothers" rod? ..."with the cop motor,cop tires and cop suspension..." ?!
The 1972 Dodge Polara did 142 mph! Quickest 4 door car of that year!
These were bulletproof reliable!!!
Best handling fullsize cars of the era..
They did not float and wobble the GM/Ford products did..Mopar used torsion bar suspension.Mopar did drive a little rougher than GM/Ford but they handled ten times better!
Dodge had Sub Frames not a heavy full frame as you said!
The 318 performed the same as a Chevy 350 even the 400 small block Chevy! Ford 351 and Oldsmobile 350!!
Dart and Valiants were bullet proof reliable as well...Slant 6 and 318,340 and 360 engines were bulletproof engines!
The 1978 LeBaron was NOT made for the YOUTH WTF!!
They were luxurious and sold 130,000 units in 1978! Thats good for a upper price class car! The car was fresh and in style for what was around!
What happened with the Valiant/Dart was a lack of quality control around 1975 transforming ot from a rock solid reliable car, to one plagued with the quality issues shared with all the Chrysler products from Valiant to Imperial. Witness the Lean Burn system, the Aspen/Volare twins, the 2-barrel Super Six.
GM cars were no better than Chrysler in the 70’s. That’s when Datsun, and Toyota got their feet in America and Honda was bringing the civic. The rest is history.
my first car the Dodge Aspen with the 318 was a good all around cheap car with bad sheet metal designed bodies. i wish i had that car back.
These were all great cars it's like all cars if you take care of them they would run forever
I owned a 1978 Chrysler Cordoba with the Lean Burn system. The vehicle could be scary with this system because the engine would just shut off while cruising down the highway at 60-70mph, and the cause was failure of the Lean Burn.
@@cynthiawylie3584 Honda Toyota and Datsun were not better than most American cars until the early to mid 80s.
My 74 and 75 Darts were the best !
Damn that 72 4 door polara looks great!
I put this video on mute so I could just sit and look at these glorious cars. I would have any of them over modern cars
You’ve got the right idea !
Yep
By 1974 all power was going away. All American vehicles if v8 sucked fuel.this video said that the ride quality of the dart was bad. I had one and it was great. If you were on back roads driving like your ass was on fire and head was catching it may not do so good at times one thing I can say is I out ran many cars back then with that little dart. 74 killed everything back then.
Meaning you could beat the heck out of them and like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going and going and…
Who else is sick of crappy AI videos?
You had to be there. We had theplymouth in Phoenix. Decent MPG ,a/c worked great ,slant six just ok for transportation. Not a Hot Rod. Came back to Illinois (yes I know) bought used Vega 6 cyl wife drove 70+ miles a day until windshield rotted out 2-3 years. Great little car. Like I said you had to be there. They did their job.
Nowadays the poor man's car is the small 4cilinder Chinese front wheel drive crackerjack toys from China and Japan...
Why Couldn't Rich People Afford These Cars?
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The phrase "That Only Poor People Could Afford", I think it means "cheep enough for poor people to afford".
A Valiant with a 318 was probably decent
Your telling me a 1975 Honda Civic was better than a Valiant! This is a JOKE Video right?
So true
I had 76 civic cvcc
1 car 4 head gaskets and areal drain on my wallet
And even sadder
I traded my 67 2 door dodge dart with a 225 ss in it
Good old mom let trade it
And we both regretted it
I used to see more rusted out Hondas in the junk yard than any other car.
This guy doesn't know a thing about cars. Nobody ever said a 73 Delta 88 with a 455 was sluggish. He clearly has never owned any of these vehicles as his reports are a joke.
They’re just trying to promote Japanese imports. This video is unamerican.
As for the Buick Skylark. They were always top of the line in the A body lineup. In 1970 and 1987, they were the fastest muscle cars. Even beating the HEIM CUDA in 1970. I'm not sure where you're getting you're information but it's very wrong with a Buick being cheap and for poor people. Buick has always been next to Cadillac.
The Chrysler leaning tower of power would far outlast anything on the road at that time.
As for the big land yacht's, these were not built for handling. They were built for ride. I drove a 77 Caddy . Never had a problem in town. Its unfair to judge these cars by todays standards. The oil embargo is what killed the big cars. Gas prices doubled and tripled. Cars today are not nearly as comfortable as those cars were.
You might be right about some of these cars, but way wrong on the Dodge Dart/Duster!
Both vehicles were fantastic values & the slant six engine could easily get 150k to 200k
miles, if properly maintained! I'm 78 & to me, the Dodge Dart still looks 'hot' after 50+ years!
