anyone remember the 70s ? and big cars and gasoline?

[911bear]

  ma mopar was pumping out the high horses everything was good and up jumped opec and who knows who else!!! and put the screws to everyone and started choking the horsepower right on out of all the cars. i can remember going to the gas station with my dad and if your license plate started with a even number and it happened to be an odd day on the calender you got no gas and when you did get to get gas it was 5 gallons only !! i can see this happening again  all the big vehicles that are out now , the hemi , the 454 hummer, the triton v8 ford expeditions and suvs  . in my opinion they will become extinct and the bottom will fall outta prices on all the big rides out there just like it did in the 70s .....  guess i,m just ranting but i still think its a commin ...... just my opinion.........911bear

[Ghoste]

I agree.  It's all a pendulum and it's about set to swing back to smaller cars.  As long as it doesn't bring the other 70's stuff with that swing.  Green appliances, orange shag carpet, cheezy vans...

[Shakey]

Pink bathroom fixtures, toilets, sinks etc.

Cool!

[41husk]

I think this gas crunch will result in (E H H) Electric, Hydrogen, and hybrid cars. 

[Khyron]

I agree.   It's all a pendulum and it's about set to swing back to smaller cars.   As long as it doesn't bring the other 70's stuff with that swing.   Green appliances, orange shag carpet, cheezy vans...

hey, you just described my house! 

[Telvis]

I remember some of the 70's gas problems. I was a kid then.  In those days everybody had a big car. It was less common to see someone driving a small car. Much less common than today. When the prices for gas went up people went to the little cars in mass. Today I think there is already a pretty even split between the small and larger cars. I think it will shift some but I don't see it being as drastic as the 70's. Unlike the 70's where most households relied on one income. Today people make more money due to multiple household incomes. In a lot of cases the people who own large SUV's and other big vehicles can afford to absorb the extra expense.  They feel more secure in their big vehicle. I think it will take a lot to convince them to abandon their big gas guzzling cars.

[hemihead]

I remember when prices went up in the 70's people started car pooling,drove less,made one trip to shop pay bills etc..I don't think people will quit driving their SUV's.It is not a matter of feeling safe but I think more of a matter of feeling like a big shot.

[70charginglizard]

Its very simple.

The rich will continue to drive there large SUV size vehicle.

The middle class will be squeezed to be defined as low income class.

And the low income class will be force into all the crappy ugly 4 door tiny vehicles.

[73dodge]

My stay in California has been an eye opener. For a state with the biggest whiners about the enviroment and greenhouse gases and "progressive" thought, every other car I see on the road is an SUV not just a small Chevy Blazer, but Hummers, Tahoes, Land Rovers you name it. It also seems that behind every wheel of these giant SUV's is a single small woman driving it.

I remember the 70's gas crunch, but if I remember correctley the OPEC oil embargo was in retaliation to then DEMOCRAT Jimmy Carter (Worse President in history) middle east policy.

The good thing that came out of the gas crunch in the 70's was the emergence of the small forgien car, why? you ask. Because if it were not for the small Jap cars and their good quality and high mileage we would be stuck driving American garbage cars that were poor quality and had poor gas mileage. Not that I mind a being able to buy a new 70 Road Runner with a 440 +6 but face it the quality of the cars in the 70's was absolute CRAP. And if it were not for the Japs building quality cars forcing American companies to COMPETE in the quality arena you would still be going into a American car dealer to buy your $40,000 undersized 4cyl econo box with no options like CD, Air, Power Brakes etc. That new car you but would come with a 12mo 12000 warranty and for the first 3 months you would be taking it back to the dealer to get crappy little things fixed like body panels realigned and other junk fixed that you did not have to worry about when buying a Jap car.

So maybe enough people will buy electric golf carts and start driving them around enough to effect the gas prices. I'll then be able to keep driving my 8cyl car.

[KMPX2]

I parked my 14 1/2 MPG Ram for a 33 MPG Neon. I drive 50 miles a day. I have keeped a log & What I have saved in gas has paid for the Neon.

[ChargerChick]

I parked my 14 1/2 MPG Ram for a 33 MPG Neon. I drive 50 miles a day. I have keeped a log & What I have saved in gas has paid for the Neon.

What year is your neon? Cause I have a 03 and its not getting 33MPG.

[andy74]

i was just a kid back then,but i remember waiting in lines with my dad,and grand dad for gas,and the cars being as big as city buses-my father bought a used pinto to drive to work,and we hardly ever went on day trips-may be thats what we have coming again?

[41husk]

I would like to get a little 2.2 rampage and park the Ram.

[Highbanked Hauler]

I remember it well,sitting in line to get $3.00 worth of gas,odd even plate numbers,the red, yellow, and green flag system.Being out in the country we didn't have it as bad as the larger cities.

[LahTera]

Ah, the 70s!   Some of my favorite years.   I was a kid then, too.   Mom had a Dodge Dart that would start in 40 below.   Dad had a red, white and blue van commemorating the Bicentennial.   Mom also had a 1974 Toyota Celica 4-speed that got 50 miles per gallon!   Wasn't supposed to be that high, but she took a carb class the previous year, and somehow got it there.   

