RADwood is the premier lifestyle event celebrating automotive culture of the ’80s and ’90s. It is the car show that blends period correct attire with killer music of the most radical era. This is a festival for cars, trucks, and motorcycles from 1980-1999…and awesome people of all ages.
For their 2nd SoCal event at the Port of LA Sat, Nov 9th, 2024, 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM at 2400 Miner Street, San Pedro, CA, they are coming back bigger and better than ever with live music on stage, an upgraded fashion contest, additional awards, VIP hospitality and more. Oh, and hundreds of rad rides on view, of course. Click here for tickets and information.
For Lincoln owners these years correspond primarily to models Mark VI, Mark VII and Mark III. The Mark VI was built from 1980-83, the Mark VII was introduced in 1983 for the 1984 model year and remained in production until 1992, while the Mark VIII was built from 1992 to 1998.
These models were popular with buyers and still pop up at car shows. The Mark VI series sold about 132,000 cars, while 190,000 Mark VIIs were built over a nine-year run. Mark VIII production was 122,000 units over a six-year span.
RADwood is a unique opportunity for our members and friends’ who own these vehicles to show off their rides and have collector car hobby fun at an event specifically geared to their era.
If your memory is a bit hazy of that timeframe or doesn’t extend back that far, remember that it began with the U.S. hockey win over the Russians at the 1980 Olympics and with Ronald Reagan riding to his inauguration in his Lincoln limo early in 1981after winning the 1980 election.
Princess Diana set the fashion style for a decade in her iconic puffy sleeved wedding dress in 1981 and pop music groups such as U2, Guns N’ Roses and Queen took the world by storm in the 1980s.
Julia Roberts lived the working girl’s happy ending with Richard Gere in 1990’s surprise hit movie Pretty Woman. The Yankees ended the decade as the team of the century by beating the Braves in the 1999 World Series and Angela Lansbury’s character, writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher, kept solving those TV mysteries on Murder She Wrote.
Finally, a colossal worldwide New Year’s Eve celebration on Dec 31, 1999 ended the period and the millenium, ushering in a new era, where both computers and chip-equipped vehicles kept on running despite the calendar flip to Y2K.
It has been a generation since that amazing night but RADwood So Cal gives all of us a chance to relive the highlights’ in cars and attire, and music. Why not plan to attend?
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