'80s porn mag - not really

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I was clearing out the loft to make way for some free insulation when I happened upon some old mags. Mostly Dirt Bike Rider 'cause I used to play on two wheels but also this Halfords number from 1986, the year I was 17...

 

 

Check out the feast of accessories with which one could enhance the look of one's pride and joy fordy...

 

 

Improve your cortina's road holding with this stylish body kit...

 

 

All volvo 240s would benefit from this RGA reworking....

 

 

Enhance your marina's appeal with a boot spoiler.. or howzabout some Stylistick Stripes for your BX....

 

 

Before and after dash modernisation...

 

 

Ice ice baby. I can't remember Gelhard

 

 

...but I did put a pioneer 1080 in my mk2 Escort.

 

 

Some halfords girly pics available on request

[stuboy]

80s girlys please

[RedSparrow]

Phwoooorrr!

Any more of that Marina boot spoiler?

ASL?

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Next instalment-

 

This fog light could have been yours for £24.95

 

Don't think these plastic seat covers took off. '..can be easily wiped down'

 

 

Titillation by halfords

 

 

Replace your windy windows with this space age buttonage

 

Welding overall (or not)

 

[RichardMoss]

I put an RGA front spoiler on my Allegro in 1983 - it didn't look bad. I also bought a Gelhard amp around that time and still ave it in the garage somewhere. I got it very cheap as the firm my dad worked for we're agents for Gehard.

[Spiny Norman]

Check the prices for some of that stuff, particularly the stereos!

I love the optimism of someone thinking they can enhance the appearance/performance of an Ital or a Volvo 240 with some tasteful Richard Grant appendages....

Back then I used to work in the city centre and there was a big Halfrauds just round the corner, many the lunch hour was spent eyeing up their tat.

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Bull bar for your mini anyone?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

I'm sure that arse picture must look better in real life, because here it looks like the aftermath of nasty diarrhoea attack.

[outlaw118]

Autoplas from this parish used to sell this crap during this period. Hence the name.

I will alert him to this thread!!

[Amazo]

How Halfords has changed. Or not. I've got the original Kamei version of the spoiler on the BMW E21 - its as flimsy as an Ian Brady legal defence.

 

[messerschmitt owner]

most of those pictures have reminded me of how much I hated body kits and still do!

[Spiny Norman]

most of those pictures have reminded me of how much I hated body kits and still do!

 

THIS.

I've never seen a single example of a car that looks better with an aftermarket bodykit.

They all look shit compared to how they came out the factory, & even some of the factory kits are pretty hideous.

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I'm sure that arse picture must look better in real life, because here it looks like the aftermath of nasty diarrhoea attack.

 

 

'fraid not

[Paul Dupart]

Replace your windy windows with this space age buttonage

 

 

Can't see the point if it takes an hour for the window to go down!?

[Pillock]

That window winder kit is brilliant, looks like a proper homebrew effort. Would only be more bizarre if steam powered.

 

I do reckon some cars look good with a proper kit - not better, just nice to see a few period mods. I remember lusting over the Ford RS catalogue where you could glue plastic bits onto everything from a Fiesta to a Granada. And then seeing a White Orion cruising the streets of Skegness with the whole kit on, 7-spoke wheels, the lot.

 

And today a Mk2 Golf passed me with some sort of period air dam/grille/boot spoiler combo on. Made a nice change from slammed/BBSs/Single lamp

[Shep Shepherd]

I always thought that the Volvo 200 Series body-kit was a genuine Volvo accessory. Clearly, it wasn't

[chaseracer]

Nail a snowplough and a farm gate like that onto the front of your Mini 850 and it would cut Vmax by half, shirley...?

[retrogeezer]

How cool is that, I would love one of those brochures to peruse.

 

I never knew Halfords sold Gelhard stereos and I didn't ever see any in the stores near me. I did however buy a Gelhard alplifier/equaliser on holiday in Germany in 1989 and it was a top bit of kit, I should say is actually as I still have it somewhere in the loft.