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" In the mid-eighties, Honda rained new\u00A0scooters upon America, and the first storm clouds signaling the coming\u00A0of the two-wheeled machines came in the form of\u00A0a tremendous ad campaign.\u00A0 Starting with an appearance in The\u00A0Terminator (Oct, 1984), and peaking in 1985, the Honda Elite managed to make commercial\u00A0appearances with many of the mid-eighties hippest weirdos.\u00A0 It didn&amp;#039;t hurt that the Elite was a great little scooter. It was peppy, angular, and it sported a flip-up headlight. All 80&amp;#039;s values, if there were such things. While Honda car ads hawked\u00A0class, comfort, and Japanese quality\u00A0with Burgess Meredith narration, the Elite ads were pure 80&amp;#039;s ephemera. And they&amp;#039;re fantastic. In 1985\u00A0Lou Reed would play Farm Aid, bask in good reviews for New Sensations,\u00A0and\u00A0also sit on a scooter and look cool for Honda:      I can&amp;#039;t imagine anything more 1980&amp;#039;s than this video, and then I do the math and realize that\u00A0the head at the top of the Devo\u00A0pyramid,\u00A0Mark Mothersbaugh, was cooking up music for Pee-Wee Herman\u00A0:      Grace Jones had adorned the cover of every fashion magazine, recently starred in Conan the Barbarian and played alongside Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill. As if she needed more 1980&amp;#039;s credentials, the ear in her mouth belongs to Goody Two Shoes\u00A0himself,\u00A0Adam Ant:      Chicago Bears quarterback\u00A0Jim McMahon Super Bowl\u00A0shuffled his way into this ad\u00A0appearance. Amusingly,\u00A0the video played out to the end, played back in reverse, and then ended. On TV:      Miles Davis. Because\u00A0Miles. Frickin. Davis:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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