As I go through my old 35mm negatives and slides and feed them into the scanner, I find all sorts of interesting car-related stuff. We saw what cash-challenged college students drove in 1990 and Southern California junkyard inventory in 1987, and now I've got a few car shots from Santa Ana, California, in 1993.
Back then, I was taking disposable 35mm cameras and reloading them with Kodak Tri-X film. I liked the look of the disposa-camera's images and shot quite a few bulk-loaded rolls this way. By 1993, the Renault Alliance (winner of Motor Trend's Car of the Year award in 1983 and the result of the bailout of AMC by the French government) had been out of production for six years. The Alliance did not hold its value well, and by 1993 most examples had already been delivered to the cold steel jaws of The Crusher.
The Pinto-based Mustang II was still a quasi-relevant car in 1993, though subject to a certain amount of ridicule. This one has mock-Centerline wheels, mismatched fender, and vinyl top, and we can assume that it joined the Alliance in the global steel-recycling market before the 1990s were over.
We need more car ads that show passengers riding in a cutaway version of a car.
The Germans and Japanese were terrified of the Mustang II, at least according to this 1978 ad.