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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 20 April 2020, 13:21:07
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Both car related and otherwise.
Opening quarter lights
5 star petrol
Babies in prams left unattended outside shops
The big old penny
Contact breaker sets.
Some more.
8 track player.
Friendly old men from Barnsley.
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Ah, the good old contact breaker set, where you got to play with your feeler gauges. :y And then a company called Sparkrite came along and took all the fun out of it. ;D
I have a big old penny somewhere, along with a lot of other old currency coins, but sadly it's not the year that's worth a lot of money. :'(
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Ah, the good old contact breaker set, where you got to play with your feeler gauges. :y And then a company called Sparkrite came along and took all the fun out of it. ;D
I have a big old penny somewhere, along with a lot of other old currency coins, but sadly it's not the year that's worth a lot of money. :'(
I have a ten bob note somewhere.Pink, I think.
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Green Shield Stamps..
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I have a big old penny somewhere, along with a lot of other old currency coins, ...
I've got one of these from 1889 ... a Victorian Crown 5/- ... They're huge
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/PXgAAOSwtkhelHKH/s-l1600.jpg)
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Victorian crown sounds so much better than 25p piece. :y
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I have a big old penny somewhere, along with a lot of other old currency coins, ...
I've got one of these from 1889 ... a Victorian Crown 5/- ... They're huge
That one certainly is ;D
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I have a big old penny somewhere, along with a lot of other old currency coins, ...
I've got one of these from 1889 ... a Victorian Crown 5/- ... They're huge
That one certainly is ;D
I thought there was a certain irony when the eBay picture was that big! ;D ;D
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Clothes racks that dangle from the ceiling, with a set of pulleys that would fox a mountaineer.
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Clothes racks that dangle from the ceiling, with a set of pulleys that would fox a mountaineer.
because ceilings are so much lower these days ... ;)
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Outside toilets
Frost inside bedroom window
Woolworths
Saturday morning kids cinema
Chocolate cigarettes
Tobacco advertising
Wooden escalators
B&W TVs
To name just a few :y
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Decent omegas
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Girls in hotpants & thigh length boots.
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Girls in hotpants & thigh length boots.
Clearly looking in the wrong places ;D
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Girls in hotpants & thigh length boots.
I have pictures of th.........no I dont.....I have pictures of motor cars in my man drawer.
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Girls in hotpants & thigh length boots.
I have pictures of th.........no I dont.....I have pictures of motor cars in my man drawer.
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Not pics Stemo, the real thing everywhere in South London in the seventies great times then 😉
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Girls in hotpants & thigh length boots.
I have pictures of th.........no I dont.....I have pictures of motor cars in my man drawer.
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Not pics Stemo, the real thing everywhere in South London in the seventies great times then 😉
A glimpse of pubic bush as they climbed into a bright orange Bond Bug perhaps. ;)
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When miniskirts first came in, girls still wors stockings and suspenders and the view when following them upstairs on a London bus was an education!
Oh, my blood pressure..... ::) :y
Ron.
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Dirty bitches, need a damn good spanking! OOOOOOO.......AHHHHHHH.......that's better.... ;D
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Dirty bitches, need a damn good spanking! OOOOOOO.......AHHHHHHH.......that's better.... ;D
I've put a fair few across my knee when correction has been required. :)
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Stockings & suspenders , great memories of when I was in the London Ambulance Service knew a nurse who kept them on especially for me 😁 now she was a dirty bitch.
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Stockings & suspenders , great memories of when I was in the London Ambulance Service knew a nurse who kept them on especially for me 😁 now she was a dirty bitch.
So much better than tights.
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"Running in please pass"stickers in the rear windows of new cars.
A Tiger tail hanging from round the fuel filler cap.
Esso Blue "men" keyrings.
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"Running in please pass"stickers in the rear windows of new cars.
A Tiger tail hanging from round the fuel filler cap.
Esso Blue "men" keyrings.
Bullet holes stickers.
