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I had a 79 F150 with a 5 liter engine in it. My sisters were listening to some rapper singing about a Mustang with the 5.0 and they had no idea what the 5.0 stood for. I asked what the big deal was because I also drove a 5.0 They were telling me, no way that a 5.0 was a car. I had to show them what a 5.0 was.
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Ya, even though 5.0 referred to the engine displacement, people called them 5 point oh because of the 5.0 badge on the fender. That's cool though.
About 5 years ago I seen an EXTREMELY nice fox body and thought to myself "Even after 20 years that body style and interior still looks semi-modern". I thought the design held up pretty well, but they are showing their age now.
The so-called "Fox Body" style Mustang came out in 1979 and the 5.0 performance wasn't that much better than the its predecessor, the 302 C.I. they put in the Mustang II (1974-1978) which came about from the gas shortages and gas prices rising in 1973. LOL.. If you mentioned that you drove a "Five-Oh" to somebody back in the late 1970s, they would have thought it was something to do with Hawaii-Five-Oh, a TV police show from the 1960s and 1970s.. .
I graduated high school in 1975, and the popular cars back then, at least for us guys, were the ones that could attract the attention of girls. 1960s Mustangs, Camaros, Roadrunners, Chargers, Barracudas, Challengers. I remember some guys had full-sized cars, mostly Chevy Impalas and Ford Galaxy 500s, that had their V8 engines modified to add more horsepower. Chevelles from the 1960s were popular also.
BMW 3-series/M3, Saabs (especially convertibles), hand-me-down BMW 5/7-series from parents, Acuras, hand-me-down Mercedes, Honda Civics, a few Mustangs, Audi A4, and family trucksters,like the venerable Volvo wagon (of all vintages), were popular vehicles.
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In the early 50s, in my town, I doubt of more than one out of a hundred kids had their own car. They just drove dad's,when dad let them, which wasn't very often.
Same way here jtur88. No kids in our high school had cars. I drove a '36 1 1/2 ton chevy truck to haul feed home from school to feed the cattle and hogs. I used it to date with the truck. Gas was 10 cents a gallon. What the h*ll happened? The family car was a 1936 DeSota. The first car I remember us having was a 1929 Star with wooden spoked wheels. Every few weeks dad would drive the car up and down the river to swell up the spokes.
I remember the 1982 to 1985 Toyota Supras were super popular and also the 280ZX's, Z28 Camaros, Nissan Maximas and Toyota Cressidas. Also the Corolla 1.8, Datsun 510s, Mazda RX2s and RX3s, Toyota Starlets or Mazda GLC's with either a 12A or 13B Rotary swap (I had one), Dodge Daytonas, Dodge GLH, Mitsubishi Starions.
I graduated in 1977 in the South. The most popular cars among high-schoolers were Camaros, Trans Ams, Firebirds, and any American-made pickup truck, as long as it had fog lights and oversized mud-ridin' tires. I was a nerd, so I drove a sensible hand-me-down 1968 Dodge Dart. I didn't get the girls, but neither did I get speeding tickets.
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I was in high school in the late 80s/early 90s in a middle class suburban area. Some kids from the lower middle class area, some from the upper middle class area, so we saw a bit of everything:
- a few late 70s domestic cars (Volare, Caprice, Camaro, Mustang, Malibu, Rabbit, one Beetle and my poop brown 78 Ford Pinto)
- lots of early to mid 80s mainstream cars (LOTS of Dodge Aries/Plymouth Reliant, Hyundai Pony, Stellar and Excel, Honda Civic, Toyota Tercel, Escort, Celebrity/6000/Century/Cutlass Ciera, Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz, Mazda GLC and maybe the occasional Jeep Cherokee, Dodge Caravan, etc
- a few newer (for back then) late 80s, early 90s cars for those from the more upscale neighborhoods like Accord, Camry, Jaguar Vanden Plas, VW Cabriolet, Chevy Lumina, and newer Escort GT, Mustang GT or LX 5.0, Camaro Z28/IROC, etc.
Graduated in1987. Some popular cars back then were used early to mid 80s Mustang GT, Camaro, Celica, 200SX (precursor to the 240SX), trucks, and one cheerleader received the wedge shaped TVR (think it was brand new or nearly new. Some were jealous until we found out what a piece of cow dung that car was.
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1960s Mustangs, Camaros, Roadrunners, Chargers, Barracudas, Challengers. I remember some guys had full-sized cars, mostly Chevy Impalas and Ford Galaxy 500s, that had their V8 engines modified to add more horsepower. Chevelles from the 1960s were popular also. 
