Favourite 70’s and 80’s cars

[Bill Walker]

Lol, what a pile of shite that was, only eclipsed by that even worse shite that was
the Marina, I actually had one as a company car, 1.3 fastback in hearing aid beige.

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Mine had a vinyl roof and was a 'Coupe.'

Chuckle....
The first car I bought when I got to Oz in 1987 was a Marina, guy next door was selling it cheap.

It looked like that but it had a 2.5 litre 6 cylinder engine.
Went like shit off a shovel.
Hahaha

Thats how they were supplied to Australia.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

I had one of those as a company car ,mine was a shit brown coupe, I then progressed to a beige Morris Ital saloon.

 

[Dirty Harry]

The Ford mustang comes in sky blue, one of my favourite cars, alas, I prefer it in other
colours, including red.
I know, I know;)

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That’s a class motor vehicle !

 

[Well Wisher]

Quite liked Blue Flame but the insurance put me off.

 

[give it to gordon]

View attachment 35812A blokes on my paper round had one of these in about '83. It was the most amazing thing I'd seen.

My mate and me built one of these it's a Nova kit car. My mate had is sprayed in Ferrari red lol

Horrible thing to drive !

 

[Vincent van Rough]

 

[Ourman]

My mate and me built one of these it's a Nova kit car. My mate had is sprayed in Ferrari red lol

Horrible thing to drive !

The only thing I knew about it back then was that it was called a Nova, years later I found out it was a kit car on a VW beetle chassis.

 

[eversince 76]

My first car. 1981. Took me to Manchester and ended up in London where we played the cupfinale. Because it was red I needed loads of City stickers.

 

[Packrat]

My first car and a belter, BMW 518 Bavaria, loved that car.

 

[crazyg]

My dream car once upon a time. Fuck you Magnum.

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I’ve been lucky enough to go out in a 288 GTO and wasn’t star struck with it. Don’t get me wrong very nice, not for the shy and retiring types, but for the cash I wasn’t blown away.

My eldest daughter runs a car store, and has driven every type of supercar you can think of. She once phoned me to say she had to drop off some papers at the accountants, and did I fancy to meet her for a gourmet meal and coffee at McDs in Bredbury (yes, I know).
She turned up in one of her client's cars, a well known football player, and parked up. It was his 599 GTO! Needless to say, it attracted a lot of attention. Not the type of car one normally sees in Bredbury.
She used to work for Bentley, on the motorsport side, and has driven round almost every race track in Europe in the GT3 series cars of all the major works teams. Don't mention women drivers to her - she has the first part of the Racing Drivers licence, and could compete in pro-am races if she wanted.
The "best" I've managed was a brand new DB9, reversing it from one end of the store to the other. I couldn't even contort myself to get into a Lambo, no matter how hard I tried.
I'm more into comfort than style, driving a 10 year old (in March) Skoda Superb Elegance 1.8 TSI auto, which I've had from new.