Put a tiger in your tank.
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"Running in please pass"stickers in the rear windows of new cars.
A Tiger tail hanging from round the fuel filler cap.
Esso Blue "men" keyrings.
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Recently bought of eBay a Esso petrol pump lifesize plastic poster complete with Tiger head logo, now on the wall in my mancave ( double garage) .
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"Running in please pass"stickers in the rear windows of new cars.
A Tiger tail hanging from round the fuel filler cap.
Esso Blue "men" keyrings.
250 tiger tails trailing from multiple aerials on scooters.
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Sharon and Darren strips above driver and passenger in the eighties.
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Nodding dogs on parcel shelf.
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Cars with their arse ends raised[a popular "mod" in the '70s]usually with a silver painted rear axle and an aftermarket rear foglamp mounted to shine forwards onto it.
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Stick on Garfield cats in Windows. ;D
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Wog box.....as beloved by the youth of the 80/90s.
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Directional indicator arms that came out like an arm.
Hand signals
Blue exhaust smoke from so many vehicles
Rust Holes all over cars bodywork
Full bench seats front as well as back
No seat belts
Chrome trim all over.
Cars with American styling and wings
Thick tar being spread from the back of a lorry, then grit racked over the top - oh, the lovely smell 8)
Petrol station attendants filling your car with petrol and checking the oil
Petrol and oil only sold in gallons
Policemen on point duty with checkered bracelets around their coat sleeves
Bells on emergency vehicles ringing when on a 999 - wonderful as a child 8)
Fire engines with ladders having big wheels on the end of them
Double de-clutching
Chokes
Cross-ply tyres
Drum brakes all round
No power steering so big steering wheels
Cigarette ash and stubs spilling out of the ash trays and all over the interior
Male drivers smoking pipes
Stick on rear screen heater de-misters
Roof racks
Nodding dogs
Tax discs
Spare wheel on the boot lid
Many people going to the pub and driving when well over a limit that didn’t then exist
Side valve engines
Tappets
Small red covered licence book
........just so much that has gone into history!
;D ;D :)
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Directional indicator arms that came out like an arm.
Hand signals
Blue exhaust smoke from so many vehicles
Rust Holes all over cars bodywork
Full bench seats front as well as back
No seat belts
Chrome trim all over.
Cars with American styling and wings
Thick tar being spread from the back of a lorry, then grit racked over the top - oh, the lovely smell 8)
Petrol station attendants filling your car with petrol and checking the oil
Petrol and oil only sold in gallons
Policemen on point duty with checkered bracelets around their coat sleeves
Bells on emergency vehicles ringing when on a 999 - wonderful as a child 8)
Fire engines with ladders having big wheels on the end of them
Double de-clutching
Chokes
Cross-ply tyres
Drum brakes all round
No power steering so big steering wheels
Cigarette ash and stubs spilling out of the ash trays and all over the interior
Male drivers smoking pipes
Stick on rear screen heater de-misters
Roof racks
Nodding dogs
Tax discs
Spare wheel on the boot lid
Many people going to the pub and driving when well over a limit that didn’t then exist
Side valve engines
Tappets
Small red covered licence book
........just so much that has gone into history!
;D ;D :)
Rose Tinted Spectacles :)
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I've still got one of the little red covered book licences in a drawer with the petrol ration coupon booklet from the mid 70s :o
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Hand signals :-X
Blue exhaust smoke from so many vehicles
Rust Holes all over cars bodywork
No seat belts
Cross-ply tyres
Cigarette ash and stubs spilling out of the ash trays and all over the interior
Male drivers smoking pipes
Roof racks
Many people going to the pub and driving when well over a limit that didn’t then exist
Still got plenty of FORD drivers and Ford cars round these parts Lizzie ;D :D
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Ghetto BlasterWog box.....as beloved by the youth of the 80/90s.
Still got mine and it resides in my garage where I can blast out my old U2, Simple Minds and INXS tapes to my hearts content! ;D
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You DO still see hand signals, ut I can't seem to find their meaning in the Highway Code!
