Doc Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 Period mods done on your average OSF ? Today we tweak this and that with uprated stuff but what did our dads or brothers do ?
Dom Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 Wide wheels and a 1500GT engine in the Anrgybox! Compression so high you had to push it to start it
60ftman Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 Rostyle wheels, twin-choke Webers and vinyl covered centre consoles.
orionmojo Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 bits of scaffold for exhaust... apparently
Twinkle Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 i used to add the three pin stripes an ghia badges to my cortinas
Jay_harrier Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 1977, might have to go back a few more years for me!, in the 60's my dad had an Anglia, DIY sprayed, wide 5" steels with massive 165 tyres, & a pancake air filter. Then a MK1 Escort 1100, the same 5J wheels, DIY motorsport orange spray job from metallic brown, DIY sardine can sunroof - he cut the hole but didn't do the fabric part until 2 weeks later, my mum used to drive me & my brother about with us two holding onto a sheet of polythene when it rained. He also had a pop that he bolted a jag engine direct to the chassis rails - it twisted the chassis first time out!. In 77 he'd probably have been hitting a Lucas fuel injection unit on a Triumph 2500 PI with something heavy and blunt! - Now there's a rare sight these days.
Andy504 Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 Yeh de bumpered, wide steels and cosworth pistons and head in my dads anglia hot rod in 70/71, corsair front struts and a quick shift gearbox in his essy 74/75 and again wide steels.
butler2.8i Posted March 29, 2007 Report Posted March 29, 2007 Wasn`t it all furry interiors back then proper pimp style, purples and greens, with jacked up chrome suspensions and all cars fitted with CB radios.
Rick Posted March 29, 2007 Report Posted March 29, 2007 i wasnt born but listening to stories as you do.... straight through exhaust pipe (usually scaffold as above) rostyles or cosmic alloys and some wierd and wacky paint jobs... (looked like sequins added to paint lol)
ilovegrannys Posted March 29, 2007 Report Posted March 29, 2007 COBRA SLOTS FLUFFY DICE NAMES ACROSS THE FRONT WINDOW Also instead of lowering the car (mk1/MK2 escort) the rear use to be jacked up so the diff was showing and lights fitted around/on it, so when cruising down SOUTHEND sea front at night the 'N'SF was looking the b**locks!! My oldman told me that..sounds different to slamming the OSF on its nuts!!!
Mr.Sumo Posted March 29, 2007 Report Posted March 29, 2007 Wasn`t it all furry interiors back then proper pimp style, purples and greens, with jacked up chrome suspensions and all cars fitted with CB radios. oooh...CB radios...mmm...i got 2 in my shed........
v6pop Posted March 29, 2007 Report Posted March 29, 2007 Ford Anglia,hub caps off,half the exhaust taken off,vw mute stuffed up the remainder,furry stuff on the dash and I removed the front passenger seat so I could carry motorbike parts (frames,engines,forks,wheels)around....like you do....
Jay_harrier Posted March 29, 2007 Report Posted March 29, 2007 Wasn`t it all furry interiors back then proper pimp style, purples and greens, with jacked up chrome suspensions and all cars fitted with CB radios. oooh...CB radios...mmm...i got 2 in my shed........ breaker breaker 10-100 in the potting shed good buddy.....
oldskool100e Posted March 29, 2007 Report Posted March 29, 2007 I will have to scan in some of my old "Hot Car" magazines when I get the chance...
Doc Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Posted March 29, 2007 i did the jacked up rear end and lights round the diff !! even had a side exhuast tied on with a millwall scarf on my mk 1 tina 1600 engines in mk1 1100 escorts was another favorite Essex engines in mk 1 tinas.
105Nick Posted March 30, 2007 Report Posted March 30, 2007 My dad had the mini and then upgraded to the Mk1 tina, which my mum had a gold flash on. He also painted the whitewalls and fitted the Astrali steering wheel, though in 1977 he had the Mk1 estates and crew chiefed for his mate who rallied an anglia and later a Mk1 mex, but at weekends he'd borrow the Elite he had the hair for it too, proper starsky & hutch http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/vi ... hp?t=39071 When I was ickle, my brother set about resurecting his Mk1 in the late 80s, it cost £250 and was really a scrapper, he made up all repair sections and tidied the body. When he got it the gearbox was in the boot and each wheel was odd. It ended up with cobra buckets, lowered it an inch and fitted 7 x 13 five spokes (they say clearance is poor with them, check out the tyres!). My brother in law did the blacked windows, smoked taillights, cherrybombs, dixie horns and CB aerial on his tina though
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