I'm only 17, so I have no clue but how did people decorate their cars in the 80's? I ask just because I want just something that's from the 80's to date the car, as of now I have a 1986 pl*yboy under the seat (my cars an 86), and a couple casset tapes like Areosmith and Vanhallen. So are fuzzy dice an 80's thing? I know their not fiero style more for lowriders and such but what else?

My wife bought me a pair of blue fuzzy dice that matched the blue exterior on my 87 coupe. In a twisted way, they look perfect in the car.

I used to have a pair of "tune-ups"/tweeters speakers in the 80s that sat on the dash.

Two toned interiors (And usual not two different shades of a color) was common in 80s cars

With plenty of neon paint and graphics on the outside:





Also wheel spinners on the center hub of the wheels or Daytons with real knockoffs. 15-18" subwoofers, paint the interior with a solid color to match the outside paint, add Recaro seats....the list goes on and on. I should know, I was one of the minitruckin' guys back then

Are you talking just interior decor? Because the twin blade wipers were big in the 80' as well as the wink mirror. Dashmats were not an uncommon sight back then either. I don't remember fuzzy dice being in, atleast not from 87 on when I got my license.

quote Originally posted by IMSA GT: the list goes on and on. I should know, I was one of the minitruckin' guys back then

If we go that route, well there was the Turbo and baby Turbo mirrors in Neon colors and the Turbo mufflers. There was the stickers on tailights or front and side markers making them a series of parrallel angled lines. Wasn't it called "frenching in the antenna" when it was receassed down a few inches into the body panel? You know what, your right there was so much down that road, LOL.

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"Baby on board" signs, and parodies thereof, were ubiquitous fixtures in cars of the eighties; as well as brightly colored windshield wipers.

quote Originally posted by williegoat: "Baby on board" signs, and parodies thereof, were ubiquitous fixtures in cars of the eighties

Oooh! I forgot about the Bill the Cat with suction cups on the paws that we stuck on the windows!

I had a red heartbeat on my back window in vinyl striping. Or how about tinted headlight covers?

Tony

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quote Originally posted by Tony Kania: I had a red heartbeat on my back window in vinyl striping. Or how about tinted headlight covers? Tony

And those plastic wind deflector things on the front door windows. Not the easiest to see in this picture but they are there.

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Throw in a Members Only jacket and you'll be all set.

Oh, the rear window louvers were great!

Fuzzy Dice go way back to the 50s and 60s. Except for the Fiero, MR2, and the 5.0 Mustang the 80s cars were quite boring. I don't remember anything being much of a fad during that era.

Rear window louvers (that's what those things are called in the pick khw posted) were VERY common - really they can be considered an '80s staple hood. The window deflectors were more of a 90's thing but did exist to a big deal in the 80's.

Somebody pointed out slotted taillights above. That was big, and I've actually ran across a few Fieros with them. It was essentially vinyl strips placed on taillight lenses to give a slotted effect. Many would have the vinyl done in the same color as the car (or black).

Bulky electronics attached somewhere on the car were big, like large radio equalizers attached under or around the dash. Another thing that got big in short order that continued into the 90's were large cellular phones with cords. They would commonly attach to the passenger-side area of more higher end vehicles, but people that could afford them had them put into lower end examples. You will very often see the phones well into the mid 90s on cars.

Designs on cars were big. Anything with massive amounts of colors.

There weren't really any major decor trends that stood out in the 80's. The low rider scene had long been in force and had already trickled down into the middle part of the country, but it really wasn't until the 90s that car decor began to pick up again, probably because in short order car design began to go away from the sharp boxy edges 80's cars carried and into more flowing lines that 90's cars had.

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quote Originally posted by Khw: And those plastic wind deflector things on the front door windows...

Hey, I have something similar on my F150. They keep the rain out. Born in '72, so yeah, I suffered the 80's. )

Tony

The 70’s and 80’s were very fuzzy years for me, for the most part, very, very fuzzy. But if I remember anything I will post it, not much chance of that unless I have a flashback, and those are never about cars.

Steve

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Thanks for the replies, yeah those stickers are a good idea and I mean interior stuff because Iike to feel in the time period hence the casset tapes and drivin a fiero lol

Maybe it was just an Arizona thing but many cars had the rear window covered by that silver film with pin holes allowing one-way view. I think those were later outlawed.

quote Originally posted by Tony Kania: Hey, I have something similar on my F150. They keep the rain out. Born in '72, so yeah, I suffered the 80's. ) Tony

So did I (born in 67).....and I wouldnt exactly call Mary (H/S G/F) in the back row of a live concert "suffering"....rabbit imitation, maybe---but definatley not suffering....well, it was Duran Duran so maybe I suffered a LITTLE !!

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Air shocks, mis-matched wheels or "black Cragers"- stock black steel rims without any trim rings or caps, gold crown on the dash, white vinyl vehicle logo across the top of the windshield, Little Tree air fresheners, giant single wiper blade, chrome local-motion decals, multiple curb feelers, sky-high 4x4's or pavement dragging mini-trucks, primer, header mufflers without an exhaust, leaking headers because of the weight of the header muffler, graphics that make no sense...

My wife suggested one I saw on a few cars when I was in highschool, mostly those owned by chicks though. T-shirts used as seat covers.

I guess i was boring. My cars had nothing that screamed '80s'. I guess a couple were new then, so they were of the time period, but nothing special about them.

quote Originally posted by IanT720: Thanks for the replies, yeah those stickers are a good idea and I mean interior stuff because Iike to feel in the time period hence the casset tapes and drivin a fiero lol

I dont think i could deal with a cassette player these days, but you could get a mp3 player that is in the shape of a tape, and will work in a tapedeck.. takes SD cards.

quote Originally posted by User00013170: No, it wasn't perfect but ti was a lot saner safer world we had back then, at least here in the states. Not much good music tho..

