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Originally Posted by ficke
In 1974 the most dragon of the emission/safety laws went into effect, everybody had to have 5 MPH impact bumpers and the body design of car started to have heavy influence by the government. MG lost the chrome bumpers and got big ugly rubber bumpers, corvettes lost their chrome bumper and got some sort of body shaped plastic that is always wavy, Porsche did its best with their accordion style impact bumpers.
Also at the time the side impact protection became mandatory and a few other things, all this added weight and changed the look of the cars, not popular.
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Yet so many longhoods were "updated" to impact bumper spec back in the day, because the owners wanted people to think it was a new car, or as repair from crash damage. If you told somebody in 1974 that people would be changing new cars to look like older ones they'd've said you were crazy!
Cheers
d.