Who the F is this guy. generic photos of cars and components that are not relevant to the models being discussed. The Valiant models he is showing are from the sixties. I sever my apprenticeship on them, went to college on Chrysler's dime, have a mechanical engineering diploma. The cars were unbreakable and outsold V W Beetles in our country at the time ,where not bought by poor people but informed people, Please pack up and go home.
P.S . Make another one of these and talk about the "aaUNINSPIRED" design of today's cars.
The uploader was thinking about the overheating problems Dennis Weaver was having with his '71 Valiant in the movie "Duel".
😅😂..... brilliant 🎉😊
The guy at the service station suggested a new radiator hose , but he wouldn't listen.
My movie inspired me to become a truck driver today,just hearing shifting gears and I had a Valiant in my 20s 🚛
All those cars you mentioned did have baseline power trouble. But on most of those cars you mentioned you could work in your driveway for a weekend and on Monday you had a four barrel carb a stronger fuel pump, headers, advanced timing, and better shocks. Show me a middle of the pack car that today that the average Joe, without breaking the bank, could do that, on his own, not with a team of mechanics. Besides my brother had a 73' dart with a 318ci four barrel he built that was a real rat killer in its day. Like today people will make cars have more performance, especially when you make it easier.
The phrase "That Only Poor People Could Afford", I think it means "cheep enough for poor people to afford".
This list is way wrong......a 1971 Dart 340 is BAD ASS!!!!! Wonder if the people who put this list together were even around when these cars existed,
I had a 69 Dodge Dart 340 and it was great. I wish I still had it
Glaube ich nicht, das die erstgenannten Autos so schlecht sein sollen.....
Your crazy, the Pontiac LeMans was a beautifully designed car. The inside was pontiac all the way. It may have used more has but it was a looker all throughout the 70s.
I love the 1970 buick skylark and the 1974 impala
All these cars in this video are cool! Would love to have one of them from the big three and of course AMC too.
You could buy a low mileage and clean shitbox back then for 700 bucks off most any used car lot.
Bullshit....my 1st car was 70 Skylark.... Awesome car....added bucket seats dual exhaust air shocks cragar rims with radial T/A 's 4bbl carb ..fun!!!
Who ever did the research did no live in the 70s all of the cars suffered from the same problems. The 70s are not the 2000. Gas at 59 cents we didn't care about fuel mileage. Yes we had a embargo but all it was a shortage and a inconvenience. After the embargo we forgot about the mileage. Also the imports of the 70 were pure cheap, underpowered , fuel misers. They were not the imports of today. 70 s were he hay day of Detroit power and big cars.
I remember all of these cars most of them I drove or rode in and owned a few.
The only CRAP was the Dodge Darts Plymouth Valiants Ford Fairmonts Chevy Vegas, Chevetts, Ford Pintos.
The others were comfortable smooth riding running cruisers.
Obviously not many cars back than got great gas mileage except for small strip down boxes and only sport cars and some muscle cars had precision handling.
The Dart had the 225 slant 6. What are you blabbing about?
Both dart and valiant are excellent cars. Extremely durable and reliable.
Wasn't the 79-up Mustangs about the Same as a Fairmont?
@@rickcole6990 My brother had one and yes, at least the 4 cylinder version. But, MB used the same AC compressors as my brother's Mustang, which was nice.
Made big mistake with Chevy Vegas! I had two, a brand new one & used one - both were crappy cars😡
I'd take ANY of these over the bar of soap shaped of the cars of today. Talk about uninspired...
I can't tell one from another.
Shit cars were definitely more apparent in the eighties. Though opinions differ, some of the cars on your video were not crap, especially the Buick Skylark. The Ford Fairmont was a pos, but that would be obvious.
When these cars were new they were mostly good. You are showing run-down, unmaintained cars and thats why they are crap. I had a 73 Dart Custom 318 and a 74 Valiant Brougham 225 and they were fabulous cars. I would buy a new one over the cars they sell today. In a nutshell, you have no idea what you are talking about. How about showing a beat-up Lincoln? Same idea.
All the large cars from GM were boxy by 1977🙄... including CADILLAC
Ford fairmont ...asks what were designers thinking...
Had a 1968 Chevy Nova. Our dad bought the car new, great basic wheels got 17 city and 23-24 hwy, then we bought the 1973 version of the nova-TOTAL LEMON. only got 14 city and maybe 18 hwy-had a bunch of the early pollution crud on it(various pumps, valves,hoses etc) both cars had the 250 in line 6.The 73 nova was always hard to start and had severe hesitation..Well a friend who was a mechanic in the town we lived in told us "hey bring that nova over, Ill rip out all that pollution crap-re-tune to 1968 specs and it will 'go like a raped ape!' And he was right, ran much better and got 24 hwy 18 city-then the rust got it!!!
