re: Favorite automobiles of high school/college guys in the 80/90’s

Girl I worked with at East Towne Mall (Knoxville) in ‘84 had a sweet Mazda RX-7. Fun to drive and had an awesome sound system.
I moved to Johnson City in ‘86 and a coworker had an ‘86 Fiero SE V-6. Always thought that car was underrated. Had a heavy clutch and drove angry, I assumed it wasn’t happy that people generally dismissed it.

Mid 90’s

Single Cab S-10 five speed with the vorteq.

How about the ford probe. When was the last time you saw one of those?

Early 1980’s - Datsun 280ZX in this color scheme

Camaro IROC-Z
Mid 80s thru early 90s

T tops, bitch.

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The people that would actually buy them is a very small niche.

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I’m not talking about offering them as special editions. I’m talking about completely replacing their current everything-lookalike drek with just basic unique vehicles like these. If people don’t have a choice they will get them. I know, safety standards and regulations will never make it possible.

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The post directly above mine is key to this line of thinking.

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This was my first truck. 97 midnight blue Z71. Damn, I wish I still had that thing.

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I’ll offer this quote from Don Draper:

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Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It let’s us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved

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None of these cars had anything on the forest green grand am.

260z 280zx 300zx