10 WORST American Cars From The 1970s, That Should Have Never Existed!

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  • @infodrivetv
    @infodrivetv  หลายเดือนก่อน

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  • @Al-thecarhistorian
    @Al-thecarhistorian หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The same old garbage. While there is enough disinformation to please Mark Zukerberg, in reality most of these cars weren't too bad.
    But when the AI wackadoo said the 1976 Valiant was introduced that year and won Motor Trend's Car of the Year along with the Dodge Aspen, I threw up🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
    How can we rid You Tube of this garbage? Makes as much sense as K.H. and T. W.

  • @frankj7064
    @frankj7064 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Kind of lazy search - the chevy, buick, pontiac,olds are the same car

    • @paultomaszewski1964
      @paultomaszewski1964 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also, the Apollo lived on as the Skylark. Had a 77 version and it wasn't a bad car. But I lived in Wisconsin and they rusted out big time. Even the rear leaf springs rusted and broke. Inferior steel because they wanted to cut costs.

  • @bikingD
    @bikingD หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Nothing was wrong with the Gremlin. The 232, 258 and 304 engines were great engines. Car was durable. As for Pinto had nothing to do with fuel tank location. Was the fuel filler neck and was about 35 cent a car savings. The recall fixed the problem but was to late. The Chevette was a fine liitle car that many people stand by.

    • @dmandman9
      @dmandman9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The pinto was a good car. But The chevette wasn’t that good to be honest. It was ok for what it was. But it was underpowered, the front crankshaft bolt was known to break and allow the pulley to fall off. The exhaust manifold commonly cracked, and serviceability was a nightmare , especially the starter, and distributor . It didn’t deserve to make this list though. While it wasn’t that good, it wasn’t bad enough to make this list. Truth be told, most of the cars in this video didn’t deserve to make this list.

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    What shouldn’t exist is this video.
    The cars are cool.

  • @JacobBenjamin-eq1qd
    @JacobBenjamin-eq1qd หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I HAD A 77 GREMLIN AND WAS VERY HAPPY .❤

    • @GregALang
      @GregALang หลายเดือนก่อน

      I never really heard anyone who owned a Gremlin complain about it like other AMC cars. In 1970, the era of the land yachts, the Gremlin wasn't very popular but it sure was after the energy crisis of '73-'74.

  • @Sonormuseum
    @Sonormuseum หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Whoever wrote the copy obviously wasn't even alive when these cars were on the road. Completely clueless.
    Hello? It was the 70's. Emissions regulations? Crash Standards? Change from gross to net HP ratings? The fact that the car manufacturers didn't plan for the regulations even though they were passed 10 years earlier? Any of those even ring a bell, Junior? Here's a tidbit of reality: All American cars of the 1970's were clunky, slow and underpowered. Funny that the footage you use is of hot rodded versions of these cars.
    Don't even get me started on the laziness of using this stupid AI voice to do the read...

  • @sidgreentherhymeofreason
    @sidgreentherhymeofreason หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The Aspen actually shared the platform with the Volare

    • @mimelio
      @mimelio หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      True the Valiant was discontinued and replaced by the Plymouth Volare in 1976,

  • @Fvckbstrd
    @Fvckbstrd หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Ahhh damn I hate the voice of AI so much, so much misinformation but this bastard still continues

    • @fleetwin1
      @fleetwin1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      For sure. Alot of inaccurate information here for sure

    • @ivanivonovich9863
      @ivanivonovich9863 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Blame that on the website that put this video out.

  • @onewarrior5186
    @onewarrior5186 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    How is it that the Chevrolet Vega is not on this list. I had a 74 Vega GT that cost me more money in oil than it did gasoline! People love to drop in V-8s for the strip, however.

  • @michaelfleming40
    @michaelfleming40 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    NO. The 1976 Motor Trend Car of the Year was the Dodge Aspen and the Plymouth Volare.

  • @SuperRobbie1976
    @SuperRobbie1976 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i'd take another chevette. i had an 81 loved it.

  • @MarkStebbins-xx7ee
    @MarkStebbins-xx7ee หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I noticed something. Both the Ford, Pinto & the Chevy, Chevette both have their gas tanks behind the axle they only say things about the Ford Pinto have a safety issue with the gas tank when Chevy Chevette has their gas in the same place as the Ford Pinto, but nothing is said about the Chevy Chevette,only the Ford Pinto. Sounds Biased to me

    • @paultomaszewski1964
      @paultomaszewski1964 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Not so much the placement, but more of how the bumper and supports impacted it in a collision. More of a design flaw than a placement issue.

    • @bikingD
      @bikingD หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Pinto was about the fuel filler neck. It was a savings for a part about 35 cents a car. Had nothing to do with gas tank placement.

