The Dad of a friend of mine drove a black Ital

I don’t think they were actually drivable in any real sense but it did have a posh foreign name along with a weird curved radio.

Anyway decade of the Golf GTi all hail the king 🙂

Yep.

The Montego seemed a bit more refined.

Also, neither 1970s. 😁

I was 99% sure the talking car was the selling point of the Maestro, but after reading comments I’m second-guessing.

I thought it was Maestro/Montego shudder.

I’m trying to forget this stuff.

The nice stuff came out in the 80’s , RSTurbo MK1,RS500 Cossie , R205 GTi,Renault 5 turbo(maybe Gordoni turbo a bit earlier )and a little bit later the Sapphire Cossie, the 70’s stuff was er shite.

And don’t forget to fire up the Quattro 🙂

Oh and the music to go with all the above, I do wonder if after the grimness a new shiney future awaits with great music.

70’s stuff was shite aye right
Mk 1 Rs1600,Mexico,Rs2000
Droopsnoot Firenza, Datsun260z,Lotus Sunbeam
All these before ford went crappy with their fwd MK3 escorts

We had a Viva, red with a black vinyl roof. The only new car my dad ever bought new until he retired. My mum bought him wing mirrors for his birthday, it didn’t even come with them! L reg I think so 1972

My mum bought him wing mirrors for his birthday,

Gold! 😂

My dads Viva first one was bright yellow, second one was green. Then he moved to Fords (mum had a Fiesta – T Reg – Beige – and dad had an Escort – R reg – Red).

I myself was still in primary school by the end of the 70’s so more into lego than legs 😀

Ford – Fix Or Repair Daily. Fiat – Fix It Again Tony.

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.

recently sold ford capri

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.

**** 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:

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10937999/Rare-Ford-Capri-sells-world-record-75k-auction.html

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.