I grew up in the 80's, so these are the cars I know. These are the cars that I feel a connection with. And these are the cars i want to own and drive. I know modern vehicles are supposed to be safer and more efficient. And 60's cars had better build quality and more power. But cars from the late 70's and 80's are the ones i saw on the streets and rode in as a kid. And they're my favorites
Totally agree. That’s why I own several 80s classics. They are old enough to have character, yet still modern and comfortable enough for today’s commuting (well, once a week).
Full size & midsize rear wheel drive ordinary passenger from Oldsmobile and Buick from the 80's are not too expensive to own and easy to find parts for. It's the muscle & hot rod cars which cost a fortune.
In November of 1984 I bought a new car, in the form of an Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale. It was a miserable car. Conversely I ordered an 89 Mercury Grand Marquis LS sedan that was the complete opposite of the Olds. The Olds collected 42 work orders in 48,000 kilometers and 18 months. In the same time and mileage the Mercury had 1 work order for a repair versus the Oldsmobile.
I remember all of these car commercials, I especially liked the ones with Ricardo & his fine Corinthian Leather!!! Thanks guys for sharing another fun video!!! 👍👍🙂
They weighed way less due to lack of safety features and even though they had emissions controls, they still had way less emissions equipment than modern cars which allowed for better MPG. Also the EPA MPG testing standards were different (supposedly less accurate but who knows) than they are today.
Mainly they were smaller and lighter. 95 Civic EX Sedan weighed 2500 lbs, modern Civic EX sedan weighs 3000 lbs. Reason is a mixture of safety requirements and consumer desiring luxury. For safety, roll over concerns meant the pillars have gotten a lot beefier, the rest of the frame has also gotten a lot stronger. As for luxury the premium speakers, electronic adjustable seats, seat heaters, infotainment, extra sound deadening, all adds up. Also the size adds up as well, people tend to desire a bigger vehicle which rides higher, meaning bigger wheels and bigger tires and a bigger engine to move the vehicle, which adds a lot of weight.
@@weegeemike Emissions equipment is a catalytic converter and a crankcase ventilation system. Catalytic converters have been a thing since the mid 70s so that hasn't changed. Crankcase ventilation systems have been around since the 60s, used to be desired for more horsepower than less emissions and well that too weighs very little, maybe 2 lbs at most. All other emissions control is done by the ECU adjusting AFR and timings, ECU is a circuit board that weighs nothing.
@@PURENT You mean more government added bull. Now people feel so save driving they dont pay attention... If fuel economy isnt better then what is the point? I would rather drive my '77 cars than the new POS ones.
I started college in 1981 (BS Aero Engineering). I didn’t have a tv in my apartment, so I never saw any of these commercials. But they still take me back to a simpler time. Thanks Boca Brothers!!!
Make NO mistake, it was Chrysler's 5 year/50,000 mile Protection Plan (eventually upped to 7/70) that SOLD those K-cars! Still a BETTER no-cost plan than what's offered on American cars EVEN TODAY!
@@sengle928 So...your point is why bother having great (long-term) warrantees today because cars last longer? Have you bought ANY new American vehicles that made it to 100K miles without issues? I haven't
Nice video. Greetings from México. I really enjoy watching your videos. I prefer old cars 70's,80's & 90's. Not the fuel injections. Olds delta 88, Ford chateau, Chevy laguna,Ford Galaxy wagon, Ford f-150 & Ford granada.
Nice ending....Yugo....never owned one, drove many. Had a few Chrysler products from the 80s. Most were actually pretty good, in the later part of the decade. My first one, 1981 Dodge Omni 024....didn't run in the rain. Genius engineers not covering the distributor cap from road splash. They figured it out by 1985 as it didn't happen to my Dodge Lancer. haha. Cool video!
shyt. chrysler had that problem with the 225 slant six in 1963. the distributor was under the engine and next to the passenger tire and would get water under the cap whenever it rained. i didn't know they had the same problem in the 80's. SMH
I miss the 80's and 90's commercials; although I was born in '85; that and the brochures were the best. Now everything is saturated w/social media influencers. Thank God for motorweek still. R. I. P. Pat Goss🙏🕊️
i miss my old 87 IROC! bought it new in Dallas, TX back then, but had to drive it back to OK next morning like 40mph, cus of a huge ice and and snow storm that hit the area. between N Texas, and OK. was nerve racking driving it home in that mess. but made it home safe, and once the snow melted, it was IROC time! interestingly at the time, a neighbor up the street and his sister got new muscle cars as well. they turned out to be the Silkwood kids. they had just got a settlement from that Kerr McGee thing, and the son got a new Gran National, and his sister got a new Trans AM. i heard she wrecked it like 2 weeks after getting it, she was fine though. but the son, he took really good care of that Gran National. we were all in our early 20s at the time. good times! ☮
They're a great latter day classic. But I will always think of Brad Hamilton's big blue Buick sedan, or a 1970 Electra 225 sedan with a 455 when I think of Buick.
look at the size of the ashtray on Lido's boardroom table! that's why 80s rides needed big ash recepticles or drawers in many cases =D still the era where we wanted everything squared off before the rounded jellybeans came the decade after
born in 1985 so I def remember some of these particularly the Caprice Classic my uncle Rico drove a 1984 and gave it to my dad when he downsized to a Honda Accord dad drove the Caprice until 2000 and bought a used 1990 Volvo 760 for 200 bucks
The much maligned AMC, in my opinion, made some totally maintainable cars that were not as bad as the reputation. On a number of occasions, I drove a ~1970 Ambassador and found it to be quirky but nice. Spongy brakes, power steering with no road feel; these are not things to hate, just things to know how to work with.
