Is the 70's/80's the next craze? Where were you in 84?

On April 12, 1984 My wife at the time (and the mother of my 2 sons) Died in my arms. I had a 1970 Torino Type NW in basic Grabber Green. 351 Cleaveland 4 speed car. Later that year (In September) I met the lady I am now married to for almost 22 years. I traded the Torino for a Chevy Pickup since we moved into a house on 2 acres and it was a fixer upper. Been here every since.

 

In 1984 my Dad sold our 1964 1/2 Mustang and got a 1968 Dodge Coronet R/T. I was young and dumb. I remember my Dad talking about muscle cars and I had no clue what they were. I thought the Mustang was cooler than the Dodge, that was until we drove it! I've still got the car, completely restored. I lost my Dad in 1996, but the car is my connection to him. Everytime I drive it, he's still right next to me.

 

oh wow i was just being born, haha

 

84...I was driving my low 60 Cadillac with moon discs, riding my rigid shovelhead chopper all over creation, chasing girls, and...oh yeah lots of illicit drugs! Let's see..what's changed. Got rid of the shovel, now have knuckle, chief, and late bagger to ride. Got married, (tried that in the 80's too...didn't take). I've cooled it on the drugs, (not counting prescription reefer...gotta love it). The one thing still here from the 80's is the Caddie, and she still looks the same...a little more wear and tear. And I don't think I'll find myself behind bars again for the rest of my life. That outlaw shit gets outa hand.
Just glad I made it.

 

1984....HMMMMM I was in the California Youth Authority Sylmar facility for steealing one of these:

 

Other than crusing the town in my 55 Olds,

I was using this as a daily driver:

1971 Ford Maverick, auto/302
Im sorry I ever sold it

 

Here's a picture of me back in the '80's
When I wasn't wrenching on this '47 Ford truck...I was reading the old manuals.

Don't miss it one bit!

 

Let's see, in 1984 I was seven so probably down in the basement building a model car. My parents didn't trust me with glue

 

Miss what, the truck or the mullet?? Easy now, I had one too... and I don't mean the truck.

 

I was probably riding around on my tony Alva skateboard wearing my vans on venice beach and santa monica pier, watching the break dancers, graffiti artists and wierdos all while listening to Suicidal Tendencies, Iron Maiden, or Metallica. If i wasn't doing that or playing with my GI joes and Thunder cats, or drawing, I would have been watching my cool uncle work on his 64 impala or 67 cougar or 56 cameo, with the gears just starting to turn in my head...

 

I was almost 14 this time in 84...Drove a brand new vette (my dads budy) I was amazed. I wanted a small block vega wagon with big fckn tires and dual quads...(I read alot of carcraft) Rode a GT bmx in colorado springs...

got the the vega wagon now (another project)...
As I recal that seems to be a transitional year...things started to go more modern. I think fender flares and fat tires will come back...just to be different.

 

In 84 I was 24 ....by then I,d been with my girlfriend for 4 years.We are still together and married after all these years. I drove mainly Chevelles in my younger days and picked her up in a 68 2 door hdtp.This Chevelle is the one I had in 84.About a year after this was taken I put it sideways into a curb at about 60 mph.The car is no more....

 

Drinking beer, hot rodding pick-ups i had a 74 Ford PU, 67 Chevy PU and had a firend that i help build an altered with a BB chevy. DaMMIt now i'm crying cause i mis those days. ALl MY money then went to what ever the hell i wanted it too, which was beer gas and motor parts.

 

20year old workin my way thru college as a half assed mechanic at an import shop. Had a V8 Vega wagon that was not quite legal so I had a buddy at Green Light (remember the auto parts store) give me an inspection sticker and pulled the plates off my daily driver malibu. Used to have my parents Texaco card for gas an little did they know I charged more beer on it than gas.... ah to be young and full of it again.

 

I was just given a pile of Autobuff Magazines from the era. Bad Graphics, too wide tires and blue mascara. Lots O'naturel boobies to boot. I like today more...............

