I’d set the dial to about 1992. It’s too rad for 1987.

I trust you know about the Honda NM4 Vultus, then?

The Elite 150 is properly ‘80s, but the the very Akira-esque cn 250 Helix / Fusion runs it a very close second:

Same again with two French blokes in the Atacama desert in the ‘50s.

Just remembered the fake wicker Radford Mini from the ‘60s - Peter Sellers had one -

If you’re the engine, wicker can still be an attractive lightweight option for bodywork:

That Audi Sonoma Green reminds me of the gorgeous greens Packards used to have.

That’s the thing about US pickups that still astounds me: they’re sedans without OEM trunklids, exactly as they have been made since the 1930s.

That Daewoo d’Arts looks like a paint & accessory job on their Matiz

Those are some pretty lace sills you’ve got there 😮

So these guys drove around Illinois in 1996 with a car with 2008 - 2013 Dutch license plates?

I don’t think that that’s quite true. There is much less of a cultural cringe against basic vehicles in Europe.

Just like great-granddad did, back in the day 😁

You’re not joking: European cars had rack & pinion steering from the ‘30s, US cars not until the late ‘70s, early ‘80s. 😳

Oh, bummer. Picked the wrong one again.

...and our car dependence due to distributed population and often-poor public transit...

Yup, a sliding hand control would be good too.

And the 1996 Sentinel as the range topper:

Call me old-fashioned or a purist, but I prefer my E9 in non-CSL, European flavour, bone stock.

Actually, the motor wasn’t that thirsty, with Andrew and me scoring 14.5 MPG on our first tank of gas—way better than either of us could possibly have expected from this 173,000 mile clunker