'80s could be "back in the day" for him, as it was for me. I was just getting my license in '85. All my friends and I were into '60s muscle cars and '70s street machines. Driveways (our parent's) still looked like this then. Muscle cars were still everywhere in the '80s. It wasn't until the early '90s, after we had graduated HS, went to college or moved out, that we all threw in the towel and moved on to modern muscle, like Grand Nationals (me) and my buddy's had Fox Body 'stangs, Turbo Coupes, IROC, Formulas, Conquest TSI and Mitsubishi VR4, etc. It seemed like a flick of the switch around '87 or so, that all the classic muscle disappeared. We'd cruise Hampton Beach and every other car was a Fox/Capri/T-Coupe or IROC/Formula/TA or GN/GNX/T-Type. We'd go to New England Dragway, and see the same. All the classics had all gone into restoration shops to become boring OEM 401ks.