    • @nonenonnenopenonenomorefor5556
      @nonenonnenopenonenomorefor5556 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I had a shovette oh I meant chevette what a jewel it was my Vette lol

    • @giantgeoff
      @giantgeoff หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So did Mustang ,but the Pinto had two bolts that protruded towards the fuel tank . Owned several still here.

    • @Al-thecarhistorian
      @Al-thecarhistorian หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Most cars had their tanks behind the rear axle until front wheel drive became the norm. Remember Ford introduced the center fill system in 1952 and many manufacturers copied it.
      While the Pinto's filler was NOT in the center rear, the tank had two bolts near the tank that could puncture it in a rear end collision.

  • @catmechanic_Sam
    @catmechanic_Sam หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nope sorry, lots of mistakes and lots of misinformation. I owned no less than 5 of these cars, and they were all good cars. Reliable, economical, and more powerful than most 4 cylinder 90s cars. My maverick got an extra 7 mpg over my wife's 96 altima. The maverick never broke down and ran like a sewing machine. The altima broke down constantly. My 73 omega was an awesome car and very fun to drive. My volare was reliable and economical. This is an opinion video, not one with facts.

  • @JohnArnis
    @JohnArnis หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Having owned a Mustang ll Cobra ll, a HS graduation gift in 1977, I have to come to its defense. Sure it is pale in comparison to the previous Mustangs in terms of performance with top engine choice being a 302 2 barrel carb v8 putting out a mere 139 HP, but like mentioned in this video, Ford had to quickly come out with a smaller more economic vehicle to coincide with the oil leading to fuel shortage that was going on in the late 70’s. That’s why the
    designation of ‘ll”
    after the Mustang name was used as to say that this is the next, entirely new 2nd generation of the nameplate itself not just a model body style change. It actually had more of a family resemblance to the first Mustangs than did the ll’s replacement the Fox body which looked nothing like a Mustang at all. The Mustang ll was the right car for the time for Ford as sales were strong initially and it actually saved the Mustang moniker from possibly being totally axed by Ford.
    To call one of the worst cars of the ‘70’s is a discredit to the Mustang ll’s place in automotive history. I myself can think of many more vehicles from the same period that should be on this list!

  • @thomasdearment3214
    @thomasdearment3214 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't know Gremlin Everyone I knew that had one liked them, the only off-putting thing was the chopped off rear now you see cars with a variant if that feature, Pinto did what it was designed to do , hatch backs were the ones the top of the gas tank was the bottom of the rear section no floor, a practice Ford did on their other cars, Chevette no argument crappy, my wife had a Monza the Town Coup v8 4sp cool little car but you couldn't go very far with an I think 8 gal gas tank, and you couldn't keep a clutch in it the engine needed to be lifted to change the plugs but a kick to drive, and by the way nothing wrong with the Vega that a decent cooling system wouldn't cure, Americans just were dumb about making a decent 4cly, and aluminum ones at that they were gutless and overheated don't believe me look at their systems pitiful now their ok, Valiant came along in the 60s not 70s the Aspens sibling was the Plymouth Valorie NOT THE VALIANT

  • @catjudo1
    @catjudo1 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In college in the mid-90s, I used to see those 20 year old Dodge Dart/Plymouth Valiant all over the place in the salty northeast. The cars would get body rot, but they were sturdy and would just keep going, plus the slant six and small v8's seemed to thrive on neglect. The only reason they're not around anymore is that most of them were simply used to death.

  • @MichiganWildcat
    @MichiganWildcat หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Pathetic excuse, most of the cars listed had their day because of the days. Doesn't mean they were mistakes, well, maybe the chevette, x bodies, and horizons were.

  • @charlesglaser4868
    @charlesglaser4868 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had a '74 Nova Hatchback, 350 auto. I put a Borg- Warner racing tranny in it. Motor was stock, It would chirp 4th gear. Pretty fast, for a little car, loved it!❤

    • @ryanbernard5287
      @ryanbernard5287 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had a 74 Omega. I miss that car. This video can suck it for bashing the x bodies.

  • @nonenonnenopenonenomorefor5556
    @nonenonnenopenonenomorefor5556 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had a shovette oh boy what a jewel it was my vette the chevette

  • @ericpinto3276
    @ericpinto3276 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This video got steadily worse as the film progressed. Also they combined a Valiant (generally a great compact car) with pics and dizzy video of the Volare!Video was poorly done and not checked prior to publication!

    • @giantgeoff
      @giantgeoff หลายเดือนก่อน

      They screwed up the Valiant longitudinal torsion bars and unnecessary hydraulic lifters

    • @giantgeoff
      @giantgeoff หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      To produce the Aspen/Volare'

  • @eldoradony
    @eldoradony 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Get your facts straight. The Valiant was the sister car to the Dart, not the Aspen. The Aspen was sister to the Volare. Get rid of the AI narration!

