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As a teen in the 80s, car posters were fairly common among teenage guys. The range went from classic cars up to modern cars. One of the most famous of those was the Lamborghini Countach. Others include the new 80s model Corvette, new American sports cars, Porsche, & Ferrari. We looked at such posters and dreamed of owning such a vehicle some day.
Did you have such posters and what time period did you have those posters?
Do you see teen guys today express anywhere near as much interest in cars and their posters as in years past?
If you were a teenager today, are there any new cars you'd like to see as a poster on your wall? For me it would be a Ferrari, Astin Martin, and Jaguar. The proportions of today's American sports cars just doesn't elicit the same emotional response as in years past. While Lamborghini is still a great looking car, their appearance just doesn't give me an emotional reaction like in years past. Today's Corvette is the best performing Corvette ever built but the styling just doesn't really work for me.
I used to cut pictures out of car magazines and pin them up on the wall, but I don't remember ever having any actual posters that I bought. I did have a Dukes of Hazard poster, it might have had the General Lee on it. This would have been 1970s -1980s.
I think for car posters, it was the exotic-ness (not sure if that is a word) of never seeing those cars in real life and only ever seeing them in magazines or an occasional TV show. Now, with internet, pictures of every car imaginable are all over the place so that exotic-ness is gone. As an 80s kids, I had a Countach on my wall and it was the only way to actually see one.
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In the late '60s Shell Oil sold (very inexpensively) some nice cutaway drawings of race cars, I know one I had was of a Chapparal and IIRC I had 2 others, possibly an endurance racing Ferrari and a GT40? They were fine decor for my institutional green college dorm room.
No posters in the garage here. I do have some old air cleaner lids, antique license plates, some engine intake plates, head gaskets from various 30's and 40's vintage autos and other memorabilia.
Younger guys have switched to computer monitor wallpapers instead of posters. On my computer at work I have the slide show that changes the wallpaper on the desktop every 5 minutes, and a collection of about 200 high res images that it cycles through randomly.
I have a couple of framed prints in my garage, but no more actual posters like when I was a kid.
I still have some car/bike posters, but they haven't been on a wall for over a decade. They're all in a big shipping tube out in the garage.
The first one I think I ever had was a Ferrari 308. Also had the Countach, 959, etc. It was probably 84-85 when I started getting them. I cleaned house when I moved about 13 years ago, and I only kept the ones I really liked, or the ones that were signed. (I have a bunch of them from car shows, some car manufacturers/products would hire spokesmodels to represent them at these shows.) I have one signed from Carmen Electra, that was a Budweiser poster posing in front of a blue Corvette, etc. So I kept some of those and my favorites, but doubtful I'll ever hang them again.
I do have two car prints hanging in my office, framed. One is a Porsche 911 Turbo S, the other is a GT3 RS.
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