An old car photo from the 80's.

I was visiting my parents today and my Mom found this old photo of our driveway back in the 80's in Scarborough, where I grew up (Ontario, Canada).

First car is my Dad's old '74 BMW 2002, it was dead by then with a seized engine. Second is my '75 Pontiac Firebird. Last and most certainly least is the '85 Hyundai Pony, though I did learn to drive stick with it.

Fun to look back or at least down the old driveway.

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Awesome, I love it. Nostalgia is a great thing!

I doubt theres any pics but my drivewayas a kid held my dads 76 gmc jimmy high sierra pkge and my mom had a base 80s monte Carlo

ryanty22 wrote: I doubt theres any pics but my drivewayas a kid held my dads 76 gmc jimmy high sierra pkge and my mom had a base 80s monte Carlo

Crazy, we didn't have a driveway but sitting out on the street was dads 76 GMC high sierra stepside and moms 83 base model Regal

Around that time my parents had a 76 bronco and a 914 bumblebee special edition (which got replaced in 86 with an omni glhs).

I never heard of a Hyundai Pony.. Was that before or after the Excel?

My family rocked a GMC conversion van and an Ford Escort L (single engine) in the mid 80's...

Mid eighties was a '77 Civic 1200, a '67 Dodge Van, '54 Ford F100, & a v'54 Mercury Monterey

The Pony was 4 door with hatch that also was rwd. No Hyundai in US till for Excel that replaced it.

JohnRW1621 wrote: The Pony was 4 door with hatch that also was rwd. No Hyundai in US till for Excel that replaced it.

That was the beginning of the Hyundai years. My Dad traded the Pony for an '87 Stellar (Canada only Rwd sedan) then I bought an '87 Excel followed by a '90 Excel then a '94 Scoupe and then a '93 Turbo Scoupe. There was also another Pony in there somewhere too. I call these the 'dark years' of my automotive pursuits. Turbo was fun until it blowed up real good. Got sensible and bought Turbo diesel Golf...that started the VW years and....it continues.

Rockfish!

OHSCrifle wrote: I never heard of a Hyundai Pony.. Was that before or after the Excel?

The Pony was a 4dr version of the Plymouth Arrow. Almost everything interchanges, even parts from the 4G32

In the early 80's my parents had an '81 Toyota Celica liftback and an 80 Honda Civic hatchback along with a '66 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. The Celica was later replaced by a Renault Fuego.

Mom had a Trailduster, dad had a St Regis and a dodge van. I was imprinted pretty young.

I was pretty young and my dad had a white Mercury Marauder with a 428, Grampa had a pea-soup-green '71 Mercury Monterey with a 351 and my uncle drove a 70's Torino in butterscotch also with a 351.

Just before I was born, dad had a Ford Falcon.

I am feeling old. You all are talking about what your parents had in the 80s when I owned cars in the 80's. LOL

plance1 wrote: Rockfish!

When I showed the pic to my husband I said, "look, Rockford was there".

The Pony was the best selling car in Canada for one or two years. And they've all disappeared.

IIRC, it's a good Locost donor. The front spindles are right off one of the British donors, a Spitfire or something like that.

My parent's driveway in 1985 would have had an Olds Cutlass Ciera Aeroback. Just like this but with a disc-type hubcap. All the looks of a five door hatch without the versatility.

Best selling import because they were 5 grand. My son told me he saw one on the QEW last week that looked new. It's probably one of the last ones left.

I keep hearing about some Brit connection on them, but they were 100% Mitsu copy.

In reply to Zomby Woof:

The Japanese were borrowing a lot of designs from the Brits back then.

Keith Tanner wrote: The Pony was the best selling car in Canada for one or two years. And they've all disappeared. IIRC, it's a good Locost donor. The front spindles are right off one of the British donors, a Spitfire or something like that.

If I remember correctly, the Pony had a strut front end and a rear axle that looked suspiciously like Cortina.

The Stellar, on the other hand, had spindles that looked suspiciously like English Ford Escort. The Stellar was 1986 only, and never came to the states. I just so happen to have a pair of those spindles on a shelf....

The car I drove in the 80's:

The Stellar was 85/86 with the 1.4/1.6 motors. The Stellar 2 was 87 only. It was a much upgraded car over the originals which were ridiculously flexy in the front end. The 2 had an 8V 2.0L mitsu copy motor. The rears were the same in both cars, with the Stellars being slightly wider versions. 1.4 cars had a 4.10 gear. The 1.6 cars were 3.91 as was the Pony, and the 2 had a 3.58, which was the final drive I used in my race cars, either from a Stellar 2 or a 2.0L Arrow.

Zomby Woof wrote: The Stellar was 85/86 with the 1.4/1.6 motors. The Stellar 2 was 87 only. It was a much upgraded car over the originals which were ridiculously flexy in the front end. The 2 had an 8V 2.0L mitsu copy motor. The rears were the same in both cars, with the Stellars being slightly wider versions. 1.4 cars had a 4.10 gear. The 1.6 cars were 3.91 as was the Pony, and the 2 had a 3.58, which was the final drive I used in my race cars, either from a Stellar 2 or a 2.0L Arrow.

Exactly this. My Dad bought the Stellar (2) because it had the 2.0L and ours was a 5 speed stick. It was actually a decent car, we had it for 7-8 years with lots of km's. Always reminded me of a Ford Cortina, one that we drove in England as a rental.

A common swap for early carbureted Samurais was to use the Pony carb on the 1.3 Suzuki motor with a little bit of tinkering.