Cough...cough...Cold War...Cough...cough...

quote Originally posted by Cooter: Cough...cough...Cold War...Cough...cough...

A "cold war" is actually rather sane and safe in the grand scheme of things. Its all about political posturing, not running around actively killing mass amounts of people.

They also promote a lot of technological advances.

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quote Originally posted by User00013170: I dont think i could deal with a cassette player these days, but you could get a mp3 player that is in the shape of a tape, and will work in a tapedeck.. takes SD cards.

I used a cassette tape adapter in our Bonneville to play my iPod through the cassette portion of the stock radio. It didn't have a aux. in so... However I never thought of looking for a actual player thet mimiced a cassette, that actually sounds kewl .

quote Originally posted by Khw: I used a cassette tape adapter in our Bonneville to play my iPod through the cassette portion of the stock radio. It didn't have a aux. in so... However I never thought of looking for a actual player thet mimiced a cassette, that actually sounds kewl .

http://www.chinavasion.com/..._Car_Cassette_Player ( for example ) But these days i use FM transmitters. Cleaner and more reliable.

I built a 'wired' one back before they had them commercially. It just made sense to me. Grabbed some surplus parts, sacrificed a cassette and whipped it together. After that i could run my shortwave thru my car stereo without having to cut it up and risk damaging it. It took a little bit of work to get adjusted right, but once i did, worked as well as the commercial ones that came out years later.

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quote Originally posted by Fiero84Freak: Rear window louvers (that's what those things are called in the pick khw posted) were VERY common - really they can be considered an '80s staple hood. The window deflectors were more of a 90's thing but did exist to a big deal in the 80's.

Rear window louvers were a 70's thing. By the 80's they were starting to fade out.
Fake add on stuff, hood louvers, vents, scoops, etc. were all the rage in the 80's.

And get one of these.

80's ???.....OK, I did it 1/2 hour ago....LMAO---ROTFFLMAO !!!!!! (lumberjackets were on sale for 8 bucks )

Blue checker lumber jacket. Kodiack workboots. Levi jeans. Iron Maiden. DOPE smoke around...WHAT ya gonna do about it???





(no, not really...somehow an old balding guy in his 40's trying on a lumberjacket in a suit and tie just aint the same as wearing one the 1st time was.... )

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I had the am/fm/cassette in my 87 GT rebuilt last year and still listen to the cassettes in the car. I have cassettes that probably go baclkthe the late 60s. The only problem I have is that many of the tapes are starting to fail. My taste in music is from that era. The music, for me, is just for background noise.

My newest car has a 6 CD changer. It looks like the next car would use a USB port, so I'd have to down load all the CDs to a flash card.

I spent the eighties on two wheels, mostly going from bar to bar. I had an old pickup that I drove occasionally, but it had no decor, as a matter of fact it had no A/C, no radio, no carpet and no door locks. Ah, the good old days.

I hated eighties culture. The music was banal and the girls dressed funny. The only two good things that came from that time were the Fiero and Ronald Reagan.

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quote Originally posted by Formula88: And get one of these.

Had one of those in the early 80s.
All of my cars back then were stock. The only people that had money to do anything with their cars were kids from the 70s. Think shag carpet and big murals.

quote Originally posted by aceman: Oooh! I forgot about the Bill the Cat with suction cups on the paws that we stuck on the windows!

Heh, that was Garfield...

Great big CB radio...and even bigger aerial..preferably whip type, 8ft long, with a clip to tie it down
Paint the hood matt black...gold coachlines a la Lotus..flashy plastic wheeltrims (nobody could afford the few 'sports wheels' that were available on themarket then, so flashy wheeltrims did the trick LOADS of enormous Rally-type foglamps and spotlights on chrome bars Wood-rimmed steering wheel..leather gear nob...Plastic rivet-on wheel arches...shiny chrome tailpipe covers...

quote Originally posted by fierofetish: Great big CB radio...and even bigger aerial..preferably whip type, 8ft long, with a clip to tie it down Paint the hood matt black...gold coachlines a la Lotus..flashy plastic wheeltrims (nobody could afford the few 'sports wheels' that were available on themarket then, so flashy wheeltrims did the trick LOADS of enormous Rally-type foglamps and spotlights on chrome bars Wood-rimmed steering wheel..leather gear nob...Plastic rivet-on wheel arches...shiny chrome tailpipe covers...

CB was more 70's out here.

quote Originally posted by User00013170: I missed that myself.. Well at least Bill did appear in the 80's... Garfield started in the late 70s ( from what i remember )

Yeah Bill was around in the 80's as well as Opus. I used to have a T-Shirt that said "Bill and Opus for President".

quote Originally posted by williegoat: I spent the eighties on two wheels, mostly going from bar to bar. I had an old pickup that I drove occasionally, but it had no decor, as a matter of fact it had no A/C, no radio, no carpet and no door locks. Ah, the good old days. I hated eighties culture. The music was banal and the girls dressed funny. The only two good things that came from that time were the Fiero and Ronald Reagan.

I agree for the most part but the girls were H.O.T. The dress might have been "funny" but DAMN.

Bill the Cat was out too. Looking at some pics, he had a suction cup on his tongue, too.

quote Originally posted by aceman: Bill the Cat was out too. Looking at some pics, he had a suction cup on his tongue, too.

Of course he did, where else would you put one on bill?

Bill the Cat needs to make another run for president. After all, he did have his tater tot brains replaced by by Donald Trump's brain.