crafty1289 said:
You lot are showing your age. 4 pages of the 70's. I might leave this forum if this carries on! Old Gits!
But crafty me old mucker, look what paucity you've had to grow up with, I mean the 70's were great, terrible fashion, punk rock, glam rock, mods, winter of discontent, nightly power cuts, diptheria, bubonic plague (ok, I made the last two up)
Even the 80's were great, big hair, new romantics, Margaret Thatcher selling off the entire country, poll tax riots, padded shoulders, power suits, mobile phones the size of a brick, me reaching drinking age and being sick on 3 pints of cider, heady stuff.
Let's face it the 90's were a bit rubbish, and the naughties haven't been great either (apart from my kids of couse, oh and I suppose I have to include getting married in 1994
) BUT, apart from that what have the 90's or naughties ever done for us ?
Oh and the cars, NCAP !!! Air bags !! Air bags .... ABS ...... bl**dy luxury
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Just making off the top of my head, all the things my first car didn't have :-
A radio
A clock
A fag lighter
Fifth gear
A rev counter
Electric windows
Central Locking
Power steering
ABS
Air bags
Air con (or indeed any efficient heating either)
Heated rear window
Rear window wiper
Fuel injection, just that maddening automatic choke with a VV carb, arrgh!
Any upholstry on the door panels
Effective brakes
But none of this really mattered, 'cos before you could really complain about these things, the car would have dissolved into a pile of rust anyway. Happy daze.