Are we going back to the '70's?

Cockney said:
Dare I mention CB radio, good buddy? :D
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mex said:
10-4......

Anyway, one of my first cars was a 1979 Lada Riva, calling it s*** would be an insult to steaming turd. The Midland CB radio was probably worth more.
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I was big into the CB scene in the late 70's. That's what got me into Amateur Radio, and since then radio has been a large part of my life, both professionally and as a hobby.

Lada Riva.... The only car to be worth less than a 70's Skoda :LOL: Alpha made some great looking cars in the 70's, shame they had all rotted away by the 80's....
 
Jelster said:
I was big into the CB scene in the late 70's. That's what got me into Amateur Radio, and since then radio has been a large part of my life, both professionally and as a hobby.

Lada Riva.... The only car to be worth less than a 70's Skoda :LOL: Alpha made some great looking cars in the 70's, shame they had all rotted away by the 80's....
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It was common knowledge that an Alpha was the car that used least fuel during a twelve month, only because it would have been in a garage undergoing repairs for 11 of them.
 
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Cockney said:
I don't carry a toolkit now. Not much point on a modern car. It's not like you can change the water pump or clean the points.
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No, nor I, I was agreeing with the other Brian.

broc said:
I have reached 3 score plus 10.......
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I'm just a handful of years behind you in that case
Cockney said:
Dare I mention CB radio, good buddy? :D
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ON THE SIDE ! :D
Cockney said:
I'm assuming most of the above had the compulsory cassette/radio and seperate graphic equaliser/amp?
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Nothing but the best 8 track for me :D
 
Jelster said:
I was big into the CB scene in the late 70's. That's what got me into Amateur Radio, and since then radio has been a large part of my life, both professionally and as a hobby.

Lada Riva.... The only car to be worth less than a 70's Skoda :LOL: Alpha made some great looking cars in the 70's, shame they had all rotted away by the 80's....
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I loved my Sud. That and my 6 volt Beetle. Were probably my all time favourites.
 
Cobra said:
No, nor I, I was agreeing with the other Brian.


I'm just a handful of years behind you in that case

ON THE SIDE ! :D

Nothing but the best 8 track for me :D
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I Never got into 8 track.
 
I assume when we talk CB we're talking Auntie Mary?
 
VHS recorder with a 4 ft wired "remote" and a 14 day timer. :ROFLMAO:
 
Cockney said:
You couldn't get decent porn on Betamax. :exit:
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My old man had some, remember calling him a perverted loser, within a week the Betamax was gone and a shiny new VHS appeared, I obviously hit a nerve :ROFLMAO:
 
mex said:
It was common knowledge that an Alpha was the car that used least fuel during a twelve month, only because it would have been in a garage undergoing repairs for 11 of them.
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When I was foolishly considering a V6 Alfa 156 about 20 years ago my brother warned me off. "I bought 6 of those for my area managers, usually 4 of them are in for warranty work at any one time." That put a stop to me ever having an Alfa, and I know they say every petrolhead should have had at least one, but I missed that page of the book, luckily it seems....
 
You lot are all far too young:)
My very first car was a sit-up-and-beg Ford Popular, pre-war design and it had no qualities whatever.

All this talk of radios . . . wouldn't have been able to hear the radio even if it had one, but those of us who wanted to add luxury items went for things like indicators and an electric windscreen wiper. According to Wiki it had a vacuum wiper, but mine had a hand-operated one.
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tijuana taxi said:
Philips (Grundig too) 2000, great quality, but hardly any films for it.
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I agree, smaller and better quality reproduction. I wonder what went wrong?
To be fair my local blockbuster ( remember those? ) had a half decent selection.

Garry Edwards said:
My very first car was a sit-up-and-beg Ford Popular, pre-war design and it had no qualities whatever.
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One of my early cars was a long door TR2 1955 IIRC.
Massey Ferguson engine and the optional extra heater.
 
Snow, they don't do it like the 70's anymore.

I remember drifts 7 or 8 feet deep (in South Wales at the time) and a good 3 feet could fall in just a few hours. The front garden at my parent's house was elevated above the front foor and I dug a tunnel through it, up to the street. I would've been 9 or 10. We would also get sent home from school on occasion and also, we'd have 'snow days' when the school would be closed. If the school bus couldn't get up the hill, there'd be no school for us.

I recall telegraph poles, almost buried and when the snow plough went through, they would be. My mother often spoke about 1947 being a bad one but I remember at least 3 or 4 significant falls in my time as a lad during the 70's.

I'm suprised now living in Scotland, 40 odd years later and I'm yet to see a significant fall. The most I've seen here has been about a foot, 2010 I think it was. It's a bit different in the Highlands, they still get proper snow but not us.

I actually quite like snow.
 
Dale. said:
We would also get sent home from school on occasion
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They close schools here if there is a light dusting.
Not much more than a heavy frost TBH.

I remember driving through Rural norfolk a few years back, with the snow higher than the top of the van.
But that was down to a snowplough cutting through a single track road.
 
Garry Edwards said:
You lot are all far too young:)
My very first car was a sit-up-and-beg Ford Popular, pre-war design and it had no qualities whatever.

All this talk of radios . . . wouldn't have been able to hear the radio even if it had one, but those of us who wanted to add luxury items went for things like indicators and an electric windscreen wiper. According to Wiki it had a vacuum wiper, but mine had a hand-operated one.
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Ford Popular - Wikipedia

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My dad had one of those, my mum & aunt hand painted it sky blue using Dulux gloss paint.

Later he had a 100E, I learned to drive in an Anglia 105E
 
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lindsay said:
I loved my Capri Mk1 facelift 2.0GT, white with black vinyl roof. I blew up the engine in the Lake District, can't think how...
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You're obviously not a short person. My then boss sent me out in his new Capri to collect something for a client, I couldn't see then of the very long bonnet, he was lucky it didn't come back a lot shorter
He then put it at risk again when went out for lunch with another client, the entry to the car park was very narrow with a tight bend, mind you he had a few drinks with the meal s probably didn't notice
 
Gremlin said:
You're obviously not a short person. My then boss sent me out in his new Capri to collect something for a client, I couldn't see then of the very long bonnet, he was lucky it didn't come back a lot shorter
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I never could see the end of the bonnet in that car, especially with the long bulge because of the bigger engine.
 
Nod said:
Those spectacles must be very rose tinted!
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They probably are but it was love at the time.
Mind you I probably loved the first Mrs Cockeny (aka bitch from hell) once. ;)
 
Had a 3.0 blue Capri ... heater didn't work in the winter and nearly burnt your arm in the summer with the heat from the exhausts!
 
lindsay said:
I never could see the end of the bonnet in that car, especially with the long bulge because of the bigger engine.
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Being around 6 feet tall, it was never an issue for me.
I loved those cars.
 
Garry Edwards said:
You lot are all far too young:)
My very first car was a sit-up-and-beg Ford Popular, pre-war design and it had no qualities whatever.
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I started rebuilding one of those for myself when I was 14. The head and valves were bad, so I managed to find an Aquaplane head and a larger carburettor. All the rust was removed, replaced with good metal and repainted. Unfortunately (for me) my sister's car broke in a big way, so my pride, joy, sweat and tears were handed over to her and her husband, supposedly temporarily! I rarely saw it again, so did the same thing with a Wolseley 1500, which I drove at 17 (which they also "inherited" when I "moved on" to an MG Midget! )
 
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