where was that old 1985 Argos catalogue on-line???

[retrogeezer]

Anybody know?? I can't find it in my history.

[pogweasel]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N ... 206330728/

[DCLane]

You mean this?

 

http://www.designers.fm/highlights-from-the-1985-argos-catalogue#

[VWPowered]

a-team class

[rml2345]

Some great car audioshite there too!

[CreepingJesus]

I have one of those tape boxes yet, lurking under the bookcase. And two Speccys. Want a Phillips Roller all over again!

I was 12 then. Now I'm 37; is that just a bit weird, or have I just not grown up yet?

[Shep Shepherd]

Check out those stereos. Any of them would look great in a 1975-85 car. I'd go for the Pye with the digital tuner for the 1977 Volvo 245 GL estate I'd surely own (a well-used £1295 ono high-mileage bargain from Exchange & Mart) if I was the age I am now in 1985

[trigger]

This was my childhood, right here on a page.

 

Vintage British Argos 1985 Catalogue by trippyglitters, on Flickr

[Tayne]

.

[trigger]

Holding my weapon.

[retrogeezer]

 

 

Cheers Pog, looks like a few others may have missed it too!

[RoadworkUK]

I, ahem, bought one of these too. Being bored at work with eBay access is seriously dangerous, and I keep searching for Maserati Biturbos for sale for small change. I seem intent on ruining my own life.

[face]

I'd love to be a salesman, battle to win a meeting with a huge potential customer, and arrive, late, in this:

 

 

And attempt my sales presentation using a 48K ZX Spectrum packed neatly inside a Purpax carry case.

 

 

[Mash]

"180 quid for a 14" colour telly? You're not getting that for Christmas!"

 

Seriously though, it does show how the price of electric goods has come down in relation to salaries. You can get a 20" LCD now for less than that I daresay. And a lot of items are the same price now as they were then, drills for example.

 

CPTC

 

[Father Ted]

CPTC

 

Citroen BX - 1.6 RS I suspect

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

This seems like a good place to repost a bit of catalogueshite I own:

 

[Father Ted]

WTF?

A leatherolium bound monogramed Argos Catalogue?

Whut?

I mean really?

WTBF?

Im Speechless.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I googled the name, and a Dr. Mike Smith was Argos chief executive when that catalogue came out. I don't know if that was his catalogue but it seems an awful coincidence if not.

[retrogeezer]

That is ORSUM!

[AnthonyG]

I found a Spring 1989 Kays catalogue in a charity shop last year - I should maybe have bought it but the old ladies may have thought I was getting it for the women' s lingerie pages !

 

CPTC is a Sierra Mk1 with those iconic 'aero' wheelcovers.