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my first car.
saved up $3k from my grocery bagger job to pay for that thing.
This was mine (though obviously not the one pictured
my first car.
saved up $3k from my grocery bagger job to pay for that thing.
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my wife had one of these in high school for a very short time. total piece of shit. for starters the fucking turn signal was on the right side of the steering column and the wipers were on the left.
They used 1976 Pontiac Trans Ams in the first movie.
Like this? It's actually my wife's dream car
Remember they gave them away on Hollywood Squares all the time
Yeah, but later on the 1980 Turbo model was used for Smokey and the Bandit II.
Those of us that drove early '80's vehicles had to contend with the "electronic carburetor", a crude ECU tried to maintain correct fuel mixture by adjusting the metering rods "on the fly". All of them sucked balls and when they went bad replacements were nightmarish expensive, my 2bbl Rochester atop the V6 231 Buick engine was $500 for a re-man!. Fuck it, I bought a kit and did it myself but it never ran right so I just unplugged the wiring harness to the carb and it did OK. As soon as FI became doable EVERY manufacturer ran away from these carbs from hell.
AMC eagles were pretty cool
Only two of those vehicles were really "from the 80s."
my wife had one of these in high school for a very short time. total piece of shit. for starters the fucking turn signal was on the right side of the steering column and the wipers were on the left.
How do you figure that one? I'll concede Dukes of Hazard was a 70s show, but the rest were all 80s.
Here's a moldy oldy. I don't think anymore exist due to being recycled into toothbrushes :^D
good call! it's hard to single out just 1 thing on my olds delta 88 as being the very worst, but the quadra-bog definitely makes the short list.
Actually the last year of production is much sought after, there are many websites devoted to the car and it's able to actually handle a V8 installed. Too bad that when it first came out GM cheeped out on a proper powerplant for it and stuck the "Iron duke" 4-banger in it.
The cars... not the shows. OP said vehicles of the 80s.
delorean prototype was from the 70's, but production didnt begin until 1981.
doc brown would have unlikely been able to ever acquire the prototype.
therefore 3 of the vehicles are from the 80's.
The best car of the '80's was the 1988 Lamborghini Countach.
Yeah buddy, yea-ah! I am picking up what you're putting down.