The government kills pop-up headlights, but they allow laptop-sized distraction screens right in the middle of the dashboard.

@TheNewChevyRoll48

5 ай бұрын

Or for trucks and SUVs to get so bloated that a pedestrian is more likely to get injured due to the poor visibility

@valengreymoon5623

5 ай бұрын

Good point. Though I think it all comes down to paying attention while driving. That would prevent many accidents.

@Spidernick88

5 ай бұрын

And allows headlights now that blind other drivers

@AndrewBarsky

5 ай бұрын

Who’s paying their bills? It’s funny that you act as if this is a surprise.

@davidcorliss

5 ай бұрын

​@@Spidernick88people used to say the same thing about when halogen headlights first came out

Knew a guy in high school in the late 90’s that had an 80’s Chrysler van and it would repeat “DOOR AJAR” every 3 seconds, because of some sort of short/malfunction (with all doors closed fully). He couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so he just lived with it- but it drove passengers crazy. He somehow just tuned it out over time. 😅

@andydhillon1977

5 ай бұрын

I remember the Dodge Daytona had that feature, too.

Touch screens are an automotive trend we should have left in the 80s.

@AfonsoBucco

5 ай бұрын

barely works on a stopped vehicle. using that in a bad road is a nightmare.

@Maximus20778

4 ай бұрын

Nah it's better than ever now

@deeno9804

4 ай бұрын

How am I gonna select which album to listen to on Spotify without a touchscreen?

@RETIREDAMATUER

4 ай бұрын

@@deeno9804lol gen z behavior

@SERGIO-cr6uy

4 ай бұрын

The issue isn't the touchscreen but the removal of physical buttons. I have a car that has both so it works OK. The issue is when everything has to be done via the touchscreen on newer cars.

Only thing i took from this video was the 80s was definitely a time to be alive

@ianmangham4570

4 ай бұрын

Acid 😅 whistle possy , Acid 😅 🎶 I'm bigger I'm bolder I'm rougher I'm tougher DOMINATOR AAGH AAGH DOMINATOR 🎶

@MadScientist267

3 ай бұрын

It was way better than it is today

@SebastianE30

3 ай бұрын

It was fantastic compared to today! I was there.

@Lobos222

2 ай бұрын

@@SebastianE30Allot of stuff was cool. The aspect of every year things improving allot etc, but I would argue allot of stuff is better and more convenient today. Even new retro synth music is better than the ting they emulate. Oh and then you have medical advances.

@T.E.S.S.

2 ай бұрын

@@MadScientist267 alright calm down gramps

One you forgot, OBD1! Remember shorting the conmector pins and reading check engine light blink codes? It was like the cars computer was talking to you! Amazing at the time.

@SilentServiceCode

5 ай бұрын

"OBD1" is a retronym to describe any number of proprietary diagnostic systems. OBD-II is an actual standard.

@catsaregovernmentspies

5 ай бұрын

OBD 1 sucked so bad. Troubleshooting those cars took the parts cannon most of the time.

@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA

5 ай бұрын

Did that change in 1995?

@dashservices

5 ай бұрын

​@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSAyes with obd2

@andydhillon1977

5 ай бұрын

​@@TheUnitedStatesofAmericaUSA1996 was the start of OBD2A.

I still think touch screens in cars are a huge mistake.

@obeseperson

5 ай бұрын

They’re definitely good when done right. Good luck seeing it done right though

@Ntaman8209

2 ай бұрын

Why? Explain

@conormayweather5474

2 ай бұрын

Get over it , physical buttons are a thing of the past

@danielk7251

2 ай бұрын

A fosocal manipulator can be used without looking at them. On a touchscreen you are forced to look at the screen instead of the rad.

I have a 1989 firebird i love the pop up headlights and the power antenna and everything still works.

I always thiught the pop up headlights on the 80s early 90s Pontiacs made them look sportier than other cars.

@azynkron

2 ай бұрын

Compared to what? A tractor? POS cars.

I love the horizontally-moving headlight washers on the Saab. I never knew so many cars had so many different kinds of headlight wipers.

Never knew some cars in the 80s had factory fitted CD players! Thought that was 90s tech, fascinating! ❤

The early CD players were insufferable with the constant skipping.

