Carspotting the Seventies

We’ve always noted that our carspotting series is meant to present those cars we now consider collectable in their natural habitats – on the street, being used as regular transportation. That’s why you see far fewer Corvettes, exotics, and other out-of-the-ordinary cars in these glimpses of everyday life from the past than you do in the modern collector car scene. Which is not to say that the streets were ever the sole domain of four-doors, wagons, and economy cars, as we see in these snaps we collected from 70′s Street Machines (warning, music autoplays). Undated and without locations, most of them provide little context, but that’s alright – what context do you need when you have ridiculous race setups for the street? What do you see here?

We actually were able to dig up a little on this photo. That’s apparently a Baldwin-Motion Phase III 454-powered Camaro on a test drive somewhere in Long Island before Motion shipped it to Tehran, where it remains today.