Toyota Celica Supra had one too.

@@Jaimefumer13 That wasn't LCD, that was vacuum fluorescent.

Many cars from the 80s had electronic displays. Not in the way newer cars now are using what are essentially computer displays to show dynamic data, but nevertheless they did have them. LCD itself was less common, as most manufacturers preferred to use the greenish vacuum fluorescent displays. My family owned an 87 Honda Accord which had a white LCD.

@@acalthu I thought it was digital. My bad.

@@Jaimefumer13 digital isn't just LCD. Remember the green displays in Buicks and Cadillacs? Those are digital displays which use vacuum fluorescent displays instead if LCD.

If anybody knew what a turbo was besides hardcore car people

Imagine being able to say you had over 500 foot pounds of torque in the 80's lol. Nobody had that.

Turbos were mixed reviews in the 80s

Everything had a turbo in the 80's even vacuums :D

@@vectorcruzusa - Daily driven turbo charged cars around since 1962 Olds Jetfire and Chevy Corvair... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gOCnaLpi17ixn5s.html

Doug demuro has competition now. Copycat.

@@addom4500 u tell him bro

Its called quality. Cars of yesteryear is like clinking 2 crystal glasses together and getting a beautiful long resonating ting sound, pleasing your ears. Cars today are like clinking 2 tin cups together and getting a pitiful hollow screech sound, wishing you didn't have ears.

@@Myaccisbanned lol don't push it with this "quality" bro, we can also see the interior

@@addom4500 they been having competition for talking so much about the car but not allowing us to hear the car and see how it performs 😂

I turned 16 in 1988, too…. This comment is spot on accurate. I remember.

300 is still a big # for these ham fisted millennials

lol

Kinda has that old Buck Rogers feels to it!

I'd do that any night nowadays. Jus gotta be a bar table 4 drinks

Dont stop believing....hold on to that feeeling!😎

🥰 For Real!

it screams "CHEAP", like a Cavalier had...total pos from GM as always

@@andrefecteau it looks cool damn

Looks like kit from night rider.....damn I just showed my age.

@@andrefecteau glad there are some people stuck in 2007

@@r.a.6727 why? 2008 was a Niagra

Of course you do! You drive a camaro!

@@TedwardDrives fine I'm biased. You caught me haha

I'm honestly surprised it drives well though. Most older big motor American cars drive kinda.... poorly

Yes me too! …..I drive a Mustang

It’s a small block lol

If only they cared

@@MrCheezeKiller they only care about the main market. they ain’t gonna cater to the 1%

@Ste 45 ya but they are getting so hard to get a hold of unfortunately

Fr modern interiors are horrid I hate the I-pad dash bs hell it’s hard to find real gauges anymore

I stopped caring about new cars, but for a few models, almost twenty years ago. It doesn’t matter to me how fast a car is, or how much more of anything it has, if it doesn’t look good to me, or make me feel a certain way. And these days, only old cars do it for me.

Thank you! I’m on the same journey of trying new things and expanding the knowledge and appreciation of different cars. Glad you’re with me on that

Are you kidding? Look at the FPS... This Upload is a mess!

​@@einautofan6685 Is this bait?

@@einautofan6685 An ungrateful heart cannot be happy.

@@einautofan6685 how do you see a difference? This looks amazing! All this bullshit fps talk comes from gamer kiddies who want a refresh rate of 150pics per second on their 60hz screen. Not knowing that 60hz means their damn screen isn’t able of showing anything above 60 pics a second..

How is your c4 spec’d? I own a highly optioned low mileage 350z and am looking for a c4/c5 and am growing fonder of the c4 being born in 1986. Would love to know the details of yours, cheers!

I drive an 89' (non Cally) and the black tag ZFs are solid transmissions! That's really the golden year in my opinion since the interior hadn't changed yet to that orangy 90s styling, yet you still get a 6 speed. Not to mention those aluminum heads!

