Bad Car Club

[barrett]

Anyone old enough to remember this? Started up around 1982 as a club encompassing all fundamentally bad cars. C&SC got behind the idea and gave it a lot of press over a few months, although I can't find any proof that it was ever a 'real' club with memberships or anything, and I've no idea if they ever met up.... can't find anything about it on the net.

 

Ina round 96/97, Mike McCarthy mentioned it in his page in C&SC and there was a peak in interest with loads of great suggestions for eligible cars, I think they settled on the Fairthorpe Atom as being the absolute pinnacle of what the club represented

 

Seems like AS is sort of a 21st century version, one of the reasons I joined up here was because it sort of reminded me of the BCC, the same ethos of humour and slightly rubbish old cars. Still took me a year to mention it though

 

So, anyone know what the hell i'm on about? Someone here must've had some experience with this lot..... what were you doing/driving in 1982?

[VWPowered]

starting junior school

[whitevanman]

working at a Talbot dealership and driving a Cortina....wouldn't be seem dead reading C&SC then or now.......so absolutly no help I'm afraid

[Alexg]

1982 hey? I was 1 year old and my Metro was brand new

[Spottedlaurel]

I have a pretty much complete set of C&SC from back then, might try and find something on that.

 

In 1982 I got chicken-pox, and got bought issue #1 of C&SC while I was off school. I then bought/got bought it regularly. I was ‘driving’ a secondhand 5-speed racer, reading and daydreaming about cars and doing rather poor drawings of them (which I still have, going to scan one in two in some day).

 

In the ‘90s the equivalent of this BCC thing would have been Joypal?

[barrett]

Nice one SL, it was in the nov/dec 82 issues, and the jan/feb 83 issues. If you can have a dig around i'd appreciate it!

 

I guess you're right about Joypal, although to be honest Practical Classics probably covered most of the bilge they mention too....

 

FYI, in 1982 I hadn't been born yet.....

[Milford Cubicle]

I was -4.

 

What's wrong with C&SC? I find it a lot more readable than PC which is a bit like Auto Express in comparison.

[barrett]

I was -4.

 

What's wrong with C&SC? I find it a lot more readable than PC which is a bit like Auto Express in comparison.

Let's not start this again, since i've been here there have been at least 5 threads which have turned into C&SC Vs PC or similar..... But I agree, it's great, especially the 1980s ones. My formative years were spent straining my eyes to make out grainy b&w photos of Sunbeam Venezias etc in the clubs pages

 

I was also -4

[greengartside]

-2 for me!

 

Although on the shite front, dad had a gold Pug 604 at that time, after going from a Consul 3.0 GT with close-ratio gearbox...

[Mr Lobster]

Hey I was 7.

 

Not that it makes any difference as I don't remember any of this.

[Cavcraft]

Left school two years previously. '82 I think was the year I got sacked from my last YTS scheme, just for being in the same room as someone else who was getting sacked.

And partially because I chopped up Tom the foreman's prized hand made work bench and threw it on the fire, taught the parrot in the pet shop to say 'Tom is a wanker' and 'Tom is a nazi' and threw one employee in the swimming pool.

 

I think I was also probably falling off my C70 trying to do a Barry Sheene round a corner on a housing estate, and shagging for Britain.

[Pete-M]

I was 11ish.

 

Dad was running a Peugeot main agents, mum had a new X reg Mk1 Golf.

 

I was saving up for my first car, and had a long way to go..

[Milford Cubicle]

soz barrett!

If it was 1982 I think I'd seek out an Austin Cambridge Diesel.

[Station]

My post-Falklands dad didn't have a car at the time, but had a work's Mercedes van.

He borrowed a brand new gold Princess to go on holiday from work. I remember it smelling 'old vinyl' back then.

[simmo]

In 1982 I was 21 and had during the year a Ford Capri II 3.0 Ghia, a Rover P5B and at least one Cortina.

 

My old man had a gold 3.0 GL Mark 1 Granada

 

I wasn't into it but CB radio must of been big around this time. There were a load of new car clubs started catering CBers.

[Richard]

soz barrett!

If it was 1982 I think I'd seek out an Austin Cambridge Diesel.

I used to know somebody who had one. Grim.

[chaseracer]

I wasn't into it but CB radio must of been big around this time. There were a load of new car clubs started catering CBers.

I turned 17 at the end of 1982, with all that this age milestone entails, car-wise...

 

My mate Mike was well into CB at the time. His '68 Viva HB had a CB system with PA (GR8 4 SCARING THE SHITE OUT OF CYCLISTS!) - and a blue fur interior

[Rusty Pelican]

18 in 1982, had a Sunbeam Stiletto and a Morris Marina , both of which conked out weekly .

Heres the Stiletto complete with CB aerial , Stupid place to fit the aerial mind on the engine lid which meant having to take the thing off daily sometimes hourly to beat the donkey into life , also GR8 4 CRAP RECEPTION AND ENGINE INTERFERENCE meaning i never spoke to no fucker whilst driving

 

[Station]

and a blue fur interior

My mate's Escort has a faux fur interior. I loled when I saw his shaving the interior!

[Richard]

I was clocking up loads of miles with an Esprit in 1982. A Raleigh Esprit unfortunately.

[Lord Sterling]

1982? I handnt even been born yet

[brammy777]

I was minus nine. My parents hadnt even met! And my mum was still a year or two away from Lada ownership.

[ProgRocker]

In Sept 1982 I started at first school. (Was at play school before then).

 

Not sure which car my parents owned in 1982 - either the 1974 M reg Cortina 1600 XL estate in orangey red & roStyle wheels or the diamond white R reg Granada 2.0 L manual with optional rim embellishers, fog lights, vinyl roof and rear centre arm rest (almost GL spec).

[Albert Ross]

I seem to remember the BCC had a handling rating called the "Blivot", pertaining to the "three tons of pig shit in a one ton bag"..... The higher the rating, the worse it was in a straight line. Wartburgs and other East European bilge was mentioned.

[worldofceri]

1982? I was being too young to realise the cultural significance of my Dad owning a Chrysler Alpine.

[VWPowered]

18 in 1982, had a Sunbeam Stiletto and a Morris Marina , both of which conked out weekly .

Heres the Stiletto complete with CB aerial , Stupid place to fit the aerial mind on the engine lid which meant having to take the thing off daily sometimes hourly to beat the donkey into life , also GR8 4 CRAP RECEPTION AND ENGINE INTERFERENCE meaning i never spoke to no fucker whilst driving

 

my mate has got a stiletto, that colour too, beautiful car when its not overheating

[Albert Ross]

OT, but an old neighbour of mine had a ADO16 VDP ARX 201J...... might be wrong though. Lasted till 1985

[Tayne]

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[warren t claim]

I was 12 and had a Raleigh Arena. The cars in the household would of been a Viva and a Golf.

[Vin]

1982. I was 6. I had a Raleigh Boxer. I still have it actually, tis in the loft. Still has all the bread loaf clips up the brake cables too

 

Household cars were a Saab 99 EMS and Chrysler Alpine.