When velour was king: 10 American '70s luxury car classics

Do you think '70s American luxury cars are becoming more hip?

1. Attributing the populatity of these cas to gays who only recently discovered them is just poor reporting. It is the inner city that has kept these cars relevant. For the last 10 years I have gone to lowrider shows and seen scores of these cars. Visit any of the car clubs in SoCal like the Majestics or Rollerz Only and you will see hundreds of luxury cars from the 70´s. The folks who kept these cars relevant are from the inner city, not some johnny-come-lately gay scene. LAT needs to do it´s homework. But this is not the frst time people have taken something developed in the inner city and claimed it as their own. Nor will it be the last.
Submitted by: mack
11:28 AM PDT, May 10, 2008 2. Luxury cars? The 70's will always be remembered as the decade of the Detroit Muscle Car, the pinnacle of American automotive design. (Something the irrational 70's bashers will never allow themselves to accept.) In the 70's, while my group of friends drove Mustangs and Supersports, gays drove Audi Foxes and Beamers. Now they want to lay claim to what was cool in the 70's, the Hardrock Decade?
Submitted by: Orange Shag
6:48 AM PDT, May 10, 2008 3. The 70s represented a collapse in style and an end to high horsepower output performance for American cars. It was an apocalypse for the US automotive industry from which it never recovered. Today, the "big 3" lack any kind of prestige due to their mistakes committed in the 1970s. Had they taken the cues from the Japanese and Europeans, we might have achieved some great things with high efficiency engines and forward thinking styling instead of saddling the consumer with boxy SUVs and regurgitating rounded off retro car models from the 60s.
Submitted by: dbx
6:43 PM PDT, May 9, 2008