Old-fashioned, documentary-esque videos covering the fine automobiles we all know and love from the '80s and '90s- presented to you by a car-crazed aficionado.
In 1987, I had the good fortune to buy a white, Heritage edition, with every option, including the removable sunroof. I had the 255 (4.2) V8.. It was quite gutless, though very smooth.. It had a very decent functioning, vacuum operated "automatic temperature control" system. I loved that car. I eventually swapped the 255 for a 5.0 HO Mustang GT motor, and shift kit in the AOD. Complete with the shorty headers and quad cat "H" pipe, after I got a trusty "Double hump" cross member.. My own, poor man's Lincoln MK 7 LSC. I even had those "Turbine" wheels too.. Thanks for sharing Pal...
I own a 1998 Acura RL that i bought off a co worker and i drove it for 4yrs until the transmission went out it's parked in my driveway working on finding a transmission for the car love the cloud ride and handling.
i have one of these. its an 88 hatchback. one of the last 100 to roll off the assembly line. the hatchback never had the twin cam sadly. it came with the 4alc engine{1.6L, 8valve single cam, as far as i know they were all carborated}. its my project car now. racing coil overs, engine swapped to a 4afe 16V twin cam, ported and polished head, stainless steel 4-2-1 header, custom made body kit (kind of), and a much more to come like a super charger and a 5spd trans. 80s cars are the new 60s and 70s cars!!! ill always love the square 80s sh!tbox cars!
I can’t find where to put my air conditioner refrigerant in. I have a 1998 they are two different places that might go but they don’t fit the nozzle and it does take R134 A so I don’t understand where the heck goes in.
The Taurus 3.5 also had an internal waterpump whereas the five hundred did not and that caused major issues for the Taurus. The Taurus x/freestyle also became the Flex! Which I love 🫶🏼
Coming from a 1986 Nissan Maxima SE 5 speed, I test drove a 1991 Lexus ES 250 5 speed. Lexus wanted to sell them badly and they offered a goody bag just to come in and test drive one. 2 things I remember from the test drive: it felt much slower than my Maxima. It was so much larger inside than I expected. Later that year, I Test drove an Acura Vigor, Honda Accord, Infiniti M30 and Nissan Maxima. It was close between the Acura and Nissan, but in the end horsepower won. I ended up buying a loaded 1992 Nissan Maxima SE. In hindsight, I should have bought a 1992 Lexus ES 300 or perhaps an Acura Legend.
Five Hundred, in letters, lands like concrete bricks with *none* of the cachet or 'visual rhythm' of long-ago Galaxie 500 or Fairlane 500, the 500 in numbers following a car-line name.
You've heard this from me before: your voice and speech qualities are superb! (Well suited to auto history tales) May I ask where you grew up? A 🇨🇦Canadian, I'd love to pinpoint your great accent.
Sad about Tracers. I had a Gen-1 Tracer (1988) and loved it! (I wish you had included Gen-1 in this post.) It was, yes, an upgraded Mazda - but VERY upgraded, a truly classy little car.
This is an awesome video! I love the nissan xterra. Currently own 2 first generation xterras. One is a silver and black 2000 se automatic v6 with 240k miles its my daily driver. The other is a 2002 silver se supercharged automatic 4wd with 150k miles that I'm modifying for outdoor trips with the family. These trucks are amazing, reliable, capable, easy to work on. I highly recommend picking up a used one if you want a truck you can easily modify and have fun with. I picked both of them up used for great prices even thinking of getting a third to have a manual 4wd.
We own a 06 SEL and love it I wouldn’t buy anything but a Ford and I’m a retired mechanic of 25 years they’re very economical and cheap for parts and most parts stores have the parts in stock for them well most parts
Thank you very much for this wonderful video. Beautiful cars, the pinnacle of beautiful design, creativity and sincerity. Cars that you will never forget. They are gone and will not return
I still wish I could have done something about our old Impala before it got sold for parts. I have been feeling bad for doing nothing about it for over 7 years now.
I bought a very gently used 1995 SE manual from my grandparents who literally drove it to church, the supermarket and back. I loved the low end power on it. I could take any right turn in a residential setting at 10 mph in 3rd gear and have instant acceleration out of the turn. I only sold it when I found out I had missed the deadline for the wiring harness recall.
I have a 96 RL, JUST like the white / gray one in the video and LOVE it. I bought it with 123K miles and now has 130K. It's got a nasty fuel leak somewhere that'll be fixed soon, but it'll gobble up the highway miles effortlessly.
I have a 2004 Impa; a 3400 engine h w120K. I overheated it and no my mechanic is relplacing the head gaskets. My fault not the cars. I” m hoping to get anymore miles out of it. I love the 2oo4 Impala.
I miss mine...it was always fun taking it to 150 mph down the skyway bridge and sometimes on I75 shocking a corvette driver at 120, him looking over saying wtf is that thing💪🤣
I work in retail, at night like 1am literally no one on road on a Tuesday. The Howard Franklin or Gandy was my favorite. One night there I ripped the whole air deck off the bottom at high speed unfortunately, and kinda took it easy on it after that, 😂
I owned a 1997 Regal LS for 12 years. It was a great car especially with the 3800 series 2 V6. Now I own a 2005 buick Century Special Edition. It only has 75xxx miles.
I just had a new transmission in my 2003 that also has the 3800 engine in it. There is no body damage or paint damage or interior damage to it. It run perfect as my daily driver.
I had a 98 and oh do I miss it. Drove like your typical land yacht, with extra pep and decent but numb handling. And I had a wired phone in the glovebox.
I am a fan of the 1st-generation Impulse, because of its T-body origins in the Brazilian Chevrolet Chevette that was used as the launchpad for our own (U.S.) Chevette.
