Was 1967 the Pinnacle for the Automobile?
It was a very good year, a very good year for cars of every kind. And most of us didn’t even notice. We were having too much fun in our cars to realize that everything about cars was about to change.
Wide-ranging government emissions and safety regulations would soon be in effect. Higher bumpers and uncovered headlamps were on the way, as were air pumps and other rudimentary anti-pollution equipment. But in 1967, we got one final moment of how-things-used-to-be.