That John Noakes video, I remember as a kid watching it and thinking how flipping scary it looked. Now I’m all grown up and watching it again, massive respect to him, madness (and in flares!)
And don’t forget to fire up the Quattro
I’ll make a note to remember when we hit the 80s.
Does this mean we get proper British hifi back ?
Don't know about hifi but I'll have hair!
recently sold ford capri
"While the eagle-eyed among you will notice the 'K' plate, suggesting it was registered in 1975,"
Nope, that would be the 'P' plate at the other end of the registration.
****ing hell I’ve just clicked on a Daily Heil link
Ah yes, the 1970's.
No one has mentioned Jimmy Saville yet...
Odd that.
Or Gary Glitter...
It’s a Knock Out!
Talbot-Matra Bagheera anyone 🙂
Oooh and Grange Hill.
Fingerbob
Yep with Yoffi, tbh no expenses spared on the budget for that.
Ralph Harris stylophone.
Rolf Harris?
Gary Glitter?
It’s a Knockout?
Surely it’s a Knock One Out?
That John Noakes video
I always remember the Bob sleigh one.
Was it the heat wave of '76 that resulted in the huge infestation* of ladybirds one Summer?
I remember crunching through them walking along the sea wall promenade at Sheerness, Sheppey. You literally couldn't avoid them, they were anywhere. Funny the things that stick in your mind decades later.
*I love the things but I suppose that's what it would have been referred to.
**** hell I’ve just clicked on a Daily Heil link
This is the original it's been uplifted verbatim from, should a neighbourhood moderator wish to edit it:
you’d generally have to drive along with the thing constantly telling you that you needed to refuel and put your seatbelt on.
Nothing much has changed, the nagging from the car has just got louder, and includes more things to nag you about.
The Hyundai I had, I nicknamed it Crosby. Because every time you did anything it went "Bing! Bing! Bing!"
I'm totally behind the need for seatbelt reminders; less so when it's complaining about a rucksack on the passenger seat.
Ah the 70's. Double denim, Status Quo and white dog shit
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The Hyundai I had, I nicknamed it Crosby. Because every time you did anything it went “Bing! Bing! Bing!”
Mine does that. You have to put your seatbelt on before starting it, otherwise you get binged at. There are still some bings that I don't know what they are for, even though they are loud and annoying.
You know when a car in front drives off at the lights and someone behind you beeps instantly before you even have a chance to respond? The actual car does that for you. "Car in front is moving on" YES thanks I know, I was just moving my foot from the brake give me a second. Turn the car off? Bing, there is a device in the wireless charger - yes, thanks, I know that too, I was just reaching for it.
i dont remember much slagging off of the Viva
I think you miss-remember… it was the butt of jokes, and deservedly so. My first car. Didn’t even keep it long enough to take my test. Awful thing in every way.
We had a Viva. Sport apparently...
Overiding memories of that car were jammed on heater, super heated vinyl seats, smell of isopon/spray paint of a Saturday afternoon.
Journeys in that car seemed to take forever interspersed with pushing it.
The next car was a 1983 Datsun Stanza.
Way better but almost as fast to rust.
My grandads Vauxhall Magnum was cool though, 2.3 litre I think. I saw it again in the nineties long after he passed, so someone thought it was cool enough to keep going.
Fingerbob?
Is that an instruction or reference to some sexual deviancy - or both?
I remember making the tortoise at primary school...
My dad had a MkII Escort - navy blue with black vinyl seats. Wearing shorts as a child was an act of cruelty and I swear I still have scars from the singed flesh on the backs of my legs from sitting on those seats in the summer 🙁 I was also a member of the Boys Brigade - we had a football team - and to get to matches or practice we'd be loaded into a mkII transit with no seats in the back - just 2 of those wooden school benches. Made going round corners interesting. Mind, it was preferable to be loaded into the boot of an Austin Maxi
My Dad bought an S-reg Lancia Beta in 1978 (I think), I remember being plonked into this poo-brown car that had banana-yellow seat fabric when he collected it from the dealership. Fourteen years later, the ex-Lancia salesman was a driving instructor and got me through my driving test.
The Lancia was Ziebarted from new and never went rusty - not that it mattered with turd-coloured paintwork - and in the seven years my dad owned it only broke down once.
Was it the heat wave of ’76 that resulted in the huge infestation* of ladybirds one Summer?
iirc, there was first a huge infestation of greenfly, which ladybugs feed on so then causing the ladybugs infestation.
never went rusty – not that it mattered with turd-coloured paintwork
I remember my grandad buying a 'Russet Brown' Allegro with exactly this reasoning, that it wouldn't show the rust. When buying a brand new car.
Looks more like the 1920s/1930s to me
I grew up in the 70's. I remember the queens Jubilee in 1977, my parents made a "Royal carriage" by covering my pedal car in tin foil.
spent most of the 70's collecting Star Wars Figures and playing "ChIps" on my Raleigh chopper.
My dad had some cool cars, a Volve Estate (66)3 Door in Yellow, Mk1 Ford escort, Viva (which caught fire) then an MGBGT. My grandad had a Hillman IMP California
I was only born in '77 but as it was in East Hull, growing up in the early eighties was a very seventies experience. Nobody had anything new, Raleigh Choppers, hand-me-down parkas, NHS specs, even the books in school were at least 20 years old. Weirdly, amongst the regular Viva's and Mk1 Escorts on our terraced street, there was an old Rolls Royce Silver Cloud.
I told the other kids at school my dad had a convertible. It was a 2CV.
Does anyone remember the SMP Maths books in school?
We had the SPMG books. Scottish Maths Primary Group. I quite liked those.
At our Primary, among the usual primary school teachers, the usual fuddy duddy ones, we had a teacher called Emma Johnson (Miss). She looked a bit like Maggie Philbin and she was awesomely cool.
She used to ride into school on a motrorbike everyday. I cant remember what kind it was, so if memory serves, it would have been like a Suzuki GS550 or similar.
I got her for the year in 1981 at primary.
I loved SMP Maths. I was just given the book and allowed to get on with it for 2 years.
Does anyone remember the SMP Maths books in school?
Yup, we had those.
And, Alpha / Beta Mathematics.
Can anyone remember the flip boards with pictures that the teachers would attach another piece of paper with words on with paper clips.
Does anyone remember the SMP Maths books in school?
We had SMP boxes. I completed them all a year or two(?) early. My 'house' that I was team leader of always won the team points competition. I had to compete against the year above in sports to level things up - and the head teacher gave me dogs abuse and told me to buck my ideas up on the last day of primary school because my hippie parents took me out for the odd day. I hated school
We had those Alpha-Beta books too.
I also remember reading the Enid Blyton books The Enchanted Wood and The magic Faraway Tree.
We also played Top Trumps and collected the Super Hero cards!
The big memory I have from the 70’s with cars , apart from the rust/reliability is that in Bristol,St George (opposite the park)
There really wasn’t many in the street probably 4 or 5
@51.459388,-2.546507,176.53h,-23.11p,1.18z,xlRXfiIIkNfhZ-LHfWwNUw">young DoD stomping ground
Whereas when I have nostalgically driven up it’s wall to wall car.
The magic Faraway Tree.
We used to all have to sit cross legged on the mat whilst it was read to us.
Well when some-one wasn’t having their mouth washed out with soap.
Tbh that must have worked as I only remember seeing it done once.
Kojack!
Kojack!