Sainsbury's Archive

[adw1977]

2 hours ago, EssDeeWon said:

Southend 1989

Is that a grey grille Sierra?  Looking at it on my phone I'm not sure and I can't work out the first three letters of the plate either.

[Fumbler]

Fun fact about the Sainsbury in Southend. Father Fumbler worked for Blockley Bricks (or whatever it was called) and was there 3 weeks before the place opened, gauging the brick colour for the open parking area on the roof. I never knew!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

9 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

Is that a grey grille Sierra?  Looking at it on my phone I'm not sure and I can't work out the first three letters of the plate either.

Yes 100% grey grille- no headrests either. Can't make out the plate either.

[HMC]

Guildford 1992- a hot hatch of some sort being caned up the lane

[adw1977]

Suzuki Swift, I think. 

[HMC]

Here’s a zoom in of the Southend 89 Sierra base...

[adw1977]

It was a 1.6 that lasted until January 1996.

[HMC]

Ruislip 1988 

[HMC]

Burnley 1985; 2 old fords hanging on but for how much longer?

 

[EssDeeWon]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

 

That silver Saph is a 2.0i GLS - my dad had one in a deep metallic red. Only that spec got those wheels trims and the black tidemark.

Yes that’s right, the GLS was my favourite flavour of Sierra back in the day with those trims.  Family friends also had one the same colour as you describe your dads, brand new back in 1988. (E reg IIRC) 

[adw1977]

25 minutes ago, HMC said:

Burnley 1985; 2 old fords hanging on but for how much longer?

Only until 1st May the following year in the case of Capri OPU570M.  I can't make out the plate on the Cortina.

[adw1977]

31 minutes ago, HMC said:

Ruislip 1988 

NJH257X was a 2.3 GL automatic that lasted until April 1996.

[georgeinabz]

Look an Audi


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[martc]

7 hours ago, georgeinabz said:

Look a BADLY PARKED Audi

Quelle surprise.

In fact there's a whole load of bad parking going on but it looks like our eager, young, thrusting and very important (far more important than you) photocopier salesman started it.

[Tenmil Socket]

It's only got one stabiliser...

[JeeExEll]

Bit of a confession time.  When this song first came out I remember it playing in the tech college canteen and on the radio at work. Not really my type of music at all (I was 17) so I didn't watch it on TOTP or see the actual song title in print, only ever heard it on the radio.

For years I honestly thought it was about a Sainsbury's checkout girl.

Fucking idiot !  

Even years later after I happened to see part of the vid on the telly I thought he was picking up the lovely (80s) checkout girl in his TVR.  

"Stainsby??? - U wot m8? ".  

[Isaac Hunt]

On 11/19/2019 at 10:21 PM, HMC said:

Ruislip 1988 

Modern Day 'Car Park Management Shisters' would be dining out big time on the Ruislip 'White Line Regulation Contravention' Fook me

[Tadhg Tiogar]

On 11/19/2019 at 10:21 PM, HMC said:

Ruislip 1988 

 

Roughly same spot in South Ruislip today

Roundabout ahead is long gone and junction now signal-controlled. More tree cover.

[HMC]

Newcastle under Lyme 1978

Birkenhead 1982 @Spottedlaurel

[georgeinabz]

Quelle surprise.
In fact there's a whole load of bad parking going on but it looks like our eager, young, thrusting and very important (far more important than you) photocopier salesman started it.

My cousin had one back in the day ,to be honest they were shit , Opel manta was a lot cooler


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[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, HMC said:

Newcastle under Lyme 1978

Cor I'll have the MK1 Estate and the van please

[HMC]

Solihull 1991 @trigger

ADA443T - tax lapsed a few months after the pic was taken (sad face)

[Spottedlaurel]

Nice Laurel at Birkenhead!

[martc]

5 hours ago, georgeinabz said:

My cousin had one back in the day ,to be honest they were shit , Opel manta was a lot cooler


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Was your cousin involved in the peddling of office equipment and/or consumables?

[HMC]

Clifton down 1980

 

[HMC]

Muswell hill 1966

[HMC]

Kilburn 1969

[NorfolkNWeigh]

2 hours ago, martc said:

Was your cousin involved in the peddling of office equipment and/or consumables?

You're making the mistake of judging Audi drivers then by today's standards.

Sales reps had Escorts, Cortinas, Astras and Cavaliers not Audis and certainly not Audi Coupes. The 80 and 100might have been found in the head office carparks of more progressive companies as perk cars for management , but a Coupe was much more likely to be driven by a posh wife , the sort that would be driving a new Range Rover  these days.

[Sudsprint]

8 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

You're making the mistake of judging Audi drivers then by today's standards.

Sales reps had Escorts, Cortinas, Astras and Cavaliers not Audis and certainly not Audi Coupes. The 80 and 100might have been found in the head office carparks of more progressive companies as perk cars for management , but a Coupe was much more likely to be driven by a posh wife , the sort that would be driving a new Range Rover  these days.

Quite right. My dad had a 100LS, which was smart enough but an Audi Coupe (both the early 100 based and lated 80 based) cars were a very classy thing to own (competing with original 320 and 323i BMWs - another, now debased, car) .

In fact, come to think of it some relatively modest cars of that era were extremely understated, tasteful and classy - Saab 99, MK1 Scirocco, Beta HPE, Peugeot 505.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Sudsprint said:

...., come to think of it some relatively modest cars of that era were extremely understated, tasteful and classy - Saab 99, MK1 Scirocco, Beta HPE, Peugeot 505.

....and no unnecessary things like Bluetooth, internet, etc