 

I'm with you Trent---today's a lot better....

84, I was 27 , in the middle of a divorce and 2 years into house payments and self employment. My 39 Chevy sedan was the first thing to go(after the wife)--all that was left for fun was a rusty 914 Porsche and a wrecked 74 Corvette--both projects. My shop truck was a slammed and spot-primed 75 Chevy long bed with Moon discs....in the days when pro-street was king. I was about the only person around here with something that would drag the crossmember ---maybe I was a trendsetter

The 80s were littered with bad trends like ground effects, pastel colors and directional wheels.......

Today IS better--sorry

 

Amen brutha

 

I was 10 and my cars were, Mike McGills, Caballeros, and Chris Millers an d Rob Roskopps!

 

Interesting insight and photos. I was 2, so its a little fuzzy to me.

 

70s is already here. not in the hot rod scene but the retro muscle scene is peaking. poly-glass raised white letters, redlines, shaker hoods. the fact that they come out with a dukes of hazard movie and remix versions of old cars is pretty much indicative of this.......

 

I was 11 and reading Hot Rod, which is funny as I just renewed my subscription to them last year as they seem to have better content again.
I seem to remeber a certain orange Road Runner or GTX that was lifted all around and had wide Mickey Thompsons on the back and Cragars or some kind of mags with a supercharger sticking thru the hood.
I loved it then and even though it is out of style now I would probably still love it. It was part of the whole garish style but well done, chrome wasn't overdone and the interior wasn't all crazy. Come to think of it it was probably a transition to the Pro-Street look, some show mixed with gasser style.
Some things can come back but I hope most of the crap stays back where it belongs, in someones magazine collection in there basement.

 

I remeber someone asking once on here where did all the Centerline and other aluminum wheels from the 80's go.... Well I believe most were probably recycled but I know I seen a lot of them when I went to Mexico last year

 

Where were you in 84?

2 years out of high school, trying to race a stock car on a shoestring.

those were the days....

 

I spent most of 1984 floating around the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf on a destroyer. Had a 67 Mustang big block sitting in storage.

 

I 84 I was just a few years short of my FIRST retirement, tryin to figure out what to do next.
Retired the second time.
Now I play.
Building something I would have in the early 60's and something else that I never would have imagined until just recently.
I haven't seen anything close to either of them.

 

Well, that was probably in when I had a couple bikes that the neighbors put out for junk day. Somewhere in that time one neighbor tossed out a Model A steel hood with the world's ugliest-assed tin scoop cut into it. I also had a Radio Flyer wagon, which I still have. When the bed cracked it got repaired with the tray out of a junk toolbox...

Also had probably 100 model cars by then... the stuff I wrecked... yikes!

Oh yeah, I was like 10 -

 

Hmm, 1984 - I graduated from High school, got a 73 Duster for graduation. Keystone classics and air shocks! Didn't get any better. This was an addition to the other cars I already had-- 68 Roadrunner, 72 Demon, 70 Dodge big block 4 speed pickup, and my daily driver - an orange 73 PINTO!!!! Later that year I bought my first 68 Dart GT. All those cars we pretty well worthless in those days. Wish I had them all back now!!!!

After graduation I went to Lincoln Tech in Indy. Barely survived that year - country boy in the big city -- you know how it is.

I really hope the 70's and 80's don't make a come back. Once was enough for me.

 

Oh Man, '84!! What a year, just divorced from my first ex-wife, living at the "Ghetto", an old trucking firm shop, with 4 offices in the front, which we turned into bedrooms, a '75 Vette, '72 Harley FLH, my two best buds, Ross and BM for roomies, hot and cold running wimmin'!! Life was so-o-o-o good, and I didn't even realize it.

 

In 84' I was 36 and the general manager for the shrerer enterprises and pres of the okla runaways car club and driving a 32 ford cabriolet highboy with a 427 cheby in it as a daily driver and the old 57 vette in the garage and still with wifey number 1........ahhhhhhh love them shiney highboys ..