Trump: "We're gonna make cars the way we had it 40 or 50 years ago"

[kpete]

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[hlthe2b]

1. I'm sure all would be THRILLED to have the 1974 Ford Pinto and AMC Gremlin back...

On edit, can't believe I left off the Chevy Vega. So many bad cars of the 70s, so little time.

[captain queeg]

6. Or a Chevy Vega or one of those "Charlie's angels" version of a Ford Mustang.

May he’s thinking back to the golden age of hot rods, like th 60s. But no one (but a collector) would want a 427 Camaro or 426 GTX. Get about 8-9 miles per gallon and weigh an extra thousand pounds. He’s an idiot as usual.

[Shermann]

18. Any modern V8 Camaro would beat that 427.

That was THE Camaro to have in 1969 though.

[Dave says]

44. I had a '69 blue Camaro convertible with a 327 in it

It was a nice car. I sold it to pay for school.

[captain queeg]

49. That would have been a great car to have.

I had a 66 Chevell with a 327

[Maeve]

7. I was rather fond of the Gremlin, owned 3

Worse mileage than my 2018 full sized van, but....

[Archae]

52. I had a Gremlin too, loved it.

It was so easy to work on if anything needed repairing.

I put a starter in it by climbing INTO the engine compartment, all 6 feet of me.
I'd like to see a car that I could do that nowadays!

[brush]

16. And I guess that leaves Musk's cars out. trump must've forgot Muck's PAC runs his ground game.

The fucker is getting more demented per day.

[BlueKota]

29. I had a dream I was driving a Red and White Ford Pinto.

It was right before I was supposed to take driver's education in high-school. Had it 3 times over a few weeks. The brakes wouldn't work as I was coming up to a merge with traffic sign on a busy highway. I woke up before I saw a crash, but it still scared the crap out of me. I ended up not learning to drive until my late 20's.

Hope those never come back. 🤣

[lpbk2713]

30. I had a 76 Ford Pinto Wagon

No question about it. Worst car I ever owned.

[BlueKota]

34. Not a vehichle Ford could brag about

that's for sure. I did like the Tarus model and the Fusion.

[BrianTheEVGuy]

57. Can't wait!

I’m hankering for a beautiful, sporty and safe Plymouth Cricket myself. Well-maintained models were known to last as long as 40,000 miles!

0 to 60 in 29 seconds 🤯

https://m.

&pp=ygUXcGx5bW91dGggY3JpY2tldCByZXZpZXc%3D

[BrianTheEVGuy]

58. Or how about a brand new Volare?

These had the front fenders rusted away to dust by their second winter:

https://m.

&pp=ygUJVm9sYXJlIGFk

[kimbutgar]

63. I had a 79 Plymouth Arrow which was another trash car that got 18 mpg

I’ll take my Hyundai sonata hybrid that get almost 600 on one fill up.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Good grief, I wish

Someone would tell him to STFU about murdering babies!

[Freddie]

31. They just can't let go of that particular lie

Too many gullible idiots out there. Surprised he kept repeating it at the debate. Same old same old. Kamala’s response was brilliant.

[Diamond_Dog]

40. That was the first thing he started on about at the debate.

It’s such an egregious lie too. It’s utterly and patently false! But they keep repeating it! Who in their right mind believes that doctors put newborn babies on a shelf while they decide how to kill it? It’s so bizarre!

[OhMcNo]

3. The Malaise Era...

Detroit at its finest…

[nature-lover]

4. Yeah. Remember how you had to trade it off before 50,000 miles and it fell apart?

[MineralMan]

5. I do not want a 1970s anything!

Do. Not. Want.

[Shermann]

20. I'll take an all-original 1976 BC Rich Mockingbird. nt

[Lurker Deluxe]

48. right ...

I was going to respond something similar ... maybe a new tour bus, full of old guitars.

Pick em, Les Paul, Strat, Tele ...

[Shermann]

69. You could probably make an even better selection financially speaking

That mock is the first thing that popped into my head though. That or an early prepro Charvel.

[BeyondGeography]

8. The era of major market share loss to foreign cars because ours sucked

Capital idea, sir.

