Vancouver, British Columbia, 1988
Date: circa 1988 Location: Elliott Street and 54th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?
Date: circa 1988 Location: Elliott Street and 54th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?
From the seller’s (entertaining) description: 1987 Chevrolet MONTE CARLO SS Coupe AT A GLANCE: – Garaged, clean and original, right down to the Eagle GTs – White/Maroon – All stock, no modifications ...
From the seller’s description: 1988 Jaguar XJ.SC V12 : Rare limited production one owner car with only 19,067* miles. Jaguar produced just 3,800 V12 XJ.SC “targa’s” between 1985 and 1988. This 1988 e...
Date: circa early 1980s Location: possibly Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario Source: City of Toronto Archives What do you see here?
Original owner 1988 Chrysler Fifth Avenue for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Original owner. Never any rust or accidents. Always garaged. Never driven in winter. Original paint,...
One-owner 1986 Pontiac Parisienne Brougham for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This car is clean and in good condition. One owner. The car was bought new in 1986. Final assembly ...
Date: circa 1984 Location: various, Moscow, Russia Source: via RitkanLathatoTortenelem.blog.hu What do you see here?
Inexpensive and affordable are often two distinctly different things, particularly when it comes to entry-level collector cars. While it can be tempting to plunk down $5,000 on a well-worn sports or ...
From the seller’s description: 1987 Toyota Supra Turbo, This classic is for sale by the Original Owner and is in Excellent Condition. It has 70,000 Original Miles and has always been garaged. It’s po...
From the seller’s description: The 1988 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser is a working wagon with the comfort and ride of an Olds. The ride is smooth and soft and the car is tight with no knocks, rattles or ...
Image courtesy OldCarBrochures. What went behind the decision to downsize pretty much every American automobile in the late 1970s and early 1980s? A May 1980 New Yorker article that Curbside Classic ...
From the seller’s description: 1982 Jeep J10 Laredo : Fresh restoration of a highly optioned always rust-free Texas truck. AMC 360, TF 727, NP 208, towing group, 3:31 axles, A/C, PW, PL, Laredo trim ...
Trio includes a Jaguar XK8 convertible, Mazda RX7, and Porsche 911, typical of Radwood cars of the 1980s and ’90s. Such vehicles aren’t considered particularly collectible today, but there’s no doubt...
Jackie Harris’ “Fruitmobile.” Photo by Harrod Blank. All photos courtesy Houston Art Car Parade. This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the Houston Art Car Parade, the largest art car parade in t...
From the seller’s description: 1988 BMW M6, Selling a pristine orignal example of a very rare car. Only 246 M6 were sold in the US in 1988 which was the last year of production for the E24. Amog othe...
1982 Chevrolet Cavalier Cadillac Cimarron. Image courtesy OldCarBrochures.com. Even to this day, some car shows across the country refuse admission to any vehicle built after 1972, as if every carmak...
Date: circa 1990s Location: outside Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon Source: City of Portland What do you see here?
I got a midlife crisis “boost” when I bought a 1984 turbocharged Plymouth Colt. Super quick, it handled like a slot car yet achieved 35 mpg. Photos by the author except where noted. I was 40, suffere...
VRG at Watkins Glen in 2017. Photo by Bill Stoler, courtesy Bill Stoler Photography. In 2004, a group of like-minded racers formed a new organization dedicated to historic racing, called the Vintage ...
Date: circa 1980s Location: Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada Source: Vintage Las Vegas What do you see here?
Conduct your own night of fire with this J34 turbojet-powered 1984 Chevrolet Corvette funny car for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This incredible Jet Turbine powered Funny Car ...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. Of all the ways to load a car onto a truck for transportation, German utility truck builder Ruthmann may have come up with one of the oddest and yet most practical method for...
From the seller’s description: Outstanding 1983 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce , 61k miles – One of the best versions of the Alfa Spider, featuring 2.0 L double over head cam 4 cyl with reliable Bosch Fuel...
Date: circa 1981 Location: Saginaw Street, Pontiac, Michigan Source: Wayne State University Digital Collections What do you see here?
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. If a little is good, then a lot must be better, right? Or so went the thinking behind the Pro Street movement that aimed to put the fattest rear tires under everything...