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Cars from the 1970s. Can you remember?

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  • ontrack
    ontrack Posts: 92 Forumite
    The M1 was an interesting car, I think it was a Lamborghini that was taken over by BMW when the company got into bother.
    I was lucky enough to work for a team that raced them in the procar series. Serious fun for a 20 something car nut being paid to work in GP support races!
  • colino
    colino Posts: 5,059 Forumite
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    Was it the M1 or the 850 that was the first to have the "new" can-bus system in it?
  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
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    How terribly sad I must be. I was 0 at the start of the 70s and 10 at the end of them. I'm a girl. And I scored 9/10 (only the M1 threw me).
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  • Tiglath
    Tiglath Posts: 3,816 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    5/10 - I never knew what a Fiat looked like because according to my Dad they were foreign continental trash :) He drove a Ford Popular, then an Austin Cambridge A60, then a Morris Ital - 3 cars in 40 years of driving.
    "Save £12k in 2019" #120 - £100,699.57/£100,000
  • nickcc
    nickcc Posts: 2,265 Forumite
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    9/10 again caught out by the Beamer.
  • Iceweasel
    Iceweasel Posts: 4,891 Forumite
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    Get ready to drool over this car then - the BMW M1 'Homage'

    http://www.bmw.co.uk/en_GB/topics/discover-bmw/concept-cars/m1-homage.html
  • LandyAndy
    LandyAndy Posts: 26,377 Forumite
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    10/10 for me too but I did pass my test in 1975.
  • AlexLK
    AlexLK Posts: 6,125 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Born in 1980 and still scored 10/10. :)

    LandyAndy: Nice lightweight Series.
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  • w211
    w211 Posts: 700 Forumite
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    10/10, I was born in 1984, though I used elimination and a bit of lucky guesswork!
  • bigjl
    bigjl Posts: 6,457 Forumite
    10/10 here aswell.

    If the Allegro was brown it would have been like my old University car. Nick named "The Flying Turd"
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