1970 Dodge Charger YouTube says this was banned. Um, no. This was totally in line with the dawn of the 1970s and the whole Dodge Fever theme. (Via Tim Stoughton.)
Robert Vaughn on The Protectors Dr Robert Vaughn talks about meeting Lew Grade and getting cast in The Protectors. People forget that The Protectors was a Gerry Anderson production, too, and ran for two seasons.
Radio Times 23 May 1970
Ignore the hairstyles Retro Radio Times—I still think this works today as an overall concept.
Mercedes Benz C111-II 1970 - Prototype 1 of 6 by Gordon Calder on Flickr.
Mercedes Benz C111-II 1970 - Prototype 1 of 6
C111 How can I not reblog this?
The rise and rise of Joe Patroni George Kennedy’s most famous role. OK, so the last one is from View from the Top, but you can’t tell me that he’s not playing Joe Patroni there, too.
Pininfarina Ferrari Modulo So 1970. Reblogged for the design of not just the car but the brochure.
(via fabforgottennobility)
Source: asaucerfulofwheels
Britain’s Astrologer Maurice Woodruff predicted that Ronald Reagan would not be reelected. In Italy, Astaroth foresaw that Leonid Brezhnev would be ousted last spring and later murdered. In the US, Sybil Leek, self-styled queen of witches, revealed that in October, Richard Nixon would be caught up in a saucy sex scandal.
Complete with beak I wonder who to blame for American cars getting so damned ugly at the turn of the 1970s. I think Bunkie Knudsen deserves some of it, with his idea of what GM was doing at the time brought over to Ford—and uglifying Henry’s cars in the process.
The different eras of watching The Persuaders When I was a kid, it was: cool cars!
When I was a teen and in my 20s: those birds are fit!
Today: cripes, Bernie Schwartz was on a lot of drugs when he made this.
1970 American Motors Range (by coconv)
AMC 1970 I wish the automakers still did these in their brochures. This was a bygone era: when AMC thought it could occupy every segment.
Quick and mostly irrelevant thoughts from a 
