The 1970s was a decade of unusual challenge and change for the U.S. auto industry. When the decade began, the most popular cars were getting larger every year. Consumers thought that "bigger means ...

We remember a lot of 1970s cars: the AMC Pacer, the Ford Mustang II, and the Porsche 914, just to name a few with intriguing, if not always happy, stories. But those weren't the only significant cars ...