Not sure if this has been posted yet

"TheJWT" (thejwt)
07/24/2018 at 18:29 • Filed to: None

But that looks an awful lot like a Yenko Camaro in the Stranger things trailer. I also see an F-Body and a 924...

DISCUSSION (15)

CaptDale - is secretly British > TheJWT
07/24/2018 at 18:39

An d a Corvair

Censored > TheJWT
07/24/2018 at 18:40

I’ll take row 4, couple of camaros, a Scottsdale and most importantly, cor-freakin-vair.

lone_liberal > TheJWT
07/24/2018 at 18:47

And a Jeep of some sort over on the left, and a light blue late 50s car of some sort on the right. In reality you would have seen a sea of Cutlasses and other mid-to-late 70s Detroit cars in the midwest back then and not nearly the number of Hondas or pickups that you’d think.

fintail > TheJWT
07/24/2018 at 18:54

Studebaker Hawk GT next to the 924. F-Body looks like it has a CHMSL.

I was 8 in the roughly 1985 (?) when this takes place, I don’t recall so many 50s-60s cars still around in nice condition , even out west. Lots of domestic malaise stuff then, and on the west coast anyway, quite a few Japanese makes.

f86sabre > TheJWT
07/24/2018 at 21:41

Did you see this?

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/stranger-things-season-3-snooping-1827787899

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > TheJWT
07/24/2018 at 21:54

I’ll take the Civic Wagon with a the roof rake, and the drop top Corvair. #set for life

GLiddy > fintail
07/24/2018 at 23:07

I was very much an adult in the 80s and remember very well the kinds of cars I didn’t see very often. Cars from the 50s were not common on the street . There was one particular 4-door 1955 Chevy in black and white police livery that I would find parked in a nearby mall parking lot. (It was someone’s daily driver, which you definitely don’t see anymore.) It was rather clever as it had a fake shield painted on the right and left doors with the words, “To Preserve and Protect 1955, 1956, 1957 Chevrolet”. About this same time, the other two odd cars that really stood out in the area was a classic (58?) Studebaker a college classmate drove, and an Avanti (post Studebaker) of unknown vintage. Most cars from the 80s were as boring and mundane as ones you see today. Young guys like me with performance car aspirations at the time gravitated towards GM F-bodies, Fox body Fords, and even some Japanese 2-door like Datsun Z cars, Celicas and even the newly introduced Supra.

Another thing, there’s way too many old trucks in that photo. Very few people other than farmers used a pickup as a daily driver. Nobody in my high school class in the 70s had a truck, and one acquaintance in college a little later had a 67' Chevy truck.

WilliamsSW > fintail
07/24/2018 at 23:33

You are correct. Graduated HS in 1984, and about 40% of the lot was GM co lonnade coupes - and half of that was Cutlasses.

I was one of about 5 people in school (2,000 students) that drove a car more than 15 years old, and t here was only 1 from the ‘50s.

And GLiddy is so right about the pickup trucks/Jeeps. Hardly anyone drove those.

fintail > GLiddy
07/24/2018 at 23:34

I grew up in the PNW, which is an area with little rust, so old cars survived better than in most places. Anything before 1965 or so was uncommon, likely a “yard car” parked in a backyard or in a field after having a terminal issue. There were cars of the era on the road, but not every 5th car in a mall parking lot. Even then, when I saw a 50s car, it was something a little special.

No doubt you are right on the trucks, too. I can think of my street in 1985 (I have a memory for this, but can’t remember what I did last week). I can think of two trucks, belonging to the same house - a Marty McFly style Toyota, and a ~1941 Chevy that was never driven (they also had an early Camry, and a Fiat X1/9) . That was it. But if you wanted a less exciting car, you were in luck, plenty of those everywhere. My parents both ended up in 1985 model year cars, my mom got a Tempo and my dad a S10 Blazer. Their prior cars were a big 70s T-Bird for mom, and a 5-door Horizon for dad. Normal cars of the era.

As a young enthusiast, I was most into MBs, Porsches, and vintage cars.

