So wild to see these cars literally BRAND NEW. I know it’s the lighting, but the chrome and accents on all of these cars really sparkle. It’s very rare to see most of these cars today in pristine condition. Whenever I see an old car in bad/fair condition, I always wonder about its backstory how it went from showroom, to owner, to condition it is now yet still able to run.
I can't believe I just found this! Lovelovelove this! Thank u so much for posting, my husband and I are such huge car show fans (of the NYIAS). Please don't take this down. I wish I could go back to 1980, boy this was great!
It's amazing how 70s this 80s video is. I know this is right at the start of the 80s but if I didn't know any better, I would've swore this video was made in 1975. All the bright vivid colors on the facades, the disco style lights, the funky music, the hair, the clothing, and the grainy video footage. It probably wasn't until 1983 when the 80s truly had its own identity. 1980-82 still looked and felt like the 70s.
a.e. Hyde That Mercury Zephyr in the beginning almost triggered a seizure in me. We had a ‘79 that we bought brand new for $6,500. Within 6 months, the car left us stranded over 35 times and just about every aspect of the car had failed. Things were fixed under warranty, but that thing was a nightmare. We sold it for practically nothing after a few years. The only vehicles we owned that rivaled the disaster of a Mercury Zephyr were a 1983 Dodge Aries wagon (it would be a shorter list if I were to tell you what didn’t fail) and a 1986 Buick Century (the car that was SO BAD, that there are members of my family who won’t buy American to this day based on that one car). I’ve since returned to American vehicles and I can tell you that GM and Ford Trucks are very good. I have a 2011 Ford Taurus Limited (brought pre-owned) that is as solid as a Toyota Avalon.
A fantastic adventure of some of the greatest winds you'll ever experience! You don't want to miss it! You don't often get the chance to experience the incredible thrill of Cat 5 conditions!
I was fortunate enough to attend the Chicago Auto Show every year from 1979-1988 at McCormick Place. It was magical. I went twice again at McCormick Place West in 2003 & 2004. It wasn’t nearly the same. Oh, how I miss the good old days!
20:12 . . . AMC was 30 years too early offering a luxurious and capable SUV, that few buyers had an interest in between 1980 and 1985. The irony now in 2010 - 2017 !!
To watch this video over & over again, I was there, but I was looking at cars like the Regal, Monte Carlo, & others as a replacement for the gas guzzler Cutlass I drove, I ended up having a Chevette, that car is a story in itself
if you think a car from 1980 has a "long hood" I invite you to see the cars of 5 or 7 years prior '80 Cars from the mid to late 70s were known for having quality control issues but 1980 that was just the REAL rock bottom I would say a car from '75 is as far you could get, but if really push it, a full size from '78 and thats it
I remember living in Toronto & my friends older brother bought a 1979 Le car sport 5 spd. This crazy "Pork chop" would put this thing on 2 wheels around corners ! I thought i was going to die.
Hey. today is much better. don't you think? Light silver, medium silver, dark silver. Light gray, Medium gray, dark Gray. All topped off with a luxurious black hole interior.
On another youtube video someone mentioned that Ricardo Montelbon was talking to a talk show host and said he had no idea what the hell fine Corinthian leather was. LOL. it's one of those who shot JR timeless mysteries. lol
"But it is on the road where Cordoba best answers..........my demands...........(music plays). I have much more in this small Chrysler than great comfort at a most pleasant price. I have great CONFIDENCE, for which there can be no price. In Cordoba, I have what I need!!!!!!"
So you can rest in comfort while waiting for your tow. My grandparents had a 1980 Cordoba. Apparently it didn't like the heat when they drove it to Florida.
hmm. had to think about that for a minute? My heart says back to my age then, but my logic says at my age now, financially I could be astronomically rich from stock market and professional sports betting. I would forgo riches to have youth. The money would complicate me too much.
😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Sounds about right I was grateful here in Australia in ‘80s I was mostly working on simple V8 and 6 cylinder Fords, Holdens and Chryslers I had seen a few Alfas apart they were mongrel things to fix but what Italian car isn’t.
Thanks for posting this video! This remindeds me of why Auto Shows used to be so fun to go to. All the cars were so interesting and different. Now they honestly are all of the same, and while the quality is good now, they are b o r I n g. It's also nice to see a young lady who speaks well, who is slim, with a nice complexion and no tattoos!
