Items tagged with: Eighties

Hemmings Find of the Day: 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo

Single-owner 1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: I’ve decided to finally let my first new car go to another person to enjoy. I have had it for 36 years a...

Four-Links – Chrysler Esprit?, Brubaker and the Cybertruck, Philly Free Library sells auto archives, Kenosha History Center dries out

Apparently Chrysler and Lotus’s collaboration that resulted in the Lotus-tuned dual overhead-camshaft cylinder head for Chrysler’s 2.2-litre inline four was supposed to result in even more hybrid Lot...

Hemmings Find of the Day: 1988 Saleen Mustang

Documented 1988 Saleen Mustang for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The car started its journey at FORD, where it was built as a Black with Sand Beige LX 5.0 Coupe equipped with t...

Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1980

Date: circa 1980 Location: possibly Fredericton, New Brunswick Source: via jacdurac What do you see here?

Corpus Christi, Texas, 1981

Date: November 1981 Location: South Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas Source: via Corpus Christi Caller Times What do you see here?

Hemmings Find of the Day: 1987 Toyota Corolla

Right-hand-drive 1987 Toyota Corolla for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This original Japanese imported AE86 is finished in brown exterior with custom interior. Paint is driver ...

Honda’s Motocompo scooter: the box that thought outside the box

1982 Honda Motocompo scooter, ready for riding. Images courtesy Mecum Auctions. By Honda’s original sales projections of 10,000 units per month, its three-year experiment building the Japanese-market...

Driving to be the best: Chrysler’s 1987 lineup on high quality VHS

No matter how much we may like cars, do any of us really enjoy going to a dealership? Haggling, getting sucked into the four-square method, politely chuckling at the dealer’s bad jokes, all when we r...

Hemmings Find of the Day: 1981 Volkswagen Caddy

16-valve swapped 1981 Volkswagen Caddy for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This classic Mark 1 Volkswagen Rabbit Pickup is in nice overall condition with many tasteful and fun up...

Hemmings Find of the Day: 1984 Jeep CJ-8

Alaskan postal service 1984 Jeep CJ-8 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 1 of only 230 custom made by Jeep for the Alaskan Postal Service in 1984. This has the original 258 inli...

Four-Links – Miataland, motorsports history, L.A. in the ’80s, no-lean Citroen

Over in Italy, a lifelong Miata fan opened a hotel that gives guests access to an impressive collection of Mazda MX-5s, as Top Gear recently wrote. Guests are comprehensively outnumbered by cars. The...

Holden is selling some gems from its heritage collection

Photos via Manheim Even though Holden stopped building cars in Australia two years ago, it will nevertheless be possible to buy an Australian-built car from the Australian arm of General Motors when ...

Vancouver, British Columbia, 1980s

Date: circa 1980s Location: West 4th Avenue and West 6th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia Source: City of Vancouver Archives What do you see here?

New York City, 1982

Date: 1982 Location: 1st Avenue and East 15th Street, New York City, New York Source: via NYC Nostalgia What do you see here?

Classics that I hated and loved at the same time

The “bucket of bolts” 1977 Dodge Aspen station wagon had so many squeaks it was hard to talk. My wife, Grace, and daughters, Jenne (left) and Tori, endured its bone-jarring ride and rattles. Photos b...

Hemmings Find of the Day: 1983 Piaggio Ape P2

Unrestored 1983 Piaggio Ape P2 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Up for Sale is a nice original 1983 Piaggio APE 50 version P2. It’s a 2-stoke and is a blast to drive to the ca...

Hemmings Find of the Day: 1989 Ford Probe GT

Turbocharged unrestored 1989 Ford Probe GT for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Three owners and 160,000 original miles, No Rust, No Accidents. This offering is for a Rare and car...

Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1980s

Date: circa 1980s Location: West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Oklahoma Source: IMCDB What do you see here?

Eggs from the same carton: Pontiac Trans Sport versus Bertone Genesis

Manufacturer photos. As the popularity of minivans soared in the mid-Eighties on both sides of the Atlantic, the new-ish form factor not only inspired a wave of rethinking the basic format of the aut...

Sydney, New South Wales, 1980s

Date: circa 1980s Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Source: Peter Rae What do you see here?

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 1982

Date: April 1982 Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee Source: via Knoxville News-Sentinel What do you see here?

Jones Beach, New York, 1981

Date: July 1981 Location: Meadowbrook State Parkway headed to Jones Beach, Long Island, New York Source: Don Norkett, via Newsday What do you see here?

Collection of Colani prototypes, including some Automorrow racers, fails to sell at auction

Colani’s Utah 8. Photos via CataWiki. Just a month after designer Luigi Colani died, a number of his full-size design studies and working one-off cars – including some of his Automorrow racers design...

London, 1980

Date: circa 1980 Location: Euston Road, London, England Source: Nick via Wikimedia Commons What do you see here?

Palm Springs, California, 1980s

Date: circa 1980s Location: Palm Springs, California Source: via Palm Springs Desert Sun What do you see here?

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