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Any car that can cut down trees at race car speeds should not be disregarded.
Many favorites of mine were already taken, so I'm going with the Gran Torino from Starsky & Hutch!
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Nice, forgot about that Gran Torino. So much better than, say, the gold Pontiac Firebird that Rockford drove (which I hated, so am not posting it nyahh).
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Centauri's car from Last Starfighter
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Because back then, Marvel would license their stuff to ANYONE.
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I like Star Trek ships more than Star Wars ships, but it has to be acknowledged that Star Wars ships are much closer to cars than Trek (which are much closer to actual seafaring ships, hence the big nautical themes of the 80s movies).
The closest thing Star Trek has to a ship approaching Star Wars level of cool is the Defiant, and even then it's just an enlarged Millennium Falcon.
(and the runabouts are basically winnebagos in space, which has been done already)
Jesus, that car's more 80s than the 80s icons in this thread, and those cars are better known.
I half expect that car to come with equipped with a brick cell phone, a mini fridge of New Coke, and a betamax player.
Agree, count another vote for the Mercury "Woody" Wagon ... Classic!
What's funny is unlike later iconic TV cars like Starsky & Hutch's Torino, or Dukes Charger which were there for the entire run of the show, essentially a third leading character start-to-finish.
The Mod Squad's Woody lasted only till (not even) mid 2nd season, before it was driven over a cliff and replaced.
Yet still remained iconic and so emblematic of the show (and time).
The Aurora character Model, loaded withe surfboards really captures it.
Also at the time it was anything but "Mod", to the contrary it was once the most square old fashioned conventional family sedan, something their parents gen. would have driven their kids and the family dog in.
Yet since abandoned, and picked up by the (then) youth and counter culture of the time, which the Mods were (somewhat hysterically) trying to infiltrate.
Although once that theme got played out, they would eventually get a few actual mod (as in modern) cars of the time, along with shades, and fashions to go with, one of those being the (then) sleek fresh of the line gorgeous 1971 Dodge Challenger convertible.
Show also had a great theme song.
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Also I don't know what's older, more rumpled, and beat-up? His trench-coat or....
his 1959 Peugeot cabriolet ?
If ever a car matched it's owner, this is it! Wheres the love?
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It might have had New Coke, but Last Starfighter was about a year before New Coke. :P
Brick cell phones were more of a mid-90s thing. 80s car phones were actually a bit smaller, because all of the tech wasn't inside the phone.
Here's another 80s car-- AUTOMAN! Where Tron meets Miami Vice.
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Mmmm Peggy Lipton. Just passed away a year ago. RIP
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Beg to differ about brick cell phones being a mid 90s thing. In the mid-90s, cell phones were already a half to a third smaller than a Motorola DynaTac, including flip phones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC
https://parade.com/5457/iraphael/the...he-cell-phone/
But also, there's nothing to stop Centauri from buying New Coke a year after the movie. Still firmly 80s.
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