Sounds that take you back...

[scaryoldcortina]

Here's a few from my personal collection.

 

 

Dial phone..

 

 

 

Pinto struggling to start

 

 

last legs cortina

 

 

Straight cut first

 

[DVee8]

Maestro vdp voice synthesizer.

[Jikovron]

I'm rather youthful but I remember at least one standard of living shift of sorts as we were behind the times

 

Kingpin, Colway and Centaur remould tyres squealing when pulling hard from a junction on a bit of lock, or indeed locked wheels on hard braking

 

1300rpm cold idle and a Cat-less hollow sounding exhaust

 

clacking pushbuttons on a wood case Grundig TV

 

a starter motor carrying on beyond 3seconds

 

lada riva/marina/ldv 200 interior transmission howl in all gears apart from direct 4th by which the engine would take over the role

 

air brakes loudly exhausting pressure after application

[derskine]

CVH rattle.

[Station]

The hollow metallic clang of being inside a big Luton van and someone slamming the drivers door!

My dad has a big Luton esque Volkswagen LT thing in the 80s, it was blue.

Also rattles and knocks from the same thing, it takes me back all the time I'm in a worn out old transit.

[Ronnie L]

Bedford coach noise

 

 

I'm with you on that one. Particularly the gearbox whine of a Bedford OB.

[vulgalour]

The screech of my highly-strung driving instructor as she berated me yet again for accidentally wheel-spinning the absolutely shagged Corsa B I was learning to drive in at the time.

[bub2006]

My dad almost every morning going basil fawlty on whatever heap he had at the time with a multitude of profanities till the bastard thing started. Or in one case backfired and caught fire.

[twosmoke300]

The sound of big end knock ( commer dodge van I'm looking at you )

[Vin]

The rattly sound of the Chrysler Alpine/Peugeot 309....

 

The distinct booming noise of a Daihatsu Charade Diesel...

[DeeJay]

My mate having an asthma attack after pushing my Anglia for about 1/2 a mile

(Starter motor was knackered)

I'd not turned on the ignition.

[gordonbennet]

Funnily enough sat in our home office yesterday and the unmistakable sound of a Jake Brake in full song came drifting through the ether, we live probably 1/2 a mile from a dual carriageway as the crow flies so can only assume that's where it was.

 

I haven't heard one in the flesh since 1986/7 when i last drove a lorry so equipped.

[FakeConcern]

Cornering squeal from crossply tyres!

 

(as already said gear whine from Mini)

[vulgalour]

The squeak of Peugeot rear suspension.  That takes me right back to school days and my Dad's knackered old Pug estate.

[MrBiscuits]

The throaty rasp of a rear engine Skoda.

[HH-R]

The unmistakable clatter of a Peugeot XUD.

 

I know that'll be a common noise to shiters, but I've not heard it for 4 or 5 years at least.

[HH-R]

Not really motoring related, but some songs just sound wrong without the wow and flutter from cheap/shite audio playback equipment/worn out media.

[mercrocker]

The early morning moan and clink of a Wales & Edwards milk float. Bicycle bells. Rag and Bone men calling (no stupid honky horn or handbells back then). Galvy dustbins being emptied and clanked against a side-loader S&D. Super single trailer tyres singing on a hot tarmac road. People double-declutching - usually due to shagged synchros or crash-box habits. Ice Cream van compressors. Petrol mowers. Two tone emergency sirens (and on the local ambulance still a Winkworth bell into the late 70s). Fire station alarm sirens (our one was ex WW2 and sounded fantastic). Two way radio chat from the village Plod's LE200 as he ring-tinged his way round the estate. Kids with cards pegged into their bike wheels.

 

Bloody hell, this is like some kind of therapy!

[AlabamaShrimp]

The tappets noise mk1/2 Fiestas make (tried to get a video but failed), the whine in first as they pull away and their unique loud standard exhaust.

[D Spares & Tyres]

I was going to mention the sound of raspy Fiesta Mk1 exhausts too!

 

Today I saw and heard some kids playing up a tree. That seems rare these days, I`m amazed how quiet it is outside in the school holidays before games consoles existed and when kids knew how to play

[michael1703]

Tz750,rg500,Krauser 500,ADM 500,rotary norton 588

[phil_lihp]

The deep whine and clinking of bottles every morning as I woke up for school, it just wasn't the same once they got rid of the milk floats that stopped at every house and replaced them with diesel Mk3 Transits which were left in 1st gear and ragged around the 5 remaining houses that still ordered bottled milk.

 

Oh, that and the high-pitched whine of a mini-Metro A-series.

[michael1703]

Bedford TK air brake whistle

Mine does that,didn't know they were supposed to

[Christine]

Mercrocker saying LE200 plods bike .. We used to listen in to the police on VHF .. pip.. pip.. pip..Alfa brava 62..No trace stolen..pip.. pip ..pip  on Saturday nights   

[M'coli]

Elsie:

[Timewaster]

XU petrols. My first job was at a Peugeot dealer and a spluttering XU straight off the transporter was a common sound.

[M'coli]

Class 37s. Whilst lying in bed during the night I used to hear them labouring away from the signals a mile away on their way up the West Highland Line.

[phil_lihp]

The tinny, thrashy rattle of a Talbot Solara or Horizon engine - a couple of neighbours had them, one family just down the road ran their brown Horizon for about 10 years until the early 00's when rot and mechanical wear finally got to it.  They also had a yellow Samba which lasted a little longer before going the same way.

 

I can also still recall the sound each morning of their next door neighbour trying to back his increasingly poorly and neglected Maestro up out of his steeply-sloped driveway too.  Eventually it ran too badly to manage it and stayed there for about a year until someone in a Bedford Rascal came and towed it away.

[jonny69]

Not so much of a sound, but what about when an old 60s Jag goes up the road and leaves that rich oily mixture smell hanging in the air. Remember when all cars smelled like that? When was the last time you smelled that!

[chaseracer]

Mercedes single cam l6 sound...

 

Ooh yes