Ron.
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Directional indicator arms that came out like an arm.
Hand signals
Blue exhaust smoke from so many vehicles
Rust Holes all over cars bodywork
Full bench seats front as well as back
No seat belts
Chrome trim all over.
Cars with American styling and wings
Thick tar being spread from the back of a lorry, then grit racked over the top - oh, the lovely smell 8)
Petrol station attendants filling your car with petrol and checking the oil
Petrol and oil only sold in gallons
Policemen on point duty with checkered bracelets around their coat sleeves
Bells on emergency vehicles ringing when on a 999 - wonderful as a child 8)
Fire engines with ladders having big wheels on the end of them
Double de-clutching
Chokes
Cross-ply tyres
Drum brakes all round
No power steering so big steering wheels
Cigarette ash and stubs spilling out of the ash trays and all over the interior
Male drivers smoking pipes
Stick on rear screen heater de-misters
Roof racks
Nodding dogs
Tax discs
Spare wheel on the boot lid
Many people going to the pub and driving when well over a limit that didn’t then exist
Side valve engines
Tappets
Small red covered licence book
........just so much that has gone into history!
;D ;D :)
That's still how they resurface the roads around here every two or three years... ::)
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Ghetto BlasterWog box.....as beloved by the youth of the 80/90s.
Still got mine and it resides in my garage where I can blast out my old U2, Simple Minds and INXS tapes to my hearts content! ;D
Same here. :y Twin cassette decks, CD player (as it's a later style one) and radio with a big speaker on either end. It still sounds pretty good as well. :y
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Ghetto BlasterWog box.....as beloved by the youth of the 80/90s.
Still got mine and it resides in my garage where I can blast out my old U2, Simple Minds and INXS tapes to my hearts content! ;D
Same here. :y Twin cassette decks, CD player (as it's a later style one) and radio with a big speaker on either end. It still sounds pretty good as well. :y
Mine is too early for the CD player, but the speakers are detachable for that wider stereo sound and also has a graphic equaliser! 8)
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Robinson Golliwog badges, Alf garnet, Love thy neighbour, Bedford S electricity lorries, Tankers full of club beers. Chef beans and bacon.
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These are now back :-
Hungry children
common incurable diseases
limbless service men
Independent UK
RN aircraft carriers
RAF Vstol fighters
Village idiots, he lives next door
Vauxhall Viva
Fiat 500
Beavers
sea eagles
Red kites
Otters
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Mine is too early for the CD player, but the speakers are detachable for that wider stereo sound and also has a graphic equaliser! 8)
You posh bugger ;) mine was my uncle's, a twin tape AM/FM/LW radio jobbie. Also had a Mic plug so you could use it as a PA or record your karaoke.
Used to live in my garage/shed for listening to radio 1 or TMS on long wave until it went bang one day. :-[
Shows how long ago I got rid as it's closer to two decades ago than one since I thought radio 1 was an acceptable station. ;D
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White dog turds ::)
Used to have to dodge them on our walk to school in the 1970's
Never did work out what the poor dogs were eating :-\
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Prime Ministers ...
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Prime Ministers ...
Oh I don't know, the war criminal seems to pop up regularly to share his thoughts.... ::)
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Ghetto BlasterWog box.....as beloved by the youth of the 80/90s.
Still got mine and it resides in my garage where I can blast out my old U2, Simple Minds and INXS tapes to my hearts content! ;D
Do you have a large dent in your shoulder where it rested? :)
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Prime Ministers ...
Oh I don't know, the war criminal seems to pop up regularly to share his thoughts.... ::)
During this last week, every single news channel has been treating him as though he were the Messiah, and seemingly hoping he was about to announce his second coming. Its beyond belief how deluded these people are !
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So.. in short, he’s a TW&T
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Prime Ministers ...