  • @palco22
    @palco22 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You read to many Ralph Nader books and way too young to have actually seen, let alone driven these cars ! Funny thing, they made well over 680,000 Gremlins, 3,000,000 Pintos, 1,000,000 Dodge Darts, 2,100,000 Ford Mavericks and over 2,500,000 Dodge Omnis/Plymouth Horizons.
    Besides, my 1978 Pinto was a very reliable spring summer, autumn and Canadian winters !

  • @detierross8340
    @detierross8340 หลายเดือนก่อน

    HEY! MARK STEBBINS: The Chevette was built on the VEGA New Design Platforn (CHASIS) it had safety issues to!!!! Redesigned.... I grew up in 70"s; I remember that... LAW SUITS!!!e

  • @angelapritula9516
    @angelapritula9516 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I beg to differ I loved the Monza. My very first car was a 1980 Chevy Monza. I managed to get 103,000 miles out of the car. The only major problems I had with it were usual maintenance… Replacement of brakes, transmission, and only after I had accrued about 80,000 miles on the car. I loved driving it, it was peppy and me and my friends had a lot of fun in it. When I turned it in, however, the dealership who took the trade looked at the mileage and said that it was amazing that I got so many miles out of the car because it’s reputation for durability was only 80,000 miles max.

  • @JeffreyNorberg-i1m
    @JeffreyNorberg-i1m หลายเดือนก่อน

    Many pictures of the Monza, were not the Monza. There were three cars that came out in 75. The Monza, the Buick Skyhawk and the Oldsmobile Starfire. They were all essentially the same, but with different engines. Some of the pictures shown were the Skyhawk or the Starfire. The Monza had the 4 cylinder or the 8 cylinder. The Skyhawk had the V6 and I don’t remember the Oldsmobile engines. The Skyhawk’s V6 was GMs first and was an 8 cylinder chopped down to 6 or a 90 degree geometry. V6s have to 60 or a 120 degrees. It didn’t fully compress every other cycle and ran rough. In 76 GM offset the crankcase to make it even firing. I owned a 75 Skyhawk for 18 years. The worst I can say about it was the brakes were less than good. From what I understand the Monza were a piece of crap.

  • @dr.maturin4648
    @dr.maturin4648 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The AI drones on about the Aspen's rectangular headlights while showing it's perfectly round headlights. Typical.

  • @garydaniels5495
    @garydaniels5495 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Notice how he kept referring to the Aspen as the Valiant?

    • @richardepstein3494
      @richardepstein3494 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes, he did a poor job on this video. Especially when there was no mention of the Vega!!

  • @d4l3d
    @d4l3d หลายเดือนก่อน

    Much to my mortification, my in laws offered to buy us a car. The cheapest I could find at the time in order to preserve a modicum of dignity was a Gremlin. Humiliating ugly for a couple with some taste and nearly killed us in a low speed rearender. The seats completely disengaged throwing us into the windshield.

  • @hobbyfarmer62
    @hobbyfarmer62 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ah yes we called them the Chevy sh*tvette, and the sad limp mustang 2, so many second rate weak and pathetic cars. Then add on what seemed like very limited build quality from auto workers union who just didnt seem to care. Made for many bad cars. Bought a car with a fin mounted tail light that never worked eventually found it was because the wire bundle was tucked in the rear Seattle panel and was never finished bieng installed.

  • @ivanivonovich9863
    @ivanivonovich9863 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I used to drive the Aspen/Volare as taxicabs (also the Dodge Dart/Plymouth Valiants). They were quite reliable and durable! Not to mention easy to repair. The wagon models though had issues with rust at the rear hatch hinge area. That was not an easy repair.

  • @GregALang
    @GregALang หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Pinto's issue with the fuel tank rupture wasn't because the tank was located behind the rear axle; almost every car's fuel tank was behind the rear axle back then. The issue was the floor of the truck doubled as the top of the gas tank instead of the tank being a one piece, sealed unit. This was an ongoing issue with several Ford's for decades which caused them to install a fuel pump kill switch in the trunk of most vehicles later equipped with internal electric fuel pumps.

  • @bones007able
    @bones007able หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those cars were great!....compared to the junk being mfg today ... plastic and aluminum...might as well drive them directly from the dealership to the recycle center and cut out the middleman

  • @AndrewLoukidis-jr2bp
    @AndrewLoukidis-jr2bp หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had a 76 Vega 4 speed.
    They had most of the bugs worked out by then
    It was fun to drive and handled well
    By 86 it burned so much oil it looked like a fog machine

  • @Richaag
    @Richaag หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:47 Engine options included a Keith Black Aluminum 540 CI V-8 producing 860 HP.

