the 80's

[Silver_civic]

Hello everyone and first off let me apologize for talkin out of my rear. Ahem; does anyone here remember the 80's like the music as in THE OUTFIELD band, the "hair bands" and the stadium tours bands had? Also does anyone here remember what a new car cost in the 80's each year? Hope I am not asking too much. I was born in 1980 so I cant say I remember much other than JAMESWAY department stores and TEXACO stations and AMOCO stations.



thank you in advance also,


Adam Vasbinder

 

[zrxkawboy]

I was born in '75. I still listen to a fair amount of '80's music!

 

[01rangerxl]

I was born in '87, so I don't really remember the '80s.

I do still listen to a lot of '80s music, particularly at work. Lots of guys there are in their 40s, so they like the 80s music. Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, etc.

As for cars, my parents spent about $11K on their 1985 Jeep Cherokee 4x4, purchased in 1984. Their 1986 Ranger Super Cab was a wopping $8500 brand new. I think cars saw big price increases in the early '90s, because my 1995 Explorer 4x4 stickered for over $32K when it was new (I got it for $950 lol).

 

[Silver_civic]

I vividly remember the Chevy Celebrity. I can remember when METALLICA, SKID ROW and few other metal/rock bands hit it big.

Adam

 

[Barkleymut]

I was born in 73 so the the 80s are my childhood. I loved the music and the cars....looking back the cars were not so great but back then they sure seemed cool.

 

[Mr Nice]

I remember watching MTV it first came out. All they played were videos from all sorts of bands that actually had talent unlike the bands of today.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: Silver_civic
I can remember when METALLICA, SKID ROW and few other metal/rock bands hit it big.


I was born in '73, moved to Toronto in '91 to play bass *in* a hair band (our hair stylist was Skid Row's road stylist; named "Mykill").

 

[01rangerxl]

Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
...looking back the cars were not so great but back then they sure seemed cool.


Yeah a lot of my relatives thought that 2 door G-Bodys were the coolest thing on four wheels. They totalled all of those by 1990 though and decided that Rangers and F-150s were the thing to buy. Go figure.

 

[JHZR2]

Im about your age and remember Jamesway, Ames, Bradley's, Caldor, and life before Wal-Mart destroyed the countrside. Not only do I remember cassettes, but I remembr when music sections of stores had records. I remember ARCO on the east coast, agree on Texaco and Amoco, but they were around through the late 1990s.

Dont really remember much about 80's music, but I do remember when Steevie Wonder was on regular radio, and when Hands Across America went out. I remember Ronald, but only when Bush was VP. Tom Kean, I think the Florio 7% sales tax was the 90's though. Lots to remember...

 

[Spazdog]

I was in high school in the '80s.

One summer I worked at McDonalds. Seemed like every other song on the radio in the grill area was All You Zombies and Shout

Hated those songs. Rode home from work on my used '81 GPz550 with my Aiwa "walkman" type cassette player blasting Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, or Dead Kennedys to drown out the Hooters and Tears for Fears noise still ringing in my ears. (and Wang Chung....and Starship and Tiffany and Debbie Gibson....

Had one pair of parachute pants. Bad for riding a motorcycle. (CB125 at the time) Stuck with jeans and Pony hightops after that.

 

[eljefino]

The late 80s brought Debbie Gibson (ugh) and Dodge K-cars everywhere.

History will be yet kinder to hair bands and monster balladeers.

 

[rpn453]

BMX racing, skateboarding, indoor rollerskating, high speed dubbing, Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant, Countaches and Testarossas, and yes, definitely some Skid Row. I saw them open for Aerosmith in 1990 at age eleven. Appetite for Destruction is my favorite album from that period.

 

[Spazdog]

Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
...looking back the cars were not so great but back then they sure seemed cool.


Yeah a lot of my relatives thought that 2 door G-Bodys were the coolest thing on four wheels.


During the off season, basketball players took an "occupational course" when I was in the 8th grade. We took a trip to the GM plant. Around '83

There was a black Cutlass Salon on the assembly line. Chrome rallye wheels, dual exhaust....It was the coolest looking new car I ever saw at the time

 

[Autobahn88]

I remember the 80's well. A great time to grow up. Shows like Miami Vice, Cheers, Night Court. I drove a 84 trans am in high school and is when I became a big music fan. Bands like The Smiths, The Cult, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cure, Depeche Mode were always on my turntable and walkman. A fun time full of parties and good friends.