@@samstroliazf auto? Or stick

@@DTMBUILT it's a ZF Black tag manual 🤘

When I was a kid not long after the C4 came out, a friend of my dad and grandfather's bought a new C4 in red. He was a pharmacist and he liked sporty cars, I believe that he also had a Datsun 280Z and a couple of AMC AMXs. He was showing us the car and I was absolutely amazed by it, especially when he opened the hood. It was crazy how much of the engine compartment that you could get to and it was like nothing I had ever seen. C4s seem pretty normal now but when they came out, they were like no other car. They were so special. A side note, I went on a family vacation to Kentucky in 1991 and we made a special stop at the Bowling Green assembly plant where the Corvette is built. What an experience that was. Besides my amazement at watching the cars being built, there were quite a few ZR1s which were new at the time and really new and innovative in their own right. I learned to recognize them from the regular Corvettes because the recess in the rear wheels were WAY deeper on the ZR1s. The rear haunches were, too but they did such a great job on them you didn't notice them but those wheels you sure did. I was also able to see the only remaining 1983 Corvette while there in the lobby before the tour. It is now at the National Corvette Museum. Speaking of the National Corvette Museum, we went there too, sort of. At the time, they were operating in a strip mall and had only a few cars and one rolling frame on display. They were raising money at the time to build the building that they are in now. Man, what a memorable trip that was.

At that age I was sitting in these: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gOCnaLpi17ixn5s.html

Must be cool looking back at it now

Ok but you'd be mad to have this over an F40

@@somebloke2238 yea an f40 is on a whole nother level

Road and Track

@iron Duke80 😂

It was slow but you were going 120 mph. Must have been a big stretch of highway. That's awsome. Those old cars arent the fastest but so enjoyable to drive

@@codylucier4688 rural Iowa has long straight roads. And I drove a 455-powered Pontiac at the time, so my idea of slow may have been skewed

no

Same

Upstate: sold the ZR1 and got a 1988 Callaway. Liking the Callaway more than the ZR1.

How

@@Dread_Pirate_Homesteader i'll let you know when i figure something out

@@smolchungus5647 did you figure something out

@@CasualGamer121 nah i gotta wait like 1 or 2 years lol

@@smolchungus5647 ah ok let me know

Would love to experience the sledgehammer

Also interesting: there were two different ZF transmissions throughout the years, identified by the tag on the side. From what I've gathered, the earlier verion was the "black tag" which had beefier 1-3 gears but overall noisier, and the quieter "blue tag" showed up mid 1993. Something to do with how the gears were straight cut that made the black tag noisier. Cheers!

I knew the 4+3 was on the standard cars and thought the 6 just came later. My bad! C4 is certainly not my place of expertise 😂

@@TedwardDrives the best way to drive this with the added power is carefully, and keep the overdrive off until in fourth.

@@darrenporsch chill out, im sure youve never been wrong about something....

@@TedwardDrives No worries, us old timers with lots of C4 trivia in our heads will always "ahem" gently, lol.

@@TedwardDrives it was 4+3 from 84-88, then the six speed from 89 to 96.

how hard could it be to replace?

@@nickm5419 It's not, there are websites that sell parts to repair them.

I have a red 84 C4 and can confirm parts of the LCD are definitely difficult to see during the day. You could argue useless but who’s pointing fingers haha

Batee restores them with LED lights

I had a 1984 C4 as well. Cluster was hard to view in direct sunlight.

Top speed of more than 400 km/h, if I remember correctly.

It's a monster by today's standards even. I saw not too long ago a Hennessey video touting the new world's fastest C8 Vette at 205, in 2020. I remember seeing the video of the Sledgehammer at TRC in OH hitting I believe it was 254.7mph, in 1988, AFTER driving the car 700 miles from CT, then driving it back. Even today, that is pure badass!

@@charliedee9276 Very badass.

@@charliedee9276 It's cool to me because I'm still here in the Southwest of CT, born and raised in a town called Brookfield. Anyways I still think as you said the "Sledgehammer" is amazing even by today's standards but it's truly when it was first built that is impressive just by what was available or being built at the time and it makes me wonderhow many manufacturers like Ford and so on took notes thanks to Callaway.. The newer Callaway cars no matter the brand I'm trying to learn about because I love the company and what they're doing.. Have yourself a great weekend and I hope that all is well with you and yours good sir honestly now. 🙏🙏🍻 Same goes for everyone who reads this.

