Rob M
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I was actually looking for 80s UK car stickers, as per the request in another thread. I stumbled upon these instead.    A photo does capture a moment in time forever in a way that film cannot.  |
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Rob M
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72p per gallon!!!! 16p a litre!!!!
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cjhillman
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1979 Capri (Rolling Project) 1985 Escort mk3 (Daily)
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Wow love these pics! I wonder if the girls are giving away free cans of oil next to that Mk2 Escort?
The colour pic with the Telecom van is amazing.
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Rob M
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72p per gallon!!!! 16p a litre!!!! I am from that era of Gallons and not Litres. I remember being very poor and having a whole £1 odd to put fuel into my MK1 Escort. Because I had parked like a knob I could not see the pump properly so I asked my girlfriend at the time to 'Shout out when it got to £1' I began to fill when she shouted 'STOP!!!! I thought I had put more fuel in than money I had on me. It turned out I had put 60 pence worth of leaded in the tank. The joke now is that 60 pence worth of juice actually moved the needle on the fuel gauge.........  |
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Last Edit: Jul 8, 2018 13:49:40 GMT by Rob M
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Rob M
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Supurb, thanks for posting! Authough I grew up in the 80's/90's, I feel like I grew up in these pictures. I guess a weekly portion of classic car shows is partly to blame. That colour pic with the yellow telecom van is really quite magical.  |
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that telecom van when on the ol cb wed call um buzbys lol
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72p per gallon!!!! 16p a litre!!!! I remember my dad saying that he growled like hell when it went up to 2/6 a gallon here in New Zealand. It's around NZ$10 a gallon now for 91 octane. |
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Last Edit: Jul 8, 2018 19:02:26 GMT by igor
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these two i found on a facebook group after researching ayelsbury dutton forshaw which was the dealership that sold my land rover in 1982 and again in 84   |
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my local renault dealership, which is now a tesco metro !  |
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same dealership moved to a nearby village and its still there as a vauxhall dealer  |
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another local one (one of my other hobbys is my town history !) maestro seaboard van, datsun sunny, looks like an austin 1800 up the road. 1987 big storm  |
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Last Edit: Jul 8, 2018 20:15:05 GMT by darrenh
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car park full of cool. bowaters paper mill in gillingham kent  |
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chatham highstreet, i'll take the ventora please  |
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Rob M
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Great stuff!
By rough calculation that Dutton-Forshaw Ital Estate would be around £15K in todays money.
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even closer to home, dads corrals truck packed with onions! rainham kent  |
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my home town fiat/alfa dealer in the 1990s  |
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Rob M
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chatham highstreet, i'll take the ventora please Anybody else old enough to remember wearing flares as a lad and constantly ripping the bottoms trying to pull them out your bike cog that had just mangled them with the chain? No? It was NOT fun....  Oh, and I will take the CF. |
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This is my home town! The filling station is still there, but it's now run by ASDA. |
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Ich habe kein Geld!
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