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What people forget is that the '60s were full of crummy cars too. Nostalgia makes us think every other car was a 427 Vette or a 440 Road Runner, but that's just fantasy. The only difference between crappy '70s cars and crappy '60s cars is that the '60s cars had no smog stuff. Well, some Cali models did at the end of the '60s.
Rate some of those engines from 1970 with net hp ratings instead of gross, and you aren't seeing "450" hp engines any more. The lower compression and crap gas didn't help but don't forget that net hp was the order of the day circa '71+
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