Favourite 70’s and 80’s cars

[Ancient Citizen]

Talk about bodging cars, we used to use a really good quality newspaper to pack any holes before applying the filler!
I got a little MG Midget from the Auction one time & I swear it had more filler in the body than metal, Happy days.

I remember ramming a mini parked in front of our local pub, it was my fault, luckily
it was parked with nobody inside. As soon as I smacked into it, it was as though I'd hit a
Newspaper stand, Sun's and Daily Mirrors floating all over the place.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

The most beautiful car in the world.

I see your Porsche, and raise you this beauty, dubbed 'The most beautiful car in the world'
by that know nothing of the automobile industry, Enzo Ferrari...

 

[Saddleworth2]

I see your Porsche, and raise you this beauty, dubbed 'The most beautiful car in the world'
by that know nothing of the automobile industry, Enzo Ferrari...

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Beautiful car mate. Might have even eclipsed the 911 if it had been in City blue.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Beautiful car mate. Might have even eclipsed the 911 if it had been in City blue.

Have you ever driven one? Superb, smooth, and very powerful, but coming out of junctions
onto main roads is scary as fuck, that never ending bonnet means you need to be a contortionist
to see anything coming!
Got to say though,even though my passion for City is as strong as yours, the colour just doesn't
seem to work on cars IMO, but does with anything else.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Have you ever driven one? Superb, smooth, and very powerful, but coming out of junctions
onto main roads is scary as fuck, that never ending bonnet means you need to be a contortionist
to see anything coming!
Got to say though,even though my passion for City is as strong as yours, the colour just doesn't
seem to work on cars IMO, but does with anything else.

I haven’t driven a Ferrari mate. I can imagine it giving a great deal of fun. I have been in Porsche for the last 20 years. Cayman first and then 911 and more recently Macan. Have been lucky enough to drive every model they manufacture including the all electric Taycan round the Porsche testing facility at Silverstone. They are all wonderful cars.
Last week I said goodbye to them all though as they are just getting too pricey and their move away from diesel means unless you go electric, you can’t drive a car that is fast and frugal.
I an now in a BMW 430d xdrive touring that meets both those criteria.
agree re sky blue cars. Wouldn’t have one although Porsche still do that colour, I saw it on a 911 just last year.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

I remember ramming a mini parked in front of our local pub, it was my fault, luckily
it was parked with nobody inside. As soon as I smacked into it, it was as though I'd hit a
Newspaper stand, Sun's and Daily Mirrors floating all over the place.

There was so much filler in some of the cars I used to drive if I had crashed badly you wouldnt need a recovery truck to clear up, just a dust pan & brush :)

 

[Ancient Citizen]

There was so much filler in some of the cars I used to drive if I had crashed badly you wouldnt need a recovery truck to clear up, just a dust pan & brush :)

Aye, my dad had a small body repair business, he just employed one young lad, (he said he
was the hardest worker he'd seen, at just 16), this was in the days of rust buckets.
Because of cost, most people wouldn't pay for new wings, sills etc; so he bodged them
up like everyone else, he used gallons of filler. Since the early 90's though, rust is no longer
a big problem, there are millions of 15 year old cars around, and bodyshops put new panels
on damaged cars, in the main.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

I haven’t driven a Ferrari mate. I can imagine it giving a great deal of fun. I have been in Porsche for the last 20 years. Cayman first and then 911 and more recently Macan. Have been lucky enough to drive every model they manufacture including the all electric Taycan round the Porsche testing facility at Silverstone. They are all wonderful cars.
Last week I said goodbye to them all though as they are just getting too pricey and their move away from diesel means unless you go electric, you can’t drive a car that is fast and frugal.
I an now in a BMW 430d xdrive touring that meets both those criteria.
agree re sky blue cars. Wouldn’t have one although Porsche still do that colour, I saw it on a 911 just last year.

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;)

 

[Bill Walker]

I see your Porsche, and raise you this beauty, dubbed 'The most beautiful car in the world'
by that know nothing of the automobile industry, Enzo Ferrari...

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Nothing tops an e type imo
(Horrible to drive though)

Although the Austin Princess gave it a run for it's money.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Nothing tops an e type imo
(Horrible to drive though)

Although the Austin Princess gave it a run for it's money.

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.


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