Terms of Endearment won best picture. The Soviet Union announced wanting to boycott the Olympics. The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
And this car is made:

No wonder George Orwell warned us about 1984. I thought that this car only existed in the realms of the Thunderdome, but it drove past me this morning.
I wonder how this Mustang is welcomed at Ford family reunions. The one that passed me this morning was green, if that works in its favor.
Semi-related posts:
Danjo the Magnificent had one of these in the early days. My experience with it would tend to validate your post, although if it had been green, our relationship might not exist.
I’m picturing a movie where with one car color change all of history is rewritten, but then I realize it’s not 1985.
I thought of Danjo when I saw the car.