Which Car Do You Remember with Affection from your Youth?

[MontyVeda]

I remember a school friend’s dad had an Austin Maestro which came with a digital speedometer. Seemed great and wondrous at the time. Now, not so much.

Was that the one that talked too?

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Was that the one that talked too?

Like KITT? That’d be fantastic!

Yes, I believe it was. A talking dashboard. Sounds so gimmicky today. It was then.

 

[MontyVeda]

Like KITT? That’d be fantastic!

Yes, I believe it was. A talking dashboard. Sounds so gimmicky today. It was then.

i seem to recall it being incredibly annoying... (a bit like KITT) ...no wonder it didn't catch on.


Other cars i remember with affection from the early/mid 80s... (hands up who did this) ...any old banger with loads of fog lights on the front and a big white square painted on the doors.

 

[Levo-Lon]

i seem to recall it being incredibly annoying... (a bit like KITT) ...no wonder it didn't catch on.


Other cars i remember with affection from the early/mid 80s... (hands up who did this) ...any old banger with loads of fog lights on the front and a big white square painted on the doors.

It was to tell you you've broken down again

Bloody things

 

[pplpilot]

Was that the one that talked too?

Sis had one. Utterly dire car.

 

[MontyVeda]

Sis had one. Utterly dire car.

I used the have an Amstrad portable twin cassette deck that looked like that dashboard... it was also shoot.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Amstrad....the market leader at £ land

 

[screenman]

Just too clarify something before I add some more cars I had, what age is the " youth" in the title up to?

 

[Levo-Lon]

Just too clarify something before I add some more cars I had, what age is the " youth" in the title up to?

No steam cars son

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Mustn't forget my very own first car. This is what £185 would get you back in 1981:
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There was one parked up, on the edge of Castleford (near the big 'Xscape' complex) just a few weeks ago
Well......... a Singer Vogue, but close enough

 

[ianrauk]

Not being a car lover or driver in any shape or form. The only car I really wanted as a child was a TR7. It's the only car I have ever really liked.
The local garage was a TR7 dealer and he let me sit in one back in the day.

It was a white one.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Not being a car lover or driver in any shape or form. The only car I really wanted as a child was a TR7. It's the only car I have ever really liked.
The local garage was a TR7 dealer and he let me sit in one back in the day.

It was a white one.
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That would explain your cycling awesomeness @ianrauk

 

[MichaelW2]

Not being a car lover or driver in any shape or form. The only car I really wanted as a child was a TR7. It's the only car I have ever really liked.
The local garage was a TR7 dealer and he let me sit in one back in the day.

It was a white one.
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The TR7 were two of my favourite cars but some fool fixed the front of one to the rear of the other.

 

[Cycleops]

Just too clarify something before I add some more cars I had, what age is the " youth" in the title up to?

Not too sure but about twenty five or so would count as your youth perhaps?

 

[Smokin Joe]

I had a chance to buy one of these in about 1980 for £1400 -

I was single and earning good money at the time so running and repair costs wouldn't have mattered. I still kick myself that I let it go.