@j_rainsgoat3929

5 ай бұрын

You must be speaking of portable cd players.

@tcat0211

5 ай бұрын

​@@j_rainsgoat3929 early in dash CD players were terrible. They finally started putting out damped & buffer tech but from late 80s but people who had them early will know. Which was probably why they had the tape deck plus CD for over a decade

@jg3000

4 ай бұрын

Even later versions suffer when the road is bumpy.

@craigorlikowski2507

2 ай бұрын

Yup thats why i held off forever on finally jumping over. ...even w the portables.

@mikelight495

Ай бұрын

I almost forgot. Natural casings are made from animal casings were the lining of the intestines which were the tube that carried poo from the stomach to the sphincter.

A $4,000 phone isn't just a large sum for the 1980's.

@geraldscott4302

5 ай бұрын

In the mid '80s, a Radio Shack car phone could be bought for around $1200. Just a couple years later, the price dropped all the way down to $400. That's when I bought one.

@robertholle5599

5 ай бұрын

$4000 was a pretty good downstroke on a house in the 80's !!

@Kit_Bear

5 ай бұрын

That's about $12,000 today.

@KtotheG

2 ай бұрын

@@robertholle5599 I still consider paying anything over $100 for a phone to be ridiculous.

@1marcelfilms

2 ай бұрын

In a few years that will be the price for the new iphone

Those 80s touch screens are infinitely cooler than modern touch screens.

@RADIUMGLASS

5 ай бұрын

Easier to use as well.

@Stefan_Dahn

3 ай бұрын

Nope.

In the 70's and 80's in the Soviet Union the best car you could own was any car.

I enjoy power windows. Show a kid today a roll up window knob and they won't know what it is. I was dads power window motor, climbing through the car to roll up all windows. Term is still used today that baffle the kids, roll up/down the windows, means push the button.

Touch screens are probably THE single worst feature in cars then and now!

I also have an 89 Accord and the pop up headlights still work perfect!

To this day cylinder deactivation still causes problems. The problem with cylinder deactivation is when you start deactivating cylinders it causes the different cylinders to run at different temperatures and very time it causes metal to warp which causes problems such as oil burning. They even sell muzzlers so that you can deactivate the cylinder deactivation.

@andydhillon1977

5 ай бұрын

Yup! It was just technology needed to satisfy government EPA standards.

I own a 97 Volvo V70 T5 - it has the headlight wipers - awesome!!

@ianmangham4570

4 ай бұрын

Awesome beast 💪 T5 🇬🇧 coppers had a plain blue one in Doncaster 😮

@charlie1832

4 ай бұрын

@@ianmangham4570is that the same place where Clarkson grew up ?

@ianmangham4570

4 ай бұрын

@@charlie1832 He was from Tickhill about 10 miles from Doncaster Town Centre

I installed car stereos and worked on every 80s car in here plus others. We used to get calls from the local Ford dealership because the 10 pack CD changer in the cars would skip. Made by Sony, in the industry we called it "The 10 Pack Skip Changer". We fixed a lot of broken power antennas and installed cellular phones (and CBs too!) Some premium cars used to have octane switches in them for if you couldn't get premium fuel (Ford Thunderbird Turbocoupe and Ford Mustang SVO). Cylinder deactivation is used by Audi for at least the last 11 years. Dual intake cars have died due to variable runner intakes and cam phasing. The Taurus SHO and the ZR1 had dual intakes. Almost all American 80s cars are stylish deathraps with cardboard interior door panels horrible fit and finish and flimsy unitized bodies. How many cars used to drive around with one headlight stuck up... This is how the Japanese took over the car market.

The JC Whitney catalog was a must if you had a car and was poor in the eighties.

@my1vice

4 ай бұрын

Hahaha....

@bkrgls

3 ай бұрын

I miss looking through those catalogs. 😔

@jayryan3181

2 ай бұрын

Rock Auto of its time

Although I was way too young at the time to drive a car, I remember the 1980s and the cars of the decade.

@williamwilliam5066

Ай бұрын

You're interesting. Are you American?

