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Old 02-28-2011, 12:03 PM   #51
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Re: 70's era hotrodding...history lesson please

I remember even when I was young my dad had a 68 torino gt with a big block/4spd. It looked all stock but I remember him out in the parking lot of our apartments swapping out the 9" chunk and dropping the pipes alot of Fridays after work. After I got older and got into cars I figured out why he did that lol.
I've read around alot about the era but when it comes to magazines I can't help but think the mags were probably like they are today where they feature only the baddest of the bad, you know... The exceptions that you would rarely see if ever running the streets.
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Old 02-28-2011, 12:35 PM   #52
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Considering I was born in the mid 70's (75) I don't remember 60's going into 70's but I do remember late 70's and 80's. And where I live were about a decade behind, so what I saw was probably 60's 70's stuff. No wild paint jobs, not much money here, my dad owned a body shop. There were a few trucks he did the swirlly looking pinstripes. But they were 2 color only, for example tuquois truck with white stripes. I can remember a 67-68 stepside with 10" wheels in the back and 8" in the front, sloted mags, and chrome side pipes. A few guys run cragers. Dad had a 70's elcamino, tan and copper, with the trans-am bird on the hood, chrome billet hole wheels with copper centers and white letter tires, also had a copper vinyl top. Was REALLY cool then. Most were wheels and tires only with raised white letters and glass pack mufflers.
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If you dont go ladder bars you go traction bars with Moroso, Hooker, Holly and Crane stickers all over the windows.

Of course if you're trickin' out a Chevy truck you'll need the impossible to find ABS injection molded window louver for your back glass.

The shaker hood scoop was in vogue in those days too along with hood pins and hood tach, whether you needed 'em or not.

Of course it HAS to be four on the floor with a tricked out speed shifter.

Shag carpeting IS optional, 8 track player is NOT. Don't forget the ultra cool Jensen COAX speakers and the Tancredi power distorter...er, booster... to get all the foxy ladies attention.

The only thing left is the trip up to the corner Super Fuels for some premium fuel and a beer cooler in the back....'cause we could drink and drive back then.
Here is the louver. Not impossible, but they are scarce
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Somewhere in "collection" of magazines, is one (Car Craft??) that had a '72 Chevy PU. Maybe the same one mentioned early in this thread. It was lowered and it had Ansen(?) slot mags on it...maybe some side pipes.

The panel paint, fish scales and fogged paint are more mid-Seventies than end of the Sixties. The scallops on the Fifties car are what I also call scallops because that's what Hot Rod, etc., called 'em. The scallops actually date from the late Fifties. I remember '58 Impalas with 'em. The Ala Kart, built by Barris, had 'em, too. It was built in '58. Mid-Seventies saw a lot of wood-grain paint effects, around here. Pinstriping was done by new car dealers, on VW's, primarily. Porthole windows in the C-pillars was also common to that time. But, none of these styling tricks were about hot rodding....just part of the "if it don't go, chrome it" school of thought.

Straight axles (as previously mentioned) were a mid-to-late Sixties fad that carried over from the drag strip, to the streets and continued sporadically until the mid-Seventies.

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Here's a pic with square body in the back ground

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Dang!!!!!!Where'd you get that? I been lookin' and not findin'....
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watch dazed & confused, check that truck
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Old 02-28-2011, 08:25 PM   #58
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I believe nobody has mentioned the sunroof. It seemed anybody back in the 70's that had a cool truck had a sunroof(unopenable) in it. Also a fellow earlier mentioned a clutched automatic. I used to race one of these back in the late 70's in a big block 43 Willy's coupe. No torque converter could match it off the line. I haven't heard mention of one of those in years.
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Clutch-flite. What I remember is a Torqueflite from Chrysler, with a clutch setup. Those showed up in the mid-Sixties. Another transmission feature was the switch-pitch torque convertors used by Buick. I had one in my '67 Skylark. The big Buicks used 'em, too. Kenne-Bell used to do a lot of business in those.
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Re: 70's era hotrodding...history lesson please

After reading thru this thread again i see no one has mentioned "Strobe Stripes" a series of verticle short stripes varying in width to give a strobe effect as the vehicle went by.Or maybe it was one stripe broken up vertically to do that.Scallops also made a return on the trucks in the late 70's maybe 76 or so on some GM steppers.They were usually black or white decals applied by a dealer or conversion company.As mentioned above the area had some effect on what accessories were used on your ride.
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I remember those Strobe stripes from the Ford Mustangs and Fairlanes/Torino's.

