If you think about it, the decade was practically built for them. With all that big hair, there needed to be somewhere for it all to go. If you were gonna blast some Springsteen, rolling down the windows wasn’t enough. You needed the top down. Let’s also not forget that the country had spent much of the previous decade in a gas crisis, so we were looking for a way to make driving fun again.<\/p>\n
MORE VINTAGE CARS |\u00a033 Classic 1970s Cars That Defined the Decade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In the ’70s, if you wanted fresh highway air, you rode a motorcycle. The ’80s fixed that.\u00a0This was the golden age of the drop-top \u2014 and there was seemingly something for every tax bracket (although safety was always questionable the lower you went). You had Mustang and Camaro convertibles riding alongside Porsche and BMW convertibles \u2014 the rare thing in the ’80s that didn’t separate the haves from the have-nots.<\/p>\n Previously, we did a deep dive on the coolest cars of the 1980s<\/a>, and even switched things up with our look at the most iconic ’80s cars from TV and movies<\/a> \u2014 but now we’re letting the top down a bit and putting the spotlight on those fun, summer-loving convertibles that nobody took seriously in a good way.<\/p>\n Our favorite 1980s convertibles \u2014 and the exact type of person you’d see behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Stephen Lenz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Below are some of the dang-near coolest cars from the 1980s \u2014 some made us stare out the window in envy, while others simply got Mom to her Tupperware party on time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Stephen Lenz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Print](\"https:\/\/townsquare.media\/site\/295\/files\/2026\/07\/attachment-14-16.jpg?w=980&q=75\")
<\/div>Big Hair, Top Down: The 1980s Convertibles We\u2019re Still Obsessed With<\/h2>\n
LOOK: These 25 Cars From the ’80s Were Awesomely Cool<\/h2>\n