The 1980's
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Fletch for sure. An Saturday night in the early 80's. CHiPs on the tv and MAD MAX in the VCR. Man I hated the late 80's ...fuel injection crossover. And that gulf war was actually a disruption (though in the 90's) to us early teens. We could feel this different world over there as it came home with messed up uncles.
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Originally Posted By: Spazdog
The 1985 Honda CMX250 Rebel was $1295. (about $2700 in today's dollars. The current price for the Rebel is $4199.)
I remember that bike. Was that the one that looked like a Harley? Whatever happened to the Honda Interceptor? Do they still make them? Back in 83,my dad almost bought me one. It was red white and blue,and had a matching helmet (I'm thinking it was a 600cc). Couldn't get the right price,so just as we were about to take a Suzuki SP250 home,he changed his mind :^(
The 1985 Honda CMX250 Rebel was $1295. (about $2700 in today's dollars. The current price for the Rebel is $4199.)
I remember that bike. Was that the one that looked like a Harley? Whatever happened to the Honda Interceptor? Do they still make them? Back in 83,my dad almost bought me one. It was red white and blue,and had a matching helmet (I'm thinking it was a 600cc). Couldn't get the right price,so just as we were about to take a Suzuki SP250 home,he changed his mind :^(
Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Originally Posted By: Spazdog
The 1985 Honda CMX250 Rebel was $1295. (about $2700 in today's dollars. The current price for the Rebel is $4199.)
I remember that bike. Was that the one that looked like a Harley? Whatever happened to the Honda Interceptor? Do they still make them? Back in 83,my dad almost bought me one. It was red white and blue,and had a matching helmet (I'm thinking it was a 600cc). Couldn't get the right price,so just as we were about to take a Suzuki SP250 home,he changed his mind :^(
In '83 it would have to be a VF750F Interceptor. Maybe an early release 500.
They still make 800 and 1200cc variants of the VFR/Interceptors.
In '83, it was unlike anything else on the market. The 1st Katanas and the GPz's were re-worked GSes and KZs. Honda had been resting on their laurels too long and those 2-stroke guys (ie: Suzuki and Kawasaki) had surpassed the Honda 4 cylinders. The Interceptors moved Honda back to the forefront of motorcycle design. They might actually be the first real mainstream sportsbikes with rectangular frames and liquid cooled engines.
When I compared my '81 GPz 550 to a friend's KZ 550, the brakes, shocks, and carburetors were different. Otherwise it was a KZ. If you stripped the bodywork off of an Interceptor, it was still an Interceptor.
Originally Posted By: Spazdog
The 1985 Honda CMX250 Rebel was $1295. (about $2700 in today's dollars. The current price for the Rebel is $4199.)
I remember that bike. Was that the one that looked like a Harley? Whatever happened to the Honda Interceptor? Do they still make them? Back in 83,my dad almost bought me one. It was red white and blue,and had a matching helmet (I'm thinking it was a 600cc). Couldn't get the right price,so just as we were about to take a Suzuki SP250 home,he changed his mind :^(
In '83 it would have to be a VF750F Interceptor. Maybe an early release 500.
They still make 800 and 1200cc variants of the VFR/Interceptors.
In '83, it was unlike anything else on the market. The 1st Katanas and the GPz's were re-worked GSes and KZs. Honda had been resting on their laurels too long and those 2-stroke guys (ie: Suzuki and Kawasaki) had surpassed the Honda 4 cylinders. The Interceptors moved Honda back to the forefront of motorcycle design. They might actually be the first real mainstream sportsbikes with rectangular frames and liquid cooled engines.
When I compared my '81 GPz 550 to a friend's KZ 550, the brakes, shocks, and carburetors were different. Otherwise it was a KZ. If you stripped the bodywork off of an Interceptor, it was still an Interceptor.
Early 80's Toyota Supra, it was much better than Mustang, Camaro and Firebird.
Thank you guys for the great memories and some things I forgot
Some important events that happened during the '80s:
First Persian Gulf War breaks out in '80
John Lennon shot dead in '80
Eruption of Mt St. Helens in '80
7.2 earthquake kills over 3,000 people in Itlay in '80
Heat wave kills over 1,000 people in the US in '80
Teheran embassy hostages finally released in '81
Assasination attempts on R. Reagan and Pope John Paul II in '81
two big earthquakes hit Iran in '81
Bob Marley dies in '81
Muhammed Ali retires in '81
Argentina invades the Falkland Islands in '82
Italy wins the World Cup in '82
Compact discs are launched in '82
SF 49ers win Super Bowl in '82
US Embassy in Beirut bombed in '83
Motorola introduces first mobile phone in '83
AIDS virus discovered in '83
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America in '83
Indira Gandhi assassinated in '84
Bopal disaster in '84
Famin in Ethiopia kills over 1 million people in '84
First ever heart-liver transplant in '84
K-431 reactor explosion in '85
Ozone hole first discovered in '85
Titanic found in '85
Volcanic eruption in Colombia kills 25,000 people in '85
Earthquake in MExico city kills 9,000 people in '85
SF wins Super Bowl in '85
Bombing of Lybia in '86
Chernobyl Disaster in '86
USS Challenger catastrophe in '86
Typhoon devastates the Philippines in '87
FOX TV begins broadcasting in '87
Disposable contact lenses introduced in '86
First ever heart-lung transplant in '87
Lockerbie Bombing '88
Shroud of Turin debunked in '88
Armenian earthqauke claims 25,000 lives
US heat wave kills up to 10,000 people
The Yellowstone Fires of '88
First plutonium-powered pacemaker in '88
End of Cold War in '89
Tianaman Square Protest n '89
Fall of the Berlin Wall i summer/fall of '89
Ayatollah Khomeini dies in '89
SF wins Super Bowl in '89
Works starts on the Human Genome Project in '89
The first episode of The Simpsons airs in '89
The first Game Boy is released in '89
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First Persian Gulf War breaks out in '80
