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seeing as there is such a wide spread of age group on here (I think) I was wondering what was the in thing to do to your car when you was the age of the average retroer now.. ie now the trend is for banded steels, lowering suspension and matt paintwork (very generalised but you get my drift) I am 34, when I was first driving the trends seemed to be for a green strip where your sunvisors are, fitting weller wheels, buying all those stupid things from the local motorfactors such as "commander" light bars for the rear window that had long strips of bulbs to show which way you was indicating and extra stop lights etc. CB was still big as well ! if you was really top you would also have some chrome under the bonnet and yellow HT leads!!! so what I was wondering, when you was 17-21 what was the trend with vehicles  |
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and you could buy a sunroof kit for 12.99....
and a haynes manual was about 11 quid
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THREE-SPOKES!  |
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TSW Venoms - whatever happened to them...?!
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Oh, and this sort of thing...    Early days of Max Power. Qual. |
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hammering your forks straight after too many wheelies on your racer with cow horns, chrome 8 spokes or slot mags, Escort vans with brake lights under them, air horns, filing out the ports and upping the jets on a small stroke, slim skate boards, jumpers for goal posts.
those were the days.
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stuey
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silver 4 door escort ghias with rs turbo wheels and fat willys surf shack/fido dido stickers and a rear sun blind (oh and a 14 year old girl friend with no tits)  ) seemed quite prevelant in norwich when I was 17 personally I had a 4 door fiat uno with lancia delta wheels a peco powermaster 3" exhaust, rockford fosgate banner across the back window and way too many speakers/amps!!!! Ill see if i can find the pics of it... |
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Last Edit: Jul 3, 2008 21:13:53 GMT by stuey
1987 fiat 126-nearly actually done!
1972 beetle - lawn art
2003 z4 daily-new wheels a comin!
2008 R56 Mini cooper "mental Mickey"
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TSW Venoms - whatever happened to them...?! Made illegal in the UK in 1999 |
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1987 Maestro 1.6 HL perkins diesel conversion 1986 Audi 100 Avant 1800cc on LPG 1979 Allegro Series 2 special 4 door 1500cc with vynil roof. IN BITS. HERITAGE ISSUES.  |
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tri
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silver 4 door escort ghias with rs turbo wheels and fat willys surf shack/fido dido stickers and a rear sun blind (oh and a 14 year old girl friend with no tits) ) seemed quite prevelant in norwich when I was 17 personally I had a 4 door fiat uno with lancia delta wheels a peco powermaster 3" exhaust, rockford fosgate banner across the back window and way too many speakers/amps!!!! Ill see if I can find the pics of it... I never really saw Fat Willy's stickers on anything but family cars and surfmobiles.. might have been a bit young tho. Was a Fast & Furious clone trend when I started driving, biggest wheels, biggest sound system, and uglies bodykit with stupid decals. Sad  |
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 I forgot how to retro...  |
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stuey
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found it cant beleive how sad I must have looked in my defence this was 16 years ago-(I think the tailgate did get finished eventually)  I also found my splatter painted engine that I build for it....  (awaits laughter) |
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Last Edit: Jul 3, 2008 21:28:17 GMT by stuey
1987 fiat 126-nearly actually done!
1972 beetle - lawn art
2003 z4 daily-new wheels a comin!
2008 R56 Mini cooper "mental Mickey"
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ie now the trend is for banded steels, lowering suspension and matt paintwork (very generalised but you get my drift) Well i'm 17 and I drove this until i sold the wheels and suspension:  I was cooler than cool. Now its a bit higher and on skinny steels. And yes, banded steels, very low suspension and matt paintwork. |
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Foxy
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LMAO
When I was 21 I had a 2litre pinto tranny with gold graffiti all over it and a mkV escort spoiler on the roof!
It was mint, had inflatable chairs and illuminated amps and subs in the back lol, Oh happy days.
It was my first car after learning to drive in a Clio lol
What was I thinking?
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I'm the handsome fella with the cheesy white specs or is that the cheesy fella with the handsome white specs?
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When I was 17-21, neons were all the rage. It was only 2-6 years ago.
What ever happened to neons. I kind of miss them. Its like a giant tw@t halo.
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Well I don't think driving a black 'n' flamed car when I was 18 was particularly the in thing but I never was a trend follower As Pog said. Three spokes. Oh and splat graphics a little earlier. |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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I think indervijual Corsas were the trend when I was driving my Dolomite at 17. Thrilling stuff. I'll refrain from commenting on that matter further.
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rysz
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As per Pog really, Rieger kits where the bomb! As I think that at least 2 of the Max Power project cars around that time had them!
Rysz.
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Lowering blocks on MKII Escorts. Twin tone air horns. Now, we were particularly different in Bexleyheath, removing trim was the thing, clean looking straight cars without tat glued to them. This was 1986!
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Ah, splatter paint - yup, went through that phase... This  had this interior  Splatter paint dash, and horrible 80's 'Aztec' door covers. Delightful. Still, I guess I thought it was cool at the time... |
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There is nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes
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rysz
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Ah, splatter paint - yup, went through that phase... This had this interior Splatter paint dash, and horrible 80's 'Aztec' door covers. Delightful. Still, I guess I thought it was cool at the time... Remember seeing build photos of this in a magazine a looooong time ago! Awesome! Rysz. |
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Zapp Brannigan
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When I was 17 (1996) I was busy driving my '70 MG Midget, but the cars to have at the time were the Nova SR, the XR3i/RS Turbo and the Renault 5 Turbo. If you were really 'wacky' (i.e. you were a wannabe hippy) you had a really tastelessly done purple or pink 70s Beelte with hiddeous matching interior!
Some things have gone full circle...the Nova SRs, Escorts and Renault 5s are now cool retros (if done right) but for a long time they were awful Max Powermobiles filled with Chavs (although we didn't call the Chavs back then).
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) seemed quite prevelant in norwich when I was 17