In '76, the lackaperformance bug was viral. We had gotten past seat belt interlocks ('74) and the Bicentennial Craze was rampant. Chevy built a series of Impalas and Pickups that had white paint, with blue and red trim. Ford did it with their '72 model Pintos, Mustangs and Mavericks. Maybe a truck, too. Don't remember the Ford marketing thing, but GM's '76 models in White, with the red and blue trim was definately a Bicentennial thing. Spirit of '76 comes to mind....
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Yeah,there's a Buick Regal I see sitting that still has that patriotic graphics job.
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Re: 70's era hotrodding...history lesson please

The cars were jacked up with long shackles and or air shocks because no one thought about narrowing a rear axle like they do almost automatically now. And as several said, N-50's on wide rims stuck out there a bit. Paint on rods, customs or trucks was usually over the top and wild but a lot of guys still ran clean and simple paint jobs, especially the guys running hot street cars.

As several said, old magazines are the key to what was the hot lick then. Truckin magazine started in the early 70's and was a real magazine with good content then rather than all the adds it has now with little editorial content to go with it.
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How about hood pins? I remember drilling holes in perfectly good hoods on all my camaros and chevelles! OMG
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Don't forget the famous "Keep on Truckin" stickers!
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Don't forget the famous "Keep on Truckin" stickers!
Yeah, the guy takin big strides with one foot sticking way out front, and the words "Keep on Truckin" dominating the background.
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You can't leave out the Yosemite Sam "Back Off" mudflaps.
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Dang!!!!!!Where'd you get that? I been lookin' and not findin'....
I caught it on e-bay about three weeks ago. Couldn't resist. The only problem is that it won't work with my slider.
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I just picked up a 62 Impala today and the pine tree and diamond tuck interior reminded me of this thread.
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they still make and sell those clutch automatics kits for the powerglide trans dirt track car guys, think they sell them in the jegs catalog's, or was it speedway lol.
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Tube grills were popular back then. Cragar SS's, Yellow Lakewood traction bars. Doesn't JC Whitney still sell that giant plastic piece that replaced your headliner that you could mount your radio and speakers in?

Look around at swap meets for the guy selling old copies of "Hot Rod Show World" (there's always someone), that was the "program" that they sold at the Autorama type shows. I guarantee that's where that Falcon picture came from. I'm pretty sure that model is K.C. Winkler, one of the few non-Playboy models they used back then. Here is a cheesy website about her that looks like it was created in the 80's:

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And,"Let's Boogie" with the guy in the pinstripe suit and white hat (Zuit Suit) truckin' swinging his watch chain.
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And dark tinted headlight covers.
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How about hood pins? I remember drilling holes in perfectly good hoods on all my camaros and chevelles! OMG
One time, I saw this guy with a bad-azz 'Cuda, woulda fit right at home in this thread. This was about late '74 or so. Maybe '75. He had a fake blower cover over the top of his 4-barrel, all sticking up through a fiberglass hood, and he had these little pad locks on his hood pins, pins at all four corners. Well, he goes to start it up, and the thing back-fires and sets his carb on fire, and it quickly spreads to the rest of the motor, and this kid is in a full panic because he can't find the key to the locks on those hood pins. I had thought that hood was fiberglass, but it must have been some kind of plastic, because it melted and formed it's self over his motor. There was another kid there that had sense enough to carry a fire extinguisher and he finally got the fire out, but man oh man, what a show! Right there at the mall parking lot!
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