Me, on this day in 1987, in a car park, surrounded by shite

[Negative Creep]

I would have been approaching my 5th birthday and my little sister was about to have her first. I believe we would have moved into the house my parents still live in, but no idea what my Dad would have been driving (certainly not something like that Mercedes)

[Fat_Pirate]

I was 19, and working in the parts department at the Citroen dealer in King's Lynn.  My day would have included ordering parts via a bizarre talking touch-tone terminal (which seemed pretty whizzy at the time), looking at porn mags in the stockroom, and driving demo AX/BX cars in a highly erratic manner (they'd double-up as my parts van).  I'd then drive home in my Rover SD1 3500 (poo brown, beige velour, manual box), which I somehow managed to run on my wages of £42 a week (never taxing or MOTing it helped a lot).

[stuboy]

i was 12

[forddeliveryboy]

The previous day I'd just passed my test, in Dad's ancient P6 - no handbrake (three point turn on a heavily cambered road, whoops) and the heat soak was terrible. The examiner was sweating buckets on the fake leather plastic seats, I think I almost submarined him/gave him a wedgie on the emergency stop procedure.

 

Being too young to work behind the bar in the local and too old to continue a paper round (ie almost as broke as I am now) I foresook all driving lessons and chanced it. Just scraped together the test money - well under £30, I know. And passed.

[Split_Pin]

I was nearly 8 at the time, just back from the annual family holiday in Crail and likely pulling long skids on my Peugeot 3 speed racer until the tyre burst.

 

My dad had a 1.6 Cavalier estate and my mum had an A-reg sub-base spec metro. We all lived in the house they still have now. We moved from a 30s bunglow to an early 80s detached house which seemed so modern at the time. Even all the neighbour's cars seemed up to the minute. One guy who was a stonemason had an xr3i, a Range Rover and the latest 7 series yet another had a yellow Dyane. I was back there today visiting my parents whilst my car was in the garage being MOT'd and pushed my son round the estate in his pram to get him to take a nap and it brought back memories.

 

That pre 74 R16 was doing very well indeed!

[red5]

Hmm. parked there in the evenings with my other also cool mates in our motley selection of Mk1 Cortinas, Corsair and a token Daihatsu roll-over. Ah, Stourport , how I miss thee.

 

I was 18, car was HVJ669E

Also had a X7 Q770UWP 

 

Parents had a Bluebird 1.6 5dr LX C711ADH

 

I was working @ Dunley Service Station (Mitsubishi Main Dealer) and was as skinny as a rake.

[In The Pit]

I was 8 years old my Dad had a company A reg Cavalier and my Mum had a W reg Talbot Sunbeam (her favourite car she's owned and still mentions it fondly).

I spent that summer mostly at the local youth club hanging out with a girl who was also 8, we had a "i’ll show you mine if you show me yours" moment behind an outbuilding.

[Lord Sterling]

I was 5.

[twosmoke300]

I was 8 and spent most of my summer holidays in dads CF350 beavertail going to and from bca auctions.

Still love big car auctions now

[Slappy]

I was 11 months old, so I would have been doiing regular 11 month old things like vomming over my parents probably. For completeness my Dad was driving an A reg pogweasiling Camry, and my Mum's D reg Minor had been off the road for just over a year, never to turn a wheel again

[UmBongo]

My Nissan was registered in 1987.

 

It could be in that photo!

 

It's red with a sunroof and has four wheels.

 

Can anyone see it???

 

P.S. Why is there always an old giffer wobbling along in the background when you take a photo of something?

[Rocket88]

I was 30.........and had just bought a Stimpson Bug..........for no apparently good reason......until I found out it was a massive clunge magnet...........a bit like having an Andrex puppy.........

[VAGDave]

I was 6 when this photo was taken and would proably have been exictedly contemplating my Dad's recent company car change from a red Mk2 Cavlier GL to a slightly older, Sierra 1.8 Ghia (auto).  For a 6 year old car mad child the Sierra was amazing in comparison to the Cavalier, with electric windows and a LCD screen on the dash telling you if you'd driven off with the doors open.

 

I'm liking the Allegro with quad headlamps and that Mk3 Escort too...  Merc is still taxed and presumably on the road according to DVLA.

[CortinaDave]

Bet the current owner would be amazed to see that pic!

[EssDeeWon]

3 pages of chat following a picture of a carpark in 1987, Brillant and just so autoshite.

 

Find me another forum in the whole wide world where that would happen.

[sco14]

I was driving this on that day in August 1987, I was 23.

 

 

Sad I still own this car today.

[anonymous user]

^ It's not sad, it's wonderful

[TRW]

How modern does the hyacinth bucket spec rover look in that pic?!

 

 

'Richard! Do fetch the Rover'

 

[meggersdog]

I would have been 21 and driving a ten year old orange Opel Kadett (saloon) trying to look cool.The ICE of choice was an Audioline graffic equalizer with green and red flashing lights wired to a Sanyo radio/cassette also with green and red flashing lights.Tunes were most likely The Macc Lads.