Monday, October 20, 2025

Set the Wayback Machine to 1979... check out the cars.

 

 

 From the GBH archives boston. This is Route 1 North of the city....

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

27 comments:

  1. those look like 1990s-2000s cars

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    1. What I noticed was the overwhelming majority of the autos were American made-Detroit Iron and the lack of automobiles in general on the highway. For me most of the cars of that era were ugly then and uglier now. There were exceptions, but I did not see any "pretty" cars in that clip, mostly "Battlestar Galactica-like walrus -looking battleships". I did catch a glimpse of a Subaru Brat which would have been very new and I in my opinion rare.

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    2. All 1970’s cars - 100%

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  2. The description said 1978 on the video.

    Irish

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  3. Not sure what the other commenter watched

    Those were all 1970's cars

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  4. I grew up in Danvers. I put a LOT of miles in on Rt 1!

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    1. Same here. Grew up in Beverly.

      Irish

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  5. I think what I was seeing was the similarity of all of those cars. When did the car companies start to use the same body parts across their product lines?

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  6. Very few imports.
    -lg

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  7. Was the year I got me license,grew up outside of Boston,many cool but the yellow Olds and the Subaru Brat really stuck out with a quick view.

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  8. I'm bettiing the pot hole from 1:29 to 1:42 still has not been fixed.

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  9. I saw my second car in there, drove it for years

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  10. Ha! Check out the lack of traffic then...

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  11. Looks familiar. Back in the mid-to-late 1970s I traveled Massachusetts Rt-1 North when I was making my yearly October pilgrimage in my yellow 1972 VW Beetle from North NJ to Cape Ann.

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  12. From before the Used bar of soap look.

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  13. Gee, nobody looking at their phones when they are driving a several-thousand-pound car. Good times!

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  14. 1979 was a very good year

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  15. This was all right, and unless it was filmed back then kind of amazing, but I clicked on this hoping to see scantily clad babes draped over vintage cars. Oh well, maybe next time.

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    1. Comin up on Christmas. I'm looking forward to the pictures of
      One whore soaping sleigh.
      I just love watching them wash cars..

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  16. 60s and 70s autos. Groovy Man.

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  17. A nice looking late 60's Chevrolet Nova in there.

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  18. That green '69 Gran Prix with the white right front fender says it all. My buddy Sig & I replaced 3 front fenders on my '67 GTO. Another buddy bought it when I left for Basic. He totalled it by AIT, 90 days later. Maybe it was hexed?

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  19. My question is: What the heck am I supposed to be seeing in this boring video?

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  20. I’m more impressed by traffic and drivers who appear to have some common sense.

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  21. The only one that still is recognizable today is the Jeep. Crazy memories of my friend’s massive Chrysler Imperial.

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