Can remember Carlisle Utd being top of the football league, eggs being fried on car bonnets, the first digital watches (heralding the surefire end of the Swiss watch industry), three star jumpers and 45mph mopeds which all my pals had, giving a big world and happy days to 16 year olds. My dad getting his first new car August 1st 1976, it was red Datsun 120y, all the neighbours, came round to look at it, after a succession of crap British Leyland things, it was like a spaceship!
The 70's
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Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
My first car was a 1974 Datsun 120y coupe, which soon rusted away to be replaced by an 1800 Marina.
Same as this one.
Same as this one.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
That's what I remember - mega rust
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
Like others i have memories of that summer of 1976. Swimming in the local reservoir, even though the water was freezing(very dangerous), going fishing with my brother(the only time i've tried it) in the river at Ribchester, and driving there in my brothers 1963 VW Beetle which had more fibreglass patch ups than original body and this bloke winning two golds at the Montreal Olympics.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTG-QwbNsE
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTG-QwbNsE
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
First to rust were the front wings, then the boot floor, then the sills, then the chassis, then I got rid of it!
Shame, it was a nice little runner for a 1200 engine with some style.
Salar
A fish out of water
- Location
- Gorllewin Cymru
Forgot to say I married my first wife in the 70's.
We both had 20 years of happiness, great times, parties.................................................................................................................................then we met.
We both had 20 years of happiness, great times, parties.................................................................................................................................then we met.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
I suffered from excema as a child made worse by sunlight. 1975 & 6 were hellish summers for me. Long sleeve quite thick tops when out. I was the only pasty white kid going back to school
*puts away worlds tiniest violin*
accountantpete
OAP
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
1976.............................................
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKKBgsv8t2A&feature=player_detailpage
I worked all summer holiday at the garage that I was the Saturday lad at,
Money in my pocket.............first year of getting served in the pub.........................fags at ten bob for 20.....and getting to nick my cousins Carlton Clubman (the one I've still got) as my summer 'ride' (amongst other non-cycling 'rides'
)
I was king for a year..........................................
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKKBgsv8t2A&feature=player_detailpage
I worked all summer holiday at the garage that I was the Saturday lad at,
Money in my pocket.............first year of getting served in the pub.........................fags at ten bob for 20.....and getting to nick my cousins Carlton Clubman (the one I've still got) as my summer 'ride' (amongst other non-cycling 'rides'
)I was king for a year..........................................
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
We just called it 'Star Wars' then though... the opening scene still impresses me: the shear size of that space ship on the cinema screen.... and that wasn't even the star destroyer! I don't think I've had a better cinema experience since.
And of course there was Grease! I wanted to grow up to be Danny and marry someone like Sandy. I wanted a car like Greased Lightning and big greasy quiff... but thankfully that didn't happen.
Then there was Hooper.... god i so wanted to be a stuntman when i grew up. My brother and i used to practise doing stunts (big skids and jumps) on our bikes (he held the 'kid jump' record... seven in total... on a Grifter!).
We even enjoyed the power cuts.
I turned 10 in '79 and i knew then that the best years of my life were pretty much over
- Location
- Manchester
I was the first in my house. 12th birthday present.I remember getting the first continental quilt in our house. That was definatly the start of not wanting to get up in the winter.
Far too snug
- Location
- Manchester
The first one to get a continental quilt. The covers were all presents from various relatives.You must have had rich parents
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
I was a teenager of the 70s (born 58)..
British bulldogs, now outlawed. Never did us any harm eh
Clackers, real ones with string, not those health a safety abominations that prevented your wrists getting broken...Never did us any harm eh
Dressed crap, holes in yer knees, tank tops and long hair, FS1Es, choppers, youth clubs, air rifles, catapaults, ferreting, shops closed on Sundays, going to the shops and getting 20 Embassy for your mum ...and you're only 12 years old,, TISWAS, The Banana Bunch...etc etc etc.
Best time of my life without a doubt.
I was talking some time ago with my young colleague. He's 21. I talked about the things we'd done, seen, world events (moon landings, fall of the Berlin Wall etc)...he said...i don't think ive ever seen anything worth telling my kids in years to come. It seemed to him we (in the 70s and 80s) had groundbreaking, interesting stuff around us....he said nothing seems interesting any more.
British bulldogs, now outlawed. Never did us any harm eh
Clackers, real ones with string, not those health a safety abominations that prevented your wrists getting broken...Never did us any harm eh
Dressed crap, holes in yer knees, tank tops and long hair, FS1Es, choppers, youth clubs, air rifles, catapaults, ferreting, shops closed on Sundays, going to the shops and getting 20 Embassy for your mum ...and you're only 12 years old,, TISWAS, The Banana Bunch...etc etc etc.
Best time of my life without a doubt.
I was talking some time ago with my young colleague. He's 21. I talked about the things we'd done, seen, world events (moon landings, fall of the Berlin Wall etc)...he said...i don't think ive ever seen anything worth telling my kids in years to come. It seemed to him we (in the 70s and 80s) had groundbreaking, interesting stuff around us....he said nothing seems interesting any more.
