SootySport Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 Do you remember-----Tiger Tails hanging out of the petrol cap. Lots of spotlamps with Checkered Flag covers 5 1/2J x 13 wheels Can you remember any more? Quote
Dibby Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 Jeez! The 60s? That was 20 years before I was born man! Retro mods I remember from my kiddyhood were 10" wheels on a the next door neighbour's 1275GT Mini Always wanted Cibie spots for my MkII Escort. Bought a tiny steering wheel that made the steering harder than pharoe's heart and dropped the back end with lowering blocks. Quote
SootySport Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 Yes I remember tiny steering wheels with no power steering, oops! I've hit the kerb Dad! Quote
Captain Colonial Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 Ha - I had an 8-track tape deck in my car that I thought was great compared to the AM (MW) radio that was built into the dash. Best feature that car (1958 Ford Fairlane Skyliner) had wasn't the convertible hardtop, it was the vinyl bench seats, or as we called them, SOB seats...you'd make a hard turn and your date (no seat belts then) would shoot across the seat straight to your side - Slide Over, Baby! Happy days! Quote
SootySport Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 Ha - I had an 8-track tape deck in my car that I thought was great compared to the AM (MW) radio that was built into the dash. Best feature that car (1958 Ford Fairlane Skyliner) had wasn't the convertible hardtop, it was the vinyl bench seats, or as we called them, SOB seats...you'd make a hard turn and your date (no seat belts then) would shoot across the seat straight to your side - Slide Over, Baby! Happy days! We had vinyl bench seats as well although with some birds I preffered a hard right turn, think about it. Quote
peterg Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 Vinyl roofs were 70s, my 1973 Vx Magnum had one Checkered tape was reputed to add 10 mph to your top speed and painting the bonnet matt black on Minis, Anglias and Cortinas meant they went faster as well Quote
SootySport Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 Vinyl roofs - were they 60's or 70's? That would be the 70's Mk3 Cortinas had them first, I think. Quote
SootySport Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 Vinyl roofs were 70s, my 1973 Vx Magnum had one Checkered tape was reputed to add 10 mph to your top speed and painting the bonnet matt black on Minis, Anglias and Cortinas meant they went faster as well Remember Magnums well, but my favourite Vauxhall then was a Firenza Droop Snoop. Checkered sticky tape, yeh, thats a good 60's mod. Quote
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 Raising blocks to go in the rear leaf springs along with bigger diameter back wheels to give your sixties/seventies Ford that "just off to the drag strip" look. Cherry bomb and similar "straight through" exhaust pipes. 1 Quote
SootySport Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 Raising blocks to go in the rear leaf springs along with bigger diameter back wheels to give your sixties/seventies Ford that "just off to the drag strip" look. Cherry bomb and similar "straight through" exhaust pipes. Yep remember all that but again 70's through to 80's mods. Quote
SootySport Posted March 27, 2012 Author Posted March 27, 2012 Another 60's mod-- Lots of shiny chrome bits, door mirrors and aerials etc. Quote
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 Chrome finish sticky tape and chequered sticky tape, stick-on 'bullet holes' or glass, 'eyelids' for headlights, full-width external visors over the windscreen, chrome add-on spinners for hubcaps, hand painted white-walled tyres, a little red ball on a chrome stick fitted to the nearside front wing to demarcate the extreme of the car. AM car radios that needed a power unit in the glovebox, Philips 45rpm record decks under the dash if you were wealthy, a roll-up rear blind on my first car plus an opening windscreen, but that was a 1947 model. Oh and radio receiving licences for car radios. But there was also petrol at 4/4d a gallon... 1 Quote
housebeautician Posted March 27, 2012 Posted March 27, 2012 How about stick on heated rear windscreens and hazard warning lights and lucas spotlights (Still got mine) 1 Quote
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