 

[spasm3]

I remember the Boom Boxes!

 

[01rangerxl]

Originally Posted By: Spazdog
Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Originally Posted By: Barkleymut
...looking back the cars were not so great but back then they sure seemed cool.


Yeah a lot of my relatives thought that 2 door G-Bodys were the coolest thing on four wheels.


During the off season, basketball players took an "occupational course" when I was in the 8th grade. We took a trip to the GM plant. Around '83

There was a black Cutlass Salon on the assembly line. Chrome rallye wheels, dual exhaust....It was the coolest looking new car I ever saw at the time

Haha, the Cutlass was the car of choice among my relatives who owned G Bodies in the 80s. Seems like everyone had one.

 

[Letter_K]

Originally Posted By: eljefino
.... and Dodge K-cars everywhere.


K Cars and the Dodges like chargers and challangers, which I don't think were considered K-Cars. They all had fake wood grain interiors with chrome trim.

GM a-Body cars - Chevy Celebrity, Old Cutlass Ciera, Pontiac 6000 and the Buick Century.

My Dad paid like 12,600 for a 1986 Dodge Colt Vista, which was made by Mitsubishi. Needed warranty coverage for the standard Yokohama tires and they wanted him to ship the tires to Indianapolis. No one we knew had every heard of Yokohama tires.

Amoco stations - Remember my mom one summer getting a placesetting of silverwear for like 99 cents with each tank of gas until we had a full set of silverwear. Also, they used to give cheap like 69 cent car washes with a fill of 10 or more gallons of gas.

 

[Brons2]

I went to high school in the 80s...class of 89. The music was [censored], I identify far more strongly with the 90s grunge/alt rock. Well ok not all of it was [censored], I liked Van Halen and GnR when I was in high school. Listed to a lot of 70s stuff though. Was a big Eagles and Rush fan also.

I grew up in Oregon and we had an 84 S15 Jimmy 4x4. The joke was, you got 5 more with GMC. If I recall correctly it cost $14,280 when Dad brought it home, I was just starting 8th grade. Had every option but air conditioning and power windows, go figure. My parents didn't want AC cause they said it would cause worse mileage all the time. They regretted that later on several family trips down in the Southwest and then when we moved to Texas especially.

I was always frustrated that my dad kept highway tires on it, he only wanted 4x4 to go through the snow in the mountains. Didn't stop me from doing some muddin though. Man that thing was slow, 2.8 V6 and it could barely get out of it's own way. That thing was pretty much a POS after 3 or 4 years, partially because I ragged it so much when I was in high school. But my dad kept it until 97, and then donated it to my high school's shop program, to be endlessly torn apart and put back together by high schoolers.

I remember a lot of people having "gutless supremes" back in high school, too.

Took some shop classes in high school and later worked in a machine shop, built a lot of small block Chevys and Fords back then, and a few oddballs like a Greymarine inline 6cyl ski boat motor. Everything with hydraulic tappets pretty much, roller cams were just some expensive bits in magazines. Use to cuss a lot about points and condensers ignition and power valves on Holley carbs, don't miss that part of it, but otherwise it was fun.

We ran Valvoline 20w50 in everything that came through the shop, never mind the fact that it didn't get above 50 in the wintertime up there very often. But I guess it never got real cold, either.

 

[Patman]

It's funny this topic should come up, as I recently downloaded a 14 day trial of Sirius satellite radio for my iPhone just so I could listen to the Hair Nation station while at work! I am 41, so 80s hair metal was all the rage when I was in my teens and early 20s, and to this day it's still my favorite music to listen to. And as we speak I'm streaming 181.FM The Hairband Channel on internet radio! Check out this link if you want to stream internet radio of one of the "hair band" channels:

http://www.shoutcast.com/radio/Hair

 

[Patman]

Originally Posted By: rpn453
BMX racing,


I was big into this in the 80s too! I did a ton of BMX racing between 1983 and 1986, then retired for a few years and got back into it again for 1989 and 1990 before retiring for good. I raced a lot of NBL national events in 84 and 85, in fact I was NBL National Number 22 for the 15 expert class in 1985.