Re: Who Remembers?
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:09 am
Online forums for Capri Owners
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Me tooJasonmarie wrote:Yes remember both , my Nan would sweet her head of using the twin tub and them wooden tongs were a part of it . Funny I can smell the twin tub now .
I remember my Nan having a hoover just like that I do the hoovering.....How times have changedPaul G wrote:Still got a Ewbank like that stuck up in the spare room along with an old but still working Hoover Constellation vacuum cleaner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O82VA87g4o
Note the woman doing the vacuuming!
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Yes they aren't too bad as long as you empty them regularly iircpbar wrote:I member the Ewbank, it seemed to get used quite often as I recall. Did they actually really pick much up though, I'm not so sure!
Would be amazing to own that as a daily today, can't imagine how special the owner must have felt driving that around In the early 70'sJasonmarie wrote: nice mk1 Capri
Looks pretty new so around 1972.pbar wrote:What a great pic. Just stare at it and imagine the pace of life back then. And think of it now. Think I'd rather be back then. It's super shiny that Capri isn't it.
Compared to now they were fantastic!andyd wrote: I know the 70's were far from great
A lot of cars didn't have heated rear windows fitted as standard then but you could buy, usually from Halfords, a stick on heated window which you could wire in and get it working. I think Holts made them and also Smiths.Jasonmarie wrote:Funny as i thought the same thing but why park the car there also I love the heated rear window I don’t know if that was a ford fit ?
Somebody will know .
Being a pre teen my experience was good, life hadn't kicked me in the ass yet....pbar wrote:Compared to now they were fantastic!andyd wrote: I know the 70's were far from great
People of a certain age group will very often agree with each others views, but many are afraid to admit to it nowpbar wrote:Agree with all of that Andy I think most people would. I have asked a few people, that if they could have their time again, would they rather have it now, or back then again, all have chosen back then so far. That says it all really.
The seventies were a bloody brilliant time to grow up in, I feel lucky to have lived in that era, pre PC, health & safety. Yes, there were the usual nutters and extremists but nothing on todays scale. Todays world and a huge majority of people inhabiting it really isn't a nice place.andyd wrote:Being a pre teen my experience was good, life hadn't kicked me in the ass yet....pbar wrote:Compared to now they were fantastic!andyd wrote: I know the 70's were far from great
Too much technology now, and everything is easier with credit being forced on people so little respect for what they own, just buy another when it breaks We looked after things more back then.
Younger people especially looking at screens being generally miserable as they compare their life/looks against others on social media. Get on with the body you were born with, stop being offended and think yourselves lucky as you probably wouldn't have coped growing up in the 70's...Realise how lucky you are .
And don't get me started the PC Brigade.
Spot on Martin. Spot onCaprigear wrote: The seventies were a bloody brilliant time to grow up in, I feel lucky to have lived in that era, pre PC, health & safety. Yes, there were the usual nutters and extremists but nothing on todays scale. Todays world and a huge majority of people inhabiting it really isn't a nice place.
I 100% agree. I grew up in the 70's and became a teenager in 1975. Wonderful times. Out with my mates every day on our bicycles, playing footie and cricket in the street and didn't get colour telly until about 1974 - rented from local TV shop as well. Yes, my mates and I were little sods sometimes, ghost knocking neighbours and burning dog turd wrapped in newspapers left on one of them's doorstep after ring the bell! But all of this was reasonably harmless, we didn't know what a drug was and would never even think of being violent or aggresive to anyone. Further, we had respect which is a thing sadly lacking today.pbar wrote:Spot on Martin. Spot onCaprigear wrote: The seventies were a bloody brilliant time to grow up in, I feel lucky to have lived in that era, pre PC, health & safety. Yes, there were the usual nutters and extremists but nothing on todays scale. Todays world and a huge majority of people inhabiting it really isn't a nice place.