Awful Cars of the 1960's and 1970's and Their Reliability Issues

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I own a 74 Gremlin, I think they look neat, and they actually had a decent engine under the hood.

Let's start with the Maverick, not only was it popular it was actually a good car and was also sold under the Mercury badge as a comet. The Cordoba was a rebadged luxury Charger SE for dodge and Fury for Plymouth. It sold very well for Chrysler and most had the 360 in them. The only reason you don't see many of them now is rust but that was a 70's problem across the board. The pacer may not have sold but the Gremlin sure did. That car was everywhere when I was growing up. What put AMC out of business was most likely the AMC Eagle, the car was way ahead of it's time but was under powered and very unreliable.

The Vega. The car that rusted when on the dealership floor. The Omni was a decent car and you can't forget the GLH model. And you forgot that the Hornet was what kept AMC alive and was the starting point for the Concord, AMX in 1977 and 1978, plus the Eagle which was a decent car ahead of the current cuv craze.

You left out the Rich Corinthian Leather on the Chrysler Cordoba!!!!!

The Hornet was a very good automobile. The body style lasted from 1970 as the Hornet to 1978 as the Concord thru the end of AMC as the Eagle in the mid 1980's

I had a Vega and a Pinto the Vega was a piece of trash but I loved the Pinto never gave me any problems.

For a small car, the Dodge Omni was a tight, quality feeling auto. The one in the family we had , sported the VW 4 cylinder. The engine was smooth running, a smooth as silk fun to drive 5 speed manual trans, had power and pull with FWD, it rode well, and you could put 5 people in it with grocery room under the hatchback. It got 40 mpg on highway too. Was a great little car.

IMO the gremlin looks better than any of the current SUV's built now.

I don’t think the Maverick was intended to be anything other than basic transportation. It was the successor to the Falcon. We had the Grabber and a few sporty options. They sold well and were reliable. I don’t think they tried to compete with European cars. That was the Granada which was pretty much a gussied up slightly larger Maverick.

My first car was a 1971 AMC Hornet. It had a good engine and ran well. The interior was poor quality but pretty much every car from the 1970s had cheap interiors so i think you were a bit unfair with the Hornet. As to the Maverick, it really wasn't a bad car and the Maverick Grabber with the V-8 is a sought after collectable today. The V-8 was anemic but this was the begining of the 'emission control' era and all American V-8s had serious horsepower issues. I used to work in a dyno tune shop in high school in the late 70s. Even a Corvette on 1979 had a hard time getting 60-70 HP to the rear wheels.

Get your facts straight! The original Mustang was based entirely on the Falcon and shared its running gear and instrument cluster. The Cordoba was extremely popular and Chrysler's best selling model. Hornet and Gremlin were two of the most reliable cars of the 70's and 80's and AMC's most popular cars. This whole post is riddled with misinformation.

I had a 1973 AMC Hornet with the 258ci six cylinder - one of the best cars I've ever owned - I had it for years and over 100,000 miles and never a lick of trouble. You should have mentioned that most of the Corvettes of the 1970's were terrible.

I've owned AMC Hornets a Gremlin, a Rebel and a 1967 Rambler American 2 door hard top. I'd love to get my hands on another AMC Hornet or a 1967 Rambler2 door coupe. I like cars that no one else would want.

The corvair's handling suffered from people not keeping the tires inflated to the recommended pressures. They were supposed to be kept at different pressures from the front to the rear.

I remember the big selling point for the 1969 Maverick was the $1995 base price. It was kept under $2000 because a shelf was used instead of a glove compartment. We had a yellow 1971 Maverick. It ran until about 1984, mine by then. I replaced it with a brand new, shiny 1984 Ford Tempo.

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There were a lot of Mavericks, Pintos, and Mustang II's in the 1970s. The Pinto actually wasn't that bad a car. And many sources say it was no less safe than its contemporaries of the time. The gas tank safety issue affected the 71 - 76 models. It was resolved starting with the 77s.

Really cannot agree with that list the Mavericks the pintos and the AMC products they all ran forever I don't know where you got your facts

Great list. My sister had a 74 Maverick with the luxury decor option & the 302 V8. It was a good car & she drove it for several years!!! 🎉