@@imhappyandyou.4003 It is cool to me as well. In 89 I was hired as a chassis designer on a new ultra cool sports car by Chrysler. Of course it was the Viper. Many were consulted but the 2 who really stick out that I was able to work with were Carroll Shelby and Reeves Callaway, as a car nut these were legends to me. Callaway gave me the VHS tape of the Sledgehammer running at the TRC setting up for that record run. That and the autographed by Shelby Team Viper hat are some of my most coveted automobile items.

Company called Gear Vendors has been offering something similar for a couple decades now that can be placed behind old 3 and 4 speed autos. Wonder if it can be put behind the 4 speeds of that era as well. Edit: checked their site, yes you can

@@blackrat1228 yes they can some guys have modified a C3 or 2 with them. I have one in my 1996 Ford 4X4 460 std cab with a C6. It's awesome!

​@@EagleTwo758 Is it intended for mostly top gear, or is the OD ratio close enough that you can upshift from 3 lo to 3 high, then 4 lo, 4 high etc

If you think that's bad, Jay Leno paid 2 or 3 times (I can't remember) a same year Corvette price for a Ford Festiva (also sold as a Mazda 121 and Kia Pride in other markets). He even joked about it on the video. That Ford Festiva was a totally re-engineered SHOGun that is powered by a Taurus SHO engine mounted in the back and rear wheel drive. That thing is a rocketship though. It's on his channel of ever you'd like to check it out, it is pretty cool.

I feel ya. I herniated and tore two discs in my back while working as a mechanic. The shop owner fired me when I asked to to to the hospital. That and other injuries have left me in pain for the past 14 years. I still work on my own classic vehicles, but I pay for it every time.

@J Upham... just FYI... a search for Callaway Porsche finds that Callaway did 38 Porsche 944's and 4 938's in the early 1980's... I'm uncertain where your knowledge came from, but Porsche was not their (Callaway) specialty... my intent in posting these comments is NOT to belittle or embarrass anyone... only to help further the true story of a great company...

@@eaunan Thanks...I should have stated before vettes and going on to his own cars he specialized in Porsche among others. I was going off his interview for the sledgehammer. Reeves Calloway is a fascinating genius. I highly recommend checking him out.

At least for the NA corvettes (never driven one of these turbo ones) they make torque pretty much from 2500 rpm with peak ~4500. You can definitely feel when it starts to fall off too, not just an ear thing, which is around 6000 rpm. These old V8’s really dont like to rev because they don’t flow really good

@@CharredSteak - TPI 350's make torque about 1000 - 3500... and HP peaks by 4500... just more noise above that...

Corvettes have had tachometers since about 1955... Obviously the torque peaks and backs off by low RPMs since the HP number isn't that high... probably 1500 - 3500 RPMs range... In fact porting the heads and adding a mild performance cam to the standard unturbo engine would give similar HP for just a few hundred dollars... or add Vortec heads or aftermarket heads...

@@BuzzLOLOL nowhere near the torque or gear multiplication though

Yap! Camaros had 5spd manual, but Corvette never had. This is the original Doug Nash 4spd.

Knows his way around a vette but doesn't know that they came with the 4+3 then the ZF 6speed

@@garylupini6393 yeah i struggle to believe he knew much about them prior to knowing he was going to drive it to be honest, all kinds of things in there that strongly suggest that... the pillow for one...

Nope, there just weren't any heavy duty 5 speeds or 6 speeds available back then, so they added an overdrive to a 4 speed... (1st gear would have given too much torque and broken the overdrive unit so they didn't allow it to work in 1st gear)... overdrives have been available since like the 1930's... next they bought the German ZF 6 speed... then BorgWarner/Muncie/Tremec started making a USA 6 speed 'T56'... then a 7 speed...

Was about to type the same.

European cars are overhyped for no reason. the majority of people who buy them never use them for its purpose.

Thank you Matt!