Oh I don't know, the war criminal seems to pop up regularly to share his thoughts.... ::)
During this last week, every single news channel has been treating him as though he were the Messiah, and seemingly hoping he was about to announce his second coming. Its beyond belief how deluded these people are !
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy :D
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Directional indicator arms that came out like an arm.
Hand signals
Blue exhaust smoke from so many vehicles
Rust Holes all over cars bodywork
Full bench seats front as well as back
No seat belts
Chrome trim all over.
Cars with American styling and wings
Thick tar being spread from the back of a lorry, then grit racked over the top - oh, the lovely smell 8)
Petrol station attendants filling your car with petrol and checking the oil
Petrol and oil only sold in gallons
Policemen on point duty with checkered bracelets around their coat sleeves
Bells on emergency vehicles ringing when on a 999 - wonderful as a child 8)
Fire engines with ladders having big wheels on the end of them
Double de-clutching
Chokes
Cross-ply tyres
Drum brakes all round
No power steering so big steering wheels
Cigarette ash and stubs spilling out of the ash trays and all over the interior
Male drivers smoking pipes
Stick on rear screen heater de-misters
Roof racks
Nodding dogs
Tax discs
Spare wheel on the boot lid
Many people going to the pub and driving when well over a limit that didn’t then exist
Side valve engines
Tappets
Small red covered licence book
........just so much that has gone into history!
;D ;D :)
Rover 2000/2200/3500 comes to mind from my youth.
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So.. in short, he’s an Onanistic sociopathic megalomaniac kuntzenberg.
Fixed for accuracy...
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Prime minister?
Are we talking about that nice Mr Major or Tory Tony? ::)
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Prime minister?
Are we talking about that nice Mr Major or Tory Tony? ::)
Tone E B Liar...
Noone has ever talked about John Major... ::) apart from possibly when it came out that he'd been banging Edwina :o
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MK2 Ford Zephyr or Zodiac convertibles, my uncle had one around 1963 when I was 9 years old I absolutely loved going out in that car.
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Rover 2000/2200/3500 comes to mind from my youth.
That'll be the P6 ;)
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So.. in short, he’s an Onanistic sociopathic megalomaniac kuntzenberg.
Fixed for accuracy...
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Yes thanks for that, looking back I was Far too kind :y
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Rover 2000/2200/3500 comes to mind from my youth.
That'll be the P6 ;)
My brother owned a 1970 (H) 3500 auto complete with strip speedo.
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MK2 Ford Zephyr or Zodiac convertibles, my uncle had one around 1963 when I was 9 years old I absolutely loved going out in that car.
Yes I had a Zodiac Mk3 lovely car I really liked it but was too you g to appreciate it unfortunately and it didn’t last me long :( I remember it had a huge back box running transversely with the car it weighed a bloody ton! (Fell off a few times) :'(
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Rover 2000/2200/3500 comes to mind from my youth.
That'll be the P6 ;)
My brother owned a 1970 (H) 3500 auto complete with strip speedo.
I remember them,rev counter and clock in a pod next to said speedo :y
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I was expecting somebody to list it.......so now I will:
Starting handles
Remember those times you kept turning the engine over after getting a flat battery, or one that needed added human effort, to get the engine started. If it kicked back you could break your wrist.
You used it also to adjust things like the tappets.
Oh what horrible memories of doing that all in the rain or snow! :P :P
;D ;)
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Last car we had with a starting handle was in 1986...
A Citroen 2CV :D
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Last car we had with a starting handle was in 1986...
A Citroen 2CV :D
;D ;D I bet when you turned the starting handle the car would turn over, scrapping those infamous door handles on the ground again :D :D ;)
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Never failed to start 8)
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Those hugely long "whip" aerials that used to have the free end clipped to the rain gutter above the doors.
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There are sub pikey types here abouts with those still...
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Those hugely long "whip" aerials that used to have the free end clipped to the rain gutter above the doors.
With a fox tail on the end..
I've got a 9ft stainless 1/4 whip antenna in the garage, never clipped it back.
