Pat Riot Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Dantankerous said: And no, I DID NOT wear parachute pants. My wife bought me two pairs of those. One black and one white. I wore the white ones twice and the black ones once...just to make her happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 February 22, 1980. Winter Olympics, Lake placid, N.Y. USA beats Soviet union to secure the gold medal in ice hockey. A bunch of MN boys, including Herb Brooks, Head Coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cholla Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 1 hour ago, DocWard said: I'm going to have to disagree with both of you. After the doldrums of the mid-70s, when everyone proclaimed performance was dead due to OPEC, emissions and MPG standards, the mid-80's brought the resurgence in performance that we still see. The 1983 Mustang GT brought back the 302, up from the 255 that had been in place since the late 70s, along with a Holley 4bbl. GM quickly followed along with the Camaro and Firebirds, and the pony cars were back on. There were also the GM G-Body platforms that were doing well. Did they have 454s, 428CJs and 426 Hemis? No. Were they capable of low 14 to high 13 second 1/4 mile times? No, more like low 15 to high 14s back then. But they could do something those muscle cars couldn't do. They handled far better and could brake better, and got far better gas mileage. The "Big Three" has continued to build on those until we are where we are today with performance cars. There's no comparison between modern performance cars and the best of the late 60's and early 70's. At least from a performance perspective. I love the looks of a '70 Mustang or a 69 Camaro. There is nothing like the sound of a big block loping along at an idle, or opening up to WOT. Agree to disagree. I think the early 1980s Camero redesign was junk. My BIL had a Shelby Charger that was an absolute POS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 12 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: Compact disc players Huey Lewis and the News Forgot about those! Huey Lewis and the News "Sports" album (or CD) was one of the best albums ever made, every song on it was good. Usually, albums had 2 or 3 good songs and the rest were crap. Almost forgot, CD players, VCR players and tv's started coming with remotes thereby starting the remote control collections next to the couch or easy chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Cypress Sun said: Forgot about those! Huey Lewis and the News "Sports" album (or CD) was one of the best albums ever made, every song on it was good. Usually, albums had 2 or 3 good songs and the rest were crap. Almost forgot, CD players, VCR players and tv's started coming with remotes thereby starting the remote control collections next to the couch or easy chair. I still have the Sports album and listen to it. Sadly, Huey is now functionally deaf from disease that affects hearing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 If you wanted to create a "uniform" of 80's style clothing, start with the "Members Only" jacket. They were everywhere. You pick the shirts, shoes and pants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Cholla said: Agree to disagree. I think the early 1980s Camero redesign was junk. My BIL had a Shelby Charger that was an absolute POS. When you say “redesign “ do you mean you didn’t like the looks, performance, reliability, or what? Why was the Shelby a POS? No offense, but it’s difficult to discuss facts and make comparisons without more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cholla Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 A friend had a 1983 Camaro. It lacked the quality control and reliability I would expect for a GM product that had a reputation like Camaro enjoyed with the motorheads we were. He was constantly having mechanical issues with it and the metal seemed to dent with the lightest impact, much like my Subaru does now. Fit and finish also suffered in my opinion. But at the time all I could afford was a 1969 Mercury station wagon with a 302 so it didn't matter. The Shelby suffered from the same. It rode like a cross between a go-cart and a lumber truck. Having grown up on 60s and 70s GM products and been around other cars of the same era which road like a cloud, were quiet, and had power, the cars in the 80s seemed to be scrambling to compete with Toyota and falling short on every aspect. Their styling was as if they had lost their way. The performance was nothing that excited me like previous versions. To be honest little after 1975 got my attention. By the mid 1990s the big three seemed to be hitting their stride again with Dodge in the lead. I remember pulling off the road when a buddy and I first saw the new Dodge truck in 1993. It was like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about! I am also a huge Jeep CJ fan and in the late 1980s when Chrysler changed to the YJ with rectangle headlights and a plastic dash, that tore it. They may as well have ripped my heart out. When the TJ series came out, I started falling in love again. When they came out with the TJ Unlimited, I was fully hooked again and have since owned two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassnetguy50 Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 7 hours ago, Dantankerous said: Naw... In the 80s I had 2 guns. Now I have, ehem, more than 2. More than 2 isn't excessive (chuck only had 2 guns). Using a LAW to take out a few badguys you could've taken out with one roundhouse kick is excessive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creeker, SASS #43022 Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 There is only one car that completely represents the 80's - his name is KITT And as a High Schooler in the early 80's - Pioneer car stereos and Kraco speakers Pretty girls in leg warmers, big hair and perms, T-shirts under shapeless sport coats, skinny ties. Honda Interceptors, Kawaski Ninjas and the V65 Magna Professional Wrestling Cowboys - 49'r rivalry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dantankerous Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Speaking