Really? The End is Nigh..

[richatthecroft]

2 minutes ago, Roy said:

What was that milky solution NN used?

Not sure, it stunk to high heaven, my mother always went for the nuclear option of the extremely damning crew-cut...

[Roy]

4 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:

Hearing aid beige

Classic!

[Roy]

1 minute ago, richatthecroft said:

Not sure, it stunk to high heaven, my mother always went for the nuclear option of the extremely damning crew-cut...

Still adopted today. Mother and H.M. Gov. know best 

[richatthecroft]

5 minutes ago, Roy said:

Do you remember your first ATM card? I seem to recall 1980/82?

My mate used to say it was a fruit machine stuck on win...if only that was true, We were on £26 a week 

[Roy]

2 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:

Were on £26 a week 

Sounds familiar.

Beige you say?

[MickD]

3.0 litre S, Wolfrace alloys

[MickD]

1978 model, engine had 5K km on it, cost me DM 100 in around 1987 (sold for about DM 3,500), only about 120 bhp  think but acceleration was great.  Not too clever on corners, that was before limited slip diffs, and got through the exhaust system pretty quick.  But it had character.

[Tingles]

13 minutes ago, Roy said:

Oh, I miss those terribly.

Do you remember your first ATM card? I seem to recall 1980/82?

I used to store mine in the passenger sun visor in the Capri 😎

First ATM advertised in the UK, by comedy actor Reg Varney, Barclays Bank, Enfield, Middlesex in the 1960s.  My home town...

[richatthecroft]

Nice motor, bet you wish you owned it now, probably gone up in  much more value than holding any Silver...

No pic, but my first car, the Daytona Yellow Cortina had a quirk, I could only put £3.82 in petrol in it from the orange warning light...anymore it slurred out onto the road from the hole in the tank, happy days! 

[Roy]

1 minute ago, MickD said:

1978 model, engine had 5K km on it, cost me DM 100 in around 1987 (sold for about DM 3,500), only about 120 bhp  think but acceleration was great.  Not too clever on corners, that was before limited slip diffs, and got through the exhaust system pretty quick.  But it had character.

My favourite car. 138bhp out of the crate.

1 minute ago, Tingles said:

First ATM advertised in the UK, by comedy actor Reg Varney, Barclays Bank, Enfield, Middlesex in the 1960s.  My home town...

Really? I was a late adopter then 

[Roy]

1 minute ago, richatthecroft said:

Nice motor, bet you wish you owned it now, probably gone up in  much more value than holding any Silver...

No pic, but my first car, the Daytona Yellow Cortina had a quirk, I could only put £3.82 in petrol in it from the orange warning light...anymore it slurred out onto the road from the hole in the tank, happy days! 

See! An age lamented 

It ain't wot it used to be. 

He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

[Tingles]

1 minute ago, Roy said:

My favourite car. 138bhp out of the crate.

Really? I was a late adopter then 

Mine was an awful green Vauxhall Viva!

[richatthecroft]

...I’ll get you Butler...

[MickD]

First car was the orange Austin Allegro, kept it going with waste oil from the car club on camp, kind of used a lot.

[Xander]

20 minutes ago, Roy said:

Do you remember your first ATM card? I seem to recall 1980/82?

Those were the days when you could withdraw single one £ notes from the ATM.

[richatthecroft]

1 minute ago, MickD said:

 

First car was the orange Austin Allegro, kept it going with waste oil from the car club on camp, kind of used a lot.

 

You didn’t take advantage of a tax-free brand new motor then Mick? 😉

[Roy]

1 minute ago, Xander said:

Those were the days when you could withdraw single one £ notes from the ATM.

When £1 was all you needed

[richatthecroft]

1 minute ago, Xander said:

Those were the days when you could withdraw single one £ notes from the ATM.

It was a blessing on £26 a week!

[Roy]

2 minutes ago, Xander said:

Those were the days when you could withdraw single one £ notes from the ATM.

Germany Mick? Army or bricklayer (comedy tv program?)

[MickD]

I did towards the end of the tour (well two years old or so) but flogged it and came home with an old Cavalier.  Germany had a great second hand market for picking up cars and doing them up.

 

[richatthecroft]

Just now, Roy said:

When £1 was all you needed

Pint of John Smiths and 10 fags was well under a quid...

[MickD]

Just now, Roy said:

Germany Mick? Army or bricklayer (comedy tv program?)

RAF Bruggen on the Dutch border, four years.

 

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Cheap food, beer, petrol and extra pay for being there.

[Roy]

When driving was fun.

That would have been a nice, if long, drive back to Scotland?

[Roy]

3 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:

Pint of John Smiths and 10 fags was well under a quid...

UK Pint and fag index:

1980:

2018:

?

[richatthecroft]

1 minute ago, MickD said:

 

I did towards the end of the tour (well two years old or so) but flogged it and came home with an old Cavalier.  Germany had a great second hand market for picking up cars and doing them up.

 

 

My mate bought a brand new tax-free Austin Montego- why on earth I will never know, it was a right Friday afternoon at the factory car, hardly had any paint on it, and had an unidentifiable rattle on the inside. After a few months, he took the trim off the door, there was the rattle...an empty Hofmeister Lager can...follow the bear! 

The UK led the world in car building!