Also in the ‘80s, middle aged men used to go about their days doing the Clint Eastwood cringe at the sight of rockers dressed like chicks, mullets, Michael Jackson, little rectangular cars that looked like electric shavers, and other stuff.

Those men used to go home, retreat to their basement bars or garages, turn on some Sinatra or Elvis, and reminisce about a time when men were strong but classy, when society had a sense of decency, when cars were big and American and colorful with chrome, and so on.

It was an amazing time to see indeed, even as a malcontent punk rocker latch key kid. Or especially because of it.

Who played last night? I dont know, I forgot, but diving off the stage was a lot of fun.........

Always usually says a lot more about the interpreter than the writer.

From what my millennial brain was capable of gleaning froma way too fucking long OP, all I gotta say is

Don't be jealous, bro... and you're wrong. I'm not old until the end of the year.

Gettin a head start I take it.

I can’t wait to see what my generation destroys next

I had so much fun with that thing...

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Magic Johnson is still alive..........WTF?

Hell yes.  Good times.  Though I spent most of my free time in the clubs  on the outskirts of K strassa.  Saw some amazing shit  there and met some wild women.

That is awesome!

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As sophomores in High School, you and your shitty band could play a matinee show at CBGB’s and warm up for the Butthole Surfers.

No YouTube or Instagram fame.  Not even American Idol.  But in that tiny scene....

I was in third grade in 1976.  Most of what I remember from that year was red, white, and blue...and that bicentennial logo.

Huh.   Not the way I remember it.

I have a bicentennial frisbee in a box somewhere. It has this logo as I recall:

DR    since wrong.   Try 50s.

That's the one!

Back to the '80s:

The Fast and the Furious vibe will probably be one of the big ones.

For one, the cars and the style were very cool for the time, and that series is (somehow) still afloat so the kids will have some sort of connection to it when they seek out the original movies and the associated styles in them.

The original is still one of my all time favorite nostalgic movies, it came out at exactly the right time, captured it, and I was a young man and thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

The actual popular car in the first movie was the Charger.
That's why they started loading up every sequel with muscle cars.
Nobody cared about the rest of those garbage imports.

People my age did. It seemed like everyone in college around that time had a civic with a body kit and a fart can on it. Some of the guys with rich parents had and Evo or WRX (also usually with a body kit and an exhaust)

They were very common, can't say as I am sad to to see that fad die.

I had a '90 Plymouth Laser RS turbo (restickered FWD Eclipse) and those stupid things would not leave me alone.  Black car, stock exhaust (had a wing but thankfully someone stole it off the car before I bought it) so they didn't really know what I had for sure... everybody wanted to run against me.

It was ant vs boot

Old man yells at cloud.

When people think of F&F, they don't think of '60s muscle cars. THE star car of the original F&F movie was Paul Walker's MkIV Supra. That's not even debatable. What is also not debatable is how popular modified imports became. You couldn't drive anywhere without seeing a modified (usually badly) Japanese car with a spoiler, body kit, fart can, and 87 decals. The "damn kids these days" rants about those cars were never-ending.

Look at the prices of MkIV Supras or other cars from that scene like 240SXs, Lancer Evos, WRXs, and RX7s, and compare them to other cars of their time. People love those cars.

I don't play racing games much, but when I do the Civic is usually one of the first ones I go for, and I eventually try to get an Evo with every mod. (provided they are offered in that game anyway).

I really should buy a copy of NFSU2 for my PS3, Gran Turismo is great, but it's a little too realistic for casual play.

In the 1980s, no one would have cared about any of that.

We were too busy kicking ass, partying and being AWESOME to wallow in trivial discussions about such nonsense.

You guys liked your funny looking cars in the 80's too.

80’s music sucks.

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I was born in the middle 60's, grew up in the 70's and high school at the beginning of the 80's. The 80's were awesome.

G. H. W. Bush was not Reagan's choice for V.P. but the party told him take him or kiss the nomination goodbye.  Then within two years there was an assassination attempt on Reagan. Luckily for us, he survived.  Reagan spent a lot of money, but wanted the best for all Americans.

G. H. W. Bush rejected health care prevention and ushered in the deep state. When the economy hit a wall, his popularity dropped and so Bubba got the presidency.  The legislation that couldn't be passed under Bush were passed under Bubba. This includes repeal of the Glass Steagall (which removed the distinction between investment banks and saving banks) as well as outsourcing of American middle class production jobs (NAFTA).  Mind you, the first crack in the door for middle class jobs began with H1B under Reagan.

