Shiteacular 80's? car park

[richardthestag]

A couple of early sierras marks this out at 82ish for me.

 

Even then Metro drivers couldn't park dunno how that Granada driver/motorist is going to get in but I bet he leaves a stinking note on the saaaaaaaaab's windscreen. Makes me hunger for another mk2 Cav

 

What is the green car in front of the granny? and spot the FD

 

[autofive]

i have the other half of that photo somewhere

 

im off to look through my P/bucket account

[pogweasel]

Enjoying the 2ft high tidemark of FILTH on the Sherpa.

[Mike D]

I'd put that at 86 or so, due to the 216? rover, and an early 205 and Shogun

[autofive]

i couldnt find it on my p/bucket, so i googled it....

 

 

i also found these:

 

 

[richardthestag]

I'd put that at 86 or so, due to the 216? rover, and an early 205 and Shogun

 

I thought it was acclaim but you are right! that might just be mrs bucket supervising her hapless husband loading the boot

 

More importantly no sign there of the masses buying a brand new car every three years!! Why do they do it now?

[Shep Shepherd]

I'd say the main picture was taken in late summer/early autumn 1985 at the latest, largely owing to the lack of mark 4 Escorts, which were released in early 1986 and seemed to be everywhere by spring/summer of that year

[richardthestag]

i couldnt find it on my p/bucket, so i googled it....

 

Could only afford the GL spec sierra then

[RedSparrow]

Before someone asks what a Barkas is doing there, the GDR didn't make Barkas camper vans. However they did sell some normal vans to a Dutch company who converted them to campers to sell in Holland.

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[barrett]

What is the green car in front of the granny?

 

Opel Commodore coupe or Manta notchback coupe??

[trigger]

1980's Car Park from 1985 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[kevin 900]

I recognise that pic Trig - Some farmer in 1985 & his idea for a 'Car Supermarket'.

The idea'll never catch on...

[Negative Creep]

A lot more variety in car colour back then as well

[RedSparrow]

Yeah, lots of BEIGE.

Probably not a great idea to leave half of those models out in the rain though.

[trigger]

I recognise that pic Trig - Some farmer in 1985 & his idea for a 'Car Supermarket'.

The idea'll never catch on...

 

Spot on kev!

[CIH]

What is the green car in front of the granny?

 

Opel Commodore coupe or Manta notchback coupe??

 

Yeah either a chrome bumper Manta B or Cav Coupe. Looks like a 910 Bluebird next car along ? Pretty rare back then to see a Jap motor ?

[barrett]

What is the green car in front of the granny?

 

Opel Commodore coupe or Manta notchback coupe??

 

Yeah either a chrome bumper Manta B or Cav Coupe. Looks like a 910 Bluebird next car along ? Pretty rare back then to see a Jap motor ?

 

Looks like the flat front end of the Manta rather than the droopy Cav front. And weren't Jap cars massively popular from the 70s onwards? You'd have a much better chance of seeing a 910 in 1985 then you would now, that's for sure!

[Vin]

i couldnt find it on my p/bucket, so i googled it....

 

 

 

York 1985 is the description of it on flicker. Attempt has also been made on Flicker to identify everything in the car park.

 

For me the Adriatic Blue Fiorino in the foreground is just PURE SEX

 

As well as the Barkas there are some other oddities such as the Taunus with the bonnet up, and a brand new Jeep Cherokee at the back. I assume that belonged to somebody over Harrogate way who worked at Menwith Hill...

[barrett]

And weren't Jap cars massively popular from the 70s onwards?

 

Because I'm bored, I just totted up the cars I could identify in the first 8 rows of the pic quoted above.

 

45 from the UK

10 from Germany

4 Japanese

3 Swedish

2 Italian

2 French and

2 'other' (Barkas and Yugo)

[RedSparrow]

So

1 DDR / Netherlands

1 Yugoslavia

then!

[flat4alfa]

What is the green car in front of the granny?

Opel Commodore coupe or Manta notchback coupe??

Yeah either a chrome bumper Manta B or Cav Coupe

Big Opel badge on boot lid, they stuck on ~1978 models onwards.

 

Had one of those Manta Coupes, 1979 with 1.9 CIH clunker. Second car ever, loved it.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

1980's Car Park from 1985 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Wow! Is that Ford's of Winsford? It looks extremely like it. I went there several times with my dad as a kid. He always had a fairly wide range of cars there including some fairly high end stuff which was always very cheap, but always had an absolutely poverty spec. I remember seeing a Mercedes 280SE there at about this time which had nothing on it at all - flat paint, plastic hub caps and cloth trim which looked like it was stolen from a deck chair. It was horrible. He had a W123 too; that didn't even have a rev counter. That Jag will be a 3.4 manual.

 

I went there with the old boy one time when he was making a valiant attempt to off load a Peugeot 505 family estate. The thing was vast, pale metallic green, upholstered with the spikiest prickliest green tweed and smelled vaguely of horse. The offer he was made wouldn't have covered the taxi fare home...

[chaseracer]

I recognise that pic Trig - Some farmer in 1985 & his idea for a 'Car Supermarket'.

The idea'll never catch on...

 

They seem to have done OK...

 

http://www.fow.co.uk/

 

[Negative Creep]

Parking skills haven't really improved in 25 years either

[Jon]

Hey Trigg, aren't a load of the cars in the 'Car Supermaket' photo ex-featured cars from What Car? magazine? The Cav at the bottom certainly looks like a press one with the tinplate Sercks and the beige Alfa and red 3 series also look farmiliar. Or maybe not.

 

The York photos are making just a tiny bit homesick, though anyone who's recently attempted to park at that car park (right next to Cliffords Tower) and then try to get out of their car will notice that they've made the lanes and the spaces smaller....

[ProgRocker]

Parking skills haven't really improved in 25 years either

 

The Granada mark II drivers seem to be the biggest culprits of bad parking.

[fordperv]

1980's Car Park from 1985 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

Im loving the gold manta gte hatch by the black sd1

[chaseracer]

Im loving the gold manta gte hatch by the black sd1

Takes you back, eh? Also, when was the last time you saw a 3-series on steels (in this country)?

[fordperv]

Im loving the gold manta gte hatch by the black sd1

Takes you back, eh? Also, when was the last time you saw a 3-series on steels (in this country)?

 

Unfortunately it takes me back 2 1/2 years when i stupidly sold my manta hatch she was a silver 1.8 berlinetta with gte skirts and wheels