Items tagged with: Eighties

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1980 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am

Original owner turbocharged 1980 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This sharp, special ordered, Van Nuys built, Pontiac Trans Am is being sold by it’s...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Ettore Bugatti, Hannah’s Bug, Curse of the Pink Panther

Like Enzo Ferrari, Ettore Bugatti is one of the most revered European auto builders whose cars only barely eclipsed the story of his life, as told in this short video biography that Mac’s Motor City ...

Eighties muscle in formal attire: 1989 Mercury Cougar brochure

Images from the author’s brochure collection. Only two years after its most recent facelift, the mid-year 1989/ 1990 Cougar got an even smoother, more aerodynamic design. This complemented the car’s ...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1985 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur

1985 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur for sale. From the owner’s description: The epitome of high end luxury and presence. Nothing says you have arrived than showing up in a Rolls-Royce Silver Spur. It is sti...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1985 Ford Crown Victoria station wagon

From the seller’s description: 1985 Ford LTD Crown Victoria Station Wagon Unbelievable Survivor with 47K miles After 63 years of buying and selling great motorcars throughout the world, including new...

Year, Make and Model – 1980 – ’81 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am

Photos by Jeff Koch. Pontiac’s Trans Am has, for most of its life, sought to transcend mere ponycardom and has been posited as Pontiac’s “European-style” sports car. For the decade that saw the secon...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1980 Datsun 280ZX 10th Anniversary Edition

1980 Datsun 280ZX 10th Anniversary Edition for sale. From the seller’s description: Oringinal owner, and garage kept since purchased. Price includes original Goodyear Wingfoot tires, Suitable for sho...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1984 Dodge Caravan

All original 1984 Dodge Caravan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This one is in very nice almost all original condition with very nice interior, power driver’s seat, good carp...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1987 Buick Regal T-Type

From the seller’s description: 1987 Buick Regal T-Type Turbo ; V-6 Turbocharged Engine; Automatic Transmission with Overdrive; 10,000 documented original miles on the title; Original Goodyear Eagle T...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Toyota meet, Tatra meet, The Naked Gun

What did a Toyota sports car meet look like more than 30 years ago? In Japan? Thanks to this video from a 1984 meet that Japanese Nostalgic Car came across a few years ago, we see just how well many ...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1983 Mercedes-Benz 230TE station wagon

From the seller’s description: For sale is a wonderful example of a classic and now highly collectable Mercedes-Benz W123 Wagon. This is an extremely rare and coveted 1983 230TE Manual Transmission c...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1985 Toyota Van

1985 Toyota Van for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 236,000K. 7 passenger, runs great, 5 speed, AC, Cruise, tires near new, cassette and CD player, very clean throughout! 2nd own...

Hemmings Sunday Cinema – Yugo Next, Spyker resto, Visit to Minotaur

There’s something missing from this video introduction to the early 1990s Yugo Next art exhibition that took place in New York City and that was comprised entirely of old Yugos repurposed into animat...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1984 BMW 520i

1984 BMW 520i for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Meticulously maintained and incredibly well documented. Bronzit with Nutria brown leather. I am the second owner. The original o...

1983 Hurst/Olds specifications and operating instructions booklet

Art courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. If you owned one of these foldouts back in the 1980s, you may have been one of the lucky few who had purchased a 1983 Hurst/Olds. The book...

The forgotten “Honky Tonk Freeway” celebrates 35 years

Dean Jeffries flies a GMC C6500. Photos courtesy Kevin Jeffries and the Dean Jeffries Archives, unless otherwise noted. Not many movies can blow up an interstate, have a star-studded cast, and severe...

How to save $388.55 on repairing a 1961 Chevrolet’s windshield wipers (circa 1980-something)

Any car repair seems wicked expensive when you get a car for three Benjamins. Take, for instance, Hemmings reader feevefeeve’s dilemma when the wipers went out on his 1961 Chevrolet Biscayne sometime...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1985 Audi Quattro

1985 Audi Quattro for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The car has been in Colorado (23 years)/California (2years) since 1991/92:There is no evidence that it has ever had any rust...

Designer Jeff Teague, son of Dick Teague, dies at 59

Jeff Teague and his AMX/4 rendering. Like any of us, Jeff Teague could have become anything he wanted, but with a father as passionate about cars – particularly older cars and auto design – as legend...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1983 Toyota Hilux

1983 Toyota Hilux for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Owned by same family in the Southwest since original purchase. Runs smoothly and starts reliably. Parked in owner’s garage, ...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1983 De Lorean DMC-12

From the seller’s description: This 1983 DeLorean DMC-12 is a five-speed manual with extensive mechanical restoration and updates. A Stage II engine was installed by DMC Florida in June 2008, and inc...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1983 DMC DeLorean

From the seller’s description: This 1983 DeLorean DMC-12 is a five-speed manual with extensive mechanical restoration and updates. A Stage II engine was installed by DMC Florida in June 2008, and inc...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1986 Subaru Brat GL

From the seller’s description: 1986 Subaru Brat GL with a dealer-installed at delivery, Subaru Serial No. 20047 Snug Top low profile shell. My BRAT (Bidrive, Recreational, All Terrain) was purchased ...

Pilsrundale, Latvia, 1988

Date: September 1988 Location: Rundale Palace, Pilsrundale, Latvia Source: Rick S. What do you see here?

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC Z28

The 5.0 Mustang launched a performance subculture in the 1980s spawning magazines, specialty businesses, events, references in Vanilla Ice songs, etc. The Mustang was cheap, fast and begged to be mod...

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