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Sep 2, 2021 23:37
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On a similar note, there's a bona fide 80's Subaru Justy chugging along in my neighborhood. The kicker is that they have "farm use" license plates.
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Sep 3, 2021 03:50
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Lol, my stepmom had one. The horn was on a stalk from the steering column
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Sep 3, 2021 07:32
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Everything is so globalized now but in the 80s that European car was most likely actually built in the country it was from In my small central Washington town my high school buddy had a Fiat 131 just like this  My Dad’s business took off in the late 70s and he bought a Saab 900 Turbo in 1980. Just like this but red  I miss affordable cars with personality and quirks
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Sep 3, 2021 08:36
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I saw this Toyota MR 2, last week. Hopefully the owner, came back soon, because, despite what it looks like in this picture it was about to rain, a lot, that day.
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Sep 3, 2021 13:49
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A friend of mine used to work at a car yard when those were being sold, and he jokingly referred to them as "Mister Two's" and drat him if I don't read it like that from then on.
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Sep 3, 2021 13:55
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^^that’s actually a pretty common nickname for the MR2namlosh posted:Lol, my stepmom had one. The horn was on a stalk from the steering column We had a ‘78 Ford Fiesta and it too had the horn on a stalk. One time I was watching Back to the Future, but I had to stop in the middle of it because we had to go out for something, so my dad tried to take the Fiesta up to 88mph. It barely made it up to 80 and it shuddered so violently, so nah. 
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Sep 3, 2021 14:02
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Iron Crowned posted:I saw this Toyota MR 2, last week.
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Sep 3, 2021 16:25
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AMC, Jeep, Renault. What a grim line of text.
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Sep 3, 2021 17:11
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Iron Crowned posted:I saw this Toyota MR 2, last week. I used to have one of those, and I also called it "Mister Two". One of the most fun cars I've ever owned. Not quick in a straight line, but just fun.  Mr Tall has a new favorite as of 20:35 on Sep 3, 2021 |
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Sep 3, 2021 20:20
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https://mobile.twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/1431686897831534593
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Sep 4, 2021 09:09
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Keith Atherton posted:I miss affordable cars with personality and quirks My folks had a Saab 99 back in the 80's. That car made no sense at all. The hood opened backwards like a race car. The door handles were impossible for kids to use because you had to pinch them with your fingertips and kids aren't strong enough. The ignition was between the seats. The headlights were a tiny gray toggle switch also between the seats. The clutch only lasted 35,000 miles so you were always doing clutches. The block heater would energize the entire car so you couldn't touch the car when it was plugged in. Borg Warner transmission so reverse was up and to the left and you had to lift up on a collar to get into reverse. I miss that car.
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Sep 4, 2021 12:59
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The block heater/anti-theft device sounds like a good feature.
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Sep 4, 2021 14:23
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:The block heater/anti-theft device sounds like a good feature. Keeps weasels and rodents from getting cosy in the engine compartment and chewing poo poo up. My dad paid over €200 for an aftermarket shocker that did the same thing. Fuckin' value right there.
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Sep 4, 2021 15:56
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My first car was a '89 Probe (which despite being a Ford was built by Mazda). She had some weird-rear end dash features like the turn signals on a toggle that you hit by using your left pinky finger, the wipers were on a knob like a, I dunno, like an oven knob dial... yeah. My favorite was the Probe was an automatic, but had some weird bisexual transmission. You could hit a rocker switch located by the gear shift to make her manual, then use a button on the stick, where your thumb would rest, to shift her manually. The rocker switch was labeled MAN SHIFT, so any time I had a male passenger in the car sassing me, I'd make a lame joke about "hey, if you piss me off all I gotta do is hit this button and you'll turn into [whatever male celebrity crush I had at the time]". With boyfriends, it got to be a "taps the sign" thing.
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Sep 6, 2021 18:58
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My first car was a legit AMC Hornet which lasted all of two weeks before it died. What a loving lemon.