[Hekate]

13. My first car was a Toyota for a reason. In all the decades since, GM & Ford have never changed my mind.

[BeyondGeography]

21. Our last American car was a Chrysler Town & Country wagon from the early 70s

A super thirsty vehicle with a 383 engine and a penchant for breaking down one way or another multiple times per year. The service was inept, time consuming, expensive and delivered with a shrug.

It was so bad my parents never bought another American car and they drove for another 40+ years. My first car was a Saturn because it was cheap and reliable (which is probably why they killed it) and I’ve gone non-American ever since.

[Diamond_Dog]

39. How many transmissions did you replace in that Town and Country

We had one that we had to replace 2 transmissions … so, 3 altogether.

[BeyondGeography]

42. Lmao...that was a major part of the torture

We replaced ours at least once but only after “fixes” that didn’t quite pan out. Took the better part of a year.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Ford Galaxy? No thank you!!

[MurrayDelph]

47. I had one of those

In the four years I owned it, I had to replace the transmission twice, and would have to gas up halfway between LA and Las Vegas, because the twenty-gallon tank couldn't go the whole 280 miles on one fillup.

[Solly Mack]

10. Old guy longs for the good ole days that never were and yells at clouds.

[Diamond_Dog]

43. Nailed it, Solly Mack.

[Solly Mack]

45. Am I wrong to want a camera in his much-needed rubber room and air it worldwide?

Tell Trump he's got a new reality show, show him where the cameras are, and then watch while he goes deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole.

Always let him know the ratings are so low he's going to get canceled.

For shits and giggles.

And out of petty spite and revenge.

Just because.

[Hekate]

11. No seatbelts? No child-safety locks? Emissions so bad you can't see across the street?

I can hardly wait!

[Shermann]

22. Also, they won't talk to my phone!!!111 nt

[Aristus]

37. No crumple zones?

Ah, the good old days, when if you got into a high speed collision, instead your car collapsing on itself, it collapses on you!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

46. big and loud with 8 track tape player! sign me up!

[Xavier Breath]

12. Yes, please bring back those halcyon days.

[hatrack]

14. To wit . . .

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[Xavier Breath]

17. I might exclude that first AMC, from a looks standpoint anyway.

Not a bad looking car. That Lincoln isn't bad either, for what it's supposed to be. People in 1970s Quinn Martin detective shows always drove one of those. The rest, yeah, just ugly. I know some today say all vehicles look pretty much the same, but they're all a damn site better looking than those monstrosities. Yeesh.

[hatrack]

19. It's the "opera windows" on the Lincoln that always drove me nuts . . .

Just . . . so . . silly. IIRC, it was an Iacocca brainstorm - "Put me a Rolls-Royce grill on the front of a Lincoln", and lo! It came to pass.

[BeyondGeography]

66. lol...ever sit in the back seat of a car with an opera window?

You couldn’t see shit, even if you and your folding fan leaned forward.

[Diamond_Dog]

41. So true about the 1970s Quinn Martin detective shows!

And those weird looking”opera windows”…. ……..

[marble falls]

32. Gimme this ...

with this:

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and this:





Please.

[Freddie]

33. I had one EXACTLY like that

Same color too. Not 70’s, mine was a 1988 I bought in 1994. Nice family car til it died 5 years later.

[Johonny]

15. Ah, leaded gasoline we barely missed you

[Shermann]

23. Lead poisoning makes people dumb and more likely to vote for Trump. The cycle continues. nt

[captain queeg]

24. This discussion got me thinking, but I feel like the subject I will propose deserves its own thread.

[usaf-vet]

25. You mean with real metal that last 30+ years. Cost 10-15k. Had components that the owner could repair or replace...

...in their backyard or garage.

That sounds like a great idea! When can I see one in a showroom?

[Wednesdays]

68. Last 30+ years? Yeah, if you kept it in a garage the entire time.

Or lived in a region where they never salt the roads in winter.

We'd own a car two years before it got "Michigan cancer" (rust along the bottom of the body), and it'd be worthless after four.

