The cars and bikes thread!

[shameless]

came across old photo of myself circa mid 70's wih my Ford Lotus Cortina prob a 68' would have been a 2ltr overhead cam from memory , black webasto roof with sunroof , real speedster in those days , this one had black Lotus badges ! terraced houses of a Manchester street behind and ! i'm hoping that maybe one or two of you might find a similar memory amongst your scrapbboks .photos in those days were very rare really , few people carried or perhaps even afford a camera
Wish i had photos of all the cars -even just the engine from this would be worth a small fortune today !


would love to see some of yours

[geoffbot]

Wicked mate.

My oldest car pic is less then 2 decades old so not much interest!

[tribe125]

I never took a photo of my Vauxhall Viva. Or Vauxhall Vivas - I was one of the few to have two of them.

[shameless]

I never took a photo of my Vauxhall Viva. Or Vauxhall Vivas - I was one of the few to have two of them.

ha ha ! i had a Viva ! bright yellow , what can i say ,things were viewed different then

[shameless]

this is identical to the car i took my first test in 65/66' Triumph Mayflower in maroon

[tribe125]

ha ha ! i had a Viva ! bright yellow , what can i say ,things were viewed different then

My first was honey starburst. Spectacular. The second was a kind of avocado green with a less memorable name.

[shameless]

My first was honey starburst. Spectacular. The second was a kind of avocado green with a less memorable name.

strangely there were lots of models in brown ! i had a brown Cortina ,never occured to me it was uncool , in fact i don't think the word 'uncool' had ever been used

[tribe125]

I learnt to drive and passed my test in one of these -





A Fiat 128. I think it was that colour too. My driving instructor was Peter Speed (Sqn Ldr Rtd), and he always used the Squadron Leader bit. He had an ill-fitting toupee and a facial twitch. Occasionally, we went to a pub in the middle of the lesson. Once, standing at the bar, he took a couple of tablets, washed down with beer. I memorised the name of the tablet on the box and looked it up later. It was Haloperidol, a major tranquiliser used in the treatment of schizophrenia and the manic phase of manic-depression. His twitch was one of the side-effects.

Those driving lessons could be quite memorable.

[shameless]

we seemed to have travelled a parralel road i had the 124 in this colour , i remember they offered them a low deposits from new with only 100 years to pay it off

[geoffbot]

New clutch yay...

£1250 well spent