Tackling the motoring issues that matter
THE eighties: a decade of big hair, red braces, shoulder pads, New Romantics, mobile phones the size of bricks, and the concept that greed is good. Hands wrestled with Rubik’s Cubes, while the famous Sinclair ZX Spectrum put home computing at the fingertips of a nation.
Some of the new eighties technology, such as the microwave oven, remains in use today. Other innovations, such as the video player, ‘ghetto blaster’ and pocket television, have long been consigned to the history books.
It was a decade of immense change. A new generation of music lovers were wired for sound thanks to the Sony Walkman. Many of the highest grossing films remain popular today: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and Beverly Hills Cop, to…