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Originally posted by oldE
I can understand why everyone has blocked out the turbo Dodges that seemed to be around in the early 80s. I remember writing a letter to Automobile Magazine saying "Shelby's Dodges remind me of a number of otherwise forgettable women, painted up and taught the tricks of the trade. Try one and you might have the ride of your life, but I can't imaging a long-term relationship with any of them" Ah well, my 15 seconds of fame.
Les
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Excellent!!
I was in H.S. 78-82. Our interest was 60-early 70's muscle cars. We scraped our money together to get them running and keep them going. My group of friends was mostly Mopar(Dodge ,Plymouth) fanatics. I had a fiat Spyder convertible too, figured that would get me the babes!
From the mid eighties on, I guess the car craze wore off with kids, there just wasnt anything out there, plus I think it got to the point where kids didnt want to get thier hands or designer clothes dirty!
Seems like there was a 10 yr period of no car interest until the" ricer" craze started. My business got real slow except with my old customers that still raced. The 80's sucked as far as cars. Like Billy Pilgram said, that was the time of dreaming of exotic foriegn cars. Personaly I think the car that started getting teens into cars again was the Mustang 5.0, fast car, cheap to hop up. Stangs where a huge and still to a small extent a major sight in my shop.
Then along came the ricers!
