top ten cars of the 70s/80s imo

Escort
Fiesta
Mayfair
Razzle

xr2i was a good motor cunny

datsun 120y
ford capri
and coupe de grace the delorean gull wing

drove them all

i had a datsun 160 sss fair beast pillarless coupe, ended up racing it

160sss a gussler

so was the hunter, twin 40 webers, would only do about 100mph but rapid acceleraation

RS 2000 MK 1, in the early eighties.

alfee, thet are a classic, fantastic looking car.

ok i know, dont make me blush , shuuuuush!

Ford Sierra, Gene Hunt's Quattro

sierras were **e rust buckets imo , quattro ok, granada scorpio ok, sierra cosworth only one any good

Beetle & Morris Minor

ford capri...was too young to drive but my cousin had a class wine capri...until he wrote it off, with me in it

MG Midget RWA :x

had a bronze vauxhall cavalier snoop nose
wolfrace alloys looked cool 4 awhile then i grew up :D

some pleasing results..... more please

Hillman Avenger for me.

mate had a triumph toledo yellow nippy wee f@cker

bet it wasnt a tiger, rare beast
you just reminded me of sunbeam ti

The Sierra Cosworth a shocking ommision and the 2.8 L Capri with the pepperpot alloys was highly desirable at the time and a 130mph car..though i wouldnt like to turn a corner in that old boat at over 30.

Pug 205 GTI

I had two Avengers and my Dad had the estate version :D Never had the Tiger though.

remember the Citroen Diane?

renault 5 colum gear change nigthmare

205 gtis and golf gtis were ok , but not a patch on the lancia delta hfi...handled fantastic

Golf Gti Mk 1
THE original hatchback

thought mk1 capri was far better looking than mk2.

mk 1 escort was the best of all mk escorts imo.

toyota celica slick dude

tell you what i did have was a DAF (the one with the rubber band drive) fk i had some fun in that wreck :)

I had a mk1 Scirocco too, nice looking car but couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

lol seasider, remeber a mate wanted one of those so i got him one, he hated it

RS 2000
TR7
Triumph Dolamite Sprint

triumph stag

Golf GTi Mk1 still looks a tidy car

still fetch good money if tidy/original

I do love the look of the old Triumphs though

bras?

you wont find many triumph pis, granada, cambridges/oxfords as most got banger raced

mate's battered old Capri had 'Beirut Peace Wagon' scrawled on the driver's side door in the manner of C0ck P1ss Partridge.

My mate had a mini with a sunstrip that said:

I'M NOT DAVID MARTIN

1973 vauxhall firenza class act.

First car was a 1971 Ford Capri OHV488K
Remember that but not what I did yesterday :(

heres one theyve just launched car insurance for it paul whitehouse does it

aviva car insurance

used to love my vauxhaul viva

hi billy, i never liked the firenza, but the 6 cylinder ventura was a nice sounding beast

age 21 06 Jan 23:32


you wont find many triumph pis, granada, cambridges/oxfords as most got banger raced




raced three granardas one at newton aycliffe two at hartlepool top car crap driver.

nice one pang, when i think of old cars i had i always think of something thaty happen/did with them :)

There were loads of OHV cars round here, Pumpy. Essex reg. innit.

only a 1159 in mine bought engine for a fifty beat any 1256 about

billy i raced a lot of different cars but cambridges and mk3/4 cortinas were the best fro me

Farinas were sought after on the banger circuit cos of the rad on the side rather than in front.

loved the bangers but them days i was a proper nut never got in the top three.the thing was the banger racing was fun untill the prise money went from a bottle of champaine to a hundred quid,and the big lads won the lot.

yep did become a few quid on offer

Yes EGG its an Essex plate.
My mum bought the car new & bought a specialized number plate JCY 1 but two weeks after getting it we found the car had been scrapped before getting the plates so had to revert to the original OHV number, when I passed my test in 1978 my mum let me use the car & I bought it off her for next to nothing a few months later.

I know what you mean Age, I can place my old flames in all my old cars :D

ahhhh that reminds me of a mk2 escort i bought rom an auction in wembley.........................

lol

my first car was a 1.8 marina coupe, thought it was fast at the time, looking back it was garbage, always wanted a Lancia Beta coupe , never got one though , ended up with a Fiat Mirafiori. Would have loved a Fiat 124. Really love 70's/80's cars , suppose its just nostalga because they dont compare to the cars of today.

^ Blimey! 3 rust buckets in one post.

When was the last time you saw a car with a hole in it?

Used to be the norm!