John Lennon shot dead in '80
Eruption of Mt St. Helens in '80
7.2 earthquake kills over 3,000 people in Itlay in '80
Heat wave kills over 1,000 people in the US in '80
Teheran embassy hostages finally released in '81
Assasination attempts on R. Reagan and Pope John Paul II in '81
two big earthquakes hit Iran in '81
Bob Marley dies in '81
Muhammed Ali retires in '81
Argentina invades the Falkland Islands in '82
Italy wins the World Cup in '82
Compact discs are launched in '82
SF 49ers win Super Bowl in '82
US Embassy in Beirut bombed in '83
Motorola introduces first mobile phone in '83
AIDS virus discovered in '83
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America in '83
Indira Gandhi assassinated in '84
Bopal disaster in '84
Famin in Ethiopia kills over 1 million people in '84
First ever heart-liver transplant in '84
K-431 reactor explosion in '85
Ozone hole first discovered in '85
Titanic found in '85
Volcanic eruption in Colombia kills 25,000 people in '85
Earthquake in MExico city kills 9,000 people in '85
SF wins Super Bowl in '85
Bombing of Lybia in '86
Chernobyl Disaster in '86
USS Challenger catastrophe in '86
Typhoon devastates the Philippines in '87
FOX TV begins broadcasting in '87
Disposable contact lenses introduced in '86
First ever heart-lung transplant in '87
Lockerbie Bombing '88
Shroud of Turin debunked in '88
Armenian earthqauke claims 25,000 lives
US heat wave kills up to 10,000 people
The Yellowstone Fires of '88
First plutonium-powered pacemaker in '88
End of Cold War in '89
Tianaman Square Protest n '89
Fall of the Berlin Wall i summer/fall of '89
Ayatollah Khomeini dies in '89
SF wins Super Bowl in '89
Works starts on the Human Genome Project in '89
The first episode of The Simpsons airs in '89
The first Game Boy is released in '89
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That was some decade to grow up in.
Nobody has mentioned Michael Jackson or Prince or Madonna. I was a bit younger than most here so they created an impression on my generation, especially Michael Jackson. Personally I was a bigger fan of Prince.
Musically there were countless others who established themselves in the 1980's eg Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey.
The 1980's was also the decade where greed became good. In the UK, the generation born in that decade became known as Thatcher's children. The economic, social and political changes in that country were very profound in the 1980's.
Nobody has mentioned Michael Jackson or Prince or Madonna. I was a bit younger than most here so they created an impression on my generation, especially Michael Jackson. Personally I was a bigger fan of Prince.
Musically there were countless others who established themselves in the 1980's eg Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey.
The 1980's was also the decade where greed became good. In the UK, the generation born in that decade became known as Thatcher's children. The economic, social and political changes in that country were very profound in the 1980's.
Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Early 80's Toyota Supra, it was much better than Mustang, Camaro and Firebird.
It was?
It was kinda' heavy and dull. Made a couple more horsepower than a 3.3 Mustang. Lot less torque. It really wasn't any better than it's shorter Celica sibling.
Better as a personal luxury car perhaps.
No question that Supras are good personal luxury cars but a smog choked '81 Z/28 would be quicker, faster, and lap a road course faster.
The MKII made more power, but got significantly heavier too. It really didn't get good until the 7M 6 cylinder and by then it was competing against TPI Camaro-birds and MPFI 5.0 and the 205 hp 4 cyl turbo SVO
Early 80's Toyota Supra, it was much better than Mustang, Camaro and Firebird.
It was?
It was kinda' heavy and dull. Made a couple more horsepower than a 3.3 Mustang. Lot less torque. It really wasn't any better than it's shorter Celica sibling.
Better as a personal luxury car perhaps.
No question that Supras are good personal luxury cars but a smog choked '81 Z/28 would be quicker, faster, and lap a road course faster.
The MKII made more power, but got significantly heavier too. It really didn't get good until the 7M 6 cylinder and by then it was competing against TPI Camaro-birds and MPFI 5.0 and the 205 hp 4 cyl turbo SVO
Truth be told, I never liked Michael Jackson's music.
I loved the 80's, not just because it was the decade I grew up in, but Music made huge changes in all genres, obviously lots happened worldwide...and even though the economics were depressed, people tended to be happy...at least in my circles.
I loved the 80's, not just because it was the decade I grew up in, but Music made huge changes in all genres, obviously lots happened worldwide...and even though the economics were depressed, people tended to be happy...at least in my circles.
Originally Posted By: SumpChump
Fletch for sure. An Saturday night in the early 80's. CHiPs on the tv and MAD MAX in the VCR. Man I hated the late 80's ...fuel injection crossover. And that gulf war was actually a disruption (though in the 90's) to us early teens. We could feel this different world over there as it came home with messed up uncles.
My dad told me that back in 1981 he bought a VCR for $400. He was sure it would not get any cheaper.
As for EFI, it had different results for different people. As bad as mom's 85 Maxima sucked in terms of reliability, she never had a single problem with EFI.
Fletch for sure. An Saturday night in the early 80's. CHiPs on the tv and MAD MAX in the VCR. Man I hated the late 80's ...fuel injection crossover. And that gulf war was actually a disruption (though in the 90's) to us early teens. We could feel this different world over there as it came home with messed up uncles.
My dad told me that back in 1981 he bought a VCR for $400. He was sure it would not get any cheaper.
As for EFI, it had different results for different people. As bad as mom's 85 Maxima sucked in terms of reliability, she never had a single problem with EFI.
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