Is there anyone over 55 who didn't have an Airfix 'Spitfire' in their bedroom?... (That's a model plane Cerny, not a model! )
I remember how exciting and dangerous the country felt (to me anyway) in '81, when all the shops were boarded up in West Drayton due to the rumours of copy cat riots happening during that summer......and then 'The Specials' released 'Ghost Town'....... SUPERB
Going to house parties and taking a 4 pack of Hofmeister 'follow the bear' Going to Bejams with my mum in a mk4 cortina
Looking back the '70's were probably the last years of freedom before the state woke up and using technology clamped down on all of us. Really miss the optimism of those years when a better world seemed just around the corner, there were no worries about catching something fatal by shagging around and it was possible to make a living by working hard. No credit cards, no credit checks, no crash helmets, no computers to speak of and a lot of freedom. Remember getting stopped with no licence, no tax, no insurance driving a Ford Taunus 12M with the old oval german export plates and a written off registration book and let go on my way by the traffic police. Great times.
I was thinking about those Col, and though it must have been crap for our parents, especially queuing for petrol and candles and not knowing when/if it was going to end, personally the only bind was no telly and having more time to push my younger brothers around.
1972 in the days before the UK joined the EU... And to think some nutters want to to go back there. Edit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland Use of retroactive legislation AKA "Ex post facto law", illegal and unconstitutional in 90% plus of the world's countries. Also in clear breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and European Human Rights Law. Shame on that twat Milliband.
Col, was that the time when EVERYONE seemed to be on strike ?? I can remember the power cuts almost every night and bags of rubbish across the road (literally a mountain of rotting waste) 'cos the bin man were on strike. What year was that ??
Tomorrow's world. Black beauty, loved the music Wurzel Gummidge HR Puff n stuff Proper boxing Ali, Frazier, Foreman, sugar Ray hearns and Duran Saint and Greavsie
Did anyone on here ever mastermind 'Flight Deck?' A bit of an Anna Kournikova that game. Looked good but was evidently useless.
Afghan Coats Platform Boots Cheesecloth shirts Loon Pants Patchouli Oil LED Watches Rubik Cubes Space Invaders Party Sevens (who forgot the tin opener? ) Austin Allagro (the only car with a swimming pool in the boot) The Sweeney (a real cop show) Minder Jim (Crisis, what crisis?) Callaghan Those really were the days, eh?...
Ah now, first cars is it? 1. Mk 2 Cortina with the rust painted over in London bus red courtesy of a mate in Alperton bus garage. 2. Mk 3 Cortina backseat shagmobile with a blown engine. 3. Ancient Capri donated by a mate working in the Dagenham factory. All Ford, all ****e bur all wonderful when compared to the anodyne stuff I've had ever since.
2.0 GT Capri, Monza Blue DMC 143J 1275 GT Mini Blue VAR 398M 2.3 Mk IV Cortina Jupiter Red WLE 614S Mk I Golf GTI Black KES 560X Mk II Golf GTI C977 KEV All great cars with great charachter. Now driving a Peugeot 407 2.0 HDi. Boring piece of ****, but it is a tool that allows me to do my job. Dallied with a 2.6 Audi convertible a couple of years ago, summer is on it's way so I might go 'topless' again!!
'70's and '80's cars? Renault 4 (6 volt 750cc 3 speed) Renault 12 (fantastic car, indestructable) Citroen Acadiane (spanish built with wind up windows) Innocenti Mini (rubbish) FIAT Ducato Maxi FIAT Panda 30
1974 mate. Coal miner strikes limited the amount of electricity that could be used, so the government introduced a 3 day working week to limit consumption. In 1978/9 we had the winter of discontent, when there were loads of strikes and rubbish piled up in the streets.
The whole situation was exacerbated by the collapse of the Greenwood Bank, unregulated at the time. How things have changed...........not!!!!!!!
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