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One for out older members - 'back in the day' did the the equivalent people do the same things? What were the 'chavvy' mods of the day?!
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Difficult. Maybe
External sun visor over the windscreen
Badge bars
Hand painted coach lines
White walled tyres
Spotlight poking through the roof
Spotlight with a handle, on the wing just in front of the quarter light
A bank of spot lights a la Mini.
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In the 70's I seem to remember
Green sun visor strips on the top of the windscreen with your name on drivers side and name of boy/girlfriend on passanger side
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You mean that's not cool anymore?
::Walks out to car with scraper and bucket of hot soapy water::
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The mods I inflicted on my 1200 Anglia were-removal of rad grille and chrome trim down the sides,cut centre section out of front bumper(to make quarter bumpers),fitted fattest tyres rims would take and a Peco big bore rear box.There was more scope back then,you could go for a remote gearchange(instead of a yard long stick that went to where the tunnel met the bulkhead)telescopic damper conversion,or front discs and a servo and ,of course,a decent engine to make it all worthwhile.
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Don't forget Colonel Bogey or La Cucaracha airhorns!
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I knew someone in the late 70s who drove a former hearse and yes his sun visor said His Hearse.
Last time I heard of him he was trying to buy Leasowe lighthouse to live in.
Mad as cheese.
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Ford Consuls with spare wheels mounted externally, vertically behind the boot with a metal cover.
PINK or other interesting clour mixes on big Vauxhall Crestas etc.
Some good photos
www.brmmbrmm.com/cresta
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I remember as a kid in the mid '70's, aftermarket alloys were in their infancy; my mates Dad had Wolfrace Slot Mags (a la Starsky and Hutch) on his Capri, which was unbelievably cool at the time.
The most "modding" my Dad did was colour in the Goodyear lettering on his Mk3 Cortinas' tyres with white paint, but I think he had to scrape it off again because it was a company car..
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Some time in the 1970s I remember a mate fitting his own vinyl roof. Looked terrible!
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Mini wheels put on back to front to make them stick out 2 or 3 inches beyond the wheel arches.Did the wheel bearings a power of good.
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High Intensity spot light fitted to the rear of the car with independent switch inside.At the time,(1970s) known as the 'Death Ray'
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I remember when I was a kid in the early 80s you use to see Astras, Cavaliers, Escorts, Sierras, SAAB 900s, Golfs, etc etc with those slatted grilles on the back window. Do you remember them? I always wanted a Mk 3 XR3 with one of those grilles (what were they called?). And those stickers that use to go on the back window - e.g if you had a Capri then in 8" lettering all across the window it read ==CAPRI==. And dont even get me started on the Ford X pack bodykit fitted to a Mk 2 RS2000 (very cool).
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with those slatted grilles on the back window. (what were they called?).
Louvered rear window covers I believe.
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In the 70's I seem to remember Green sun visor strips on the top of the windscreen with your name on drivers side and name of boy/girlfriend on passanger side
Private Eye cartoon in those days: car swerving about with chav names on windscreen: Brahms Liszt
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Let's not forget Savage 500 wheel trims
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Thanks Dynamic Dave.
Im now off to ebay to find a Mk3 XR3 and rear window louvres.....
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Remember the brightly coloured bendy aerial located on the front wing and (usually) tucked into the roof guttering?
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Can you remember those big vinyl rear window signs that said...
"The Nova Touch!"
"The Astra Touch!"
"The Escort Touch!"
"The XR3 Touch!"
I also remember foglights were popular in the 1980s, some called them Yuppie lights at the time.
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Carlos Fandango wheels
Side exit exhaust
Adhesive numberplate on the bonnet
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Carlos Fandango wheels
As I recall, these didn't actually exist. They were imaginary and were merely part of an advert for something else.
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L\'escargot.
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Remember the brightly coloured bendy aerial located on the front wing and (usually) tucked into the roof guttering? _______ IanS
You beat me to it RTB... they were very long and whippy and made of fibreglass I think.
Please don't forget that racing modification the maroon velvet steering wheel glove.
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You beat me to it RTB... they were very long and whippy and made of fibreglass I think.
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I had a whiplash aerial, but no radio....
for others, airhorns, nodding dog, rubber dangly thing to 'ground the static, clip on parking lights- the list goes on
Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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I think many of the old adons are coming back into fashion now. The thing I hate the most is the plastic draft things that cover the top of the window.
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And not forgetting Fido Dido window stickers.
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GB sized/coloured sticker on back cross hatched in red and endorsed with the word DISCS.
Don't forget the more mundane accessories, self adhesive demister panels on the rear screen and a parking light in the side window frame.
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High intensity rear fog light, mounted over the rear axle, pointing down to give a red glow under the car. An early version of undercar neons I suppose.
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Seldom (but not never) seen in this country, the bolt-on crank handle Americans used to put on their steering wheels in the days when even powered American steering used to go 4 turns or more lock-to-lock... wonder how many broken thumbs etc these things have caused in dramatic moments.
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Ridiculously tiny sports steering wheels.
Perspex wind deflector fitted around driver's window.