Believe it or not the 71 Capri was an automatic, back then only about 1% of cars were not manual, I passed on a manual but I dont think in over 30 years I have driven one more than a dozen times.

I've only ever driven an auto in Australia.

Must admit I loved it though.

charlie, the 124 was the little coupe wasnt it , the nice ones had the 3p badge yes?

Those little Fiats went like stink.

Certainly saw off me and my Allegro.

For years all my friends only drove a manual, now I dont know anyone who drives one !

In this weather manual is king.

had some great fun in suzuki sj410s as well

3 litre Ford Capri (1972)

Petrol Guzzlist

reported !!

lol pang. back then i didnt give a fooook how much petrol is, now i ckeck the price boards for .01 of a p lol

When I had a MK 10 Jag, me and my mates used to share the cost of filling both tanks and go out cruising all night.

22 gallons came to about a tenner. :^0

Nafta garage Tarpots Benfleet 29.9p a gallon.

and u got free glasses or summit with every so many gallons

good eve reg. i dont hink they have been mentioned yet, they were cambridge/oxford era cars and made great hot rods of the day

Morris Oxford, built like a tank !

indeed pang. i meant the anglias maade good hot rods lol.

the early anglias had those indicators, like the morris minor

those cambridge/oxfords had a smell all of their own, twas the leather seats

I remember having a sort out with this bird in an MG Magnet,an ex cop car that i owned,fkin beautiful motor....

Jag XJS series were nice

ok good night everyone thanks for input and nostalgia.

Austin Westminster was made to last.

A bloke had a '63 model in a cab firm in Chatham in the mid 70s.

now the westie was a beast to behold

Me any my best mate used to dabble in 2nd hand cars for sale.

Best one without doubt was a Mk2 Jaguar.
Had all sorts, Humber Snipe, Cortinas galore, Capris, Beetles, had a deisel Corsair - facking pig of a car, morris minor that fell to bits on the A2, an old Merc that got destroyed in a banger race, a Rover 90 - all aluminium body, couldn't remember all the cars as we had too many over the years.

Mk2 Jaguar ,lovely motor ,always thought gangsters were driving them

when i was a kid ..

and didnt the old bill have them at one stage as well ?

lot of people buy them and restore them BC ..

if i could afford the petrol Id love one :-(

Back in the 70s one of the best cars I had was a Rover 3500s P6,for its time it was fast,and it did handle well,one of the best driving cars I had in the early 80s was a Ford Capri 2.8,I loved that car fast,but like so many of those I did write mine off.

casemoney 07 Jan 01:17
lot of people buy them and restore them BC ..

As a fellow lover of them, my honourable friend Orioles restores Jaguars as a hobby, and he will leave you in no doubt as to the cost of such a mission.

'It ain't cheap' is a rough summation.

I drive a 1995 XJ40, which does its best to bankrupt me when it goes wrong, but I keep hanging in there.

i had a ford capri

dad had a sunbeam rapier, hillman minx, ford cortina, morris marina and many others

I love Triumph Stag and also Simitars, looked great but ran like cr@p

another car I had at the time was a Jaguar xj6 the 4.2 series three,that was a nice car but a couple of years ago i drove one it drove like a antique,but it does get people looking at you,mine was silver about the best colour,and talking of people looking at you years ago my parents had a Silver Shadow,people used to give us the two fingers in that,how things have changed!

My first XJ6 was a facking nightmare. I bought a J reg 2.8 model and the bodywork wasn't as light as it is these days. It shifted, no doubt about that, but I lived 50 miles away from work, and the petrol consumption was astronomical, apart from the mechanical problems. It died in London when the gearbox packed up. I had had enough of it by then, and scrapped it.

the piston gobbler charlie!

Old timer mechanic in a garage told me that.

I could hear a rattle so I took it to him.

He put a stick of wood on the engine and his ear on the other end.

' Upper timing chain, 'got a radio ?' he said

I said ' Of course it facking has.'

He said ' Turn it up and ignore the rattle. I could repair it today and the bastid could go again tomorrow... and one more thing.....'

' What.'

'Do yourself a favour, get rid of this piece of sh1t, get a 4.2 model, because the way you drive (we obviously knew each other) you're going to blow number one piston right out of the engine'

A freind of mine had a 2.8 and decided to make it into a estate,so he got a old ford escort est,cut them both up welded the two together,when we got to see it he asked me what Ithought?A forking mess what a shame to do that to a nice car,he drove it around for a few months,people always commented on it,but it was a terrible thing to do after he got fed up with it and scrapped that one to.He called it "The Escuar".