This is such a boomer comment. Everyone thinks their era of stuff is the best. 1980 was the Malaise era, it couldn’t get more pathetic for power & quality. And for God’s sake modern day women aren’t all fat tattooed idiots. 🤦♂️
People 30 years from now will be saying the same exact thing about cars built after 2010! My first car was a 1981 Honda Prelude. Hondas seemed to have the worst rust problem of any car sold at the time. Mine was 5 years old and already had rust on. You couldn't stop the rust from growing on these things! The rust grew from the inside out.
Awesome! I have owned and driven several versions of many of these cars, having been a taxi driver starting in the early 90's when we were using cars produced in the 1980's, and cars from these times were affordable used vehicles.
When I was 16 my aunt had a '73 2800 CSI and I loved that car. She had to have the tranny rebuilt and then later the motor blew(I think her son raced it a bit too much) so she sold it without me knowing. I wanted the car to do a small block Chevy swap that I could take to Tune-Up Masters but, ride in style. Search for those cars today and people are asking as much as $70K or more.
I had a 1980 Omni 024...SLOWEST car in the WORLD!!!! But... got AMAZING MPG! I was stuck in a snowstorm with no money and 1/4 tank of fuel...and hyper-miled the car over 140 miles to get home! Crazy Days!
I had that 4 Door Honda Accord in the same color back in 1996. I paid $100 for it, there was not much left of it due to rust. The best part of it was the exhaust in which somebody fixed it by wrapping a soup can around it and using a coat hanger to hold it together. Gotta love being a broke kid.
worked for a guy that had an 81 accord. since new, it now had err then had,m( as of 2 years ago, 629k miles on it) was a bit of a bear to start, but once running she did decently. she was fugly with rust though lol
Had '81 AMC Concord & 1982 Chrysler Imperial. '81 Lecar, 1980 Buick Skylark, 1982 Mazda RX7, 1981 4 door Accord by Honda. 1980 Cadillac Eldo , 1984 Maquis , '85 Grand Marquis LS, 1987, Skyhawk wagon, '87 Buick Estate Wagon, '87 porch 924 wrapping up the decade 1989 Lincoln Town car. Myself, wife and three teens back then. I am thinking from memory and may forgotten one or two. Thanks for sharing this. Good memories 👍 2018 down to just one. 2016 Ford Fusion Titanium 👍
I am glad that I found this video page! And Look back at The Cars for 1980! Since I graduated H.S. hat year I remember these cars Very well! Probably Be Hard Pressed To Find Any of them anymore except all rusted out and smashed in the old car dump! 3.06 p cst USA 1/18/19
:15 seconds. Oh that Plymouth Volare RoadRunner. Gawd I wish I had bought one back then with the 4spd manual trans with the 318 Motor....Good old days !
I hope the Smithsonian has a copy of this for future preservation. Rarely has the "Malaise Era" been captured in such lurid detail. On the positive side, those elocution classes really paid off for the hostesses. It would be churlish to criticize the sheer quantity of rouge applied as the clarity of a 4K screen was not even on the radar in those days.
my first car was a grandma hand me down 1979 ford fairmont. it was clean, 50,000 miles, and only 7 years old. for a high school kid, it had 4 doors and could seat 5. the only complaint would be it's total lack of power, I think it only had 88 hp.
I had a 1980 Plymouth volare station wagon with a slant 6 four speed on the floor I was so embarrassed to drive it to school . But it was the best $300 car I've ever bought. Dang I wish I still had that station wagon.
It did, and still does. Those cars were maybe 2300 pounds and had no more than 55 HP. 0-60 MPH was like 18+ seconds. Standard equipment was very little compared to today. They would NEVER pass today's crash tests or emissions tests. Most importantly, the EPA has revised the fuel economy numbers posted on the window sticker at least twice since then. That same car, tested today would likely post 37 and 48 MPG. Today's cars are better in every way except they are heavier and cost more.
Because they really only achieved about 40mpg in real world use and were incredibly underpowered with a top speed around 75, sometimes. I still have a Rabbit diesel engine in my shed! I've owned a few of them.
I was 6 years old in 1980 and I remember my parents bought the Aspen coupe and station wagon that year, and Get this... they bought both cars brand new the same day and paid $5,000 each ($10,000) total for two brand new cars!! Unheard of now. We use to sit in the hatchback of the aspen wagon all the time as kids, great memories for sure!!!
I really miss the 80s back when I was young and my hair was thicker and wasn’t grey and I could move without pain or clicking. Didn’t have a lot of these cars here in Australia but I wish we did.