Back in the 80's I lived in a part of the country where it snowed, so we would see a lot of unusual cars like Eagle 4X4s, Suzuki Samurais, and Subaru XTs.
I was 18 in 1980 and living in San Francisco. Did not maje the kind of money to aford the new cars so my father would buy used ones from the 70s for me to drive (my first car was a Mercury Comet followed by an MG MGB roaster and then a Renault 5. He finally bought me a Plymouth Reliant K that had a Mitsubishi 2.4L Hemi, and in 1991 I FINALLY purchased an used 1989 Ford Taurus GL in 1991).
Cars in the 80s were fun and interesting. Now everyone has SUVs and pickups, all the same shoebox on wheels grocery getter just packaged slightly different.
I agree that all the cars look the same now. All plastic crossovers with 4-bangers. But 95% of these cars from 80's absolutely sucked. Car makers hadn't yet caught up with safety and emissions requirements, and the quality was abominable. Even the paints and clearcoats only lasted a few years at best. However there were a few gems, like my '84 500SEL, but I'm biased.
@@westhavenor9513 my uncle had an ‘85(?) 500SEL. You’re right, that was a beauty. I’m one that happened to like the cars of the 80s. Maybe they weren’t the best built but imo they were more interesting than some RAV4 or Ford Escape that are practically litter on the highway now.
they caught our attention because of quality of materials and no computer works in graphics . everything was natural . human were still human . generation were the best . man is man and woman is woman . no rubbish.
Ahhh good cloth interiors. They stood up well to use, were comfortable and easy to care. Newer cars with faux leather type interiors may look more classy but are less comfortable and easier to wear out as well as harder to keep clean. Real leather though is the appropriate exception.
These cars got great gas mileage especially for their day and better gas mileage than a lot of cars to you now. But I doubt that it's because they weighed less. They're just engineer nowadays to get lesser MPG. I have some examples from personal experience. Today I still on a 1983 and 1984 Dodge 604 Tracy upscale version supposedly of the LeBaron. Maybe 30 mi to the gallon on the highway but not 40 as they were advertising. But that was probably with the smallest itty-bitty engine that they could find. Just like that Ford commercial where is a standard engine was a fuel injected inline 6. I guarantee you that was no inline-6 underneath that hood pulling a couple of trucks and whole another one. And by the way they reinforce that Ford truck so cohol the Chevy. I also still on I think it's a 1986, I believe, Le Baron station wagon. That car had left my garage and probably close to 8 years. It's a cream puff. But it got well into the thirties on the highway. These cars do not appear to be that like. All the Dodge 600's both of them at 2.6 Mitsubishi engines very powerful four-cylinders but very complicated. Also prone to the heads cracking. The Chevy celebrity that I had to put 100,000 mi on it. So when I sold it at over 300,000 mi on it. The next guy also put 100,000 mi on it. So did his son. His son sold it and it was still running. A V6 and I got around 30 miles to the gallon for real. It was a heavy little car. But then I'll get about 25 miles a gallon back in the day with a 1967 4 door belair sedan. I wasn't driving back in nineteen sixty-seven car was around twenty years old when I was driving it. That is no light part. It was not uncommon to get around 25 miles a gallon with a little 283 V-8 and get round 22 miles a gallon with a 235 6 cylinder. That's all from experience. And my dad switched over to little Toyotas and some of them early on for heavy. I drove a BMW for awhile and it got 35 miles a gallon gasoline. And it was the old locomotive BMW, as they were nicknamed. Cars today as they were quite often are just engineering to get lower gas mileage than they should.
I had two Fleetwood Brougham Coupes in the 1980s, and I traded the second one in on a piece of sh!t Licks-ass. I cried for a year. I recently found an almost pristine 1983 Fleetwood Brougham Coupe for sale, so I bought it and love it. I’ll put it up against any piece of crap Licks-ass any day.
I was a big Chryco (Mopar) fan in the 80's and 90's. I owned 1 1984 Dodge Shelby Charger and bought 2 Daytonas, one a more base Turbo CS, and then one I always loved the Daytona Shelby Z. Sadly Chryco is not the same company. It's now just a bit part of the ugh Frenchie/Italian conglomerate Stelantis.😢
A friend had a '72 with 8" hydraulic cylinders on the front. "13/7 Luxors and leaving a store it just stalled out. My other buddy and i had to push it probly 3/4 of a mile down a side rd to the driveway or parking lot technically.
