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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2018 16:55:00 GMT
Quite rare to see a Renault 5 GT turbo. That was the "must have" car when I passed my test in 1991. A friend did have one and it really moved. The best one was the Raider. A car which I have a suspicion caused more parents to bury their kids than any other car.
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Post by JohnV on Jun 12, 2018 18:33:02 GMT
I also read that there are a fair amount of payphones which never get used. Isn't the stench of stale urine in these red public toilets offputting? cream phone boxes here
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jun 12, 2018 18:39:05 GMT
I also read that there are a fair amount of payphones which never get used. Isn't the stench of stale urine in these red public toilets offputting? A quick bit of Googling suggests that there are 45,000 phone boxes and between them they handle 33,000 calls a day: a third of phone boxes are never used. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40934210
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Post by Stumpy on Jun 12, 2018 18:53:24 GMT
Quite rare to see a Renault 5 GT turbo. That was the "must have" car when I passed my test in 1991. A friend did have one and it really moved. The best one was the Raider. A car which I have a suspicion caused more parents to bury their kids than any other car. I put my hands up and confess that I owned one of these beasts for 6 month's. Then I bought a 1.9 PurrrJo GTi.
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Post by thebfg on Jun 12, 2018 22:31:04 GMT
that can do attitude. we never got bored there was all ways den building in the woods or footie in the park. never ever did we play indoors unless it was raining.
but mainly I miss seeing kids play in the road, we lived in a cup de sac and played footie, French cricket, hide and seek, rc cars, kerbie, cycling anything and everything we played on the road.
drivers would drive down the road let us get out of the way and wave in thanks. nowadays I suspect there would be road rage for daring to play on their road.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2018 8:36:02 GMT
Saw a couple of kids playing kerbie the other week, made me smile...
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Post by Saltysplash on Jun 14, 2018 13:38:40 GMT
Cap guns, and those rolls of caps in the little paper packets, Loved the smell of em too.
Eat lead Cochise!
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Post by Trina on Jun 14, 2018 14:22:43 GMT
I used to have a rocket shaped toy to put caps in.You then aimed it at the pavement for it to go bang ! *I nearly said for a satisfying bang but realised that could be misconstrued...
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Post by bargemast on Jun 14, 2018 14:22:59 GMT
Quite rare to see a Renault 5 GT turbo. That was the "must have" car when I passed my test in 1991. A friend did have one and it really moved. The best one was the Raider. A car which I have a suspicion caused more parents to bury their kids than any other car. I put my hands up and confess that I owned one of these beasts for 6 month's. Then I bought a 1.9 PurrrJo GTi. The 1.9 Peugeot 205 GTI's were more or less a sort of Go-kart with a body on them, real little bombs they were.
Peter.
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Post by Jim on Jun 14, 2018 15:12:20 GMT
Spud guns, the "bullet" had a cutting nozzle to stick into a potato, then a cap in it. Fired the pellet of spud. Pea guns, known by us by their proprietary name "Sekiden" had a magazine to fill with black peas. Pea shooters obviously. Banger guns, get a 2ft length of conduit, hammer one end closed, drop lit banger down the hole and point!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2018 15:13:44 GMT
Beef and onion crisps, dont seem to see them about much...
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Post by pearley on Jun 14, 2018 16:22:56 GMT
Spud guns, the "bullet" had a cutting nozzle to stick into a potato, then a cap in it. Fired the pellet of spud. Pea guns, known by us by their proprietary name "Sekiden" had a magazine to fill with black peas. Pea shooters obviously. Banger guns, get a 2ft length of conduit, hammer one end closed, drop lit banger down the hole and point! Was only thinking the other day that a dpud hung might be a useful tool to deter those pillocks who think it funny to spjt over the bridge parapet at you.
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Post by patty on Jun 14, 2018 16:28:20 GMT
I used to have a rocket shaped toy to put caps in.You then aimed it at the pavement for it to go bang ! *I nearly said for a satisfying bang but realised that could be misconstrued... I had a rocket shaped toy for caps as well..maybe that was a girly toy whilst the boys had proper guns..I always wanted a gun..my brother had guns..I now have a ancient front loading gun(well over 100 years old) that was my dads that been de commisioned, never found a wall to hang it on. But if this place sells the place I've found has just the wall..
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Post by Jim on Jun 14, 2018 16:32:54 GMT
Spud guns, the "bullet" had a cutting nozzle to stick into a potato, then a cap in it. Fired the pellet of spud. Pea guns, known by us by their proprietary name "Sekiden" had a magazine to fill with black peas. Pea shooters obviously. Banger guns, get a 2ft length of conduit, hammer one end closed, drop lit banger down the hole and point! Was only thinking the other day that a dpud hung might be a useful tool to deter those pillocks who think it funny to spjt over the bridge parapet at you. Sadly, probably illegal these days. Certainly didn't have a bright orange stopper on the end to denote toy gun. My grandad had a tiny 22 ladies purse pistol the same size as a cap gun, got it from a friend after the war. I was in a 22 rifle shooting club at the time. It would have been very naughty to sneak a couple of bullets out to try in the pistol, so I didn't, officer! My auntie handed it in in an amnesty after his death.
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Post by Stumpy on Jun 14, 2018 17:33:38 GMT
I put my hands up and confess that I owned one of these beasts for 6 month's. Then I bought a 1.9 PurrrJo GTi. The 1.9 Peugeot 205 GTI's were more or less a sort of Go-kart with a body on them, real little bombs they were.
Peter.
It most certainly was
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