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While looking out for other stuff in old photo albums, I found this lot plus one or two previous scans..... Allegro, 1500 I think. Me and my sister cooped up in the back on a caravanning holiday somewhere down in the West Country. Hazy memory of it breaking down there. Mum rolled it just after sale agreed to replace it with MkIII Cortina, oops. GL or GLS? Bought new at Dawsons in Hadleigh, Suffolk. Stayed in Boxford for years after we'd sold it, scrapped mid-80's? Daking Avenue, Boxford circa 1985/86. Oodles of quality retro tin, including Metro, early Carlton estate, Maestro, 120Y, tidy Violet, Cavalier GLS, HC Viva, Renault 14, MkI Fiesta, Escort estate, MGB, Dolomite, CF van, Volvo 360 and Sunny with lovely Brown & Geeson wheel trims. CI Sprite caravan owners used to have Moskviches. As usual more to follow, slowly.
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wow, that street scene is great.... wonder how many of those cars are still with us?
be great to go back, stand in the same spot and take the same picture for 30 years time - "oooh look, there's a mk2 Megane, remember those?"
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Wow! What a streetscape. I keep meaning to pop to Bluewater and take a photo of the car park to look at in 20 years! You lot should do the same in your area!
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that allegro pic is cool. just such how you'd imagine a 70s family holiday to be. is that you in the back seat?
the street scene is great, i'd love to just go back to then and have a look round all the cars...
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yeah that street scene is awsome, soooo much quality retro tat, i just don't know where to look!
J
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be great to go back, stand in the same spot and take the same picture for 30 years time - "oooh look, there's a mk2 Megane, remember those?" Could easily be done, mum and stepdad still live there. In fact, think I'll get him to do just that as a before and after, but there won't be much to interest us at the moment. Lad with Chevettes up the end of the road, that's all. And the houses have pretty much all got plastic windows now, so it hasn't got that 70's look. We moved there in '78, I can remember so many great cars that I suspect are all now gone
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Apr 12, 2006 14:38:57 GMT
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the street scene is quite something ive got lots of old volvo pics (granpa had volos for 30 years until he bought a truck in 02 )
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once again rocking with 1117cc and 4 gears!
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Apr 12, 2006 14:41:08 GMT
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Cool - I do like the street scene
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A few more...... Posted before, but worth seeing again. My dad at the Suffolk Police skidpad, just before 1970? My Pug 309 is probably the dullest car here - Cav MkII, 2CV, Metro, Renault 18, Granada MkII, CX estate, Cortina MkV and in the distance I know there's an early FE Victor. Surrey Road, Ipswich. Surrey Road again, and for a month or two I owned this. Bought for £150, spent £150 on it and fortunately sold it for £300. Had various overheating/gasket problems, and smoked terribly above 55mph. Extra amusement when rear doors didn't seal properly and smoke then got drawn in. Rubbish, but I suppose everyone has to own a Mini at some point in their life. Bought as stopgap after I'd written-off the 309, Manta A came next.
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The Manta A, clean pic's as posted within the Manta Love thread. This how it usually looked. Rubbishy Volvo 244 behind belonged to neighbours known as the Shut-up Family, charming kids called Sharon and Darren. Mum's Renault 5GTL, 1985. Viva HB and Fiesta MkI in the background. Arches already going rusty. This was replaced by a Cherry, which became my first car. 5 was the first car I ever drove, unofficially moving it into the garage.
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cool pics, cheers for sharing
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Apr 13, 2006 11:21:42 GMT
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that 244 has one of those 80's-tastic "=====VOLVO=====" stickers in the back window, like DarrenW was wibbling on about not long back. excellent! my teacher had one in her Metro, except it said Mini. eh?
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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Apr 13, 2006 11:44:10 GMT
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My dad at the Suffolk Police skidpad, just before 1970? I had a go on that skid pad when I was in 6th form in the early 90's. All I remember was that they were letting 17 year olds loose on the skid pad in 2.8 granadas, put right next to the skid pad where all the brandnew senators ready to have their stripes put on them.......................seemed a bit daft having new cars on the edge of the skidpad...........let alone with 17 year olds driving on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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71 Alfa GT 1300 Junior 89 Alfa 75 3.0 V6 Veloce 89 Alfa 75 3.0 V6 America 2015 C220 estate Daily shunter
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Apr 13, 2006 18:53:07 GMT
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I had a go on that skid pad when I was in 6th form in the early 90's. All I remember was that they were letting 17 year olds loose on the skid pad in 2.8 granadas, put right next to the skid pad where all the brandnew senators ready to have their stripes put on them.......................seemed a bit daft having new cars on the edge of the skidpad...........let alone with 17 year olds driving on it !!!!!!!!!!!!! Cool that they let you out in Grannies. I went with the IAM a couple of times about '93/94, once in a FWD Sunny (when the instructor yanks the handbrake halfway round to get the tail out) and once in the Violet SSS. From this I learnt that drifting is not my forte..... Still got a few more pic's to post, but computer's being stupid so later sometime.
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