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POST A PIC of the car you drove in the eighties!!!
If you don't have a pic, Google one. If it's not the color you had just describe yours.

I drove a 1983 Chevrolet Monte Carlo. OK, no gweedo joke please.....[:p]

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I got it at the tail end of the 80's, second hand. Mine was in brown with a yellow/orange pinstripe going down the side. It was pretty utilitarian - no power windows, seats, locks - nothing. It slowly started to break down and the upkeep was getting insane. Plus I banged it up a few times. I was glad to get rid of it but every now and then when I see one on the road - in mint condition too, sometimes - I get a little nostalgic.

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A light blue 1964 Ford Falcon:

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but the one in this picture looks cooler than mine did. It had the good old 3-on-the-tree gear shift on the stearing column.

Later I had a 1978 Mustang:

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which looked slightly cool, but was really just a glorified Pinto.

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Oh yeah, the dude magnet. White Volare with a dark green interior. Died at every stoplight. Yeah, baby.

What was that sitcom? I think it was called "Grounded for Life". I only saw it a couple times but every episode I saw he talked about how his first car was a Plymouth Volare. And I thought I was the only one.

My best friend used to sing that damn song (You know the one--the one stuck in your head now) every time she got in my car. That used to annoy the shit out of me. Don't tell her I said that.

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This was what I was sporting in 1989. I had to rebuild the whole driveline, and installed a 327 engine. Yep, it impressed the girls.

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This is what I'm sporting today. It was a mess when I got it, and after extensive work (over 2 years effort) it's almost show worthy. NOTHING beats the '55 Bel Airs.

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I didn't know you were a gearhead, Hutter. Those Bel Airs rock! There's a guy that works with me that drives one of those. He even made the cover of Car Restoration magazine or something like that. He's been asking me out for 5 years. But he creeps me out the way he's 40 and lives with his parents still. There are other reasons he creeps me out what am I blubbering about?

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This isn't it but it looked exactly like it:

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God, I'd love to drive it again. It had some type of hydraulic shocks that I could pump up with air from the trunk. Great stereo in it too. I called her Lynn. Don't ask.

Compared to me, y'all drove cool cars. (Yes, even UR. woah oah oah oah.)

I present to you, the Datsun F10 hatchback.

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Mine had more detailing (racing stripes! snicker), but my car was pretty much the same as the one pictured.

My first car was a '79 Ford Mustang Hatchback, white with tan interior. It was pretty nice. Power steering, power breaks, am/fm stereo, a/c...a nifty little map light.

Unfortunately, I totalled it around '81 or '82 and started driving my husband's '72 VW Super Beetle, with a Hertz shift, and no a/c. I loved that Bug but the no a/c thing just sucked.

Moving along, we got a used little 1987 Nissan Stanza. Great car.

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"I may be bad, but I feel good."

Let's see:

I owned the following cars in the 80's. I traded cars ALOT during that decade:

1966 Chevelle SS 396

1955 Ford PU (Cherry Red w built 302)

1969 AMX (343 4-speed)

1978 Ford Econoline Van (fully customized)

1979 Trans Am (403 Olds engine)

1978 Ford PU

1975 Chevy Monte Carlo

1971 Buick Skylark

1978 Ford T-Bird

1984 Pontiac Fiero

1985 Toyota Celica GT

1989 Pontiac Sunbird

My first car. 1970 Cutlass Supreme 350 w/ 4 barrel carb.

I'd love to get one for my mid-life crisis but I have no place to put it - and my wife would never let me.

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This wretched rust-bucket (Dark Green & Primer '69 VW Fastback) was my wheels in highschool. It died in 1981. [:(]

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I bought this beauty in 1986 (Black '85 VW GTI) when I finally had a good payin' job. I drove it for the rest of the 80s. [8D]

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These 20+ year old poloroids have seen better days... [:I]

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A 1967 Chevy Bel Air that really was owned by a little old lady who never drove it anywhere but church on Sundays. I owned it between 1981 and 1984.

Mine looked a little better than this, but not much. Drove real well though, once I learned to put a quart of oil in every thousand miles.

Some of the shows I drove to see in it: Big Country's US debut, R.E.M.'s Thanksgiving show in NYC, 1982. Talking Heads at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (Stop Making Sense tour), The English Beat and <a href="http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.2cb9c65c/41" target="_blank">The Bangles</a> at Geneva, NY (I have it listed in that post as Auburn, NY, but I'm wrong), and U2 on the War Tour at the Cayuga County Community College gym in Auburn, NY.

You guys all had sweet rides. I think I was still riding my Huffy bike back in the 80s. My first car was my grandma's '69 Le Mans (same color as pic, but in much worse shape). My parents took it away within the first week because I got it stuck in the mud one night, out in the middle of nowhere, while parking with my girlfriend.

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I loved my ancient Volvo. (This is not a photo of mine though--mine was primer gray. I thought it looked like a Jag. I think it got 12 MPG.

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No...freakin'...way!!! I got a hand-me-down 164E as well. Got it at about 100,000 miles and finally killed it at about 250,000 miles as several road trips to Vegas, Mammoth Mtn, Tiguana, all OVER the freakin place! Mine was burgundy.