  • @ryanbernard5287
    @ryanbernard5287 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'd gladly have another Omega. It was a great car.. You can have your thumbs down now.

  • @jeffrichards1537
    @jeffrichards1537 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My cousin put a 302 into a pinto. That thing would fly. Terrifying to ride in but fun..

  • @WilliamMc7520
    @WilliamMc7520 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gremlins were good cars I wish I had one now. They were fast and didn’t take much to fix I had a green one !!

  • @maryrafuse2297
    @maryrafuse2297 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting that the voice in this 10 WORST likely was not alive in the 1970's. Who is he to judge. Perhaps he is jealous of the relative joy found in this era? An era when women were not plastered in tattoos. Having lived in this time the AMC cars looked great on the roads.

    • @SFHCommish_1
      @SFHCommish_1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      More than likely an artificial, (not so) intelligent voice

  • @jeffrichards1537
    @jeffrichards1537 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Chevy vega is a great looking small car. After people motor swapped them it was a good car. The gremlin is one of my favorite cars because it's ugly.

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You must admit, AMC looked different! Fords, GMs and Chryslers were all clones.

  • @albertoacosta8472
    @albertoacosta8472 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Worst list ever all cars heere are great minus maybe the Aspen

  • @AndrewLoukidis-jr2bp
    @AndrewLoukidis-jr2bp หลายเดือนก่อน

    A friend had a Monza with the 305, that car was sick fast.

  • @doordedeur
    @doordedeur หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ford could have just imported the European Escort to the US, instead of developing the Pinto.

    • @giantgeoff
      @giantgeoff หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@doordedeur Not so much the Escort but the Ford Cortina was so highly thought of that an entirely separate dealer network was created outside of Ford Corporate to distribute them on the East Coast at least .Friend had one but it was a slush box and he kind of had a love hate relationship With it had the 1600 Kent engine in it also in the gen I Fiesta o
      It had MacPherson Struts which Ford had to pay royalties on so that's the reason for the wacky suspension design on the Falcon, Mustang, Pinto, Mustang II, and Fairmont and the rest of the Fox bodies.

    • @RedBud315
      @RedBud315 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Capri from the 70's was a really fun car with a 3.0 V-6 and about the same size as a Pinto.

  • @BradArmstrong-f1v
    @BradArmstrong-f1v หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had a 72 apollo, won many a race.

  • @dennislettich4035
    @dennislettich4035 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Let's hope this video is on the 10 WORST ALSO!!!

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "The Ten Worst Videos About Cars."

  • @theprinceofsnj
    @theprinceofsnj หลายเดือนก่อน

    Got my drivers license in a 1971 Pinto. I had 3 Chevettes 2 I bought new but they were 80's models (80, 84, 87) My first car was a 1973 Omega 2 door 350 V8 4 barrel carb. I loved that car.

  • @RedBud315
    @RedBud315 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Historically the Buick was supposed to be the next tier below the Cadillac so it seems the Apollo might have fallen short because they needed to add a little bit more luxury to it. The one they showed here basically looked like the Nova on the inside. My buddy owned a Monza Mirage with a 350 and that #7 plug might be the maintenance issue he referred to in the video. The car was almost impossible to drive in the wet with the tires available at the time. Barely touching the gas at a green light and you might be sitting there spinning the tires with people behind you honking, lol.

  • @daviddykes3026
    @daviddykes3026 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who assembles this rubbish?

  • @Mr_Chris77
    @Mr_Chris77 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe a few cars between 72-90 something was worth a shit, performance wise. That era is what brought Toyota and Honda to the mainstream.

  • @donaldsalkovick396
    @donaldsalkovick396 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pinto was a sedan?

  • @markwagner4909
    @markwagner4909 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The pinto was made as a two door hatchback and a two door wagon.

    • @Al-thecarhistorian
      @Al-thecarhistorian หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And a 2-door sedan. The wagon was the best and safest of the 3 body styles.

    • @giantgeoff
      @giantgeoff หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Al-thecarhistorian you got it we bought a two door sedan as a parts car for my Mom's 76 Wagon(didn't work) In the middle of New Mexico I bought a disassembled 73 hatchback that someone else had the plan to reassurect a Mustang II (also didn't work) allowed me to have a car as a broke college student With the help of Racer Walsh and David Vizard (He's on TH-cam, look him up!) rebuild my motor on the coffee table of my dorm room. My engine crane was a 6 pack of Moosehead lager and a snatchem strap.

  • @390rambler
    @390rambler หลายเดือนก่อน

    BOGUS A I channel