Oppotunes: Music Videos Featuring Cars You've Owned

"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired) 09/03/2019 at 20:54 • Filed to: there's a special feel in an oldsmobile

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I’ll start - Richard Belzer drives a Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser the mate of my high school ride in this 1985 Mike & the Mechanics video for “Taken In.” Special guest star is Blue Mazda 2's great-great uncle, Blue VW Type II. Anyone else’s prior/current rides immortalized in the peak-MTV-era?

Alfalfa > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:05

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Nothing comes to mind, so I cheated and used Google. Some country singer I’ve never heard of had a generic country song about a Bronco, the one featured in the video is in fact the same gen as mine.

Boxer_4 > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:06

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Oddly enough, though not peak MTV-era :

It’s the Forester, by the way...

TheRevanchist > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:06

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Does this count?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:11

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PatBateman > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:13

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This TOTALLY counts.

someassemblyrequired > Alfalfa 09/03/2019 at 21:22

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Oh man, that is the country song and video some supercomputer would generate if you fed an AI algorithm every country music video since 1987.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:24

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At 2:44 you can see the back of an 85 or 86 Nissan Pulsar NX. My first car. 

someassemblyrequired > Boxer_4 09/03/2019 at 21:25

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“ 9 out of 10 Subarus bought in the 5 years preceding the apocalypse are still on the road.”

someassemblyrequired > TheRevanchist 09/03/2019 at 21:26

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Much respect to all things Geo.

someassemblyrequired > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 09/03/2019 at 21:29

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A neighbor had one , they were nice and menacing .   He replaced it with the next gen one, but didn’t get the Sportbak, sadly.

ranwhenparked > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:36

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say only one or two of my cars have ever been in music videos. At most.

WilliamsSW > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 21:37

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Not music videos, but I owned a close comp of the Skylark convertible in My Cousin Vinnie ( mine was a 65 not a 64 and was a darker green), and the 65 Cutlass in the Mississippi Delta episode of Parts Unknown .

someassemblyrequired > WilliamsSW 09/03/2019 at 21:49

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I toured Dwight Eisenhower’s house over the weekend, and they had a few of his cars in the garage - including a ‘65 Buick Sport Wagon. So Ike liked ‘65 Skylarks.

someassemblyrequired > ranwhenparked 09/03/2019 at 21:54

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Hey don’t you have an 80s town car?   There’s got to be hundreds of 80s videos with one of those in them.

WilliamsSW > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 22:01

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A guy in high school had a Sportwagon - also a 65. Neat car.

And the 65 Skylark had a pretty cool full width taillight treatment for that year only ( and not on the Special either).

ranwhenparked > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 22:07

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I did, sold it last year. Wasn’t there an Aiwa commercial in the ‘90s with one? 

GLiddy > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 22:18

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I looked real hard but couldn’t quite find a music video with my exact car. However, it was in a movie. Remember the bad guy’s car in Joe Dirt?

someassemblyrequired > WilliamsSW 09/03/2019 at 22:19

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Yeah I really liked that look - though I’m sure insurance companies didn’t like fixing it if you got in a fender bender .

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 22:20

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This was mine. I’m not sure about menacing 

someassemblyrequired > ranwhenparked 09/03/2019 at 22:22

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Oh I had forgotten that one, but it’s fantastic:

someassemblyrequired > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 09/03/2019 at 22:27

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Ha yeah, defninitely not the black on black of the neighbor’s car.

WilliamsSW > someassemblyrequired 09/03/2019 at 22:50

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Nah- the taillights were 3 pieces. Left and right were standard tail lights, and I forget whether the center panel was just reflectors or had bulbs. Bulbs I think, but nothing crazy. 

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > someassemblyrequired 09/04/2019 at 06:21

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Maximum 80s:

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > someassemblyrequired 09/04/2019 at 07:46

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I know there’s been 90s Chrysler minivans in quite a few videos. AA-bodies as well. There’s always F250s somewhere in “ country” videos. Not sure what else I’ve owned has been, likely a Buick Century somewhere.

i86hotdogs > someassemblyrequired 09/04/2019 at 12:18

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Doubtful there are any music videos that feature the immortal Transit Connect...

But I did own a Chrysler 300 as my first car

Cut to 1:00 when he trades in a Maybach for a bunch of 300C’s

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Did some googling myself and found a first gen TC in this Offspring video (towards the end of the song)

i86hotdogs > GLiddy 09/04/2019 at 12:24

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The bad guy played by Kid Rock?! Heck yeah!

GLiddy > i86hotdogs 09/04/2019 at 17:38

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How could I forget that it was Kid Rock?  That makes it a music video right there...