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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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The 10 Best Performance Cars of the 1980s

Posted June 15, 2020 12:00 PM by dstrohl
Pathfinder Tags: 1980s classic auto history

After the automotive funk of the 1970s, everyone was ready for some decent cars. No one was expecting a return to the automotive bliss of the 1960s, not yet, but the baby boomers were now in their 40s and had money to spend. They again wanted vehicles with image and some horsepower. And their children, the Gen Xers, were becoming teenagers. Both generations wanted cool cars.

As the economy improved, so did the cars, which were slowly emerging from the early emissions rules horsepower handicap. Here are some of the standouts from a decade of auto innovation.

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