Top 10 Car Dashboards of the 1970s
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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If you grew up in the 1970s, I'm sure you remember that new car smell. Did you ever find the dashboard interesting or was it just the body of the car. For me, the dashboard of a 1970s car was amazing for its time.
In this video we go over the top 10 car dashboards of the 1970s!
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You describe many of the dashboards as having wood trim when the panels were plastic faux wood.
Faux wood trim. Yes
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I loved the Dash in the 76-77 Pontiac Grand Prix. Loved the way the console tilted towards the driver
I agree. It wasn't just 76-77 though. The 73-77 Grand Prix, 75-77 Grand Lemans, and 73-75 Grand Am, all used that same dash and tilted console.
And...I neglected to mention that the 77 Can Am also used the Grand Prix dash 🙂.
Sorry. I should have added the 73 GP. It did have a nice dash. Cousin back in the day bought one used. Thanks everyone!
@@WhittyPics Why I had a 1977 Grand Prix .myself!.
Agreed 💯
Can’t believe you left off the ‘69-‘72 Grand Prix. The original cockpit style IP.
I agree. Pontiac was light years ahead. My 76 Grand Le Man's also one of the first with the highbeam moved to the turn signal. Loved that!
Awesome! Perhaps a part 2 is in line?
The 1970 through 1977 Lincoln Continental dashboards had full gages. This changed in 78 with the use of the Ford/Mercury dashboard with fewer gages and more idiot lights.
True! Thanks!
So glad you brought this up. When it comes to automotive design, dashboards are often overlooked. I was always a big fan of Pontiac dashboards.
Thanks for sharing!
I had a 1969 tornado, and I love it.
The roll drum speedometer was cool & unique especially when the front tires were spinning.
You aint seen a dashboard til you seen a 1960-62Chrysler!!!!!.
*Imperial
That 70 Eldorado really had a driver-focused dashboard for that time!
So did the Lincoln and so did the El Dorado and the Pinto!
On the Ford LTD had options on whatever trim options you ordered. My 1977 Ford LTD Landau with power everything , and 120 mph speedometer, that came off the assembly line October 1976, I currently drive has the burl walnut wood dash, but the 1977 LTD Landau manual windows, parts car I have that came off the assembly line August of 1977, has white oak wood grain option, with the 85 mph speedometer.
This should have been called top 10 “luxury car” dashboards of the 70s, the Torino, cobra jets, Pontiac, Grand Prix, SJ and even the Pontiac Trans AMs are far better looking dashboards
Totally missed the Pontiac Cockpit Dash from the ‘70’s!
I agree. Luxury car dashes are not really very exciting. The 70's Pontiac dashes are my favorite, particularly the 73-77 Grand Prix, 75-77 Grand Lemans, and 73-75 Grand Am, even 77 Can Am, all of which shared the same dash. Even the 73-77 Lemans dash, which was different from those, is very good looking. And the 70-81 Trans Am dash is iconic. The 73-77 Monte Carlo and Chevelle Malibu dash is nice looking too. Those 73-77 GM a-bodies had the best interiors to me. I have several of those cars, since they're what I like. The downsizing of the 78-80 a-bodies ruined those cars, with stubby and squared-off dashes.
Ha, I see several commenters here beat me to mentioning the 1970-81 Trans Ams.
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@grand73am I had a 1976 Grand Le Man's. It was the most beautiful car I have ever had. Factory 8 track. Console. Factory Air. Would blow you out. I am looking for a 77 Grand Prix
Pontiac, in my opinion, made the best-looking cars of any GM division.
I was going to use that title but thought I'd get more viewers to watch if I left "luxury" out of it. I think I did mention it in the video. Appreciate ya!
The hottest dashboards of the '70s would be the Lamborghini Miura, Citroën, Mercedes, BMW and other imports. Now if we limit this to domestics, it would probably be the hand turned aluminum dash of the Pontiac Trans Am or the digital dash of the '80 T-Bird (released in 1979). My favorite domestic would be the wrap around dash in my '70 Ford XL Convertible, a car I really miss!
I had a 70 LTD nice dash only thing I didn't like was the odd location of the radio which was far left near the drivers window.
Had a few cars from the 70s but my favorite was a 1973 Pontiac Catalina. I think the dash was pretty sharp.
I had a '73 Catalina. Loved it, except for that 7 MPG part. The '76 speedometer with a full-gauge package was the best GM had ever done up to that time.
My Aunt had a 73 Cat. Nice car at the time and fast.
The Seville was an 80s Caprice in front 1/2, and an 80s Olds Cutlass on the back 1/2.
Hmmm? Makes sense. lol
The 1975 Buick Regal dashboard was beautiful. As well as the aviation style floor shifter. I had this car and it was a sweet ride.
