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Originally Posted by Frosty
That's weird. I graduated in '82 and there were quite a foreign brands floating around. My speech teacher had a B210 and so did a couple of other teachers. I had a friend with a late 70s Corolla that I thought was kind of neat. A bunch of Civics. A kid from a weathier family drove a Celica fastback. There were also the captured imports like the Plymoth Scamp and Cricket and the Dodge Colt. There was even a Subaru or two.
However, the vast majority of foreign cars were Bugs. I had a '66 and another friend of mine had a '58 with the small rear window. Maybe these were more common because I was on the west coast, albeit in a small farming town.
I ended trading that Bug during my senior year for a new Le Car, so even the French were represented..  |
Where did you live? I think the Japanese invasion started around that time or a bit earlier, so I bet some places had a big presence (e.g., west coast, some larger metros), and other places had little or none (e.g., the Ozarks where I lived).
I think the invasion must have happened fast, because I bought a 1979 Celica in about 1985 and they weren't uncommon by that point.