Memories of products from the 70's....

tawelfryn said:
"Lotus" skateboards with "Cryptonics" wheels

Oh yes, 70mm red kryp's with gullwing trucks, the biz !!

Crikey going for serious money now, see here
 
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I'm not sure if this was in the 70,s, maybe the late 60,s, but it was probably the worst advert of all time.
Strand cigarettes and the catch phrase, "your never alone with a strand"
Whatever happened to that poor guy in the white mac, who was in the advert.
At the time me and most of my mates smoked, but none of us would buy that brand as it inferred you were "billy no mates".
 
standing at football matches

cars that looked like tanks with vinyl roofs

strikes

punk, glam rock and disco

more strikes

no electric, green godesses, no bread, rubbish piling up

yet more strikes
 
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securespark said:
Talking of shoes & clothes, I used to wear Clarks Polyveldt, and Country Cousins jeans.
You did not need to reveal your darkest secret of the70s only a memory or two :LOL: :LOL:
 
Eddie M said:
tawelfryn said:
"Lotus" skateboards with "Cryptonics" wheels

Oh yes, 70mm red kryp's with gullwing trucks, the biz !!

Crikey going for serious money now, see here

i had a long fibreglass skateboard with "california slalom" trucks and green kryptons.
also had a bowlrider with blue bowlrider kryptons.
i remember them gullwings though with the split axle, very innovative. ;)
 
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Ahhhh. the old broad bowlriders, now for some reason part of me believes that the red kryp's were the fastest, but I also seem to remember they were the softest, so therefore, i'd imagine they were actually the slowest.
 
Thermo said:
standing at football matches

cars that looked like tanks with vinyl roofs

strikes

punk, glam rock and disco

more strikes

no electric, green godesses, no bread, rubbish piling up

yet more strikes

Great wasn't it :D
 
noseall said:
Eddie M said:
tawelfryn said:
"Lotus" skateboards with "Cryptonics" wheels

Oh yes, 70mm red kryp's with gullwing trucks, the biz !!

Crikey going for serious money now, see here

i had a long fibreglass skateboard with "california slalom" trucks and green kryptons.
also had a bowlrider with blue bowlrider kryptons.
i remember them gullwings though with the split axle, very innovative. ;)

whoa they are fetching some good money now, I reckon a genuine deck would go for some too. Im almost sure mine must be down my mothers attic. I had red wheels too, I also had a set of "Hang 10" wheels, brown with feet going around the outside if I remember correctly. But the kryps were the fastest by far. Used to keep up with the boys on their "Grifters" down the hills, and they were in 3rd gear! Until... I got speed wobble and came off :(
 
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Eddie M said:
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

This made me chuckle. My first car also lacked many of these! It was a banged up old 1989 Nissan Micra 1.0 :LOL: I still hate micras, even the brand new one - the seats are still too hard! The heater was surprisingly efficient. :LOL:
 
jeez.......one of the not so good things in remembering the 70s is you realize that here and now yer just about too old to remember them.
but.....i am recalling my first car... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

1974 Ford Pinto station wagon....spray painted silver because the light blue paint had faded...with dark blue vinyl seats that could cook ya alive in the summer. No A/C....only am radio, no power steering, no power brakes and it was 4 cylinders and not the car to have when you were in a hurry. oh....and high school...i graduated in 74.

but i DO remember clarence the cross eyed lion......thanks for that :LOL: :LOL:
 
Thermo said:
strikes


more strikes

no electric, green godesses, no bread, rubbish piling up

yet more strikes

Then along came Thatcher to beat the Unions and give us the country we have today. We all owe her plenty - like it or not.
 
then came blair, and screwed it all up again, here and abroad! :rolleyes:
 
noseall said:
securespark said:
Talking of shoes & clothes, I used to wear Clarks Polyveldt, and Country Cousins jeans.

i thought "pollys" were very early eighties?


Hmm. '79 rings a bell, but I shall stand corrected.

They looked like burnt cornish pasties (sorry, rich!), and tasted like them too!! :LOL:
 
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