While the performance of cars and trucks literally tanked during the 1970s, the creative minds in Detroit and elsewhere did not give up on truing to entice buyers to showrooms with the illusion of performance. This gave way to a myriad of wild looking paint schemes, tape/stripe options, and other looks that bordered on being sad, garish, and dumb all at the same time.
Over the years people have fallen back into love with these looks to the point that the stuff is actually retro-cool now. We threw a couple of examples of what we’re talking about down below with the wild looking Bronco and the Golden Eagle Jeep. Neither would out run any other variant of the same model but they at least looked kind of sexy or were trying to at the minimum.
There are a zillion examples of this stuff through the decade and we are looking to hone in on only trucks for this question of the day. All we want to know is what you think the best/worst factory special truck “paint job” was in the 1970s. Paint being stickers, tape stripes, etc. We’re not going to influence your opinion with suggestions so just handle this one on your own.
What was cool, what was so bad that it was actually cool, and what would you want to own today! (We want the Bronco!)
Question of the Day: What Was The 70s Best/Worst Factory Special Truck Paint Job
The best had to be the 78-79 Dodge Lil Red Express. The worst (there were many) I think is the 78-82 El Camino Diablo.
Best: Dodge Warlock pick-up
Worst: Not terrible, but some of the mid-70’s Camaro tape stripes made the cars look even longer and bigger than they were.
Best 77 TA SE. The gold and black is just sick. Worst, though I love them is the 79 AMX, with the flaming AMX on the hood.
Ho, Ho, Holy Shit! I had to go look that up. I’ve never seen one of those AMX’s but, yeah. I’m a Ford guy whose first car was a 78 Mustang II 4spd. So even though I like them let’s throw the King Cobra in the mix. If it could have backed it up even mid 70’s T/A style OK. But , yeah, not so much. I will say that a lot of the second gen Camaros had the same prob, at least they had that noisy ass Quadrabog with a flipped air cleaner lid. That 2bbl King Cobra couldn’t even do that.