The vastly downsized 1980 (Granada) Thunderbird ended up being a huge disappointment and embarrassment for Ford compared with the 1977 - 1979 T-Birds, which were solid, and very popular. Almost like Cadillac rebadging a Cavalier as a Cimarron.
loved this video, my era of cars, but I do have to say that the speed limit was 55, not 70 like today, so the mpg's of the economy car's would be different of course
fastest highway in the us...us 130. 85 mph....which means you can run close to a hundred without being noticed. check out the hennesey test run when it opened in austin texas. drive safe.
Early EPA "highway" mileage estimates were really more a "steady 50 mph" figure because that's all the dynos of the early '70s when the test protocol was written could take. They've been revised downward twice - starting in 1985 this was done mathematically, and starting in 2008 they ran the test at faster speeds with the a/c on.
You have to remember before that bashing those cars that: There was an oil crisis in 1979 that didn't settle until 1983 in '79 also Gov't ruled that CAFE standards will go as that year, so the big 3 had to discontinue whatever they were doing good in the 60s and 70s, and this was the result That doesn't makes them anyless awful of course.
Not entirely. It looked, from the front at least, very similar to the Triumph TR7, TR8, "the shape of things to come". Even so, the '79-85 RX-7 was one of the best sports cars of the 1980s.
not even those tr7's and tr8's look like something from the late 70's the rx7 looks like a car from late 80's with its rounded edges and its integrated color keyed bumpers
The 1980s were a very difficult time for 'The Big Three', (GM, Ford, and Chrysler), and even worse for 'The Little One', (AMC). In the 1950's you could look on the American roads for a foreign-made car all day and never find one. By the time the '60s rolled around Detroit was in a panic because foreign car imports went from 700 units per month in 1955 to 50-thousand per month in 1964. By the time the 1970s rolled around the situation was untenable. Then, good ole Uncle Sam stuck his nose into the U.S. auto industry yet again; First, there were the 'Smog-Control Devices' and minimum MPG which were choking the life, and horsepower out of the once-powerful, now detuned American V-8 engines. Then came the onslaught of foreign cars, 'Datsun', (now Nissan) Honda, Mitsubishi, BMW, Mercedes, etc., etc. right at the time when American automobile manufacturers were scrambling to figure out how to go from building massive 'Luxo-Barges', Personal Luxury Cars and Muscle Cars to building new, smaller, more fuel-efficient engines and cars of higher quality; they failed in almost every aspect of those assignments. I read an article back in the year 2000 or so which told of the closing of the very last American car automobile dealership in LA, California, a Chevrolet dealer who had been in business for over 80 years! I think we should have left Japan to their own devices and never helped them with their manufacturing processes after WWII, we did it to ourselves! Oh well, I've still got a few antique American cars, they will last for the remaining years of my life and beyond, so I'm all set.
For the 1980 VW Dasher were automatic's far rarer than the 4 speed manual's? At 1:45 I'm surprised they've shown a VW Dasher with automatic transmission instead of a 4 speed manual.
Square lights - check, square grille - check, copious amounts of tacky chrome - check, interiors and exteriors in varying shades of brown, beige and wine red - check. How do we tell them apart? Change the badge and advertise each one as "different" and for "special people"
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So wild to see these cars literally BRAND NEW. I know it’s the lighting, but the chrome and accents on all of these cars really sparkle. It’s very rare to see most of these cars today in pristine condition. Whenever I see an old car in bad/fair condition, I always wonder about its backstory how it went from showroom, to owner, to condition it is now yet still able to run.
Made in USA and no unnecessary technology
That era was the worst of the worst. Many of those models didn’t last three years.
Lights and wax
@@dickritchie2596 was not. Worst era of cars were 1940s
@@AlejandroP1980s z
Give this woman an award cause she made shit sound like gold
👌😂👍I agree!
I can't believe I just found this! Lovelovelove this! Thank u so much for posting, my husband and I are such huge car show fans (of the NYIAS). Please don't take this down. I wish I could go back to 1980, boy this was great!
Indeed, Mrs. West; I want to watch this multiple times!
Devonne West Great isn’t it!
It's amazing how 70s this 80s video is. I know this is right at the start of the 80s but if I didn't know any better, I would've swore this video was made in 1975. All the bright vivid colors on the facades, the disco style lights, the funky music, the hair, the clothing, and the grainy video footage. It probably wasn't until 1983 when the 80s truly had its own identity. 1980-82 still looked and felt like the 70s.