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Sep 10, 2021 05:06
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JacquelineDempsey posted:My first car was a '89 Probe (which despite being a Ford was built by Mazda). She had some weird-rear end dash features like the turn signals on a toggle that you hit by using your left pinky finger, the wipers were on a knob like a, I dunno, like an oven knob dial... yeah. Whaaat My first car was a 90 Probe, also auto, and I don't remember that at all! Maybe it had it and I just didn't try it. A shameful Phy. But yeah the control binnacle was cool as hell, the entire instrument cluster adjusted up and down with the wheel. Actual gauges for oil temp, coolant temp and battery voltage. My brother had a Probe as well and his had the fancy digital dash, but that crapped out on him with regularity, mine just worked. Also, pop-up headlights, and the 80s-est of safety features, the seatbelt that automatically moved along a track by the door so you didn't have to unbuckle to get out. Mine didn't work for the first couple of years, then it decided I was worthy and it started working again.
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Sep 10, 2021 05:19
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I had one of these in college in 1987 and it’s the only car I’ve ever actively hated. 1985 Ford Escort 4 speed manual with maybe 85 hp Same color but had a brown “Sport” along the bottom of the doors. 
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Sep 10, 2021 05:49
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Having a son who's almost 9, and knowing half a dozen of his friends the same age I realized today that today's kids don't give a poo poo about ninjas. When I was a kid in the 80s ninjas were BIG. Not just the ninja turtles. If anything, the ninja turtles were just the most successful commercial exploitation of the phenomenon.
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Sep 11, 2021 02:35
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Was the Ninja craze of the 80s due to Gi Joe? I mean I doubt kids were seeing Japanese movies with them from the 70s.
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Sep 11, 2021 03:18
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twistedmentat posted:Was the Ninja craze of the 80s due to Gi Joe? I mean I doubt kids were seeing Japanese movies with them from the 70s. I think the karate kid movies had something to do with it.
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Sep 11, 2021 03:43
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Might have just been an outgrowth of the same orientalism that gave us the Karate Kid, just a fascination with Japan inspired by the fear of the Japanese taking over the business world, Japanese imported cars and electronics, videogames, etc.
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Sep 11, 2021 03:45
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GI Joe was totally the first time i heard of the concept of Ninjas, and Karate Kid came out a year later. Also I don't remember the Cobra Kai guys coming after Daniel with throwing stars and swords, but I literally have not seen that movie in this century.Imagined posted:Might have just been an outgrowth of the same orientalism that gave us the Karate Kid, just a fascination with Japan inspired by the fear of the Japanese taking over the business world, Japanese imported cars and electronics, videogames, etc. This is certainly it, and its not a new thing, the 70s had the Kung Fu craze that gave us wonderful thinks like Count Dante, master of Dim Mak, and the Chicago Dojo Wars. But that's more of a 70s thread thing.
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Sep 11, 2021 04:46
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Cat Hassler posted:I had one of these in college in 1987 and it’s the only car I’ve ever actively hated. 1985 Ford Escort 4 speed manual with maybe 85 hp I had the 4 door version from 86, never driven and I bought it for $250. It had the two tone grey/charcoal paint with a sassy pinstripe. I never had any issues with it at all, until I killed it of course.
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Sep 11, 2021 04:50
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The first car I remember of my parents' was a 1980s Escort. Four-door, lime green with white vinyl interior. You'd have to put down a towel on the seats in the summer to keep from burning yourself. They traded that for a new Tempo that was possessed. Lights came on when the car was off and it blew two transmissions within 2-3 years.
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Sep 11, 2021 05:42
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in the mid 90s my parents were driving a 78 pinto, the day mom stepped up to a 91 tempo we became the only people who have ever felt like hot poo poo because of a ford tempo
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Sep 11, 2021 21:03
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shame on an IGA posted:in the mid 90s my parents were driving a 78 pinto, the day mom stepped up to a 91 tempo we became the only people who have ever felt like hot poo poo because of a ford tempo 
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Sep 12, 2021 03:35
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twistedmentat posted:Was the Ninja craze of the 80s due to Gi Joe? I mean I doubt kids were seeing Japanese movies with them from the 70s. I'm guessing video games may have pumped the Ninja a bit too.