I had a 1987 Mitsubishi Cordia LS. It had a cassette tape, power antenna, rear window louvres, digital dash and epitomized the gadgetry of the 80s.

What I miss most? Turn signals. We used to use them all the time, now they're just for show apparently. 🤪

Other than the obsurd things he could do (like Turbo Boost, Ski Mode, and was invincible) KITT from Knight Rider actually predicted a lot of tech that we have in cars today.

Got out of the Marines in 84 , got a job as a Mercedes/ Nissan tech at a dealer. I installed " car phones", and working on these systems, was just part of the day.

In the 80's the AM radio was available, but the AM/FM was standard. The AM only option had to be requested

I loved the Pontiac digital gagues, especially when the dashboard lit up at night.

1:00 insert Dankpods raging: "CRRRAAAIIIGG!!"

@Eric_Hunt194

5 ай бұрын

I think we found Tony's new head-unit...

The biggest reason the GM v864 failed is that running a v8 vs. a v4 wasn't the problem. The problem was that the cars weighed over 5000lbs. On the other end of the spectrum, a 70s vw beetle kit car with a v8 engine swap could get 30 mpg.

I still love the '84 Corvette's digital gauges and pop-up headlights.

@cynicalsayonara7169

Ай бұрын

It's a shame it was so insufferably slow. I had a 1982 TA. Good ole' 165hp crossfire engine.

I remember when I was a kid, we had those brick phones, but they were turned into cheap walky-talky's. I guess they had to make use of all those in car phones.

The 1970 Imperial had wipers on the lights. Some early Chrysler vehicles from that period had this feature and I think Chevy Caprice offered it in 1969.

Peugeot pronunciation is priceless. 😂😅

The V8-6-4 was just ahead of its time, a lot of Cars or Truck for that matter have Cylinder Deactivation though it's only at a steady cruising speed it does it.

I had a 1985 Chrysler Laser XT Turbo with every option available. Being a software developer and architect, I *liked* the electronic dashboard and trip computer (I also has a 1989 Olds Toronado Trofeo with that touch screen and even the cell phone but that’s a different, more nightmarish story). The voice alerts weren’t that great once the novelty wore off. The real obnoxiousness that I remember is that, even working perfectly, there was one flaw that would drive you to insanity. When the fuel tank got to something under 1/8th full, you got the “Low Fuel” warning. But…. Since fuel sloshes around while you’re driving, the sensor would detect fuel above and below the threshold and you could end up driving 10-20 miles with the damn thing CONSTANTLY warning you about low fuel, then resetting itself only to warn you again 100 years later! That was why I turned off the voice. At least the in-dash message wasn’t nearly so obnoxious.

That last feature with the Prelude reminded me of the Prelude with 4 Wheel Steering. How about a vid on that brief feature?

I'm proud to say that I got to experience all of those in the cars I've owned. I do miss pop-up headlights. Great video!

Pop up headlight were cool - I had them on a Miata. Blast to drive 5 speed stick.

I'm Gen-X and this was some fun & fond memories from the most Fun filled Decade ever !!! Thanks for the Trip down memory lane .

The C7 Corvette cylinder deactivation was so poorly done that there are afm devices you can add to bypass it. It was an option that never worked well regardless of the make/model vehicle that had it.

Excellent video. Didn't know about the touch screens in 1989 thats awesome

I recall when cars didn’t have a radio as standard equipment.

@mbryson2899

5 ай бұрын

I've bought three brand-new that didn't.

When the bag phones came out, I wanted one so badly but you needed a credit score of 1500 haha. I was certain that a bag phone would get me all the girls!😂😂

What a good memories....... Thank you

I used to have a car with a manual retractable antenna attached to the outside of the A pillar. When it was raining and getting poor FM reception, I had to roll down the window by hand and try to pull the rusty antenna up while one hand holding the steering wheel. Those were the days.

Glad to see that Julian Smith clip in the car phone section

I had a Volvo340 Turbo with pop-up headlights. That made it special!

We had a digital dash on our 86 Buick Somerset. We had it go out 4 times in 2 months while on the highway. It was a lemon law buyback.

