With so many restored to factory original cars nowadays, all I can remember is this!!! I swear everytime I revist this link it makes my heart thump.

https://70sstreetmachines.tumblr.com/

Neat!

I hear ya. It was so cool back then. I surely miss those times. These kids nowadays don`t know what they are missing.

Couldn't agree more. No one back in the day(where I live) left cars like ours stock. Tires, rims, engine and drive train mods, wild to mild paint schemes.

And don't get me going on those dumb azz hub caps everyone and their brother is putting on their cars. They were ugly back in the day and still are.

3rd pic down. That's what their missing.

Oh man...Those were the best of times...Thanks for sharing!

YUP!

Pics are before my time, but they are neat. Maybe the car hobby should have gone the direction of putting them back they way they were when they were fun instead of show poodles, or the now long in the tooth pro-touring style?

Too much emphasis on what they are worth has made the fun factor drop I'm sure.

Yeah, there’s some of us that would love to relive those days. Times were pretty simple

I am not sure who started the page but they have hi jack alot of pics, including some of my old cars from the early 70's I have posted over the years.

Cool photos! I liked the Pinto.

Whoever compiled that must have gathered pictures from every site he could find for years.
After scrolling for quite a while I saw a picture I took at Union Grove Dragway in the early 80s, a FJ6 T/A in the pits with a Peggy Bundy looking woman behind it. I must have scanned it and posted it somewhere. And later a picture of my T/A from my HS days I’ve posted a number of times here and elsewhere.

I walk the aisles of Carlisle and don't give restored cars so much as a glance. Oh sure, I can appreciate the effort that went into them but they're basically cookie-cutter cars with no individuality.

I like both restored and custom muscle cars. That link brings back some fond memories.

I love moparts, but there are mopar sites not as dedicated to trailer queens as this one is. There are 100-s of cool driven cars around for every over done, over priced "correct" car, some that only a mother could love.

As for pics turning up..... If you never want a pic to reappear its simple, never post it on the open web in the first place. But I have seen many of them as well.

It was actually a relatively short period in time looking at the year model cars in the pictures. It started to phased out as soon as the emissions were implemented. The girls looked better too. Great times.

in the 80s people started to desire original cars instead of all the modified ones on the shows.
Nowadays they would be happy again to see some day II customs instead of original cars.
Desire is often what is not commonly available.

I like both

Carsten

I've always liked both. Cars like my GTS convertible I prefer relatively original.

Cars like my son's Dart convertible and my Barracuda convertible I prefer modified, BUT I like to generally use factory parts from other cars (like the Mirada wheels for my Barracuda and Barracuda dash in my son's Dart). I just think Chrysler did a lot of cool stuff, but some of that stuff never made it to the cars that I like, so...

None of my cars are restored to stock. What fun would that be. In fact, the Cyclone was stock when I bought all the way down to Fomoco headlights and running points. So much so that I thought the suspension might be dangerous until upgraded. The car is now e-headed, roller motor, running efi, 2500 stall, and 3.70 gears. Doing the barracuda right now and just got the metal done but upgraded to 73+ kframe and suspension, 11" drums in the back, and looking to go with a roller efi motor also. Day 2 is just so much more interesting to me. It was back in the day and is still now.

i'm the same way. that stock resto stuff is just boring to me.. at carlisle i walk right by the "restored" cars.. if thats your thing its cool but just not for me.