The Oldies Thread

Woolly Blue said:
kin hell, that takes me back.
My dad had one of those, it was impossible to drop the arm without the stylus bouncing

They had one of these as well

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which apparently are now back in fashion
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I've seen clocks like that for sale, recently. Can't remember which shop, though
 


1980, 3 days before Xmas - my parents were out at a doctors convention, I was making Xmas decorations while the Flip Side Of Dominik Hyde was on TV, I loved that beeb one off. It was the last time I was ever truely me. I saw the Flipside spin off a year later and I wasn't me anymore. Shame, I was only 11. [video=youtube_share;q3n6fRLEY8U]http://youtu.be/q3n6fRLEY8U[/video]
 
noharmdone said:
Uno Turbo mate... Good mate of mine had a white one.. lightning !
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older cars were much better.... XR3I, xr2, sierra cosworth and sapphire to a lesser extent... Capri.. too many to mention but the 3 litre sport was a fav.... Cavalier SRI... astra GTE... Nova SRi.......... wow ..... mark 1 and 2 golf gti 8 valve.... some awesome cars in the 80's and early 90's mate.
 

Kurt said:
older cars were much better.... XR3I, xr2, sierra cosworth and sapphire to a lesser extent... Capri.. too many to mention but the 3 litre sport was a fav.... Cavalier SRI... astra GTE... Nova SRi.......... wow ..... mark 1 and 2 golf gti 8 valve.... some awesome cars in the 80's and early 90's mate.
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I have had ( in the last 10 years ) Two Xr2i's.. Rust got them.. Looked fantastic with wolfrace alloys Etc..
Back in the day I had a Golf Gti, used to race it along New Brighton dips against some of the cars you mention, one lad had a Capri 2.8i.. Jesus tonight, that was a car..
 
noharmdone said:
I have had ( in the last 10 years ) Two Xr2i's.. Rust got them.. Looked fantastic with wolfrace alloys Etc..
Back in the day I had a Golf Gti, used to race it along New Brighton dips against some of the cars you mention, one lad had a Capri 2.8i.. Jesus tonight, that was a car..
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Honestly mate, I left school in 92 and went to work as a lifeguard in a sport centre... Lad I worked with was also a qualified mechanic but had no interest in doing it as a job,,,, he was about 12 years older than me and he had a capri 3 litre sport in silver which he had garaged as he could not afford to insure or run it.... beast of a car, as an aside another friend of mine has an awesome job with railtrack, he's a structural engineer and he is the man who decides what repairs need to be done to the tracks in the North west so earns mega bucks... he buys cars for fun ... the only one he said he was ever scared of was a nissan skyline... never been in one myself but he reckoned it took ten miutes to warm up and when you got home yu had to wait ten mins before you could turn the ignition off... but on the road he would sh1t his pants driving it ha ha
 
Kurt said:
Honestly mate, I left school in 92 and went to work as a lifeguard in a sport centre... Lad I worked with was also a qualified mechanic but had no interest in doing it as a job,,,, he was about 12 years older than me and he had a capri 3 litre sport in silver which he had garaged as he could not afford to insure or run it.... beast of a car, as an aside another friend of mine has an awesome job with railtrack, he's a structural engineer and he is the man who decides what repairs need to be done to the tracks in the North west so earns mega bucks... he buys cars for fun ... the only one he said he was ever scared of was a nissan skyline... never been in one myself but he reckoned it took ten miutes to warm up and when you got home yu had to wait ten mins before you could turn the ignition off... but on the road he would sh1t his pants driving it ha ha
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My boss's lad, also a good mate, has an imported Scooby.. He has to do the warm up / warm down thing as well ?? Expensive motor that is. Never been in a sklyline though either ? For obvious reasons he hasnt let me have a go.. but, you know when your in a proper fast car, you get a little scared as a passenger ?
He describes driving it as ' you actually think its going to take off ! '
 
noharmdone said:
My boss's lad, also a good mate, has an imported Scooby.. He has to do the warm up / warm down thing as well ?? Expensive motor that is. Never been in a sklyline though either ? For obvious reasons he hasnt let me have a go.. but, you know when your in a proper fast car, you get a little scared as a passenger ?
He describes driving it as ' you actually think its going to take off ! '
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Too much Health and safety now mate ha ha... my absolute dream car would be the Escort Cosworth... the new one which was releasewd circa 1994ish...... like i said mate 50k when they were first on sale.... thats like 200k today for a feckin escort ha ha..... also would love an original RS2000..... we can all wish !!
 

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