My dad had a late 80s Lincoln town car- rode like a cloud- quiet and roomy- the 302 was lacking power but that car lasted him 15 yrs w only minor issues until he traded it on a caddy- I drove the town car and loved the comfort and style- i also like the Chevy Caprice - I think those cars were more smooth and comfortable that most cars today. My Dads Fav car was a burgundy 88 Cougar w the V8 plush interior- sporty and pretty quick for its time- i loved the body style and it had a million buttons on the dash and stereo- he never did figure out what they all did LOL - now every car looks like an egg - no style at all
Cars in the 80's..looked crappy , drove crappy, didnt last,. It was the beginning of the direction of cars today...cheap,crappy,...get in a head on colission with a squirell- and lose
I beg to differ anything Chrysler made that was on the K car platform was junk crappy ass little Mitsubishi motors under powered and there’s no possible way those things were getting 44 miles a gallon maybe Honda Toyota but not Chrysler
@@shyviking No one will ever say the 2020s were the good ole days. The world has changed for the worse in the last four years. We can only hope and pray the second half of this decade can overcome the first half.
The 1977-1990 GM B-Body platform is the best. The Caprice Classic, Impala, Delta 88, Parisienne, Electra are awesome cars. I also love the Chevette. Perfect little car for running around town. The Camaro IROC is just cool. And who doesn't love a Pontiac Firebird? The 80's were great. Great cars, great music, great movies. What a great time to grow up
Having one platform that does multiple jobs in multiple styles, made the available choices a lot more interesting. Could get a wagon, a sedan, a 2+2 coupe, or a 2+2 convertible all out of one platform. Now the consumer gets one platform which is built into an ugly front wheel drive SUV-like thing.
The 80’s cars sucked! The Olds 88 were weak especially their transmissions. The Chevettes were pitiful. The US car companies made it easy for the Japanese.
My younger brother bought a Yugo. I swear the car felt inside like it was constructed from pressed cardboard! The 'heater' only ran when the car was moving. Not fun during a Minnesota winter. I remember the car lasted maybe 9 months before it completely blew up.🤪😬🥴
As a teen, I worked at a full service gas station and when the Yugo's came out, me and the other attendent would literally draw straws, the loser took care of the "literally poor" driver of the "poor car" We had a million jokes about Yugo's back then. The only 2 cars we didn't want to fuel up were Yugo's and Renault LeCar's. Even standing next to one was embarrassing. I remember, one of the best cars I ever had the honor and privilege of fueling up...an absolutely beautiful bright red 1959 Cadillac Coupe Deville. I was almost afraid to touch it!
@@rogergoodman8665 Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark drove a Renault Le Car, there's CBC archive footage of him unable to start it in front of the Peace Tower...I also pumped gas as a teen.
@@rogergoodman8665 I was at Cadillac show, a few weeks ago. A red 58 Eldorado was, hands down, the star of the show. It had a gold badge package. The owner said he thought it was a $25 option. The more I looked at it, the more I fell in ❤️. There was a 93 Allante, with the window sticker displayed- 63K. Woweser, that was a lot of beans in 93.
I remember working at a gaS STATION IN THE 80’S. EVERY JAPANESE VEHICLE THAT CAME IN HAD ROT AROUND THE GAS FILLER. ONE GUIYS GAS TANK WAS BEING HELD UP BY A COAT HANGER. WHAT JUNK. THEY HAVEN’T CHANGED MUCH
This video was quite good and comprehensive. Good introduction. I know it took work to locate and find all those commercials. Thank you for a great job again. You really covered many car brands as well.
Lee Iaccoca was one of my business role models in mgt for 30 years. Organizational skills, assessing mgt talent he was formidable. Reading his biography at 18 years old changed my future.
@@cherkas009 I've always been a car guy, love American muscle cars. The K-cars weren't my thing, but for the time they were what the market wanted. And they saved Chrysler, that's what mattered.
Back then Regan was president and patriotism was back. These car commercials reflected that pride, not like today. Today its a guilt trip trip your buying a new car and want to take your family on a road trip...
I hope people are noticing the MPG figures on some of these cars, like the LeBaron with 44MPG highway. Thanks to Uncle Sam, we are burdened by so many stupid and unconstitutional rules that we cannot have not afford simple automobiles anymore.
I think the Malaise Era began mitigating in 1982 with the return of the Mustang 5.0. The engines seemed to start becoming more powerful again as the mid 80s approached. There were great things in the 80s all over.
My 1st Cadillac was the 1986 Fleetwood Brougham. Still my favorite Caddy, even though it was Gutless. Too bad the Video, only showed it with the Cheap Seats
Funny, in the 80's I was looking at cars from the 60's and 70's. All these cars were "new" to me so I had no interest at all. Great video tho, wish I was back there.
I owned a 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham with the Olds 307. More powerful than my 1984 Deville with the little HT4100 power plant. Had that car till 191k, traded it on a 98 Grand Marquis.
The Chevette should have gotten the best gas mileage most were sitting around broke down 😂😂😂 what's funny is the Yugo was made fun of so bad and I still see them on the road 😂
