The 1970s Executive Car Story

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  @BigCar2 · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  There&apos;s a part 2 to this video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0tzHgM6kw">https://youtu.be/2q0tzHgM6kw</a><br>I include all the cars I missed from this video.<br>Errata: Volvo made 6-cylinder engines before the Second World War.

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• MI

  @Milano322 · 2 years ago

  Really big fan of this format of covering a market segment over a specific time period, I hope you’ll continue to do more of these!

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• JB

  @jb1701A · 2 years ago

  In Australia, Holden grafted the opel senator front onto rekord body and significantly re-engineered the chassis to accept local 6 &amp; V8&apos;s which became the Holden Commodore. This vehicle was stronger than anything out of Europe- it had to be in order to cope with poor outback roads.

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• CO

  @couttsy222 · 2 years ago

  The Opel Rekord and Ford Granada each had a huge influence on the design of the two top-selling Australian cars going into the 1980s and even beyond. <br><br>The Opel Rekord was a loose template for the nascent VB Holden Commodore released at the end of 1978, still using the pushrod inline sixes and V8s from previous Holdens, whilst the design of the Granada was draped over the existing Ford Falcon floorpan to create the XD Falcon, released in early 1979. <br><br>These two dominant models in Australia signified the shift away from the previously American-dominated design and handling models and instead providing more European-influenced vehicles.<br><br>RIP The Australian Car Industry 😪

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• JO

  @johnmarsh2078 · 2 years ago

  The real reason people didn&apos;t keep cars for 10 years in the 1970s was that after about 6 or 7 years, the front wings were flapping, the headlights falling out and the sills had either fallen off or were reconstituted with newspaper and filler. The two greatest &quot;innovations&quot; that meant people could keep cars for 10 years + were the plastic wheelarch liner and wax cavity injection. In the 1980s you could kick a hole in most cars in the scrapyard. Today perfectly solid cars populate the scrappies, condemned because some megga expensive electronic widget has failed and costs more than the car&apos;s value to replace. Sad.

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• SA

  @saddoncarrs6963 · 2 years ago

  Lots of nice cars to look at back then - no SUVs (almost), no crossovers, no oversize &quot;trucks&quot;, no blacked out &quot;privacy&quot; glass, no black wheels, no black interiors and no Nissan Pukes. Also no 20mph zones, no speed bumps, no traffic calming street furniture and no &quot;holier than thou&quot; cyclists in rubber suits. Happy days.

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• VE

  @VenkateshaVittalaDasaPejaVara · 2 years ago

  A video actually worth making,no one talks about the 70&apos;s

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• LO

  @Lot76CARS · 2 years ago

  I’m sad this class has all but evaporated.. my Dad had almost all of them at some stage. Great memories, but the Granada will always be my favourite.

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• GW

  @gwheregwhizz · 2 years ago

  You knew you had made it when you were given a Ford Cortina with a cassette radio and vinyl roof.

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• WE

  @wearetomorrowspast.5617 · 2 years ago

  My Primary Head-Teacher Mr. Hughes had a Rover P5 in the early 70&apos;s. Brown &amp; Cream if I remember correctly. I used to just stare at it from the playground on breaks<br>I have a 1 Series Beemer sitting in the drive-way that has all the bells and whistles that the P5 didn&apos;t have. It has no soul.<br>That P5 was designed with love, built with love and my BMW was built to make money.<br>Cheers Mr. Hughes, you taught me to appreciate beauty. I hope my grammar was OK.

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• 8B

  @8BRInteractive · 2 years ago

  The W123 was a very popular choice among taxi drivers in Greece as well, and the same should said of the Audi 80 B2, and Datsun/Nissan Bluebird (more specifically, the 910, U11, and T12).

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• LG

  @LGuitarB · 7 months ago

  Good seventies music in that intro 🙂

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