Project Car in 1980s Garage<\/span><\/p> This was the “But wait, there’s more!” era. If it didn’t fit in the attic or was banished by Mom from the living room, it ended up in the garage.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0If You Grew Up in the \u201980s, You Had These at Home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Before “man cave” entered the vocabulary, the ’80s garage existed in a weird limbo between the chaos of the ’70s and the tech revolution of the ’90s. VCRs, microwaves, and Ataris made their way into the home, but the garage remained a world unto itself \u2014 with its own rules (there were none), its own shabby decor (a bikini calendar pinned above the workbench), and of course, its own fridge.<\/p>\n Beer Fridge and Bikini Calendar in 1980s Garage<\/span><\/p> Just mention “’80s beer fridge” at a party, and every Gen X’er in the room will chime in \u2014 not just with the fact that there was beer in there, but the exact brand their dad kept stocked. Old Milwaukee. Pabst. Schaefer. Rheingold. Schlitz. Amazingly, nothing was ever locked, and neighbors would gladly help themselves during a thunderstorm watch party without so much as asking. That was just understood.<\/p>\n Previously, we took a deep dive into awesome ’80s car features we all miss<\/a>\u00a0(motorized seatbelts, pop-up headlights, manual window cranks…)\u00a0and that got us thinking about the glorious recklessness that was the ’80s family garage.<\/p>\n From scandalous bikini calendars to your dad’s AMC Gremlin, ’80s garages were a treasure trove of adventure, good fun, and sometimes downright danger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Stephen Lenz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Stephen Lenz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Legendary \u201980s Beer Fridge Everyone Remembered<\/h3>\n
LOOKS: Things you’d likely see in a typical 1980s garage<\/h2>\n
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