Can the 70s roll back on????

[Mich the Tester]

Now yer talking. Allegro, Marina, and that odd-shaped rover that always broke down.

You mean the SD1? My dad had one of those. It was tulipe. He worked for a big American company that bought a few hundred of them to hand out as company cars; within 6 months they’d returned every single one to Rover and replaced them with Fords. His boss worked out that the lost sales from missing meetings due to breakdowns were more per salesman than the catalog price of the cars.

[Francko]

Will they bring back the Austin Allegro?

A jem for that time, the fiat 124 spider... http://www.petercripps.com/Fiat/spider.jpg

and for the Lancia people the Beta Montecarlo.

http://www.the-car-club.co.uk/Images...how%5D-600.jpg

What masterpieces... my first cars (well toys... )

[Francko]

You mean the SD1? My dad had one of those. It was tulipe. He worked for a big American company that bought a few hundred of them to hand out as company cars; within 6 months they’d returned every single one to Rover and replaced them with Fords. His boss worked out that the lost sales from missing meetings due to breakdowns were more per salesman than the catalog price of the cars.

This was also a very very cool car

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3191/...b0ba9ec1f5.jpg

[Mich the Tester]

A jem for that time, the fiat 124 spider... http://www.petercripps.com/Fiat/spider.jpg

and for the Lancia people the Beta Montecarlo.

http://www.the-car-club.co.uk/Images...how%5D-600.jpg

What masterpieces... my first cars (well toys... )

The Italians were well ahead of their time, producing the world’s first biodegradable cars back in the 70’s.

[Bagpuss]

Will they bring back the Austin Allegro?

Rustin All Aggro

[cojak]

Nah, that was the '80's. Shoulder pads, puffball skirts, Mullets, Michael Jackson Jackets

You obviously weren't around then...

Unless you thought this was stylish.

[ASB]

The Italians were well ahead of their time, producing the world’s first biodegradable cars back in the 70’s.

[ot]

The main reason for that was that Agnelli sold various bits of the production line for the Fiat 124 to the russians for the Lada. When the time came for them to cough up they had no foreign reserves so Fiat were paid with Ukranian steel which was surplus to requirements and very low grade. They used it make Fiats and Lancias with.

[Pogle]

You obviously weren't around then...

[URL="http://content.humorpix.com/images/2685/p001.jpg"]Unless you thought this was stylish.[/URL]

BRILLIANT

[Mich the Tester]

Mmmmm...

Flares of increasingly large dimensions...

Suits with lapels so wide that they made you take off in a stiff breeze.

Platform shoes that would break your ankles...

Petrol at 70p/gallon...

Ok.

You've convinced me.

I remember my granddad going apetulip when petrol went above 50p.

[Mich the Tester]

Not forgetting that epitome of car design, the Morris Marina.

Here seen in its natural enviroment, the back of a tow truck.

http://www.paulridley.co.uk/Norris%2...LE%20Front.JPG

That must be the prized GL Coupé model, with go faster stripes and nearly matching panels.