You could say that for every decade. 1990 looked very 80s, 2000 looked very 90s, etc. Ever heard the expression "The 60s really happened in the 70s?"
When they showed the ElDorado/Toronado/Riviera, I just wanted to go back in time and once again ride a smooth car with virtually no engine noise!
I miss my 77 Toronado...
- wow, I need to get to my AMC dealer today!
rickster348 fuck you
Yeah ask the salesman why there is Jeep/Dodge/Chrysler dealership instead of AMC or better said, Renault
OMG a list of every car I've broken down in.
a.e. Hyde That Mercury Zephyr in the beginning almost triggered a seizure in me. We had a ‘79 that we bought brand new for $6,500. Within 6 months, the car left us stranded over 35 times and just about every aspect of the car had failed. Things were fixed under warranty, but that thing was a nightmare. We sold it for practically nothing after a few years.
The only vehicles we owned that rivaled the disaster of a Mercury Zephyr were a 1983 Dodge Aries wagon (it would be a shorter list if I were to tell you what didn’t fail) and a 1986 Buick Century (the car that was SO BAD, that there are members of my family who won’t buy American to this day based on that one car).
I’ve since returned to American vehicles and I can tell you that GM and Ford Trucks are very good. I have a 2011 Ford Taurus Limited (brought pre-owned) that is as solid as a Toyota Avalon.
@@continentalaquatics2725 did you make sure to add water and gas
@@continentalaquatics2725 did you take care of them?
so true... Had a 1980 ford thunderbird, always breaking down. K Car was another big disaster for me. Best car I owned was a Ford Mustang.
@@peterp4876 What year was the Mustang? What engine and transmission?
There is not one of these cars I don’t well remember.- I’m getting old!
Thanks for posting.
Jeff King I remembered the omni my grand dad had one and I knew fiat was here in the 80s
Im an 80`s kid this is soooo cool!!!
I remember as an apprentice learning the fuel injection on the 280zx, it seemed to be space industry technology
0:25 - AMC must have blown the entire promotions budget for 1980 on those flashing light bulbs!
Too funny
True but you gotta admit those amc cars were tanks
Knowing AMC They probably saved money by taking all the light bulbs from the factory
She could find something nice to say about a hurricane.
Yes. 'A luxurious, quality, personal hurricane for special people. Optionally: Tornadoed.'
or a shop vac. this shop vac truly sucks, with the optional blow for truly special people
She could make covid-19 sound good.
A fantastic adventure of some of the greatest winds you'll ever experience! You don't want to miss it! You don't often get the chance to experience the incredible thrill of Cat 5 conditions!
I was fortunate enough to attend the Chicago Auto Show every year from 1979-1988 at McCormick Place. It was magical. I went twice again at McCormick Place West in 2003 & 2004. It wasn’t nearly the same. Oh, how I miss the good old days!
20:12 . . . AMC was 30 years too early offering a luxurious and capable SUV, that few buyers had an interest in between 1980 and 1985.
The irony now in 2010 - 2017 !!
The Tab of luxury suv's
AMC would have been kicking everyone's ass now if they were still around
To watch this video over & over again, I was there, but I was looking at cars like the Regal, Monte Carlo, & others as a replacement for the gas guzzler Cutlass I drove, I ended up having a Chevette, that car is a story in itself
I was 4 years old in July of 1980 and i can remember some of these cars.
In 1980 I was 36 and I would LOVE to FORGET ALL of these cars. I'll probably get my wish soon when the alzheimers kicks in.
Me too!! I was 4 and I still remember when the 80s began. The box rocks!!
What a find! Thanks so much for sharing this.
Thanks for showing this part of irreplaceable automotive history!
Peace Brotha
I know!! it was posted 2 years ago, how have I never seen this? what a treasure :-)
Nothing compares to the pleasure of driving a car with a long hood. Those were real cars!
Like my Mustang... or the Studebaker Hawk I was driving in those days.
Or the BMW 3.0CS I owned for years then sold to help with grad school
if you think a car from 1980 has a "long hood" I invite you to see the cars of 5 or 7 years prior '80
Cars from the mid to late 70s were known for having quality control issues but 1980 that was just the REAL rock bottom
I would say a car from '75 is as far you could get, but if really push it, a full size from '78 and thats it
The long hood gave plenty of room to lay down and rest on while waiting for the tow truck.
I love these ladies know how with class
Its a script
Both women gave a flawless dialog. I don't how they did that without one mistake. Nice presentation that moved right along.
