Halfords 1965 brochure

[dean36014]

Shamelessly stolen from Pistonheads but some fantastic products in there. Hope this hasn't been posted up already.

https://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/halfords-1965-catalogue/

[nebuchenezer]

Brilliant!

[Dirk Diggler]

It's the choice and variety of ashtrays available; of course prominently at the front

 

Without Facebook, Love Island and I'm A Celebrity to think about people really had more time for the things that mattered

[oldcars]

That's brilliant. I have a battery charger from my grandfather that looks just like the big one there.

[cros]

Enjoyable but honest John commentary a load of wank. Sounds like the cunt who wrote World's Worstest Cars.

[mercrocker]

I have a 1970 Christmas Halfords one, its not that much different, just funkier fonts!  They were proper High Street merchants back then, not on some grim retail park next to a bed shop.

[Supernaut]

I have a 1970 Christmas Halfords one, its not that much different, just funkier fonts!  They were proper High Street merchants back then, not on some grim retail park next to a bed shop.

 

RONG!

 

My local Halfords is no longer next to a bed shop. It is now next to a gym, which has a McDonalds next to it.

[Zantimisfit]

Everyone in my family is getting the nylon golf trousers this Christmas!

[Dick Longbridge]

Bloody great find, that. I love the idea of being able to pop down to Halfords for a replacement silencer for my Lambretta.

As for the ‘Telulog mileage recorder’, it’s provided me with a hallelujah moment.

I can visualise being sat in the back of my grandads 1100 back in the 80’s. Two things are still as clear as day in my mind as I looked forward - the fox tail hanging down from his rear view mirror (I called it a ‘scallywag’ and still don’t know why) and the weird little thing with swivelly numbers glued onto his wooden dash.

Now I finally understand what it was for - working out how many emmpeegees his A series was giving him!

[Junkman]

I want the Lucky Golly with moving eyes and suction fitting.

Because it's not offensive, or anything.

[AlabamaShrimp]

With so much stuff it does show you what the cars didn't come with.

 

One thing I don't get though is why anything over 20 shillings isn't listed as a pound. There's a drill that's something stupid like 239 not £11 and change.

[bigstraight6]

I have a 1970 Christmas Halfords one, its not that much different, just funkier fonts!  They were proper High Street merchants back then, not on some grim retail park next to a bed shop.

My local one is next to a bed shop on a grim retail park, there’s also one of those wank drive through coffee places there, it’s just hateful. I much prefer the Halfords of old, I have an ancient battery charger of Halfords origin and it still works perfectly, it must be a least 40 years old...

[Dead_E23]

I would spend a lot more money in Halfords if they still sold stuff like that.

 

I went in there a couple of weeks ago for a Mondeo oil filter and was told you have to pre-order them.   As if anyone's going to do that.

[MrBiscuits]

Brilliant. The 'spark plug air pump' is genius!

[adw1977]

I remember my parents having one of those little litter bins with the flaps sitting over the transmission tunnel in their Chevette.

[HH-R]

Where's the Ripspeed M8

[Bren]

I bet the sales assistants were like Mr Chomondley - Warner back then.Now they carry the air of a man who cannot remember if they turned the oven off.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

That's brilliant. I have a battery charger from my grandfather that looks just like the big one there.

 

 

I have the same one too - also from my grandfather. He really looked after things and it is still in its original box.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I remember that type of Lumogaz lantern and stove burners from the Seventies.

 

We regularly used one  to light up the kitchen as we huddled in its pool of light to watch my mother attempting to cook dinner on the little burner in all the power cuts. We also had a paraffin lamp which my dad put on top of the kitchen wall unit, but it caught fire and put a great black stain on the ceiling which was there as a reminder well into the Thatcher years. I loved the power cuts: no school! My mum wasn't so keen...

[bigstraight6]

I remember that type of Lumogaz lantern and stove burners from the Seventies.

 

We regularly used one  to light up the kitchen as we huddled in its pool of light to watch my mother attempting to cook dinner on the little burner in all the power cuts. We also had a paraffin lamp which my dad put on top of the kitchen wall unit, but it caught fire and put a great black stain on the ceiling which was there as a reminder well into the Thatcher years. I loved the power cuts: no school! My mum wasn't so keen...

I remember it well, Commerades Corbyn and McDonnell would love to inflict this on us all again....

[martc]

With so much stuff it does show you what the cars didn't come with.

 

One thing I don't get though is why anything over 20 shillings isn't listed as a pound. There's a drill that's something stupid like 239 not £11 and change.

 

I wonder if it's because 239 shillings seems cheaper than £11 (actually its approx £11 19/6)? The average wage in 1965 was £19 a week so £11 19/6 would seem an enormous amount, but 239 of those small silver coins kicking around in your pocket - not too much is it?

 

Incidentally the average wage in 2017 is approx £509 per week which would make that drill about £321. An equivalent 2 speed B&D drill from Amazon today is £43. I notice the 1965 drill is available on easy terms.

 

Nowadays things are £999 instead of £1000 for similar reasons - not much has changed.

[trigger]

I scanned off some of the 1961 Halfords range some years ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[adw1977]

The picture of the car cover on the Popular in the 1961 advert also appears in the 1965 brochure.

[SiC]

Excellent! Just found too that the little light next to the glovebox in my MGB GT is a Wipac Elbo-lite. Genuine giffer add-on trinket from the era!

[sheffcortinacentre]

I've got a couple of those Pico flashing lanterns in vgc

I was hopeing there be a a screw type trolley Jack, everyone says I'm imagining it but I'm sure I've seen similar ads 60s/70s for a trolley jack same as hydraulic ones but that it had a sort of scissor Jack mechanism?

[PiperCub]

Notice how expensive in today's money terms the car tyres were back then.

 

eg: A 5.60 x 13 crossply (equiv in size to a radial 155x13) is about £115 in today's money. Car radios were very pricey then too. 

 

A good read, bit of a shame Halfrauds is nowhere near as useful these days, just selling largely useless old tut (with some exceptions). 

[chatsharris]

What's also noteworthy is that people keep banging on about how Christmas adverts are starting earlier and earlier every year.

 

In 1961, it appears that the ad was prepared in late October. Interesting.

[martc]

What's also noteworthy is that people keep banging on about how Christmas adverts are starting earlier and earlier every year. In 1961, it appears that the ad was prepared in late October. Interesting.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

[sierraman]

Enjoyable but honest John commentary a load of wank. Sounds like the cunt who wrote World's Worstest Cars.

The irony was it had the worlds best cars I’m in my opinion.

[cros]

Fully working, 12volt, if you want it just ask, it free.