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"Cars from the Land of the Rising Sun of every era inspire devotion in a diaspora of automotive enthusiasts. Influx sought out a fistful of them. “I look after between 38 and 50 Japanese cars in various stages of repair. I can’"
Written by Michael Fordham
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Small picture 15 looks like a Monteverdi 375L which is Swiss and not Italian and how could you leave out the classic Corvette Stingray, one of the curviest car designs ever and actually still affordable today. That's why I've got one in the garage!
Not only was my car born in the 70s, I still have it.
Maybe it's time I moved on eh?
what No Rangerover ? ! surely a design icon of the age, exhibited in the Louvre and started the whole SUV cult???????
My dad had a killer Granada 2.8 Ghia_ i can still remember when we broke 100mph on the motorway on a sunny saturday afternoon will all the windows open…lives with me forever/..l;';;;
'70s was the start of the 'jap-cr#p' invasion. They weren't pretty but they just kept on going. And why always show the crappi when the Opel Manta was streets ahead, on like for like engine size, for build quality, handling and performance – OK so I'm biased having had a 1.9 SR which was so much better that all my mates 1.6/2.0 capri's
worked for aerospace on harriers and hawks had a 3 litre capri we were al in to americana and it had to have muscle my afro was a disaster and stupid peace patches on my jeans
Ihad a 1971 capr1 3 litre GT crying while i write this i thought iwas the dogs. my god my afro must have looked shit
I still have my 1967 TR4a, not a seventies car but it was driven through that era. I worked at Triumph so had the opportunity to get it into real good shape. Regularly cruised up to Whitby sometimes and down to plymouth;
100mph at 3800 rpm most of the way. Still have the car but can no longer use it like I used to.
Matt
The “Italian sports saloon” in front of the Forth Bridge is a Monteverdi 375L – from Switzerland (albeit styled by Frua of Italy). The Zodiac shown is a Mark 3, which went out of production in 1966. The “exotic” Matra Simca shown is the very mundane Simca 1307 (Chrysler and then Talbot Alpine in the UK). Not many people laughed at Skodas in the '70s, and least of all at the 110R Coupe pictured. The De Tomaso Mangusta was a much LESS refined predecessor of the Pantera. Was the person who captioned these photos even born in the '70s?!
That Monteverdi is about as Swiss as Sylvester Stallone.
Started the whole SUV cult????? Thats debatable since the Jeep wagoneer predated it by eight years.
Its true Rover had played with the idea through the fifties and sixties but the actual Range Rover didn,t appear until 1970 while the Wagoneer had an eight year head start. The wagoneer was directly aimed at the sport utility market before it became the buzz word it is today. Maybe thats why the writer left it out of the article.
My first car, Capri 1600 GT XLR. In bright red…………with black vinyl roof of course.
Bomber Jacket and flared jeans so tight me balls were behind my ears!
Suzuki Gt 750………….known as a' kettle' due to its new fangled water cooling.
Nostalgia? yeah, of course……..no cares…. and didnt care about the suss word (sustainability)
The Mangusta is a 60's car you nitwits – and the Pantera replaced it
A fun collection, obviously written tongue in cheek.
But seriously things were not better, there never have been good old days. Today for all its faults is as good as it has ever been.
Yep, well, the Mangusta was built in the sixties, sure, and yes, the Pantera did replace it, but I've always thought of it as a seventies car in attitude, proportion and general aesthetic. It's a bit like Alfa's Carabo concept in a way – a 'sixties' car that encapsulated all the look, feel and attitude of seventies car culture. Wether or not this should mean we have the Mangusta as our header image or not is another question.
Michael Fordham (editor)
… and built until 1970/71 though, no?
You lot have far to much time on your hands and want everyone to think your the bees knees with your super knowledge.
Go away, wash your anorak and except that your probably all right and wrong in some shape or form and that 70s cars were rubbish in comparison to 80s, 90s or present cars because thats how technology works. It improves. I am 30 and I am glad I didnt grow up around all those badly build unsafe cars. Grumpy old man… you got it so right.
The Monteverdi factory was in Binningen-Basel, Switzerland, and this where the Frua bodies were mated to the Chrysler running gear, by the Swiss workforce, employed and paid by the Swiss entrepreneur Peter Monteverdi, who previously manufactured the Swiss MBM racing and road cars…
Ok but surely you know what I mean? The lines of the thing look for all the world like the Lamborghini Espada. It's called the //Monteverdi//, and anyway isn't Switzerland made up of a bunch of autonomous Cantons, many of which hug the Italian border? In a way, I'd argue that the Triumph Stag, while being a British car, was designed by an Italian (Michelotti) and was possessed of the aesthetic of North America. Cars design //sans frontiers//. Knowworrimean?
Fair enough, the Monteverdi was styled by Italians and powered by Americans, in much the same way as many other '60s and '70s exotica, so I do take your point that there was nothing intrinsically Swiss about its design and concept. And yes, I agree about the Stag too. In fact, I bet BL were hoping they'd sell a load of Stags in the US. They might have succeeded, too, if the engine had been fully developed before the car was launched, and the build quality had been up to scratch!
The only way any “foreign to the USA” car can succede there is with proper back-up servicing which is something the Brits never learned. VW proved this with the success of the beetle in the fifties and sixties.
At least you could fix them when they wrong!
and this is very true