The 1980s brought us some brilliant car ads—and a few that were pretty awful. The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads.

Some of the fun of looking through old issues of POWDER is seeing all the things that have changed so much in skiing and some of the things that haven't! There are certainly some things in skiing that ...

I have a solid collection of automobile magazine ads from the 1950s and '60s, back when advertising was art and people like Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman created dramatic car illustrations. One of ...

Ah, innocence. How sweet it is. This ad was put out in the early days of GM's infamous X-Cars, when all Chevrolet thought they had to was convince buyers why a compact front-wheel-drive car was a good ...

The 1980s may not have been the best decade for cars —not for starters, at least—but it was a great decade for car ads. The malaise era was drawing to a close and the economy was picking up speed.