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Sep 12, 2021 04:18
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Cat Hassler posted:I had one of these in college in 1987 and it’s the only car I’ve ever actively hated. 1985 Ford Escort 4 speed manual with maybe 85 hp Unlike you though, I loved that fuckin' car. I drove it in blizzards, handled surprisingly well. I remember trying to get home one night, I lived on a steep street and managed to get it up the hill with the wheel cranked hard right. I could put $2 in gas in it and drive for a week and a half, every day. It also had this bizarre superpower to be able to find a Denny's anywhere. Lost in a strange town? A couple of random turns and we were somehow at Denny's. Lost it because I was a dumbfuck teenager, my mom co-signed and I wasn't making payments so she sold it 
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Sep 12, 2021 04:37
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I owned it in the Mid-Nineties, but I had a 1988 2-seat version of the Escort, the EXP. It wasn’t the unfortunate-looking frog eye version, it just looked like an Escort from the front and had a bizarre Merkur - looking rear wing. It was slow in town, but not terribly so, it had a 5-speed stick and fuel injection, so it ran better than the earlier cars. I loved that car, I put 90K miles on it in a few years due to a terrible commute I had, and it never got less than 32mpg and had great headroom, I never felt like my skull was jammed against the roof like many small cars. Being a two-seat hatchback, I was able to move dressers and all kinds of big objects with it. Too bad nothing like this is still made.
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Sep 12, 2021 12:11
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my mom had one of these in the 80's, Nissan Sentra hatchback manual:  sadly we got rear ended in it, and it was totaled. ironically my first car was a Sentra as well but in the mid 90's.
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Sep 12, 2021 15:07
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My dad had one of these: Which also got rear-ended and totaled, and replaced with a blue one.
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Sep 12, 2021 15:11
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:My dad had one of these: popup headlights are so badass. preludes are also badass.
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Sep 12, 2021 15:14
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:My dad had one of these: The 3rd gen Prelude was a masterpiece.
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Sep 12, 2021 16:47
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twistedmentat posted:Was the Ninja craze of the 80s due to Gi Joe? I mean I doubt kids were seeing Japanese movies with them from the 70s. Carryover from Bruce Lee/ninja films from the seventies. It was dirt cheap to show an old dubbed films on UHF channels, so that was what we watched every Saturday afternoon. CHiPS had a ninja-crossover episode with John Rhys-Davies as a ninja master. It was a great time to be alive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhB4E6-nEns
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Sep 13, 2021 18:48
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Fair warning: weird e/n-ish post ahead, which might lead to a derail. I'm listening to the Repo Man soundtrack, which is just pure {chef kiss] nostalgic soundtrack to my "it's 92 outside and I have no AC" teen years of the late 80s. Anyways, Black Flag's "Tv Party" and Circle Jerks "Coup d'Etat"... I'm listening to the lyrics and thinking "holy crap, this is every bit as applicable to right now, what, 30+ years later?" It's kinda freaking me out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZgIt5MPKqI fake edit: "Let's Have a War" and "When the poo poo Hits the Fan", too, holy moly. Anyways, it's great soundtrack to a great movie, which I may have to queue up here in a minute.
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Sep 13, 2021 20:48
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Repo Man is the soundtrack of my wasted youth. I love it the way some people love RHPS. My GF and I sometimes yell random lines from the movie at each other from across the house.
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Sep 14, 2021 02:11
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Because of this Hot Wheel, I spent my childhood years thinking the AMC Gremlin would be a cool and desirable car to have once I was old enough: I also thought the Chevrolet El Camino was the most ridiculous looking car I would ever see in my life, and then one day in my early adulthood a switch flipped and I landed on thinking they're rad. Anyway, here's a couple of pictures of the Wendy's SuperBar I found on Flickr:  
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I had an AMC Pacer Hot Wheels car, but it wasn’t dressed up to look like a dragster/sprintcar chimera. It did have its engine behind the seats and the exhaust coming out of the rear window. I just thought it was a toy version of our Fiesta because it was an orange hatchback and I didn’t know what it meant by “Packin’ Pacer” because those cars were already dead and gone by the mid ‘80s.
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