of Mr. Norris and 80s movies... Hard to not like Lone Wolf McQuade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horn_Ridge Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Death of the JonE handwarmer via disposable air activated ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 6 hours ago, Cholla said: A friend had a 1983 Camaro. It lacked the quality control and reliability I would expect for a GM product that had a reputation like Camaro enjoyed with the motorheads we were. He was constantly having mechanical issues with it and the metal seemed to dent with the lightest impact, much like my Subaru does now. Fit and finish also suffered in my opinion. But at the time all I could afford was a 1969 Mercury station wagon with a 302 so it didn't matter. My brother-in-law got one of the 1984 Mustang GTs. It put my '70 Mustang to shame in every performance metric you could name, despite lots of work on my part to make the Mustang perform. The only problem I recall him having with it was a seatbelt retractor that decided to stop working after a few years, and some rust under the rear spoiler he had to have fixed. My biggest criticism of it remains the oddball TRX wheel size that Ford went with. He still has the car after all of these years, although he has let his oldest son do much to increase its horsepower. He got it to replace an '82 Firebird. Interestingly, while being unimpressed with its performance, he indicated the fit and finish were far better than the Camaro he had looked at before purchasing it, so perhaps there is something to what you say in that regard. 6 hours ago, Cholla said: The Shelby suffered from the same. It rode like a cross between a go-cart and a lumber truck. I have a cousin who had one of the Shelby Charger's after they added the turbo-charger. I thought it was a lot of fun to drive, and handled very well. Better than anything I had been fortunate enough to drive at that point. Torque steer was a nightmare in it when you really got into it, but it was a blast to drive. My 84 Rx-7 I owned later would out-handle it, provided I was on dry, firm ground so the rear end wouldn't come around on me. Both had a very firm ride, something I have been used to in cars that tend to handle well. Even now, Mrs. Doc's WRX has a stiff suspension, although not what I recall the Rx-7 having. Of course, the Mazda was lower to the ground and was more unforgiving simply because of the ability of the suspension to cycle. 6 hours ago, Cholla said: Having grown up on 60s and 70s GM products and been around other cars of the same era which road like a cloud, were quiet, and had power, the cars in the 80s seemed to be scrambling to compete with Toyota and falling short on every aspect. Their styling was as if they had lost their way. The performance was nothing that excited me like previous versions. To be honest little after 1975 got my attention. By the mid 1990s the big three seemed to be hitting their stride again with Dodge in the lead. The cars that "rode like a cloud" did so because of soft suspensions that didn't translate to good cornering, and less than adequate braking with lots of weight to transfer, nose dive, and all too often drum brakes all around. Styling is subjective. While boxy, I liked the looks of the G-Body GMs and the more aerodynamic looks of the mid-'80s Thunderbirds like Bill Elliott was driving in NASCAR and Bob Glidden was driving in NHRA. The 1/4 mile performance of the mid to late 80's Mustang and Camaro performance vehicles were only a second or so off of the top of the heap muscle cars from the factory, while stopping faster, turning better and going further on a gallon of gas-with small blocks instead of big blocks. A lot of what we remember about cars of the late '60s and early seventies is often nostalgia. I mentioned in a previous post that the mid-80s represented a "new Golden Age" for cars. We're still in that Golden Age, although I fear for not much longer. The 80's had domestic manufacturers trying to get performance back to something to be proud of, while dealing with burdensome emissions and experimenting with somewhat nascent technologies such as turbos, EFI and more. If they hadn't then, who knows where we would be now. 6 hours ago, Cholla said: I remember pulling off the road when a buddy and I first saw the new Dodge truck in 1993. It was like, yeah, that's what I'm talking about! I am also a huge Jeep CJ fan and in the late 1980s when Chrysler changed to the YJ with rectangle headlights and a plastic dash, that tore it. They may as well have ripped my heart out. When the TJ series came out, I started falling in love again. When they came out with the TJ Unlimited, I was fully hooked again and have since owned two. I've owned a few Jeeps, starting with a beat up 69 with a Dauntless V6. The YJ Wrangler was a departure, to be sure, and has a lot going against it in the form of frame and body rot, but the 258 and later 4.0 inline sixes that were available in them were great engines, and they aren't as bad in many respects as people like to think. They just weren't CJs any longer. There is no doubt about that. The rectangular headlights became a symbol of what they weren't any longer as much as what they were. That is, not the Jeep that "won WWII then came home and won the peace." So, yes, we can agree to disagree on much, but reasonable minds can do so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 My wife and I got married in 1984 and women's clothing was BIG on shoulder pads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 22 hours ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said: February 22, 1980. Winter Olympics, Lake placid, N.Y. USA beats Soviet union to secure the gold medal in ice hockey. A bunch of MN boys, including Herb Brooks, Head Coach. That win didn't secure the gold medal. It just got them into the gold medal game. They beat Finland to secure the gold. Still, it is an iconic moment in sports from the 80s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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