I feel the same but you have go further back. Electronic fuel injection became mainstream in the 1980s 
Got your point. We should really dwell on it and get a feel for it all again.
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Totally modernised, with a Chevy engine with fuel injection=20 mi/gallon. Now the De Tomaso, OTOH…
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Awesome taste in cars!
The only “classic” car I ever owned was a 1987 Holden Calais VL turbo (5 spd manual). As the fuel-injected V8 motor had been delayed to the next series, so Holden used a Nissan turbocharged in-line 6 (from the Skyline), one of the best motors ever made, and this thing was a rocket for the time.
I sold it in 1997 for AUD 7000. Today, they sell for 20 times that, although getting parts is extremely difficult.
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In Australia I was driven around in a Holden Wantanna pickup.
I thought it was a native Australian name and it was only long after I left that I realized it was a Holden with a carrying capacity of one ton.
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If the belt line were slightly higher…
It should make awesome noise, but can you drive it like stolen or a museum piece?
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and this is the one that got away…(52,000 marks, OH thinks) but we didn’t have the money in the early 2000s, as we had just built a house. Now €300K-500K. Crap.
Here’s the guy we’ve sold to before.
https://youtu.be/lApNw37a4gI
Looks too much like an Alfa 
Indeed, these things were real sleepers. And like the Lotus S4, they had a very audible whistle when the hairdryer wound up to boost… 