Yep, the whole custom scene went crazy in the 80's particularly with front ends, nothing was forbidden.
Seemed every second show van had the Trans Am front, good to see the Alley Cat at least got rid of that.
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Make no mistake I went through the period and I can assure everyone it was not just vans that got radical bodywork, nose-cones etc it was torries, taxi's, frauds hell everything got modified.
That's why you had the Mystere Recaro thing (Peter Arcadipane did some real ugly stuff).
Then we also had the usa with stupidity like the vette in Corvette Summer with Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker).
In the 70's we had flared jeans, flower shirts, shells on necklaces, big hair, safari suits etc
It was something that we needed T-shirts for " I lived through the Hotrod scene in both the 70's and 80's"
Simply put there was no taste in the hotrod scene over that period (70/80's)
.......... Thank God in the 70's we had the SS and A9X Hatch and HK/HG GTS Monaro ............
1980 Turbo Sigma Showcar (Peter Arcadipane)
1979 Corvette Summer
The whole movement basically was dramatically customize your car from how it came from the factory. It's actually a big surprise so many torries made it through that, and then they had to survive the 90's Pro Street fad.
I admit I did stuff to torries and many Holdens that today I am not proud of, but at that time they where just a car nothing special.
Edited by LXSS350, 13 February 2014 - 02:25 AM.