In 1970, I had a '67 Camaro, RS, with covered headlights. It looked really cool, having an all black grill, with the white nose stripe and pearl blue paint. The car was used, and previous maintenance was iffy. The headlight covers would retract horizontally, into the grill, when the lights were turned on. A vacuum motor operated them. It worked great for a few months, but then the vacuum moters quit, with the covers in the closed position. I had to shove the covers in, to have headlights. It was a nice car, but was starting to fail, so I sold it. Could be worth something today.

A couple years ago I was at the local scrapyard and came across an Oldsmobile Toronada Trofeo exactly like the one shown in this video. It must have sat in a barn for nearly half a century as it was in mint condition minus the barn and mouse "stuff" (smell/stains/houses). Obviously the owner died and everything including the car got tossed. It was a real bummer.

"Door is Ajar"

@wrath231

2 ай бұрын

Love it

@bandido7994

2 ай бұрын

Key is in the ignition.

Hey, it's Hoovie and his Chrysler in the intro!

I had a 2004 Corolla S when new and it came with CD player and a tape deck....I still listen to cassettes 😂😂😂😂

Entertaining as usual👍

I miss the spectrum analyzers with dancing LEDS , when driving in the dark. Especially when playing Blue Monday by New Order.

@Slide164

4 күн бұрын

I see a ship the harbour….

The "It Store" in London, Ontario, Canada carried the Cellular Phony. Those power antennas then were trouble, especially if they were trying to come down in the cold winter.

@ianmangham4570

4 ай бұрын

Use to drive in the garage with it up constantly 😅

CD antiskip technology was available for portable players. I've often wondered why car manufacturers never installed this skip reducing tech in a vehicle that may hit a bump or two ie, all vehicles. Surely it would have been an easy fix to bring this feature to 'modern' cars. The only drawback with antiskip in portable players was excessive battery consumption. This range anxiety wouldn't have existed in cars with power constantly being generated. I'm sure some automobile manufacturers had solutions for this problem but it was hard to air guitar to Iron Maiden while the CD was skipping. 🎶🎵🎸🎵🎶 !! Cheers.😊

@1:24, That BMW 635i still looks good today

@andydhillon1977

5 ай бұрын

I've been looking into getting one as a project car! Such a beautiful design!

Way cool video I had forgotten about a lot of this 👍👍👍👍👍

pop up, up n down headlights!!🎉

Donut media's music video on pop headlights is great.

Those automatic seatbelts were terrible .

@victoriasheinman1400

Ай бұрын

I agree

I've never seen an in dash cd player but i have seen in dash cassette player in the 80s. It wasn't till the late 90s early 00's i started to see in dash cd players in vehicle's.

77-79 Dodge Magnums in the US had clear lenses that covered the rectangle headlight bulbs underneath although you could toggle them to hide them

Cassette players were offered right into the 2000’s in countries with mountains and bumpy rides like South Americas. Example Toyota landcruiser. To bumpy for cd.

@7:33 top cars a fleetwood coupe. Nice video!

Great video!

The '71 Plymouth Fury had optional headlight washers.

Can we get a video on the GMT-800 truck platform? It’s the bestselling truck line in American history

I had 2 Buick Century's, a 1990 and a 1994, both had the power antenna option. I always thought it was kind of neat, but it would always get stuck on a cold winter morning.

@glennso47

5 ай бұрын

And broken off when you were going through a car wash if you didn’t retract the antenna.

@kingkatradio

5 ай бұрын

As a matter of fact, I used to work at a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in the early 2000s and saw this a lot. @@glennso47

@DS_IndustrieZ

5 ай бұрын

i have problems getting it up in the cold to brother.....wait that didnt sound right... 🧐

@digitalfootballer9032

5 ай бұрын

I had a 2000 Regal that had one and eventually it just outright failed and wouldn't go up.

@kingkatradio

5 ай бұрын

I worked at a Lincoln-Mercury car dealer and we had a share of cars that came for service or body work, where the PW antennas had quit working. A lot of the people just had them put in the upright position. @@digitalfootballer9032

I had a 1985 Ford Thunderbird with Mustang V8 5.0 with digital dash!

In around 1982/83 british car manufacturer British Leyland producted the Maestro car which had digital dash and speech synthesis!!