Cue cards and great eyesight. Wonder if they have a blooper reel?
discerningmind : because on that time they used to hire by the talent, nowadays they hire by the tits size.
discerningmind Well, she miss pronounced Renault but so did most Americans.
+turowat Unless you research these hot women, ir as old as i am, you have no idea how sexy they were - check out classic porn to see!
This lady dam near could convince me to buy anything. HER VOICE 😩😩 where is she now?? Somebody find her!!! She needs to see this
SiMP!
Legend has it she is in a senior convelesent resthome
I remember living in Toronto & my friends older brother bought a 1979 Le car sport 5 spd. This crazy "Pork chop" would put this thing on 2 wheels around corners ! I thought i was going to die.
I forgot how beige the 80's was
Should have been at Studio 54. Get down and boogie. Groovy baby!
Earth tones, baby. Earth tones.
Making a comeback!
The early 80s. From 85 on it was very bright.
Hey. today is much better. don't you think? Light silver, medium silver, dark silver. Light gray, Medium gray, dark Gray. All topped off with a luxurious black hole interior.
I miss going to the Detroit Auto Show! I went every year until 1984,when we moved out of state. Thanks for sharing!
Ah the Cordoba. I request nothing beyond the thickly cushioned luxury of seats available even in soft Corinthian leather.
Beautiful car. Used to rent them on business trips.
On another youtube video someone mentioned that Ricardo Montelbon was talking to a talk show host and said he had no idea what the hell fine Corinthian leather was. LOL. it's one of those who shot JR timeless mysteries. lol
leemer1 Ok Mr Montalban!
"But it is on the road where Cordoba best answers..........my demands...........(music plays). I have much more in this small Chrysler than great comfort at a most pleasant price. I have great CONFIDENCE, for which there can be no price. In Cordoba, I have what I need!!!!!!"
So you can rest in comfort while waiting for your tow. My grandparents had a 1980 Cordoba. Apparently it didn't like the heat when they drove it to Florida.
That BMW 633 CSI looks absolutely fantastic!
Terrible time for cars but a great time for gorgeous women!
Times seemed great back then ! Women weren’t fake as they are today and were always down to get laid.
ScottDLR 😛
Loved the cars from back then! Look way better than they do now!
would love to get my hands on that Caprice coupe
All those magnificent whitewalls!
another thing of the past
I still prefer these cars, over anything new lol
Of all those 62 cars featured, only four of them are still being made to this day: the Honda Accord and Civic, Chevy Corvette, and Toyota Corolla.
Mustang: '64 to present day.
OMG if I could go back in a time machine I'd buy a brand-new FULLY LOADED Plymouth Road Runner!!!!!
please build a time machine so I can go back!
Tony Chavez as your self now, or at your age then?
hmm. had to think about that for a minute? My heart says back to my age then, but my logic says at my age now, financially I could be astronomically rich from stock market and professional sports betting. I would forgo riches to have youth. The money would complicate me too much.
I'm down with that !
As they say. "I wouldn't mind being 21 again if I can take my (Add age here) year old brain with me".
Wish I wasn't poor in 1993. Found a 68 charger for sale for $800 obo and a purple 74 barracuda 340 for the same price that year. Regrets.
Why do I love this so much?
the alfa romeo wasn't supposed to be part of this car show, it just happened to break down outside the venue and the owner abandoned it in place
Now that made me laugh!
😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Sounds about right I was grateful here in Australia in ‘80s I was mostly working on simple V8 and 6 cylinder Fords, Holdens and Chryslers I had seen a few Alfas apart they were mongrel things to fix but what Italian car isn’t.
Thanks for posting this video! This remindeds me of why Auto Shows used to be so fun to go to. All the cars were so interesting and different. Now they honestly are all of the same, and while the quality is good now, they are b o r I n g. It's also nice to see a young lady who speaks well, who is slim, with a nice complexion and no tattoos!
This is such a boomer comment. Everyone thinks their era of stuff is the best. 1980 was the Malaise era, it couldn’t get more pathetic for power & quality. And for God’s sake modern day women aren’t all fat tattooed idiots. 🤦♂️
People 30 years from now will be saying the same exact thing about cars built after 2010!
My first car was a 1981 Honda Prelude. Hondas seemed to have the worst rust problem of any car sold at the time. Mine was 5 years old and already had rust on. You couldn't stop the rust from growing on these things! The rust grew from the inside out.
Right there going to cars back then looked like insects!
Awesome! I have owned and driven several versions of many of these cars, having been a taxi driver starting in the early 90's when we were using cars produced in the 1980's, and cars from these times were affordable used vehicles.
