I can’t believe I didn’t connect the dots until now. (The movie premiered the month I was born.)

A still from "Terminator" showing Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) with messy, windswept hair sitting in a red Jeep Wrangler with a German Shepherd dog as her passenger. Both are viewed through the driver's window, with Sarah appearing youthful and the dog looking alert with its tongue out, against a colorful background. A red Jeep Wrangler Sport with its hard too removed, parked against a backdrop of evergreen trees. A German Shepherd sits alertly in the passenger seat with its tongue out, photographed in bright daylight showing the vehicle's rugged off-road tires and white fender flares.