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Some of us here at RideLust are old enough to remember when NASCAR was the National Association of Stock Car Racing and not a spec series. We remember waking up early on Sunday mornings to watch Bobby Allison, Cale Yarborough, Ricky Rudd, Dale Earnhardt, and Buddy Baker race against each other in Chevys, Pontiacs, Fords, and Buicks that were actually based on the cars people could buy in the showroom.

What happened to that NASCAR? Who or what took what used to be a fun racing series to watch and turned it into a racing series based little in reality? Read More…

Cars and music go together like peanut butter and chocolate, or, for our peanut-intolerant readers, peas and carrots. The automobile has been romanticized in song for nearly a century. In the early days of the automobile, audiophiles adapted home equipment to work on the road. In 1930 the Motorola 5T71 was introduced giving car buyers a factory-installed radio. Over time the capabilities of automotive audio systems grew to include record players from Chrysler in 1956 to cassette decks in the ’60s to CD players in the ’80s and finally arriving at the MP3 player capability offered in most new cars today. Throughout all of this one thing has remained: the alluring combination of cars and music.

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We’ve all thought it or heard someone ask it. “I remember cars in the ‘80s getting 50 mpg. Why can’t they do that today?”

To some it is a conspiracy by OPEC, the Bush Family, Big Oil and the Illuminati. To others it signifies the problems in Detroit and the decline of the auto industry in the US.

Well, today we are going to take a look at one of those cars from the ‘80s and compare it to one of the most fuel efficient cars today.

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