Can you imagine how hard it must have been to make these cars seem attractive?! Truly the dark ages for the automobile!
It's relative to when you grew up. I grew up then, and their was nothing wrong with the cars.
Ummm. It was 1980. It was a very unattractive time period….
I wish I could go back in time to this auto show and see all those beautiful cars in person
The 1980 Turbo TA was and still is a handsome car. Too bad it and other cars of the era were strangled by all the emissions and low compression.
Some cars are just meant to sit on a turntable, the thought of how it performs is often better than the reality.
They got me sold on the Grand Prix.
I Had a 1980 Grand Prix. It was a good car. 4.3 265 V-8. Kept it for 7 years and and 115,000 miles. Looking back at them now they seem so square.
and to think 10 years earlier they had Chevelle SS454s, Mustang Mach I, Dodge Charger/Challengers, which by 1980 were practically worthless. geez.
Oh, the cars and women back then...
The women, yes. The cars, ....no.
Yeah, women were actually feminine back then and gave a shit about their appearance.
Slow cars and hot women!
Social media killed it. Women have to much attention to focus on one man
The Buick Riviera from those years was and remains a masterpiece of timeless elegance. GM has not been able to produce design of this quality since.
The Riviera, Toronado and Eldorado were all beautiful cars. My only quibble is the rear roofline on these was a little too steep.
Man I would love to have that 6 series today
This chick could sell everything.
What the fuck are you saying?
So, Americans don't even try to pronounce French words? Just PHONETIC?
Well, she did have the ability to recite the manufacturers' ad copy for the camera.
Mike I believe it's the Brits who pronounce Filet phonetically.
1980-81 was probably the automotive low point for the US market
The 633 CSI is one of the best cars BMW ever built. They were very fast for their time too. Still a quick car today.
When I was 16 my aunt had a '73 2800 CSI and I loved that car. She had to have the tranny rebuilt and then later the motor blew(I think her son raced it a bit too much) so she sold it without me knowing. I wanted the car to do a small block Chevy swap that I could take to Tune-Up Masters but, ride in style. Search for those cars today and people are asking as much as $70K or more.
I had a 1980 Omni 024...SLOWEST car in the WORLD!!!! But... got AMAZING MPG! I was stuck in a snowstorm with no money and 1/4 tank of fuel...and hyper-miled the car over 140 miles to get home! Crazy Days!
The music in car commercials and porn was the same in the 1980s.
SKMC69 : yeah, I noticed that!
Car porn
So is the spokesmodel. It was the 80’s. She probably went from showing the cars to getting banged in them....
ahhaha😂😭
Because someone is getting sloppily screwed in both
I had that 4 Door Honda Accord in the same color back in 1996. I paid $100 for it, there was not much left of it due to rust. The best part of it was the exhaust in which somebody fixed it by wrapping a soup can around it and using a coat hanger to hold it together. Gotta love being a broke kid.
worked for a guy that had an 81 accord. since new, it now had err then had,m( as of 2 years ago, 629k miles on it) was a bit of a bear to start, but once running she did decently. she was fugly with rust though lol
I had a 79 cordoba rusted so loud i couldn't sleep
My first car was like that but I loved that car more than anything I cherish my cars
Isn't it absolutely weird as fuck to see how shiny they all used to look?
That is a real time capsule! Thanks for posting!
Had '81 AMC Concord & 1982 Chrysler Imperial. '81 Lecar, 1980 Buick Skylark, 1982 Mazda RX7, 1981 4 door Accord by Honda. 1980 Cadillac Eldo , 1984 Maquis , '85 Grand Marquis LS, 1987, Skyhawk wagon, '87 Buick Estate Wagon, '87 porch 924 wrapping up the decade 1989 Lincoln Town car. Myself, wife and three teens back then. I am thinking from memory and may forgotten one or two. Thanks for sharing this. Good memories 👍 2018 down to just one. 2016 Ford Fusion Titanium 👍
I would love an 87 924 S
I am glad that I found this video page! And Look back at The Cars for 1980! Since I graduated H.S. hat year I remember these cars Very well! Probably Be Hard Pressed To Find Any of them anymore except all rusted out and smashed in the old car dump! 3.06 p cst USA 1/18/19
Wow, what a cool video find! Thanks for posting!
