[SamAdams76]

I'm a big fan of The Cars. In the summer of 1978 when I was just 16, I was at Downtown Crossing in Boston and the band were having publicity photos taken for their debut album. I saw then in concert five times after that including the Door-to-Door tour in 1987 in which the stadium was only half full. That was kind of sad as I thought Door to Door was a great album. The band broke up for good shortly after that.

Never met any of them personally like you did. But their music definitely spoke to me and was a soundtrack of my alienated, turbulent youth!

Too bad about Benjamin Orr. He died too soon.

[ConservativeStatement]

I'm convinced they broke up before “Door to Door” at least emotionally. I agree with you abut D2D: a fine album that was caught between whatever issues happened at the time and perhaps societal, too, with the direction of music.

[dfwgator]

The Cars’ first album was just too good....they could never top that album no matter what they did.