[uncle ray]

73. except that wan't the case 40-50 years ago.

sure there was "real metal" but it was stamped into some of the ugliest forms ever made, and safety was only beginning to be engineered into cars. Detroit was starting to use lighter gauge metal and more unibody construction, but they hadn't yet figured out effective corrosion prevention or how to engineer crumple zones. what wasn't steel was plastic that deteriorated in a few years. similarly, ease of repair took a nose dive in this era as automakers struggled to get emissions down, glopping on emission control devices that added a mess of vacuum hoses and wires to electronic boxes and carburetors that failed and choked power down to a fraction of what it was just a few years earlier. shade tree mechanics "fixed" faulty emissions devices by illegally ripping everything out, tanking mileage and emissions. engines would be good for 100k miles before being junk due to worn out valve seats because automakers hadn't figured out metallurgy to work with unleaded gas yet. if you didn't wear the engine out by 100k miles, faulty emissions devices would ensure it's be dead from being clogged with carbon, or nuked from an over lean fuel mixture. And we haven't even touched on build quality yet!

once again, Trump is nostalgic for the good ol days that never were.

[Klarkashton]

26. The auto industry was in the shitter 40 to 50 years ago

It was the dawn of the Japanese import.
Trump is a piece of shit.

[marble falls]

27. He's full of it. At least 30% of the vehicles on the roads around here are 2yrs old or less. Detroit hasn't had it ...

... so good ever. High prices and high sales numbers.

[Think. Again.]

28. Cool, we can go back to doing surgeries with sharpened stones, too.

[fierywoman]

35. So the price will be about $2000 like in 1972 for a brand new VW bug?

[keep_left]

36. No, we're not. One need not be a Marxist to understand the idea of...

..."historical materialism". In other words, we're in a completely different era and physical reality, and we don't have Dr. Emmett Brown's magical time machine to get us back to 1974! (And by the way, does anyone really want a return to the AMC Gremlin?).

Someone really needs to give Trump a cognitive exam, because he's starting to sound like the internet "OK, Boomer" meme in a big (bigly?) way.

[sinkingfeeling]

38. Thank goodness; I've missed chrome.

[ProfessorGAC]

50. 40 Years Ago...

...the shift to high efficiency cars was 5-10 years into its run.
The Camry was becoming one of the best selling cars in the US & Chrysler had already shifted their whole platform. Omni, Horizon, the K Cars, the Lebaron, the Minivan. I had a 1979 Horizon & a 1983 Lebaron, so I remember.
All manufacturers began a downsizing initiative for fuel economy.
He can't even lie correctly.

[Jmb 4 Harris-Walz]

51. Is that gonna be WITH or WITHOUT seat belts? 🤦‍♀️

[Kid Berwyn]

53. It's hard to fact check the Niagara Falls of All Liars.

So, let’s listen to US Special Counsel Jack Smith and lock him up.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

54. I'd like a new Karmann Ghia or Scirocco

But that's not gonna happen

[PedroXimenez]

55. "gee our old LaSalle ran great"

guys like us we had it made...

[bucolic_frolic]

56. 1974-1984 The Golden Age of Carburetors

So many innovations in 40 years.

Where's Donnie headed, Classic Car Show?

[Squaredeal]

59. Cant wait for the Chevy Chevelle to come back

So we can fix them ourselves, time and again.

[yourout]

60. In the 80s Detroit pumped out some real garbage.

[Blue Owl]

61. Wave those tiny jazz hands, Mr. Say-Whatever-People-Might-Like

[doc03]

62. Cars that rusted out in 18 months, 60x4 AC, 8 track eating tape players, averaged about 12 MPG,

death traps in a collision and engines and transmissions shot at 100k. Put my order in for a new Yugo.

[dweller]

64. Pisswig don't drive ... he meant this

vroom vroom


✌🏻

[mucholderthandirt]

65. So, gas-guzzling, cheap-ass sh*t, built by people for low wages and almost no union protection. Okay, then.

Between that and every woman getting a post-birth abortion, tariffs on everything -- because we make almost nothing and grow almost nothing here -- everybody being deported or put in prison, we'll be a third world hell hole within six months.

Way to go, America! We're NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

[DiamondShark]

67. Hey, I'm all for no more big trucks and big SUV's...

But we all know what he meant.

[Emile]

70. I had an old Corvair that drank more oil than gasoline.

[Renew Deal]

71. He travels the country telling made up stories

I have to wonder how many of the attendees actually believe it rather than showing up for cheap entertainment.

[Rebl2]

72. No thank you