80's Hot Hatches, RS, GTi's.....

nobody can eat fifty eggs

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For all the lads or lasses out there who are old enough to have owned one in the late seventies and eighties, what did you have or loved to have?
I had a mk 2 Escort Sport 1600 and a mk 1 VW Scirocco GTi. Those were the days, apart from the fact about worrying every single minute if they were gonna get nicked!
(I always wanted a Sierra RS Cosworth)
 
I worked at a Ford main dealer, in the parts department aged 16-20.
When I passed my test they sent me out delivering in a tranny van (great skive!) but one day it was in the garage for a service and I had to drive my bosses company car - Ford Capri 2.8i
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He was running it in..... told me to go no faster than 45.
I was on a duel carriageway and got 120 out of it, loved it at the time but as soon as I said to myself ''that's enough, slow down'', I actually crapped myself as i could see how quickly I was passing trees and light posts.... I dare not brake and simply took my foot off the pedal and slowed it down.

Got back and my boss asked how fast i went. Told him no more than 45 and he said ''the exhaust looks a little white inside''. I just gave him a nod and a wink.
 
Joe CurryGan said:
I had a 1275GT Mini ... fantastic little motor. Went like shit off a shovel

My mate had one of them and my uncle had a Cooper S

Very fast cars

I was never really into hot hatches so got a Jaguar soverign 4.2 instead :)
 
Nova GTE......(nova GTE)
Is fuckin' fast...(is fuckin' fast)
Nova GTE is fuckin' fast
It's fuckin' fast, fast and more fast
nova GTE is fuck-in' fast.
 
Rascal said:
Joe CurryGan said:
I had a 1275GT Mini ... fantastic little motor. Went like shit off a shovel

My mate had one of them and my uncle had a Cooper S

Very fast cars

I was never really into hot hatches so got a Jaguar soverign 4.2 instead :)


Rascal, let me tell you a story, A bull and his son, were walking across a field when they came across a dozen or so cows. "quick dad" the son says "let's run down there and fuck one of them" The dad just looks at his son a nd says "no lad, lets just stroll down there and fuck them all".

A luxury car, nice to see you played the long game.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
I worked at a Ford main dealer, in the parts department aged 16-20.
When I passed my test they sent me out delivering in a tranny van

That's the eighties for you - the things you could make a 16 yr old boy do in them days would not be acceptable now. Still at least you are not bottling it up.
 
glen quagmire said:
Rascal said:
Joe CurryGan said:
I had a 1275GT Mini ... fantastic little motor. Went like shit off a shovel

My mate had one of them and my uncle had a Cooper S

Very fast cars

I was never really into hot hatches so got a Jaguar soverign 4.2 instead :)


Rascal, let me tell you a story, A bull and his son, were walking across a field when they came across a dozen or so cows. "quick dad" the son says "let's run down there and fuck one of them" The dad just looks at his son a nd says "no lad, lets just stroll down there and fuck them all".

A luxury car, nice to see you played the long game.
The cows got there revenge, a milf float reversed into it and wrecked the front end :(
 

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