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Telephones with a rotary dial. :)
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Telephones with a rotary dial. :)
On that note, payphones :'(
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Kids sitting on pub steps eating arrowroot biscuits.
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Wireless running off an accumulator.
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Sheep rummaging in dustbins :y
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Ford V8 Pilots & Bubble cars. Loads round South London when I was a kid.
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Fordson Major, David Brown and 'Little Grey Fergie' tractors. :)
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Wireless running off an accumulator.
Wow, that took me back a few years! In my short-trouser days, I used to go with my grandfather to the village to exchange his accumulater for a fully charged one: cost sixpence!
Of course, due to the arduous bus ride he had to refresh himself in the pub next door.....
Ron.
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Those hugely long "whip" aerials that used to have the free end clipped to the rain gutter above the doors.
Oh yes! I had them on my first company Cortina estate 8) 8) 8) :D :D :D ;D ;D ;)
The radio reception never improved though! ::) ::) :)
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Never failed to start 8)
No, joking aside about the 2CV's, they did seem to be reliable cars that were loved 8) 8) ;)
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Kids sitting on pub steps eating arrowroot biscuits.
Women wearing a head scarf pulling a small-wheeled shopping trolley behind them.
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https://youtu.be/lyXS9qTsb3U (https://youtu.be/lyXS9qTsb3U)
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Kids sitting on pub steps eating arrowroot biscuits.
Women wearing a head scarf pulling a small-wheeled shopping trolley behind them.
................and with a untipped cigarette hanging from their gob, but with the curlers in their hair well protected by the scarf ;D ;D ;)
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Cars parking almost anywhere they like, with no traffic wardens :D ;)
..........but streets almost empty of motor vehicles parked up ;D ;D :)
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Cars, especially taxis, continually blaring out Speedy Gonzales by Pat Boone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4s2AMKPHnE
Well on Maltese streets in 1962 and 63 anyway! 8) 8) 8) ;)
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I met Pat Boone in the mid 70,s. He was as boring as I expected him to be.
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Kids sitting on pub steps eating arrowroot biscuits.
Women wearing a head scarf pulling a small-wheeled shopping trolley behind them.
................and with a untipped cigarette hanging from their gob, but with the curlers in their hair well protected by the scarf ;D ;D ;)
Still see that here, roll ups though.
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Classy ;)
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Classy ;)
I believe STMO lives two doors down from Andy Capp.
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Promotional films like this clicky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERZBoUfHY8)
sounds like good stuff ;D :D
maybe we can use it to make masks and gowns :P
Lizzie might like to watch the video anyway for all the history
and another....
firestone brakes clicky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eugWRMfycss) 8)
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Promotional films like this clicky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OERZBoUfHY8)
sounds like good stuff ;D :D
maybe we can use it to make masks and gowns :P
Lizzie might like to watch the video anyway for all the history
and another....
firestone brakes clicky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eugWRMfycss) 8)
Oh yes! The great days of the wonder of asbestos and how it could do all and solve all!
Shame it has and will continue to kill so many :'( :'(
The virus has nothing on that stuff :o :o
Love the American cars, just as we used to see on the old black & white tv’s in programmes like Highway Patrol, Dr. Kildare, Whirly Birds, Perry Mason, etc 8) 8) 8)
The 1959 Chevrolet Impala, with the huge gull wings, will always be my favourite :-* :-* ;)
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Are there any trolley buses[as opposed to trams]in use these days?
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Are there any trolley buses[as opposed to trams]in use these days?
Yes, I believe at an open museum or two in this country. ;)
They should make a return to regular street use! 8) 8) ;)
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Classy ;)
I believe STMO lives two doors down from Andy Capp.
Pops round to see Flo when Andy is down the boozer.
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Classy ;)
I believe STMO lives two doors down from Andy Capp.
Pops round to see Flo when Andy is down the boozer.
That's Newcastle, plebs. ;D
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Cameras with film in them.