I was doing whatever I could to get those Hash jeans and I still love those bell bottoms -- what can I say?

As for driving a small car, when my girlfriend was run off the road in hers and killed, I swore I'd never own another one.   Glad I kept my promise, as years later, I was t-boned in the shoulder by an SUV doing 55 in a 35 and running a red light.   I survived because I had my '73 Road   Runner -- gotta' love those unibodies!   Sure crushed the car, and my spirit at seeing my 9-year-old project totalled after all I had left to do was the interior.   That, and I was just waiting for the rear-end to go out.   I'd pretty much replaced all else.      Still miss that car.   My Charger was my replacement.

Ever watch That 70s Show?   Brings back memories!   LOL!

No, they can raise the gas prices all they want -- I'm never selling it!!!   

LahTera

[Silver R/T]

in a house with the white walls... mk
Better find something that gets most mpg. And I would love to see ban on SUV's. I just do not appreciate soccer moms driving 50K SUV just to shop, get in civic bitch and save gas. If everyone would be more conservative we wouldnt have gas crunch as bad.

[BigBlackDodge]

in a house with the white walls... mk
Better find something that gets most mpg. And I would love to see ban on SUV's. I just do not appreciate soccer moms driving 50K SUV just to shop, get in civic bitch and save gas. If everyone would be more conservative we wouldnt have gas crunch as bad.

If they have a 50k suv/car, they are not worried about saving gas.


Even if we magicaly cut our fuel consumption in half over night, the oil companies would double the costs of everything to make up for it. They're not going to like making half as much money as they did before.

BBD

[KMPX2]

I parked my 14 1/2 MPG Ram for a 33 MPG Neon. I drive 50 miles a day. I have keeped a log & What I have saved in gas has paid for the Neon.

What year is your neon? Cause I have a 03 and its not getting 33MPG.

Both of mine are 96 SOHC 5 SPD cars I race one and daily drive the other. The Manual trans helps big time on gas. Neither one is stock there are alot of tricks you can do to the 95-99's I have not played with the 2 gen like you have.

[MGBRingo]

Interesting to see the comments about this.  Our Chargers get much worse gas mileage than those SUVs do.  I know most of us drive them less but the SUV owners probably talk about our old cars like we talk about them.   

[67RedCharger]

The shortage of oil is all a crock.   The Earth is still there just like it was back in the 70's with all of that unseen oil under our feet just like it was in the 70's, with technology providing the Oil magnets with information of where to drill to get the stuff.   Tree huggers complaining that the ice caps will melt from global warming with the stock analysts convincing everyone that there is an oil shortage to drive up the price of oil so that the pencil pushers can make a buck sitting on their duff just like the sceniro that occurred in the late 90's with Enron and other corporate giants tore into the economy with the suffurage of millions of stock investors losing their life savings.   Back in the 70's it was the big oil companies looking for a way to put the competition out of business, and that competition was the dollar bill snatchers   selling the excess gasoline at a discount price.   In case there are some that have no idea what a dollar snatcher was, it was the erection of a self service gas pump that took dollar bills to satisfy the thirsty gas guzzlers.   Well the dollar snatchers were closed down from the so called oil shortage an bless patty the price hit .89 a gallon and the lines stopped.   There was no oil shortage then, and there is no oil shortage now.   The earth is still there, with the oil underneath our feet just waiting to be pumped up out of the ground and refined.   The Oil magnets have us where they want us and they are sitting around reaping the profits of screwing the populace just like they did back in the 70's.   The idea to let the free enterprise system prevail to take care of the problem is ludicrous.   The economy is now starting to react to the squeeze and you will find the prices starting to drop to relieve the pressure building up from the publics reaction to the increased prices.   Once the prices start to drop, the pressure will be relieved and it will all start over again.   What we need is for a congressional investigation to take place to put some bone heads in prison to stop this garbage, and clean up the mess that has been going on now for 30 years.

  ~ 67RedCharger ~

[JimShine]

My 318 '69 Charger gas mileage isn't too far off from my '03 Buick Century. The Buick gets about 5 more miles a gallon, big whoop.

[RD]

What we need is for a congressional investigation to take place to put some bone heads in prison to stop this garbage, and clean up the mess that has been going on now for 30 years.

  ~ 67RedCharger ~

AMEN!!! that is what i am talking about.  but you think that will happen with an oil president?

[Ghoste]

Or any other president.  Big Oil buys a LOT of influence with a few well heeled campaign funds.

[Troy]

What we need is for a congressional investigation to take place to put some bone heads in prison to stop this garbage, and clean up the mess that has been going on now for 30 years.

  ~ 67RedCharger ~

Just what we need. With their track record I'd be amazed if they could even agree on the exact location of the nearest restroom after a ten month "investigation". Maybe they can get to it right after they investigate steroids in baseball.... 

OH! And the only thing I remember about the 70s is those HUGE collars on my hand-me-down button up shirts.

Troy

[Brock Samson]

in a house with the white walls... mk
Better find something that gets most mpg. And I would love to see ban on SUV's. I just do not appreciate soccer moms driving 50K SUV just to shop, get in civic bitch and save gas. If everyone would be more conservative we wouldnt have gas crunch as bad.

That's so funny..
You'll make a great little dictator...