2:00, best commercial ever.

Thanks to 'Donut Media' now every time I see pop-up headlights I hear that damn jingle of theirs referencing them. "POP UP UP & DOWN HEADLIGHTS!, pop up up & down headlights..."

I remember in 1981 we had a car phone. Yes we are still rich

2:00 Maxell! Break the sound barrier 😮

In Canada here. 80's, "lucky enough to have FM". What ?? We had a 1986 Dodge Colt and it came with AM/FM + cassette.

I had a 1992 Toyota Celica wit the greatest headlights ever.

@andydhillon1977

5 ай бұрын

Greatest pop-up headlights goes to the Acura NSX. The pop-up headlights on the 1990-1993 Celica were odd-shaped! I still love the All-trac Celica. Very Underrated car.

@PrydeWater901

5 ай бұрын

@@andydhillon1977 The plastic leading edge of the ‘eyelids’ that blended so well with the upper grille slit is what makes them so great to me. Besides, I’ve never owned an NSX. Bias confirmed! ✅

@my1vice

4 ай бұрын

The C4 had the best pop ups. Hands down.

@andydhillon1977

4 ай бұрын

@my1vice I have a C4 Corvette. The way they flip around is pretty cool. The Porsche 928 has a neat pop-up headlight deasign, too.

Ford crown vic's had 💿/cassette player head unit until production ended in 2012.

@my1vice

4 ай бұрын

2011.

It really sucks that the cd players are gone. Who decided cd's are obsolete?

@lisamccray9079

5 ай бұрын

I agree with you I hate that they took away 😔 c.d players in cars have lots of c.ds

@johngaltline9933

5 ай бұрын

You can still get them if you want them. cd/dvd is standard in mid range head units. For most people, their entire cd collection fits just fine on their phone and is a lot easier to use that way. A $10 usb stick will also do the job just fine.

Pontiac Trans AM GTA checked off so many things off the list. Phone? ✔️ pop-up headlights? ✔️ power antenna? ✔️

Love that ‘75 Continental 😮‍💨😍🙏

Car cigarette lighter is also a lost 80s tech.

@ralves58

3 ай бұрын

Nope... In the 50's we already have those.

@kellismith4329

5 күн бұрын

Hash burners

Now the car radio antennas look like shark fins. Some cars had antennas imbedded in the windshield. I had a Chevy that had that type of antenna,

5 ай бұрын

Those fins usually are GPS antennas.

Still watching but I bet didn’t include rear window wiper option. Every GT worth it had one. Drives me nuts when hatchbacks or sloped windows missing it now.

Full Self Driving used to make sammiches too.

These named techs were more fashon items than some Tops....and that's why most of them got lost...at least until tech development improved them into properly efficient assitant.... Top techs are those which set benchmark in further development that still lasts like... ...ABS, ASR, active AWD and RWD differential, central locking, automatic wipers and headlights, navigation, AC, independent heating, fuel injection, carbon filters, pre-colision automatics, exhaust catalisator, tire pressure monitoring....

All the used 80s cars i ever owned were all analog tech. I'm guessing the more advanced tech was less common and more expensive. I knew one person in highschool who drove a 1985 ford tempo with the all digital dash. Including digital speedometer.

What about the iconic Opel GT w/ the roll over headlights? Also manually operated.

The 1934 Cadillac was the first car with cylinder deactivation.

Oh, pro tip: those "?fbclid=..." things at the end of URLs are for tracking users by Facebook, they can be omitted completely and the page will still load.

Good video!

Remembered Honda S200 with it's dashboard

I love the large digital speedometer. It's the perfect for staring at in this age of 0 tolerance speeding.

Cylinder de-activation was horrible and still problematic. Automatic seatbelts were awful ! Had a digital dashboard on a '80 Thunderbird, talking warnings too. Still love pop up headlights !

You really have to experience the automatic seatbelts to know how awful they were. Early digital speedometers that only updated once every second too.

Grandma's VX Commodore had an antenna as did Mum's corolla

Oh boy the good o times. Seeing these cars with those tech are so funny 😂

Fiber optic light indicators on the fender