Polaroid cameras.
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Classy ;)
I believe STMO lives two doors down from Andy Capp.
Pops round to see Flo when Andy is down the boozer.
That's Newcastle, plebs. ;D
Newcastle or Barnsley?......is there a difference? It's always grim up norf. :)
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Cameras with film in them.
Polaroid cameras.
Great for taking 'personal' photographs of ladybits. :y
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Cameras with film in them.
Polaroid cameras.
Great for taking 'personal' photographs of ladybits. :y
You still can,, buy them :y
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polaroid-Originals-9009-Finder-Instant/dp/B07C5FVGHZ?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_2
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Cameras with film in them.
Polaroid cameras.
Our Opti would remember the plate cameras :D :D ;)
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Cameras with film in them.
Polaroid cameras.
Our Opti would remember the plate cameras :D :D ;)
As a very small boy I was gifted an old box brownie by an elderly aunt. :y :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Test card
Disappearing little white dot when you turn the TV off
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Yes and National Anthem at Midnight :)
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Cameras with film in them.
Polaroid cameras.
Our Opti would remember the plate cameras :D :D ;)
As a very small boy I was gifted an old box brownie by an elderly aunt. :y :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
My mum got an old Kodak 127 film camera for me; fold down front with lens and bellows. Trouble was I then started, what I still love doing, taking lots of photos - or at least tried to but mum objected to paying for the film then developing costs ::) ::) :'( :'( :'(
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Test card
Disappearing little white dot when you turn the TV off
Waiting for the telly to warm up.
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Watneys Red Barrel, Worthington E, Double diamond.
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British miners.
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Watneys Red Barrel, Worthington E, Double diamond.
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Wow that's a reminder of my youth 😁
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White Lightning anyone? :D
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Watneys Red Barrel, Worthington E, Double diamond.
Party Seven......and I think there was also a party four for people who couldn't hold their drink (or were too tight to buy a party seven)
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Test card
Disappearing little white dot when you turn the TV off
Paying for a black and white TV licence when you owned a colour television. Now sadly stopped. :'(
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Spangles
Bomb sites
Bakelite telephones, especially on tables in your hall
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Spangles
Bomb sites
Bakelite telephones, especially on tables in your hall
No telephone indoors, but a walk to the closest call box
A waiting list for the GPO to fit one ;D ;D ;D ;)
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Spangles
Bomb sites
Bakelite telephones, especially on tables in your hall
No telephone indoors, but a walk to the closest call box
A waiting list for the GPO to fit one ;D ;D ;D ;)
Aztec bar
Bar Six
Mint Cracknel.......which was f*ucking horrible.
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Petrol rationing, still got some for the next time. Fortunately we had a garage so I rarely needed them. 8)
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Red-Ex dispensers[1d a shot] by the pumps on petrol station forecourts.
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Also 2 stroke dispensers on forecourts.
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Christians saying there being oppressed.
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kim jong un :-X
until the funeral
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Blue fibreglass invalid carriages.
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Blue fibreglass invalid carriages.
Ah yes......I remember the spaz chariots or as we used to call them at school. Always light blue in colour. :y
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Mass gatherings on company car parks to vote for yet another strike :D
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Blue fibreglass invalid carriages.
Invacar made in South Wales. A lot of them were shipped out on BR Lowfit wagons to all corners of the country.
https://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/brlowfit
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There is a fella on the Autoshite forum who collects them.
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Blue fibreglass invalid carriages.
Ah yes......I remember the spaz chariots or as we used to call them at school. Always light blue in colour. :y
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When I was a kid in South London there was a small lockup that used to service/repair them it was owned by a disabled fellow who actually drove a huge Cadillac Eldorado .
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There is a fella on the Autoshite forum who collects them.
There's always some one. ;)
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There is a fella on the Autoshite forum who collects them.
I seem to remember top gear destroying a few playing one of their games with them.
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Air raid sirens being tested still in the sixties.
