probably to make it still feel like a regular car when driving. When the back wheels steer opposite it feels like the butt is swinging around.

I’m pretty sure I’ve only heard terrible things about Dodge Colts, but dang I want the car in that ad.

I’ve always liked the “mini F100" front end of the Ford Courier.

I mean, I just got out of my car from the late 60s, and I didn’t see a whole lot of plastic in there. Definitely less than my friend’s mid 70s Plymouth.

When I see things like this I’m filled with an intense hatred for the driver. This isn’t an “everyone makes mistakes” scenario, if there was a person walking across that intersection - instead of an entire fucking roundabout - these neighbors would be cleaning an innocent person’s splattered remains off of their cars.…

Ford’s approach was to just install amber bulbs behind the still-white lenses.

My Falcon actually also uses a similar foam gasket for the taillights (and a rubber one at the top of the housings), so I guess that’s more like at least 52 years. I have no idea if they leak though because the rest of the trunk is too rusty for water to pool anywhere.

I’m not quite sure what you’re saying, but cars from the 70s do have dramatically more plastic on the interiors than cars from the 60s. And I don’t think interior plastics on cars were really figured out till the 90s since that seems to be when they stopped falling apart so badly.

I mean mine is hitting year 52 of daily driving in a snow state with 160k miles and still isn’t burning oil. It needs pretty much constant work, but not more than what it seems like cars from the 70s need. And it’s a bit simpler than cars from the 70s which makes doing that work a little easier. That’s why I said that…

If you look at Craigslist you’ll probably find more base-model Fairlanes and Falcons have survived than things like Fairmonts, but I do conceed that looking at which car is better decades later is different from which car is better when they’re new ones vs 10 year old ones.

I’m just thinking that there was a lot more experimentation with plastics in the 70s that tended to hurt the longevity of the cars, and their systems became a lot more complicated without the underlying engineering getting any better. Things like plastic bodied carburetors and interiors with more brittle plastic.…

What coal-rolling butthole did you fall out of?

I have no idea why as a potential car buyer in the 70s you’d buy a new car over a used one from the mid 60s that would’ve been built better, gotten better gas mileage, and had more power. I guess even a malaise car would’ve been new and more reliable for like 6 months at least before falling apart faster than the cars…

You’re right. It might be missing a few mounting clips, the wiring does look a little more secured than this in my Falcon. But also this is a dodge and they had terrible build quality at that time, so I don’t really know.

I’d like to high-five you while sobbing. I live down by Wash Park / South Pearl. Big chunks of that street are literally unrecognizable now from 10 years ago, when I have family photos showing it had barely changed at all in the previous hundred.

The wiring on this truck actually looks accurate to the era. The engine bay wiring in my Falcon looks the same and it’s never been restored.

I once showed up at night to check out an apartment I wanted to rent, but no one was there. I called the number I had for them, and was so completely confused by what I heard and the baffling maze of mysterious touch-tone menus it took me to. It took me years to figure out that the phone number was connected to…

Denver

I wonder if the laws have gotten more restrictive on that since the Mercury Cougar had them in the 60s.

Like any good meme I’m now stealing it to share with people.