Living in the past

[Accy cyclist]

Never had you down as middle class kid Accy?
We used flattened bean tins, pop riveter and a smear of underseal. Fibre glass and resin? Luxury.

My dad was a coach/body builder for 49 years,at a local bus makers. http://www.gjm-photogenic.co.uk/016EastLancs.htm He had access to such luxuries.

 

[User32269]

Off topic, sorry. I sold a Mk IV Cortina outside of Rock Ferry car auctions late one night, late 80's. I had my ex wife and daughter with me. We had no way to get home, so I bid on a bright yellow FSO. It was like an early Lada, but even boxier. Got it for about thirty quid. Thankfully it drove OK and got us to the mersey tunnel. It had a pull out choke, but next to it was a mystery pull out thing.
In the tunnel my curiosity got the better of me, I just had to know what it was, so pulled the mystery knob out as far as it would go. It was a hand throttle (as I discovered later). The revs screamed, and the car accelerated, I was so worried about hitting the tunnel walls that I didn't even think to shove it back. Was like some really crap video game as we hurtled through the tunnel with my foot off the accelerator panicking and looking puzzled!

 

[classic33]

Today's Chuckle of the Day Award goes to @odav...

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Early yet.

 

[User32269]

Early yet.

After watching the Oscars, I have decided to delay writing my acceptance speech.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Things that were better in the 70's -
Bike racing
Pop music
The weather

Things that were worse in the 70's -
Smoking
Drink driving
Strikes

 

[screenman]

I was in the past yesterday, I spent 6 hours in The Cavern.

 

[Hill Wimp]

The "past" had no hoovers: scrubbing the floors on your knees was what you did, no mops either: I'm actually not kidding, that's how I uses to clean floors in my youth.
Not in the UK, better precise this

I still brush my stairs with a carpet brush

 

[screenman]

You put your watch back 30 years as you enter the village I live in.

 

[Accy cyclist]

This is just like the phone in this house when we moved in,in 1991.

The same colour as well. When the BT bloke came to replace it i asked if i could keep it so i could reminisce in future years. He said no and took it away,saying they had to be accounted for then destroyed. Miserable git!

 

[Drago]

Accounted for in his pocket, and destroyed on his eBay account...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Accounted for in his pocket, and destroyed on his eBay account...

Yes. I think if i'd offered him a fiver he'd have let me have it.

 

[swee'pea99]

View attachment 343210 View attachment 343209 View attachment 343208 In secondary school it was Adidas Kick, or Rom.
Harrington jackets, white socks and burgundy stay press trousers.
Also Rucanor bags, wish they still made them, I had a red one
Adidas and Gola bags.

God but t'internet's amazing. Your post reminded me of a story I read - as it turns out, 12 years ago - which Google found for me in a fraction of a second:

"In his recently published fashion memoir, The Way We Wore, journalist and broadcaster Robert Elms claims that casual provoked a style war, where what you wore was a weapon. He recalls a Saturday afternoon with his QPR crew seeing off a horde from Coventry by merely singing: 'My dog sleeps on Fila, my dog sleeps on Fila, La la la la, La la la la.' Elms writes: 'Some of Coventry's top boys were sporting Fila, which had been the business but had gone out of fashion in London at least a month before. Instead of launching ourselves at them, we were lambasting them for such gauche sartorial tardiness. As it dawned on them they'd been outdone in the style stakes, you could see their will for the contest wane. They'd been beaten and they knew it.'"

I think that's the last time QPR won anything.

 

[Accy cyclist]

When i was in hospital nearly 10 years ago this fellow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Douglas was a regular visitor to see his wife. I had a pair of these,which i asked him to sign as he played in the 1962 world cup in Chile.

He gladly did so,saying he'd never signed a shoe before. He signed on one of the white stripes. I still have the shoes but sadly the autograph has faded over time.

 

[raleighnut]

Every few years these come back into fashion,



I don't think there has ever been a time in the last 40yrs when I haven't owned at least 1 pair

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've had a bag like that and I wear those type of trainers all the time,I had a pair of Adidas Rom in 1983. I like Adidas Originals.

[QUOTE 4729467, member: 9609"]its not even a proper one, i liked the ones you had to turn the dial thing round[/QUOTE]

Oh yes, looking at it again i can see it's push button and not the old style turn the dial one.The one we had was the proper thingy!