It was a decade defined by excess, the pursuit of power, and a hyper-stylistic aesthetic. The 1980s brought us the pulsating soundtrack of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” as pastel-clad detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs infiltrated a neon underworld in the hit show Miami Vice , and fictional corporate raider Gordon Gekko uttered the era’s seemingly unofficial mantra that “greed, for lack of a better word, is good,” in the 1987 film Wall Street . The same year that movie premiered, the period’s zeitgeist was perfectly manifested in the automotive arena by one model alone, the .

The car that, in poster form, would eventually grace the walls of that generation’s adolescent gearheads, was introduced as the ultimate commemoration of the marque’s 40th anniversary. Especially no

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