WilliamsSW > lone_liberal
07/24/2018 at 23:35

Cutlasses, Malibus, LTD’s, Impalas, Dodge Demons etc. The ‘73-’77 Cutlass coupe was more or less the official car of my HS.

fintail > WilliamsSW
07/24/2018 at 23:39

I am about a decade younger, on the west coast there were older cars, but I recall only one 60s car in my senior year parking lot, and a few 70s cars. All 80s and 90s metal even here. Small 4x4s were a trendy thing for this place and time, but pickups couldn’t have been more than maybe 1:10 of vehicles there.

WilliamsSW > fintail
07/24/2018 at 23:48

Yeah, when I was in HS (Chicago suburbs), I drove a ‘65 Cutlass, another guy had a ‘65 Skylark convertible (which I ended up buying from him so he could get a malaise Chrysler), a girl had a ‘67 Camaro SS convertible, another guy had a ‘67 Malibu (total POS), and then there was that ONE guy who had a ‘65 GTO, but his family also had a ‘55 Chevy hot rod , ‘57 Chevy, and a ‘75 Caprice convertible- he rotated what car he drove in nice weather. * Everything* else was 70's or 80's, 95%+ cars, mostly American, mostly malaise. IE, a bunch of crap, which was why I refused to buy anything made after 1972.

fintail > WilliamsSW
07/25/2018 at 00:03

It wasn’t much better a decade later. It was easy to be where I have been many times since - I can afford a number of cars, but not so many that I can afford really excite me. Thankfully, more than zero.

The old car in my senior year parking lot was a nice enough 66 Mustang coupe, not too exotic. Now that I think of it, another kid had a Volvo Amazon wagon that he painted in his garage . I drove a 66 Galaxie when I was a junior (my dad was into old Fords, had a few) , but it suffered some misfortune, and I didn’t drive it when I was a senior, instead using various family cars. In the grade or two before me, someone had a sharp 64 Impala, and a girl drove a 67 GTO that her parents bought new and had been used by all of the kids in the family. I also knew a younger guy with a 69 Nova sedan that was a hand-me-down, had issues, but was relatively reliable, and another in a 70s custom style 65 Galaxie. Not much else for old metal. I recall a girl I knew had a Datsun 710 coupe, it was a weird thing even then, and would be a unicorn today.

Thinking back to when I was a kid in 1985, our neighbors had a cool fleet - early Camry, Marty McFly pickup, Fiat X1/9, and an early 40s Chevy pickup. Not much else exciting on the block sticks in my mind, maybe the most interesting being a customized ~65 Pontiac with a chain link steering wheel, driven by a teenage son of another neighbor.

Thinking back to the house before that, an old couple on the corner had an immaculate two tone fintail, I wonder if that car influenced me. The family across the street when I was 4-5 years old had a Blazer with a removable roof, a Vega wagon, and a new RX7 - I was in love with that car, thrilled whenever I got a ride in it.

WilliamsSW > fintail
07/25/2018 at 11:48

There’s a decent mix of interesting stuff there - I’m sure in part because you’re out west. Cars never lasted as long here in the Rust Belt. I was driving a ‘64 Olds into the early ‘90s, and cars that old were quite rare in the Midwest by then.

But at the same time, they were pretty cheap, unless you were looking for a muscle car. Of the 3 cars I owned from ‘64-65 model year, the Skylark was the only one I paid over $2k for ($2300), and the two Oldsmobiles were strong runners with low miles and immaculate interiors.

fintail > WilliamsSW
07/25/2018 at 13:28

That’s maybe the best part of being on the west coast - gentle climate is easy on cars. Now that cars are more durable in the face of deferred maintenance, 25 year old cars are a common sight here, and 80s cars a daily sight. Much more than 2 5-30 year old cars were 25- 30 years ago.

My dad was an old Ford guy, and had 3 old Fords in the 90s (60-66-68) . Didn’t pay more than a grand for any of them, and none were in bad shape. It was hobby car paradise here then.