What would your driveway look like 20 years ago?

[Partridge]

When I see pictures older car people put up of themselves with their chod that they owned in their youth, it got me thinking - if you were to go back in time 20 years ago with the equivelent cars, what would your drive way look like?

 

Mine would go something like:

 

OK, I know I've put up a picture of a Daimler Vanden Plas, but I think of my Sovereign as being one for some reason. Plus, the 4.0 XJ8s tend to hum and wuffle in the same way the old school V12 Jags did...

 

Wasn't able to find a green 18 break, soz.

 

I feel I would have been much cooler 20 years ago...

 

If this won't encourage us to preserve our shite, nothing will!

[Timewaster]

From your pictures I think the answer to the question is :

 

Better.

[tooSavvy]

Never had one, sir!

 

TS

[sierraman]

Hmm... in 1997... I'd have had a 1979 Escort estate on bricks for 2 months, whilst knocking about in a 1984 Granada and a 1983 Escort.

[DVee8]

 

 

1997 would give

 

 

See my Sig for todays driveway

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Definitely better.

First off, the moderns*

[UltraWomble]

1997 and my driveway looked like this

[Fat_Pirate]

20 years ago:

 

Dog wasn't impressed:

Gearchange was like a spoon in a bucket of wet sand.

[Negative Creep]

Before I got my licence, so it would have been my Dad's car. Not entirely sure what it would have been, probably this:

 

 

 

By now I'm living at what was my grandparent's house, so the driveway had one of these in it

 

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20 years ago I had a pushbike and a micro scooter so the current driveway then (based on +20 year old equivalents) would go something along the lines of:

'82 mk1 polo

'77 Volvo 145

'57 Mercedes ponton

'73 Nissan skyline gtr

 

Which would be nice

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Gets more difficult finding equivalents for the shite,

Yes SEAT were still making the 850 in 1979 so perfect match for our 1999 Arosa.

 

Not sure about this

For this though

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Sorry, should be '67 Mercedes 250

[ShiteRider]

My daily is a 12 year old vectra sri = 1984 cavalier sri.

I've a 19 year old mx5 = 1978 mgb roadster

16 year old lupo = 1981 mk1 polo

16 year old fiesta = 1981 mk1 fiesta

15 year old pug partner van = 1982 citroen acadiane

[vulgalour]

2017 sees me with a 37 year old Austin saloon and a 23 year old Rover saloon.

 

That probably puts me in a shabby, weirdly coloured 1960 Princess and a shiny red with vinyl roof (but small engine and manual gearbox) 1974 P6.  These are the closest examples I could find.

 

 

 

 

Not sure if I like my current driveway or my 1997 driveway better.

[vulgalour]

Ooo, Angrydicky's 1997 driveway is going to be interesting.  I bet one of them ends up being horse drawn.

[Junkman]

 

 

 

 

 

[hairnet]

if you mean 20 years ago then very early sinker xantia (23 years on is still about )

 

if you mean the equiv of what have now then mk1 panda

 

edit : can i just release a massive oof at junks post

 

i went from here to blackburn to hawes down through n yorks

 

and saw

 

tr2 tr6 triumph mayflower two stags in formation

 

and the OOF?

 

white 504 saloon

 

no pics as i was moving

[catsinthewelder]

So 1997 would have seen this crowd lurking around my house in mostly broken condition.

 

 

[DodgyBastard]

This is what's currently on my drive, It would take forever to through the rest of them...

 

 

 

Polishing turds by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Lada 1200 Combi (VAZ-2102) by Rob, on Flickr

 

Polishing turds by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_0796 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_0557 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DAF 66 Marathon by Reallyloud, on Flickr

 

DSC_0556 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

citroen van by Nomad909, on Flickr

 

2004 Ford Ranger by srblythe, on Flickr

 

Ford P100 by Reallyloud, on Flickr

[Roverageous]

Interesting concept. I currently have two Rover 75s, both of which are 16 years old. So in 1997 my cars would have to date from 1981. Realistically that means an SD1.

 

That doesn't really work for me, so I'm going to say a Princess.

[Cleon-Fonte]

 

 

 

 

[warren t claim]

Oh that's an easy question to answer as I know what I was doing this time twenty years ago.

 

A 1991 Cavalier Sri. My daily driver.

 

A bright red Series 3 Jag XJ12 with chrome arches. Bought on a whim. Full of filler and weighed in the day Tony Blair won the 1997 General Election.

 

Whatever Range Rover I was tarting up and selling at the time.

 

An 1982 RS1600i that had been in hibernation outside my house after a driving ban in 1994.

 

Here's the number one song at the time.

 

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

in 1997 , many of the people that drove, say , this.

would have embraced the music and culture of the time, might even have had a haircut like , say, this

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so obviously a group of blokes owning the equivalent today would aspire to look like this

[Hendry]

2009 VW Jetta currently, 1997s equivalent would be a 1989 VW Jetta, I think I'd rather have that actually!

 

If I was to go through all my previous cars, I think their equivalents would be better. Particularly my last car, brand new 15 plate Corsa 1.4 SRi. 20years back would be 1995, and a brand new Corsa B 1.4 SRi, much cooler!!

[Dirk Diggler]

Edited to say Yous are all a bunch of spanners

 

I rode all your dogs

 

And it was good

[0ldCh0d]

20 years ago..............I had one of these, pretty much identical to this..

 

[Felly Magic]

Sadly my driveway would have a Mk2 Mondongo 1.8 LX in it, but 20 years ago I had a Fiesta Popular Plus Mk2

[strangeangel]

Car-wise it'd inevitably be cooler, in that our 29 year old Citroen estate would be a DS Safari, and our Peugeot cab would be a 304.

 

Bikes is different though, as there's no equivalent to the Helix. It was the first of its kind.

[Hendry]

Sadly my driveway would have a Mk2 Mondongo 1.8 LX in it, but 20 years ago I had a Fiesta Popular Plus Mk2

Wouldn't it be a 1982 Cortina? If you've got a 52 plate Mondeo now, 1997s equivalent would be a 15yr old Ford equivalent.

[Junkman]

Car-wise it'd inevitably be cooler, in that our 29 year old Citroen estate would be a DS Safari, and our Peugeot cab would be a 304.

 

Bikes is different though, as there's no equivalent to the Helix. It was the first of its kind.