only acceptable in the 80s!! must have mods..

[suchy]

haha so many memories in this thread!! Had most of them myself (louvered rear window, wiper slats, kc's, CB ariel, anti-statics, cherry bombs, etc.) never rocked a set of white Weller 8-spokes though but painting the letters was de riguer!!

Well that was the 80's, what about the 70's though? Bet there's a few who's rocked portholes, jacked up springleafs, bubble windows, fake bonnet bug catchers, metalflake paintwork....

[vendetta]

What a great thread love some of the stick on shite from yesteryear

[bigredbmw]

YOU GETTING IDEAS LIKE GAZ

[andyp]

Those plastic box speakers which sat on top of the rear parcel shelf. Usually goodmans or similar with an absurd power rating printed on the back.

you also had Harry Moss or Audioline

[andyp]

i used to listen to girls fm in my uncles car and loved goin to ripspeed in tottenham.to me as a kid them days that shop was like car heaven

before Ripspeed were bought out by halfords in tottenham they used to be in Edmonton or is this what you are thinking of

[andyp]

Mag-slot wheels

I see your mag slots and raise you... appliances

omg i am looking for a set of these for my cortina now, i have the wolfrace slots and rostyles already

[Speedtouch]

I currenty have a set of slot mags on a Minor Traveller, with funky purple painted inserts (done by the previous owner of the wheels):



Well, it is a 1970 car, after all...

[kangman]

Heres an idea for your morris minor



HOT ROD

[Speedtouch]

Nah, apparently his small-block Chevy fell apart, shortly after buying it!

http://morrisminorowners.co.uk/ftopic4542-0.php

Whereas, the 1275cc MG Midget engine I fitted into mine is still going strong, many years after I rebuilt it back in August 1994.

[Low_E30]

Mag-slot wheels

I see your mag slots and raise you... appliances

Had a set of those on my Mk5 2.0 ghia then my Mk3 1600, bought locally out the loot and sold locally too about 8 years ago....

My ones came off a candy apple blue Mk3 2000E with white vinyl roof and full white leather retrim and white fur on the rear shelf...

[verde]

my mate has a set of those on his el camino, but theyr american racing deep as hell ones and look fecking sweeeet

[Splondike]

i used to listen to girls fm in my uncles car and loved goin to ripspeed in tottenham.to me as a kid them days that shop was like car heaven

before Ripspeed were bought out by halfords in tottenham they used to be in Edmonton or is this what you are thinking of

I bought a set of slot mags from Ripspeed in Edmonton in 1989

[leeparkes]

Anyone remember those waving hands you stuck on the windows in the early 80's?
I remember my uncle had one in his Maxi, go over a bump and the whole family spun round to watch this hand flop about.
Im sure some had pathetic slogans too, stuff like 'Honk if you are happy'
Imagine the slogans you could get nowadays.

[poolnoodle]

Painting the letters white on the tyres.

I did this to the Yokos on my '78 Corolla Van but went one step further and painted lettering to match the mustard paintwork

[Speedtouch]

I bought a set of slot mags from Ripspeed in Edmonton in 1989

Nowt wrong with slot mags - an all-time classic wheel.

They look very similar to the ones on my Minor Traveller.

[Speedtouch]

I bought a set of slot mags from Ripspeed in Edmonton in 1989

Nowt wrong with slot mags - an all-time classic wheel.

They look very similar to the ones on my Minor Traveller.
What became of the Escort?

[G-Bear]

White dials

Knightrider front LED

Peco / Cherry Bomb exhausts

Weller steel wheels

Forest Arches

Spotlights

I stuck a cherry bomb exhaust on a mrk2 powder blue Fiesta 1.1 pop... along with an XR2 kit on it... I'd still love a mrk2 with no kit, just with a set of pepper pots on.

I used to skateboard with the owners son of Rip Speed.. Jason Rip..

[Splondike]

Nowt wrong with slot mags - an all-time classic wheel.

They look very similar to the ones on my Minor Traveller.
What became of the Escort?

It was my first car and my brother gave it to me when I was 15, I sold it to a mate shortly after that piccy was taken, which was about a year after passing my test. I had put on a new front panel, front wings, arches and had just replaced a rusty door with that one in the pic. I then saw and drove an XR3i and bought that so the Mk1 had to go...

[Speedtouch]

Pity - bet you wished you'd kept it now, the prices of 2-door Mk1 Escorts being what they are.

[Splondike]

The one I should have kept was the RS2000 Mk2 Custom with 60k on the clock which I traded for an Astra GTE in 1993.



What would that be worth now

[Morat]

More than an Astra GTE?