Under Bubba lot of of Americans became former middle class as their jobs went overseas.  Silicon Valley wasn't making boards and that went overseas.  So did a lot of other industry.  In the early '90s, I met more and more former six figure middle class who were now penniless and homeless.  It only accelerated during Bubba's reign as more and more jobs fled overseas as we "transitioned" to a service economy.  I knew it meant trouble since service workers made a lot less than middle class production jobs.  After the DotCom bubble burst, to compensate for the loss of revenue, we got the Greenspan Put that caused housing prices to rise.  Along with easy credit, we got the illusion of wealth.

It came to a crashing halt under Dubya.  While not his fault, many lost their homes as the housing bubble burst.  We got TARP and ate a big sh*t sammich as the big banks/brokerage houses got bailed out at our expense.  We also got QE under Osama Ben BerNank that began the decline of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.  Chinese responded by dumping Treasury Bonds (long term) for Treasury Bills (short term).  Thus Operation Twist where the Fed Res bought up the unwanted bonds to sustain the value/demand for them.

Under BathHouse Barry, the popping bubbles were patched and reinflated. Houses that were foreclosed on were kept off the market to sustain the prices of those on the market.  The bubble began to be reinflated.  Subprime refired up and extended to auto sales (which allows for quick sales today instead of future sales which are more secured).  All the QE has resulted in the dollar being discarded more frequently.  Many nations don't use the dollar when they trade among themselves.  China doesn't when it trades with Europe, England, Canada and Australia.  Even the ECB is talking about bypassing the dollar when it comes to trade now.  China asked that the Yuan become part of the IMF's basket of currency that constitutes the SDR.  IMF said, f*ck you China and China threw a tantrum by dumping a lot of Treasuries on the market.  China asked again and the IMF agreed this time.  The dollar is going to lose its world's reserve status.

The sage continues under Trump (he inherited a sh*t stew from his predecessors) and we get a lot of B. S. about how healthy the economy is.  It's makeup on a pig and when the curtain drops, we will all be in a fecal stew.  Trump is doing what he can (by continuing the practice of manipulating statistics) to keep it going.  The gift of time allows for individuals to take mitigation measures.

The '80s were the best.  It was a time of Pax Americana which we've been squandering away through the flight of wealth (outsourcing for offshore profits) and endless wars (thanks Dubya & Bathhouse Barry).

Nomi Prins' All the Presidents' Bankers is a good read on the subject as is Karl Denninger's Leverage.

I just got cold chills watching that trailer again. That movie had everyone scared shitless. I have a copy on DVD

Then explain why they pack every one of the sequels with real muscle cars.

20 years from now nobody is going to be restoring their shitty WRX or RX7...

Most of the sequels aren't car movies, they are over the top action movies.

Tokyo Drift was the next best movie in the franchise, also a car movie.

20 years?

People are restoring stuff like that now.

Here are a bunch of restorations on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rx7+restoration

And the ones that don't need restoration are going for big money. Here's a '94 RX-7 that went for $50k:



People are also spending big money for legally imported Nissan Skylines from the early '90s.

Garth Brooks killed the 80's

Change my mind

Nirvana killed the 80s.

Change my mind.

Nirvana had a bigger impact on fashion than music.

Change my mind

at least they killed all those crazy neon bright colors from the 80's

4th of July bottle rocket wars - cut the end off a Wiffel Bat & you have a miniature LAW rocket to shoot at your friends...

Lol really? That must be why they sell 87 varieties of F&F Charger toys (that my kid is begging me to buy) along with plenty of other American iron.

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There's definitely a slant in F&F marketing and it ain't to the import side.
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Go to a bar Saturday night. Get 7 sets of phone numbers. Get 7 different wimmins for the next 7 days.
Without tinder and all that crap.

I can believe it.

Gonorrhea rate by year

I knew a guy that died of AIDS in 1981.

Yeah, I watched it live.

No..........that was the 60's and early 70's.

My 1982 GPz750 speedo only went up to 85.

My 1983 R80G/S P-D speedo only went up to 85.

I rode at 85mph regularly. Maybe I went faster. I couldn't tell.

No, the 1980s killed Garth Brooks.

He reacted by putting out a punk/new wave album, which turned him into a laughingstock.

Horrible farm crisis and massive layoffs down at the factory. That was pretty much the 80s in the midwest.