They called the rotory engine economical i couldnt stop laughing for about 2 minutes
they are economical.... when they are not runnng
Thanks for the upload! 🇬🇧
:15 seconds. Oh that Plymouth Volare RoadRunner. Gawd I wish I had bought one back then with the 4spd manual trans with the 318 Motor....Good old days !
really like this video! interesting and nostalgic
"... with reptile green padded vinyl roof. An quality car from Chysler." That really happened! Great video, thanks!
I hope the Smithsonian has a copy of this for future preservation. Rarely has the "Malaise Era" been captured in such lurid detail. On the positive side, those elocution classes really paid off for the hostesses. It would be churlish to criticize the sheer quantity of rouge applied as the clarity of a 4K screen was not even on the radar in those days.
Right Lane Hog cynical much
Smithsonian don't care.
Wow - I didn't know there where that many retro 30's looking cars in the 80's!
my first car was a grandma hand me down 1979 ford fairmont. it was clean, 50,000 miles, and only 7 years old. for a high school kid, it had 4 doors and could seat 5. the only complaint would be it's total lack of power, I think it only had 88 hp.
More like the Cars giving away to Contestants on "The Price is Right", "Tic Tac Dough", "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Hollywood Squares"
Kind of surprised the brand new Lincoln Continental and Mark VI weren't shown.
Daniel McLean, I was just thinking the same thing given they were completely new for 1980!
I remember the Volare doors freezing open in the winter. We had to wrap the seatbelts around them.
Wow, the old McCormick Place was a great place for the auto show back in the day.
What cars could look like in 10 years. 20 years later and I'm happy my car has a CD player.
Miss 1980 cars was class of 1980 who else was class of 1980. Wanna relive my 1980 prom 1980 had good music
Wow! Front wheel drive! That’s 𝘭𝘢𝘢𝘢𝘮𝘦.
Diggin' that disco beat, baby. Anyone see my coke spoon?
you mean coca cola?
Brock Landers Easy killer! lol
Probably near John DeLorean
AMC Concord/Eagle looks great.
I had a 1980 Plymouth volare station wagon with a slant 6 four speed on the floor I was so embarrassed to drive it to school . But it was the best $300 car I've ever bought. Dang I wish I still had that station wagon.
the rabbit got 42 city and 55 highway, wth, I'm not a mechanic or an car/engine buff but why didn't this sort of activity continue?
It did, and still does. Those cars were maybe 2300 pounds and had no more than 55 HP. 0-60 MPH was like 18+ seconds. Standard equipment was very little compared to today. They would NEVER pass today's crash tests or emissions tests. Most importantly, the EPA has revised the fuel economy numbers posted on the window sticker at least twice since then. That same car, tested today would likely post 37 and 48 MPG. Today's cars are better in every way except they are heavier and cost more.
Because they really only achieved about 40mpg in real world use and were incredibly underpowered with a top speed around 75, sometimes. I still have a Rabbit diesel engine in my shed! I've owned a few of them.
The BE rabbit was a tin can deathtrap. You could save money, but only if you drove it all the way to the center and crashed it there.
volkwagon are lying pieces of shit. They tried claiming that shit a few years ago and have been sued. They have a volkswagon graveyard in Pontiac Mi.
Most were manual transmissions with high mpg, automatics were gutless
Chevy Monza and Vega!! My first cars i ever driven. Wish I had them yet. This is such a cool video.
I was 6 years old in 1980 and I remember my parents bought the Aspen coupe and station wagon that year, and Get this... they bought both cars brand new the same day and paid $5,000 each ($10,000) total for two brand new cars!! Unheard of now. We use to sit in the hatchback of the aspen wagon all the time as kids, great memories for sure!!!
Very cool! So many beautiful cars (Well, except for the GM X-bodies) Do you have any more old auto show footage?
I really miss the 80s back when I was young and my hair was thicker and wasn’t grey and I could move without pain or clicking. Didn’t have a lot of these cars here in Australia but I wish we did.
I had a 78 Accord hatch. I was a great little car. They should bring it back!!
I drive a 1980 Ford Thunderbird...................And let me tell you......I can't keep the hot chicks away...!!!!
BBQ chicken?
The vastly downsized 1980 (Granada) Thunderbird ended up being a huge disappointment and embarrassment for Ford compared with the 1977 - 1979 T-Birds, which were solid, and very popular. Almost like Cadillac rebadging a Cavalier as a Cimarron.
They're only hot because the A/C was always broken
it actually wasn't a Granada, it was a Fairmont underneath. The Granada name would be transferred to a Fairmont-bodied car in 1981, IIRC.
