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| 80s Cars Part Three | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Welcome to the final installment of the 80s Car Anthology. In this section, you will see some of the strangest, most obscure cars from the 80s. If you think you've seen the best of it, you're right, but never mind that. This installment is all about the wierdest and wildest cars of the 80s, and if it was wild in the 80s, then odds are it meets the requirement for wildness in any other decade as well. This stuff was hard to find, so enjoy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| John DeLorean was once a high roller at GM, coming up with ideas like Corvette/ Camaro having shared chassis (rejected), and the honkin bird decal on the hood of the older model firebirds. This career, as badass as it may seem, was not good enough for John, so he decided to pursue bigger and better things (or so he thought). Shortly after severing all ties with the General Motors Conglomo, he started his own car company, which he aptly named "DeLorean". |  |
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| The 1983 DeLorean DC 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shortly after his decision to start his own company, our man John had quite the epiphany. He decided that if he moved all his production to Ireland, he could significantly reduce overhead, letting him sell his cars for less money, resulting in higher profit. His plan worked to some extent, it did cut down on overhead expenses, but not near enough to save DeLorean or his car company. He was losing money at an incredible rate, and finding it increasingly dificult to compete with the larger companies. No more than six years after starting his company, DeLorean was arrested for possesion of cociane, making him all the more 80s pride. The DC series is the line of cars that DeLorean created. They have rear-engine V-6s, frame-in-frame windows, and were available with stainless steel bodies and racing transmitions. weighing in at more than 4800 pounds, however, I doubt the racetrack was the best place to catch a DC. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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If you were hip in the 80s, then your list of priorities was probably something like this: 1) further your own existence. 2)Defy convention by any means possible. So natually, those who excelled at priority one were in search of exceedingly bitchin ways to fullfill priority |
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| The 1984 Zimmer Touring Roadster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| number two. Enter the Zimmer Roadster, the neo-classic, ultra-Reaganized Jugernaut for the well-to-do. Less is more? Pffft. Whatever. Less is still less. More is a 3.5 inch ride height, a set of spoked wheels, gold hood ornaments, triple outboard spare tire recepticles, running boards, a front bumper that looks like something off of an Autopia car, white wall tires, and last but not least, illustrious (and numberous) cosmetic airhorns. Forgeting the fact that the Zimmer has the turning radius of an F350 and the looks of something strait out of Hitler's motorcade, it actually has quite a long list of luxury anemities, "Creature Comforts" if you will, and so of course, sold for figures in excess of $120,000. If you find this car to your liking, pick up an auto trader and look in the miscellanious section. These days, they go for about ten grand a pop. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dumped my girlfriend said see ya later, I'd rather go buy a new carberator, she makes tracks saying this is the end, cars dont talk back, they're just four-wheeled friends. -QUEEN (I'm in love with my car) |
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