That's weird about the Plymouths and Dodges because I always thought those cars had extreme longevity. All plymouths and Dodges, little ole ladies would drive them for 100 years. I had a next door neighbor who had a 1969 Dodge Dart and she drove that car until the day she died and never got another.
Dang. Pick on American cars why don't you? Ok Greed and cost cutting was a big black eye for North American car manufacturing but our parents bought that crap and we survived.
Those old cars you work on without all the gidgets, gadgets. These new poc have trackers, and chips that fail. Screw that, give me a old beater, and I'll ride like the wind.🤣
this is very opinionated and i do not agree at all
Video should be retitled "13 Cars you wish you didn't sell or wish you could have today"😂😂
Most of today's new cars are overpriced, lookalike plastic blobs made for people who have no taste. At least these old cars had style😎
How about doing a 1980s version of that video with the Ford Tempo as part of that list?
This guy has no idea what he's talking about. I had the LeMans and it was a beast with a ride like a cloud. Same way with the Mercury Montego. A little paint, air suspension lift, some slot mags, M-50, raised letter tires, a $100 429 from the junk yard, $400 in new engine parts and weekend, and you had a real runner that would easily keep up with the Trans Am, Camaro, Olds 442, and Nova. I also had two 340 Dusters that survived just about anything I put them through. I'll hand it to the guy on the abortion they branded as the Nova after 74' though. Quite frankly, Dodge/Plymouth/ Chrystler were out of the muscle car game by 1975. The abomination that became the "Charger" and the end of the Cuda in 74' put an end to Mopar's muscle reputation, followed by Ford for the blasphemy of the Mustang, Comet and Falcon. All Ford has left was the bulky Torino, Cougar and Montego, all pretty much the same car. As for "poor"... that would be anything, at all, that was foreign, followed by the Vega, Pinto, Mustang, Comet, Dart, Gremlin, Hornet and Pacer. By 1978, all that was left was the Trans Am and Camaro. The only thing to ever come close after that, until the more recent Camaro, Mustang and Challenger, was the 80s Grand National. Now the part that tells the whole story. They marketed "innovation", "Technology" and "Safety" while abandoning/sacrificing comfort, style, quality and their prized propaganda, fuel savings. I currently have a Gen 6 Camaro, that I absolutely hate. This car, for all of its hype, weighs 200 lbs MORE than the 1978 Lincoln Continental, gets about the same gas milage, and rides a skateboard or western buckboard. Its absolutely infested with pure Rube Goldberg engineering and excessive unnecessary, unessential girlie gadgets, several CAN-BUS data networks, sensors, ECU, TCU, BCU, ABS, tire monitoring, LINBUS HVAC and "Info-tainment" garbage, adding thousands to the price to purchase and maintain, topped off by a mountain of plastic, foam, and cheap aluminum suspension and engine components. Try designing a car with nothing but a battery, voltage regulator, coil, distributor, plugs again, with a typical easy access engine mouth fuel pump and 650cfm carburetor. Try a very simple, straight line, point to point, timing chain with no "designed to fail" nylon chain guides that causes the valves, heads and top of the pistons to be destroyed if, I mean, WHEN the chain fails. Just give us a car with manual controlled transmission, HVAC, headlights, turn signals, brakes, wipers, lighter, radio and call it a day, ok? AND !!! Don't be preaching at us about "emissions" and the environment either, when every manufacturer is pumping out millions of low mpg Cummins diesel trucks and bulky, top heavy, overweight, SUVs deigned to grunt with a four cylinder, aluminum block, piece of crap engine. (No, I didn't sit here and type all of this...again" 80% was a cut and paste from a memo I wrote to management when I spent 30 years in R&D with GM, Mahle, Delphi and a crash facility research group.)
I think you forgot to mention that in 1970s gas prices were so high and customers were looking for more efficient cars.
I owned a 75 Nova and some of my buddies had the other pieces of s..t.
Your voice has a resonant timber and an extremely good elocution. Your delivery is totally spot-on, given my collegiate experience in broadcasting. How do you do it?? Best..👍🏻🙏🏻
Just don't know Shit about older Vehicles!
It’s an AI voice. It’s not a human. I’ve heard this voice on so many different creators videos I recognize it.
At least you can work on those old cars from the seventies and you can fix them yourself you didn't need to scan tool or none of that nonsense
This is click bait.
I'm older and I see people say that before.But what does click bait mean
@trudieristich795 The channel owner will purposely make BS videos just to get more views.
The road runner was banned from NASCAR 200 miles a hr
Why not do some research? I have driven high mileage 20+ year old DArts and Valiant without problems for years. A 75 Dart V8 has no "mechanical issues " whatsoever, and handily outaccelerated most foreign "prestige" makes from Europe. Get your facts right!
Ford Pinto, and GMC Pacer 🤢
Chevy Chevette...
