Average Cars From The 70's & 80's

mollycat

LandyAndy wrote: »

Yes. I also remember that they were French;).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simca

I bow to your superior powers of memory!

mollycat

bigjl wrote: »

Only the first year or so had the funny wheel.

I had a T reg one in "Flying Brown", I used it during my second year at Uni, then left it in my dads garage for 2 years, then tok it down to London, that was a long journey, it was still running well when I sold it, and I seen it a couple of times around N London.

Miine was hardly rusty atall, just the bonnet front corners, but I had a replacement that I painted with several layers of antirust and lots of coats of paint, I reckon that bonnet will out last me, let alone outlast the rest of the car.

Unless ive gone completely mad, didnt some models of the Allegro "speak" basic commands to the driver in a robotic voice?

"Engage handbrake", "Fasten seat belt", that sort of thing?

Maybe I dreamt it

mikey72

No one has mentioned the mini yet have they.
Stll a classic car, periods of good builds, periods of bad ones.
We have one from the 80's used as everyday transport, and going well.

mollycat

JCB.Com wrote: »

Wasn't that the MG's?

Possibly.....it all seems so long ago!

boyse7en

The car that spoke was the Maestro. It had a futuristic digital dash, which wasn't popular and was dropped pretty rapidly.

mikey72

Other cars from the 70's and 80's, VW Beetle and Fiat 500, then the 127 as well.

mollycat

boyse7en wrote: »

The car that spoke was the Maestro. It had a futuristic digital dash, which wasn't popular and was dropped pretty rapidly.

Of course, the Maestro!

Metro/Maestro/Montego.......3 cars I'd pretty much managed to erase from my memory banks until today! :)

thescouselander

mikey72 wrote: »

No one has mentioned the mini yet have they.
Stll a classic car, periods of good builds, periods of bad ones.
We have one from the 80's used as everyday transport, and going well.

Indeed. I remember that my dad had a mini once and he had to weld on some new sills to sort out a bit of corrosion. Unfortunatly he set the carpet on fire in the process and I had to help him put it out :eek:

Luckily we managed to extinguish the flames before too much damage was done.

LilacPixie

my dad had a marina, couple of cortinas, austin princess when i was born in 1981 it was brown and quite new looking.

balletshoes

in order of my memory of them as a child and then learning to drive in them, so from early 70s through to mid-80s =

Ford Escort, Vauxhall Viva, Ford Cortina, Morris Marina, Vauxhall Chevette. In my childhood I remember my aunt had a Mini, and my mum's boss had an Austin Princess.

My driving instructor's car was a Nissan Bluebird.