Thank you for the list. This was interesting. I liked the list and the footage. I wanted to add the 1971-1976 Oldsmobile Ninety Eight, Eighty Eight, Toronado and Custom Cruiser shared a lot of parts. The instrumentation panel was one of them. There are many they shared. The same thing happened at Buick with the Riviera, LeSabre, Centurion and Electra. That happened from 1971-1978. I liked the Lincoln Mark V. I still do. The Continental/Town Car had its own instrumentation panel until 1976 or 1977 when it started sharing with Mercury Grand Marquis and Ford LTD. That practice was also used at the end as well with Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car (2011). They also paid attention to details back then as well. You see the small things they do not do in interiors anymore. This was also true at Chevrolet too. Go look at the Monte Carlo , El Camino and Malibu/Chevelle from the early well into the 1980's. Ford did it too. Go look at the Grand Torino, Ford Elite, LTD II, Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar. Thank you so much for the video.
WOW! Thank you very much for your info Olds98. Very interesting stuff.
@@ThisOldCarChannel You are most welcome. I left out Pontiac. They did it too. The 1970's Grand Am, Grand Prix, Grand LeMans had the same instrumentation panel in the 1970's. With Pontiac, this continued into the 1980's from the late 1970's. The Grand Am, Grand LeMans, Bonneville and Grand Prix had the same instrumentation panel up until 1986. Please feel free to go look up all these cars I have mentioned as the ones in my posts above. You will see the same instrumentation panels and parts and see trim differences and seat differences or other things. This was used in the 1990's too. Go look at the Buick Roadmaster, Chevrolet Caprice and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser. The only parts unique to the Oldsmobile was the hood ornament, the wheels, the grille, the seats and the font on the gauges. Everything else was Caprice and Roadmaster. Here is proof: ua-cam.com/video/gE1lHBqgIo0/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/-zkVZRnH6vM/v-deo.html Chrysler did it too. It was really obvious from the in the 1980's and 1990's. Go look at the 1990-1993 Chrysler Fifth Avenue and Chrysler Imperial. As you are aware The Chrysler Imperial 1974-1975 became the New Yorker Brougham 1976-1978. Pontiac did that as well too. The 1975 Pontiac Grand Ville became the 1976 Pontiac Bonneville Brougham. I do appreciate you mentioning the Oldsmobile Toronado on your list in your video.
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Love all of these classic cars
Grew up with mostly full sized Fords Mainly my uncle's cars He started with a 1970 Galaxie 500. That had the radio on the left hand side of the dash. He traded up to a 1973 LTD. Then a 1976 LTD Landau. My grandmother drove a 1972 VW bus. My first car was a 1973 Oldsmobile Omega.
Had a 77 Omega. Very good economical car.
Greetings from Glenn in Cleveland! Oh Yeah, I had a 79 Park Avenue 2 dr. in triple signature Buick black (I don't know how or why but Buick black was somehow very different than Cadillac or Oldsmobile black. Buick black glowed like no other GM car in black) it had the glass astro roof, Landau top with flush opera lights built into the landau trim molding, wire wheel covers, and white accent stripes. It had an overstuffed interior with two front arm rests. As nicely appointed as the dashboard was, imagine all of that burled wood plastic surrounded by and all black interior. My 76 Toronado brougham had the same dashboard as shown in the video. Black dash, same telescoping 3 spoke wheel set against a white interior. My 77 Eldorado had a very different dash than the 70 Eldorado. My folks kept a 72 Electra 2 dr. that my siblings and I all drove. Very driver centric. It had the same dash as the Riviera shown in the video. Geez, I'm getting carried away with this trip down memory lane. I have photo albums with pictures of all of my cars. I might have to make my way up to the attic and dig them out!
I enjoyed the video nice to look back 😁
There ya go! You hit the nail on the head. "Nice to look back". That is the goal of the channel. Appreciate your comment. Some viewers take our videos WAY too far. We do appreciate comments and opinions. Thanks!
@@ThisOldCarChannel yeah I saw some of the comments about that you didn't mention certain cars and I am sure you will in time, so many unappreciative people.
I always liked the dash boards in the early 70s Ford LTDs and the Pontiac Grand Prix and Le Mans
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I love the 79 Electra! I noticed that in 79, the wood on GM dashboards looked shinier.
Very cool
The 1979 Seville was my favorite car of the ‘70’s , owned one and would enjoy having another in great condition!
I enjoyed seeing these again.
Glad you enjoyed it
Early 70's dashboards were the best!
The Mark V was the most luxurious of any American car of the 70's
The 70’s dashboards were often quite attractive but all were made of cheap junky materials and were a noticeable decline from the early to mid 60’s dashboards that used much better quality materials.
1973 to 1977 Grand Prix, Grand LeMans. 1978 to 1979 Grand Prix, LeMans and Grand Am.
Driving the Mark V on Michigan interstates means the speedometer would almost always be pegged!
Fine job, love seeing the dashes of the oldies.
Thank ya!
Remember my driving around in my father’s 1979 Delta 88 , and oh how much it looked like that Buik of the same era . . Lots of parts sharing went on at GM apparently 😂
My old man had one too, and when he traded it in the car still looked brand new unfortunately, the person that bought it totaled it two days after he bought it. Broke my dad‘s heart when he heard about it. He really loved that car.