Charlie`s angels
Love the Grand Prix! Today I drive an '81 Regal.
I never even heard of #22 or #38, or any of the concept cars at the end, and I was at the New York auto show that year. Pretty cool old video.
Just here to check out the cars put out the year I was born. Pretty cool.
The script id Funny as hell.
I can't find a word for these cars. Just insane how they look.
The hatchback Tercel had to be one of the ugliest cars ever made.
propably yes :/
Hard to believe its 38 years later,we all kind of liked some of these back then.Last year of the Lincoln Versailles.
Sakal ol so what will todays cars look like 20 25 years from now..... Oh insane
It was just amazing at how many of the American offerings had diesel options.
We had a Volare growing up, it had an eight track player! I loved it, 1979 !,
loved this video, my era of cars, but I do have to say that the speed limit was 55, not 70 like today, so the mpg's of the economy car's would be different of course
My era also...70mph? What state?
Ohio is 70.
fastest highway in the us...us 130. 85 mph....which means you can run close to a hundred without being noticed. check out the hennesey test run when it opened in austin texas. drive safe.
Early EPA "highway" mileage estimates were really more a "steady 50 mph" figure because that's all the dynos of the early '70s when the test protocol was written could take. They've been revised downward twice - starting in 1985 this was done mathematically, and starting in 2008 they ran the test at faster speeds with the a/c on.
Wisconsin is 70
You have to remember before that bashing those cars that:
There was an oil crisis in 1979 that didn't settle until 1983
in '79 also Gov't ruled that CAFE standards will go as that year, so the big 3 had to discontinue whatever they were doing good in the 60s and 70s, and this was the result
That doesn't makes them anyless awful of course.
Recently bought a 1980 Camaro Z28, but I'm looking forward to finding the rest of the vehicles in this video. Lol.
How widespread was the Subaru STD? I never heard a thing about it!
Not quite as widespread as AIDS.
AIDS or AYDS?
It went viral!
7:42 the mazda rx-7 was way ahead of its time in styling
Not entirely. It looked, from the front at least, very similar to the Triumph TR7, TR8, "the shape of things to come". Even so, the '79-85 RX-7 was one of the best sports cars of the 1980s.
not even those tr7's and tr8's look like something from the late 70's the rx7 looks like a car from late 80's with its rounded edges and its integrated color keyed bumpers
And all these years later they still look great.
The 1980s were a very difficult time for 'The Big Three', (GM, Ford, and Chrysler), and even worse for 'The Little One', (AMC). In the 1950's you could look on the American roads for a foreign-made car all day and never find one. By the time the '60s rolled around Detroit was in a panic because foreign car imports went from 700 units per month in 1955 to 50-thousand per month in 1964. By the time the 1970s rolled around the situation was untenable. Then, good ole Uncle Sam stuck his nose into the U.S. auto industry yet again; First, there were the 'Smog-Control Devices' and minimum MPG which were choking the life, and horsepower out of the once-powerful, now detuned American V-8 engines. Then came the onslaught of foreign cars, 'Datsun', (now Nissan) Honda, Mitsubishi, BMW, Mercedes, etc., etc. right at the time when American automobile manufacturers were scrambling to figure out how to go from building massive 'Luxo-Barges', Personal Luxury Cars and Muscle Cars to building new, smaller, more fuel-efficient engines and cars of higher quality; they failed in almost every aspect of those assignments. I read an article back in the year 2000 or so which told of the closing of the very last American car automobile dealership in LA, California, a Chevrolet dealer who had been in business for over 80 years! I think we should have left Japan to their own devices and never helped them with their manufacturing processes after WWII, we did it to ourselves! Oh well, I've still got a few antique American cars, they will last for the remaining years of my life and beyond, so I'm all set.
For the 1980 VW Dasher were automatic's far rarer than the 4 speed manual's? At 1:45 I'm surprised they've shown a VW Dasher with automatic transmission instead of a 4 speed manual.
Man that firebird pace car special edition is to die for 😱
Square lights - check, square grille - check, copious amounts of tacky chrome - check, interiors and exteriors in varying shades of brown, beige and wine red - check. How do we tell them apart? Change the badge and advertise each one as "different" and for "special people"
MichaelBosley Not unlike today's cars at all as far as telling them apart, except back then you had a choice in interior colors. Now it's just gray.
You're absolutely right. Gray interiors, black or white exteriors with 50 shades of grey in between. Boooooring.
They are 50 shades darker, now.
I swear, most cars look like a variant of a Honda Accord today.
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