Matt black bonnets.
Jacked-up rear suspension on Avengers, Capris etc.
Bonnet mascots for your posher chavs.
Current big-chav craze for lorries - 2 rows of big spotlights, one above cab and one on front bumper. Clearly Volvo, Scania, DAF, Iveco, MAN, Renault etc. all are missing out something crucial at their design and development stage!!!!
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Some drivers of cheap banger sports cars like Sprites, Midgets, Triumph Spitfires used to drive round with the hood frame up, minus hood, to look like a not-very-convincing rollover bar!
Also another silly craze round here is teenage mopedists on scooters with CVT automatic transmission who deliberately play around with the throttle to make it sound as though their changing up through an imaginary gearbox.
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a great big monstrocity...a black plastic multi mirrored rear view mirror that stretched from nearside pillar to offside pillar. I recall it had about 8 separate mirrors in it.
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Wing mirrors were cool but not round ones, they were fitted HM's Rollers.
A driver's door mirror especially chrome, cone shaped versions.
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Streamlined wing mirrors, mounted on the front wings and prone to so much vibration that they weren't usable.
After market pop-up glass sunroofs.
Imitation rostyle wheels.
Fur steering wheel covers.
Glue on fake wood trim.
Twin choke carburetors, resulting in a minimal power improvement for a staggering increase in fuel consumption.
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I had a bootlid-mounted spot light for reversing - illegal now and probably then. Shame I never suffered from tailgaters in those days, it would have been ideal for retaliation...
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Streamlined wing mirrors, mounted on the front wings and prone to so much vibration that they weren't usable.
Also seized unadjustable, too far away, tiny and showing mainly screen pillar as I remember...
Vast plastic stick-on rally style flared arches on puffball low-spec 1100cc Escorts and the like, with standard narrow steel wheels somewhere in there...
Almost any aftermarket customised Porsche 911 from any period, and a lot of Porsche-USA premarket customised ones too...
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In the early 80's my mate had an old Vauxhall viva estate and stuck fake leopard-skin material over the dashboard, door panels and roof liner. I suddenly developed a habit of dropping things in the passenger footwell and having to bend down to look for them, usually as he beeped his horn and waved or wolf whistled at some girls.
Those were the days, (embarrassed groan).
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Glue on fake wood trim.
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Nah! the real thing
And the proper colour too.
Trouble with HIDS, then get one of these fitted.
www.mk1cortina.com/img/Brian%20Moorcroft.jpg
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Thrusters for a Cortina? ;-)
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lake sidepipes.
cosmic alloys
frenched rear lights
dv27 cb aerials
bigger wheels on the back of your cortina
cibies never wired up
rear seats removed "ala" the rally way
stuck on mexico arches
harry moss alarms
spartax seats
i could go on...........
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I'll not have a bad thing said about cosmic alloys.
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dv27 cb aerials?
Peasant
It has to be K40 with a led tip that lights up.
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dv27 cb aerials? Peasant It has to be K40 with a led tip that lights up.
I used to run a 2ft "Dial a match" on a gutter mount, but then progressed onto a Panorama mag mount. That was until the mag mount flew off down the A34 one night at 120mph. Oops.
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the mag mount flew off down the A34 onenight at 120mph. Oops.
So you're one of those A34 eager beavers capable of alarming even me, are you, DD?
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>> Glue on fake wood trim. >> Nah! the real thing And the proper colour too. Trouble with HIDS, then get one of these fitted. www.mk1cortina.com/img/Brian%20Moorcroft.jpg >>
Terrific... which way is it going? bit alarming actually but great to see the only decent Cortina.
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Lorries with a chromed car hubcap fastened to the front like some kind of trophy. Never could understand that!
Were they on display so that a motorist of the appropriate type of car who had a missing hubcap could flag down the lorry and buy the hubcap?
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Bullet hole transfers for your windows, on the back of some Bond film or other.
Dunlop Steel wide wheels.
Freebie glasses, mugs, world cup medals, quintuple greenshield stamps all rattling around the footwell.
Plastic wind deflectors for the driver's window, usually older drivers only.
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Aftermarket mudflaps with reflectors or red triangles stuck on, on all four wheel arches, even on road cars like my Dad's Ford Pop' 100E.
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Tiger's tail hanging out of petrol filler. Part of Esso's ad. campaign - 'Put a tiger in your tank'. Late 60's I think.
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I had an Alfasud which needed the inevitable respray. I had the Capri S 'go faster' stripes down both sides at the bottom of the doors in gold, to match the green paint and gold air vent louvers behind the back doors. Great!
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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I had totally forgot about Harry Moss car alarms, and amps......
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Wow - my parents were "cool" - they imported a Ford Consul back from Cyprus in 1958 complete with external sunvisor AND a real bullet hole in the middle of the windscreen - and if you think we kids were going to let on it was where a rock bounced on the car on the road to Kyrenia, you must be joking!! Wonder if the next owner replaced the windscreen?
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Sad thing is that all of the above accessories are still considered cool in Essex-on-Thames.
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IanS
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