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https://youtu.be/erMO3m0oLvs
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https://youtu.be/erMO3m0oLvs
Not much of a tune ;D
they still sounded them in the 1970s where I lived :)
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A tune you won’t forget though👍 :y
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I remember them sounding the air raid siren here as a kid and we all thought it was the Russians on their way or the 4 minute warning! :o ::)
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There is a fella on the Autoshite forum who collects them.
There's always some one. ;)
The same applies to the Morris Marina and Austin All-aggro.
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Blue fibreglass invalid carriages.
Ah yes......I remember the spaz chariots or as we used to call them at school. Always light blue in colour. :y
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When I was a kid in South London there was a small lockup that used to service/repair them it was owned by a disabled fellow who actually drove a huge Cadillac Eldorado .
8.2 litres and FWD. :).....or am I thinking of the Oldsmobile Toronado?
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Blue fibreglass invalid carriages.
Ah yes......I remember the spaz chariots or as we used to call them at school. Always light blue in colour. :y
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When I was a kid in South London there was a small lockup that used to service/repair them it was owned by a disabled fellow who actually drove a huge Cadillac Eldorado .
8.2 litres and FWD. :).....or am I thinking of the Oldsmobile Toronado?
Either or... ;)
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Further to my mention of road replacement...........
Steam Rollers were being used in my childhood, and I loved them. :-* :-*
Don’t see them laying road surfaces today! :'( :'(
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Further to my mention of road replacement...........
Steam Rollers were being used in my childhood, and I loved them. :-* :-*
Don’t see them laying road surfaces today! :'( :'(
Doubt they were steam rollers, Lizzie. Road rollers, maybe.
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Those little parking lights white light to front,red to rear that clipped over the edge of the window for when a car was parked by the roadside during the night.
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And them jumping dollies for compacting trenches on the roads they were very dangerous.
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Especially if you're a trench...
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And them jumping dollies for compacting trenches on the roads they were very dangerous.
a trench rammer :-\
https://www.wackerdirect.com/wacker-trench-rammers/wacker-neuson-honda-bs-60-4as-trench-rammer-280mm-11inch.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6q2X8MSJ6QIVCu3tCh3ZJgh9EAQYASABEgL0e_D_BwE (https://www.wackerdirect.com/wacker-trench-rammers/wacker-neuson-honda-bs-60-4as-trench-rammer-280mm-11inch.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI6q2X8MSJ6QIVCu3tCh3ZJgh9EAQYASABEgL0e_D_BwE)
I see one every time i go in my workshop
and i still have all 11 of my toes ;D
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No not them, I’m talking about the sixties version
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Looked like a thin darlek you pressed the lever and it shot up into the air about 3 foot it had to be guided by the operator to land in the trench
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No not them, I’m talking about the sixties version
don't recall ever seeing one
I'm a 70s child :)
I remember the manual version ,a metal plate on a metal bar
or get the fattest paddy to stamp his feet ;D
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They were crazy things I think they were called dollies it was one cylinder petrol, you pressed the lever and it energised the spark plug and sent it hurtling into the air it was then up to you to control it
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Yes I remember those things,looked to be vicious things to use!
Kids playing with whips and tops.
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Looked like a thin darlek you pressed the lever and it shot up into the air about 3 foot it had to be guided by the operator to land in the trench
I remember them .... :y
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Holy shit just imagine using one today in front of H&S ;D they were lethal :o
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https://youtu.be/MlDyypYt-jI
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https://youtu.be/MlDyypYt-jI
white finger & flat feet all in one contraption! ;D ;D ;D ;D
ending with a grocer's apostrophe ..... ::) ::) ::)
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:y
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https://youtu.be/MlDyypYt-jI
white finger & flat feet all in one contraption! ;D ;D ;D ;D
ending with a grocer's apostrophe ..... ::) ::) ::)
And deafness of course. Only "Nancy boys" would have used ear protection in those days.
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Scammel scarabs on railway stations.
