1988 survey vehicle trip round Sunderland - Pleanty of chod.

[makum101]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QP5LOnDVcY

[laser wheels]

Wow, thank you for posting that that was GR100 AMAZEBALLS!

 

I actually work just by the the Queen Alexandra Bridge - during the first few minutes of that film for anyone not familiar with the area - and it is quite frankly gob smacking how different it was then. I mean, it's just like a normal road and not some sort of horrid trial by traffic lights and so many FUCKING signs and billboards and twats driving like, just, twats. In fact I almost hate driving through Sunderland as most as I hate driving through Gateshead - and that's really saying something.

 

What is bizarre is that I was 12 in 1989 and I just can't get my head around just how different it all was then; for example I just don't remember that many Cortinas being on the road in '89. In fact looking at that film the 'Tinas seem to out number the Sierras 10-1! Oh, well, memory's a funny old thing, isn't it?

[Des]

That's very impressive for so early a dashcam, I fancy he has an equally early satnav, but it's a bit shit as he's clearly lost. Notice the good standard of driving? Use of indicators and all that, like a different world.

[Paul Dupart]

Brilliant!  Chodtastic! 

 

I'd have been 24 at this time, makes me feel really old watching this!

[srad34]

Jeez, it was quiet on the roads back in '88!

[Guest Tony Hayers]

Good times.

 

'88, I was probably delivering papers (Herald of Wales) on my Raleigh Grifter around the less desirable parts of Swansea.

[CortinaDave]

Interesting to see how much 70's chod had survived until the late 80s.... and bizarre to see almost every second car was still a cortina with barely a sniff of a sierra even six years after they went out of production

 

I even spied one really knackered looking Mk3 still clinging on

 

Having said that in '88 my old man was driving a Mk4 Cortina

[trigger]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing, That's better video quality than most of the modern dash cams are now. So what's the really shite looking car at 1:27? 

[overrun]

Nice one. Will check this later.

 

FTM

[overrun]

I really enjoyed that. Such a trip down memory lane!

 

I used to make those Busways double deckers from LEGO and get ice cream from Fella's, when he came round my grandma's in Fencehouses.

 

It's really odd to see Monkwearmouth Pit, instead of the SOL, now.

[CortinaDave]

My guess on the shite yellow car at 1.27 was  a VW Derby??

 

[Jon]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing, That's better video quality than most of the modern dash cams are now. So what's the really shite looking car at 1:27? 

 

Looks like a forerunner to a ratlook VW, a genuinely knackered and in no way contrived VW Polo Derby. I studied at Sunderland Uni from 1999-2004 and it's interesting to see how many things had changed (like the re-routing of the A1018 from the town centre, via a small roundabout with several sets of traffic lights, no bus station in that area etc.) but also how many of the buildings still exist. Shame they didn't go down Durham Rd or Chester Rd, as that was where I lived. They passed plenty of my mates' streets, though!

[filthyjohn]

Fuggin mint! I was five then so I don't remember the road layouts. I must say though they've really fucked it up since then. I remember the old Park Lane (yes it's really called that) bus station, glimpsed briefly in all its concrete misery. I may have a bash at making a modern day comparison video, could be a lot of fun. Though I bet if I did it at the crack of dawn there'd still be more traffic than that.

[overrun]

The yellow* one from the video should be wearing the plate from the red one.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Wow, I went to Sunderland Uni from 95-99, lots of that looks familiar!

[twosmoke300]

Ha that red derby has wob in the German reg

[Ratdat]

Goos stuff. No SUV's or people carriers! How traffic has changed! I also noticed there were remarkably few Japanese cars cars too, apart from a couple of Sunnys and a Violet taxi. It's notable the how dated 70's cars looked compared to 80's one. Now a decade plus car doesn't stand out at all in modern traffic.

[Essex V6]

Wow - 3 Fiat 126's - marvellous!

[plasticvandan]

Reliant Regal van giving it the berries, nice

[overrun]

Maxnormal

 

[DVee8]

Wow that bring back memories 1989 i was 19.I also to worked beside the Alex bridge at the start of the film.

 

We use to spend a lot of time on a Saturday afternoon in Cowie's Ford dealer collecting brochures.The building next to cowies was a bus depot.

The Seat dealer Alexandra bridge moved to a bigger better site,the second car dealer that moved,in i brought my Sierra 2.0is from.

 

Victoria's pub (vicky's) collected a lot of my wages on a Friday,Saturday night.

 

Fellas ice creams ran 1977/78 r/s reg Sherpa vans if you got stuck behind one on the road you wern't going any were fast.

On around 10mins is were the test center is/was the amount of time i drove around there on driving lessons.

 

Thanks for that

[dangerousdave]

great watching that the amount of 70,s cars still on the road mainly because unlike now getting credit wasn't as easy so most people couldn't afford a new car I think by that time my dad had a battered mk2 Granada saloon and I think the reliant regal was an estate I spied windows behind the doors

[makum101]

Wow! I never thought the vid would go down this well. Was expecting to get shot with shit. Hahaha.

The video is from a Sunderland Polytechnic survey lorry (yep they used lorries), equipped with a broadcast quality camera hence the quality being quite good for the era. I know the cameras were 'Umatic' format (rather then VHS).

For those locals who liked the road layout as it was in this video... Ironically the video IS the reason  the roads changed to what they have become - They were done so studies could be drawn from them with a view to change the road layouts. 

The survey trips were carried out early in the morning (you can hear a student saying "6 o'clock" at one point). That would have been 6am, hence the lack of heavy traffic.

Anyway here is some more chod from a bygone time in part two (also from 1988) Enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWvnNTzeF8A

[brickwall]

Superb. Hardly any potholes too.

[DVee8]

Again thanks memory lane

Toward road service station i use to get my cars crypton tuned there i think they charger a fiver.

I was in the pub under the Mowbray park hotel the pallentine i think the night the SCS shop burned down i think that was 89/90.

5th avenue next to carricks bakers was a great pub.

The Jet station next to the Blue monkey was around the cheapest in town,and a pair of lada's out side.

Do you have any more?

[overrun]

It said in the comments on the first one, that the uploader had loads of them, but due to format, he binned most.

 

Cheers again, OP. SEB, like.

[mercrocker]

What  you  need  to do is upload this into a modern dash cam and get  your mate to drive you round the route then you  can just look at the vid and pretend none of this shit today ever happened....

[overrun]

The town still looks like this when my old chod is in the area.

[Lord Sterling]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing. Things did just look a lot cleaner and tidier back then. Noticed the Montego and the White Rover 200 SD3 making seperate appearences twice. Loads of Cortinas compared to just 2 Sierras. Cowies of Sunderland too spotted.

[overrun]

My mate crashed his Nova, negotiating the squareabout outside of the dealership.

Drove up onto the kerb and into the signs, because he was expecting it to be round.

 

Shame 'cowies' means something a bit different, these days!