You forgot to mention that the 1972 Buick Riviera was unique in how the dash arched inward on both sides of the driver's side compartment. 6:23 Similar to many modern day cars of today incorporating a cockpit control style dashboard which encompasses the driver on both sides. The other cars you showed in this video lacked that unique feature.
Awesome! Thank you for the input!
I always liked the 1972 AMC Ambassador
One you missed is the 1970 olds toronado
The '77-85 Olds 88/98 should have been included on the list. One of the best GM designs.
Nice video. How many of these cars had real wood trim versus plastic wood grain? Frankly, I don’t remember any with wood.
The ‘73 Grand Prix had real wood. One year only.
70 and 71 Continental Mark III s had real wood.
@@corgiowner436Your correct. The 65- 68 GTOs had real wood on the dash. Pontiac built beautiful Automobiles.
Faux wood - Thanks everyone!
My ol 70s Mitsubishi GTO had a great dash!
A friend of mine recently took a dash from a '59 Chevy and modified it to fit his '84 chevy square body pickup. It looks awesome!
You omitted many nicer cars.
Not enough time. Do you have any that we missed?
@@ThisOldCarChannel Yes look at a 73 or 74 AMX Javelin or same years Grand Prix.
I grew up in the 70’s. The interiors were different. The interiors all looked the same to me. Fake wood is always an interesting choice. Speedometer and fuel gauge. Lucky if you had temperature gauge! Lol!
Ah ... the 1970s .
The Vinyl Frontier.
Bleccch! 😫
Sure do miss those old cars!
Great channel thank you.
The original Seville ('76-79) was built on the 'K' platform. While this was a derivative of the Nova's 'X' body, it was different.
I miss my 1984 Buick Electra. I was horrible to cars in my youth😢
Agree 73-77 Grand Prix not on this list is a big miss
U guys dropped the ball....by 1 year....the 73 olds Toronto's Gold tone dash and interior seating..
was heads above all others ....including CADILLAC...
Thanks for you opinion and thanks for watching. Really appreciate ya!
I liked the dash in my 77 Chrysler Cordoba with full gauges and no idiot lights.
I think you liked the 1976 Cadillac Seville because it looked a lot more like a smaller domestic luxury car you'd expect to find built in the early 1980's. I know from watching previous videos that you didn't like the cut off sloped down version of the Seville in 1980. I'm sure that had a lot to do with your later opinion as well.
The ‘79 New Yorker shown had the incorrect dashboard as that was the prior year’s.
A great vid!
Thank you!
For me, having those land yatchs on a front wheel drive configuration was completely unpractical and wrong!!! Now i wonder tney where scrapped too soon!! Fortunately Chrysler and Ford are there to save the day by never dare to do such attrocity like that... god bless them overall!🙏🏾
I wonder how many of these cars this guy has even seen in person , let alone owned or driven .
I love the instrument laden dash on my 1969 Dodge Charger.
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My fav was the 1979 LTD II the steering wheel column attached to the dashboard resembling a plunger stuck to a recroom wall…😂
The 77 Coupe Deville
You showed a 1973 Buick Rivera dash, not a '71-72. The earlier ones had the amazing turned aluminum panels and the passenger side was a blank mirror image of the driver side.
Bring back bench seats and vent windows !!!! Bucket seats are claustrophobic and no place to put purses when you have a passenger ... My rotator cuff suffers reaching in the back seat
And no place to put your jacket either.
@@jamesbosworth4191 Or cuddling at the drive-in ... (A few are reopening in NC)
Those vent windows were awesome!
@@ThisOldCarChannel They don't want them because they made AC less needed.
1970 Grand Prix
I never understood the Air Conditioning controls on the left side of the steering wheel in that era.
@@bradleypollack5658 That was for "personal luxury" to keep the A/C well out of the hands of passengers.
For me, the best one is the continnental mark 5
Thank ya!
Late 1970's Mark 5, Ford Thunderbird, no difference in dash, same steering wheel, same dash.
The Seville you showed in a video was a 79
I own many 70's cars, 1971 Ford Thunder 🐔
Cool 😊
The Chrysler was a 79, Seville was a 79,
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Not a luxury car but the fake engine turned dash on the Gen 2 Trans Am.
And a late model Tesla has a 55 inch tv in the middle.
Don't forget about all the vinyl tops all these 70s cars has to have
This is a dashboard video!
Running out of classic cars that we haven't reviewed! I may do a video on vinyl tops then one on bumpers then tail lights. lol Finding cars that present mass appeal/views is getting tougher. Thanks everyone!
1970-72 Pontiac Grand Prix
Idiot lights do not make a good dash
Don't forget about the vinyl tops that cars of this era had to have.
This video is about dashboards.
@@danielulz1640 Your point ?
My point was plainly stated in my comment. @@SusanGordon-bf2cg
@@danielulz1640Got it !!! Only comments about dashboards are allowed ... Soooo sorry
Hmmm....My next video may be on Vinyl tops! Thanks!