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Further to my mention of road replacement...........
Steam Rollers were being used in my childhood, and I loved them. :-* :-*
Don’t see them laying road surfaces today! :'( :'(
Doubt they were steam rollers, Lizzie. Road rollers, maybe.
No, they were Steam roller Steve down here in Kent, making a lovely chugging sound, with steam hissing from the cylinders (and leaks}, as they went back and forth over the new road surface, with a shudder as the driver went from forward to backwards drive with the reversing gear. The mix of steam and tar was something else to enjoy :-* :-* :-* 8) 8) 8)
They were a glorious part of my childhood in the 1950's scene for me, like the steam railway engines. 8) 8) 8) :-* :-* :-*
It was only in the 1960's that sadly all that gave way to diesel rollers, they were a complete bore to me! :'( :'( :'(
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They were crazy things I think they were called dollies it was one cylinder petrol, you pressed the lever and it energised the spark plug and sent it hurtling into the air it was then up to you to control it
Oh yes, they were fun to watch! 8) 8) :D :D ;)
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Yes, you don't see those thumper dolly things anymore. As I recall they never jumped off the ground more than a few inches. Henry and Sam acquired one during the series of Shed and Buried, but didn't get to see it working. It just so happens I have one to finish and paint, illustrated on the box lid and in bare whitemetal to the right of the picture.
(http://www.emgauge70s.co.uk/hornsey_whitemetalkits-05.jpg)
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Yes about 18 to 24 inches, but the paddies used to lift them another couple😂😂😂
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Yes about 18 to 24 inches, but the paddies used to lift them another couple😂😂😂
I remember a version like that, you wouldn't want distracting would you. ;D
Another link of a Steam Rally version.
https://youtu.be/PzyRgkpndlI
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Yes about 18 to 24 inches, but the paddies used to lift them another couple😂😂😂
I remember a version like that, you wouldn't want distracting would you. ;D
Another link of a Steam Rally version.
https://youtu.be/PzyRgkpndlI
Oh, the lovely memories of watching those as a kid :D :D :y :y
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Scammel scarabs on railway stations.
Had one of those in my Dinky Toy collection. :y A fetching shade of yellow IIRC. ;D
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https://youtu.be/MlDyypYt-jI
I've never seen one of those :y
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https://youtu.be/MlDyypYt-jI
I've never seen one of those :y
Who knew ??? I suppose the vibrating sledge is a tad safer
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Blokes with shovels in the backs of lorries gritting the roads in winter.
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My dick ;D
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The Life-size collection box for crippled and spastic children. This always seemed to be located outside the newsagent so I was able to lean my Chopper against it when I went inside to buy sweets. :)
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The Life-size collection box for crippled and spastic children. This always seemed to be located outside the newsagent so I was able to lean my Chopper against it when I went inside to buy sweets. :)
I used to see a guide dogs for the blind one of these
I don't see them anymore ;D :D
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The Life-size collection box for crippled and spastic children. This always seemed to be located outside the newsagent so I was able to lean my Chopper against it when I went inside to buy sweets. :)
I used to see a guide dogs for the blind one of these
I don't see them anymore ;D :D
Ciggy machines also outside the newsagent. I used to get my ciggies at 3AM with the aid of a large screwdriver.
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Ceiling light fitting adapter to plug your electric iron into.
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Arrowmint and Pk chewing gum machines outside shops... you would get an extra pack free if the arrow on the knob ;D was facing you.
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Ceiling light fitting adapter to plug your electric iron into.
Found one of those when clearing out the garage of this place last year. Bakelite and that twisted two core wire. Bloody lethal looking thing! ;D
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Ceiling light fitting adapter to plug your electric iron into.
Found one of those when clearing out the garage of this place last year. Bakelite and that twisted two core wire. Bloody lethal looking thing! ;D
I'm sure I could find one or two at my Mum & Dad's .... handy to power olde style Christmas tree lights from a nearby table lamp ;D ;D