These were some of the best cars ever made! This video was obviously made by artificial unintelligence! The only junk here is this video.
None of these were supposed to be nimble.
My mom had a 1965 Pontiac Catalina and when she traded it in she got a 1974 Ford Mercury Monterey and the 1965 Pontiac Catalina became a Collector's Item. The car was not in mint condition and she traded it in a year before the classification.
The 75 Plymouth valiant was one of the more luxurious valiants of that body design. You guys are saying that it was a very sparse design, however that added woodgrain on the doors and the cursive on the floor mats and the software upgraded seats over years past, made it a much nicer and more comfortable car.
The 70/73 valiants tended to be much more sparse than the later models
My dad had a used Dart Swinger - chassis was rusting badly and it got stolen - from which my dad was grateful.
Several of the alleged "Montego" shown were actually full size Montereys. While several of the "'72" Dodge Polaras were actually "'71s".
Oh yeah lets go buy an ugly Tesla Cyber truck lol now thats trash
Yeah...I happened to own a couple of these cars since I didn't have the big bucks at the time.... think you could have presented this with just a bit more politeness than making their owners look like shit... just saying 🤨😡🖕
I had a '74 Dodge Dart Swinger Hardtop that I thought was a damn good looking car. The biggest thing I hated about that slant six engine is that it would sometimes stall out going around corners.
And just exactly why is there a full size Mercury Grand Marquis included in this video? Isn't that kind of mixing apples with oranges?
The video should be titled "13 Random Average '70s Cars I Happened To Have Some B-roll Footage Of, And Made Up Random Things About To Detract From Them."
The funniest part: Calling the AMC Rebel "bland" and "conservative" while showing one with "The Machine" package, with the hood-mounted tach, scoop, factory slotted mags, and that crazy red, white, and blue paint scheme. "Bland" indeed.
To each his own. I had a Valiant with a slant six, one of the best cars I ever owned back then. A shitty car that I owned was the Corvair. Oil burning smoker that was unstable and always breaking fan belts. Maybe got about 14 mpg, whereas the Valiant got about 19mpg. I also had a couple of Polara’s. 440 cid engines which were pretty fast and burned a lot of gas, but reliable and easy to resell within my peer group at that time. Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge were all from the same company and they were known for their durability and comfort, and for being fuel guzzlers. It wasn’t until the EPA started putting standards on vehicles that they started having problems as they began testing ways to conform to clean air standards. The American car industry struggled with quality issues from the late seventies until the mid nineties as far as I remember. It wasn’t until the standardized emissions control systems were implemented that the cars became more reliable and better on fuel efficiency and eventually the designs got better too. Now with all that being standard and the newer safety systems that are becoming standard, the cars are better than ever as far as reliability. Looks like the gov is planning on them all being autonomous eventually. THX 1138, that’s what we’re coming to. Watch the movie, George Lucas had it figured out long ago. He was unusual for a kid from the Central Valley. But he wasn’t wrong.
The 88 was a beast, it was not sluggish, nor was the Buick.
My mom had a Montego wagon, hated it and it frequently broke down.
So, rich people could not afford these cars, only poor people? Another AI junk video.
The video about the 1975 AMC rebel can make a guy get dizzy, the camera was flying all over the place. That person was definitely no cinematographer.
71 was the last year for the Rebel name.
Don't forget the AMC javelin
Forgettable Nostalgia in other words..
Why do I waste my time watching this?
So only poor people could afford them? How’s that possible? Rich people couldn’t afford them?
I love the green 1972 Dodge Polara❤❤❤❤
Most of these vehicles lasted only several years in the Rust Belt.
I own a 1975 valiant who is my first car I got it 1986. It had 90,000 miles on it and I ran that thing in the ground me and my buddies. It was great on gas. It was reliable and when I was done with it, I put 200,000 miles on it so I don’t know how this made this list other than being yes generic looking.
Say what you want about it, but the '72 Dodge Polara was our beloved Family 👪 Car 🚗. When we went to Thailand 🇹🇭 in 1976 it came along with us. When we left to return to New York in '77 we had to leave it behind. I still remember somewhat the appearance of the parking lot where we left her. Now ofttimes when I see any image of a '72 Dodge Polara I can't hold back the tears 😢 of nostalgia especially if it's candy apple brown because that was her color (I only use a female pronoun in this case because the car was so beloved that she was like a family 👪 members.)
To our dearest '72 D.P., I'll never forget all the beautiful times we saw together ❤. Wherever you are now, I still love 💘 you...just so very much.
❤❤❤
This is full of bull
Shit. Finished your comment so you didn't have to.
The content here is downright offensive. Way to throw shade on American cars. Pronouncing LeMans as Lemons is also offensive. (AI-- not exactly progress)