Belfast Gipsy Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Still have the first 12 issues in a binder. Great nostalgia, but there were some horrors in there too. Some good Bedford CF though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112445458290?clk_rvr_id=1239192448626&rmvSB=true July 2017,Street Machine returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiperCub Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 You'd have thought a Transit would've been the main choice for custom vans yet it seems the old CF was the one done more often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Just used this link (slow day at work!) - very interesting read. Some really crazy shit was done in the 70's & 80's and that makes me happy! While customising isn't my thing as such, I'm so pleased stuff like this exists and people have and still do, do it. To ask the question 'Why?' should receive the answer 'Because we can' or 'Because we wanted to'. There doesn't always need to be a reason does there? The world is a poorer place without activities like this. The day we stop doing things just for the heck of it will be a very sad day indeed.Sir Donald Campbell mercrocker and PiperCub 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusty Sills Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/StreetMachineMagUK/?ref=br_rs And http://street-machine.co.uk/ Re-launches in a week!Link no worky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 You'd have thought a Transit would've been the main choice for custom vans yet it seems the old CF was the one done more often. There were plenty of custom Trannies, but the CF more closely resembled the American vans. At the time getting a vehicle imported was a lot harder so people customised what was available. Please don't make me find the Custom Car BL competition cars (Sherpa, Wedge, Allaggro). Banger Kenny and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstraight6 Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Street machine was the first motor magazine I ever bought as an enthusiastic 12/13 year old in 1979/80, I'm sure the first issue I purchased had a radically modified A60 Oxford or Cambridge on the cover in a dark colour with a cream or white roof, it looked so different to the one a family member owned at the time! Loved Steve Kirks artwork too..... eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Banger Kenny, NorfolkNWeigh and trigger 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 RS2000 Estate is the tits. MorrisItalSLX, mercrocker and trigger 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 That does look good. I remember seeing in a old issue of Custom car magazine many years ago a small photo of a RS2000 front van, this was back when they were still new, that looked amazing and has been etched to my memory ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 That estate does look lovely, Does anyone know which chain shops will be stocking the relaunch mag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave j Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 My favourite car was the project Skoda Rapid they did, I suppose it was because I had one at the time! pompei 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 I do remember the mid 1980s issues. I liked the model kit page because that was as close as got to customising cars at the age of 11! The 'how do I?' pages were also good, even as an 11 year old I could foresee stuffing an Essex v6 into a Viva HA without upgrading the all-drum brakes set-up probably wouldn't end well. About '87 SM started getting obsessed with 'Cal-look' Beetles and I lost interest. The cars I really liked then like early 1960s Fords/BMCs started getting covered by the classic mags so transferred allegiances to them. Something quite short lived called 'Popular Classics' was really good. eddyramrod and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Was that the Skoda Rapide with the Fiat twin cam? JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 ****** Does anyone on here have old Hot Car mags from 1982 ???? ****** Am looking for a scan of a particular article. Any Autoshiters able to help out? Which issue? Chances are I might well have it. Or possibly even a spare copy. I wonder if these ever inspired anybody? Datsun 120A FII coupe - Street Machine Stage 1 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Datsun 120A FII coupe - Street Machine Stage 2 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr From memory there was an even more radical sketch version with pop-up lights. Street Machine Sept 1980: Morris Oxford Traveller by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr I'm still fond of the look of stuff like this. Bin the rubbing strips and add tube bumpers and I think it'd look pretty good.... alf892, JeeExEll, mercrocker and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Found some more scans: delux, JeeExEll and Banger Kenny 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigstraight6 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Which issue? Chances are I might well have it. Or possibly even a spare copy. I wonder if these ever inspired anybody? Datsun 120A FII coupe - Street Machine Stage 1 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr Datsun 120A FII coupe - Street Machine Stage 2 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr From memory there was an even more radical sketch version with pop-up lights. Street Machine Sept 1980: Morris Oxford Traveller by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr I'm still fond of the look of stuff like this. Bin the rubbing strips and add tube bumpers and I think it'd look pretty good....Great memories SL, I remember the A60 Traveller custom well and my CB 'handle' at the time was 'General Grabber'....... JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 The Hot Car issue is September or October 1982, the feature I'm looking for is the driving impressions / road test write up on the then-new Capri 2.8 Injection. A 4-speeder in graphite-over-silver. A scan of the feature would do. Might hopefully be of interest to others on here too. And I owned that very car in 1993. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 The Hot Car issue is September or October 1982, the feature I'm looking for is the driving impressions / road test write up on the then-new Capri 2.8 Injection. Gah! I have two copies of October 1982, but it doesn't appear to be in that one. Sadly I'm missing September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 ****** Does anyone on here have old Hot Car mags from 1982 ???? ****** Am looking for a scan of a particular article. Any Autoshiters able to help out? I've got 'em all, what are you after? *edit* must learn to read all the replies before posting! Off to the loft, BRB... eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retro_Auto Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 I have the first nine months of Custom Car Magazine, in a proper binder with the Title printed on the spine, The first one was 2 shillings & 6 pence in March '70 I did advertise them on eBay some time ago with no takers. So if someone on here is willing to pay the postage they can have them, for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 While you're waiting, enjoy; https://www.facebook.com/streetmachineuk/ JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Do you mean this one; With this feature? Best scan I can get from the next page which is mainly blurb; JeeExEll and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 What appears to be the same Crapi was then taken racing, the reports are in the Nov. 82 - Jan. 83 issues; eddyramrod and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 October '81, not '82; There's one on eBay for £5, I've got a complete set of '81 on there for £10.00 eddyramrod and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 £160 for the Capri?! Found a few odds and ends while I was sorting out some other stuff today: Not sure of the date, probably a 1980/81 issue. DVLA says this Ventora FE lasted until 1989, when it had a 5300cc engine - presumably a Chevy small block? Carlton front end on an FE always intrigued me. Hmmm. It apparently made it to 1987, still listed with its original 1159cc engine.... I assume this was the inspiration behind the Cresta that they had as a project car in the '90s (in the days of Richard Nicholls?). Influential? warren t claim, Banger Kenny and JeeExEll 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Well if you insist... (might be the odd Custom Car/Hot Car page in there) Most of what I have scanned is air-cooled VW stuff, I highly recommend my previous Facebook link as the Street Machine community has scans of pretty much everything. Banger Kenny and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 That Escort van looks pretty good, very restrained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooSavvy Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 His blue Mk1 was also in the 1982 Arena BBC programme with Alexei Sayle about the Cortinas. Check it out on Youtube if you haven't seen it..... and get a free peep at a young tooSavvy, with 'Magnum tache'™ Being in CrappyKlubb I saw the white 3.0S [iirc] with a photo of the 2.8i engine 'photo printed' onto the bonnet - well b4 'vinyl'!! TS JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 I havnt seen the re release in any shops yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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