Cars of the 1980s - once-common cars like the Ford Sierra, Vauxhall Nova & FSO Polonez in the UK

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2 жыл бұрын

1980s classic cars once popular here in the UK make up this video, with 150 photos of various makes & models included. Popular cars of the 80s to be found here include the Ford Sierra / Cortina / Fiesta / Escort, Austin Metro / Maestro / Montego, Renault 9 / 4 / Espace, SAAB 900, Vauxhall Nova / Royale / Astra, Peugeot 205 / 604, and loads more. A few cars I would have liked to include I didn't have photos for, but I'll keep looking at shows and photograph them when I can (inc Vauxhall Cavalier, various Yugos, for example).
If classic cars, or "retro cars", from the 1980s are your thing, please pop a note into the comments and let us know what car(s) in particular you have a soft spot for.
This isn't meant to be a comprehensive collection featuring every possible car on sale here in the UK during the 1980s, as I've explained, but hopefully it contains a fair cross-section of cars from the decade, both common and decidedly less so.
Please let me know whether you'd like to see more content relating to cars of the 1980s.
To see all the videos about older cars on the channel, please see:
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Thanks for watching.
#1980s #1980scars #fordsierra

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@raymondconnor5346 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the walk down memory lane...wish I had kept some of the many cars that I owned in the late 60s 70s & 80s !!

@larrykaufmann2065 2 жыл бұрын

Great memories. Good to see some of the cars of the Continent. But for me the classic British car of the 80s is the Ford, esp Escort, Cortina and Sierra.

@Tony11806 6 ай бұрын

I have my dads Sierra Sapphire which was registered in about 1988 on my driveway and I kept the car when my dad died in 2013 and apart from the seals which have now rusted the rest of the car is in good condition but the engine doesn't start because I left it standing for years and couldn't get it started again. I have a neighbour and other people have asked me if I want to sell it but I want to keep it for sentimental reasons.

@davidknight8172 2 жыл бұрын

Considering how many Sierras were manufactured it is a rarity on the road today.

@MrAndyS 2 жыл бұрын

I owned lots of these some I'd like to forget but some I wish i still had great nostalgia

@johnbailey5616 2 жыл бұрын

Owned many of those cars. Never thought l would end up what I'm driving now a SKODA. Great video and well explained 👏

@OldCarsNewVan 2 жыл бұрын

That Renault 9 Broadway bought back some memories. Had a Renault 11 Broadway in the mid 90s as a cheap car for the Mrs. Got it really cheap as both front wings were rusty but the rest was lovely - found an identical car in the local scrap yard with perfect front wings, in the right colour with the limited edition Broadway stripes in perfect condition. Bolted the wings on and sold this now ‘mint’ car for about 4 times what I paid for it. That was a turning point in my ‘luck’ so I always remember it 👍

@Sean-vs3se Жыл бұрын

Comfiest Driver seat ever Renault 11 turbo B reg

@paullacey2999 2 жыл бұрын

Some the cars shown werent considered desireable but it just shows you if you look after your car,it will last a long time.Shame some people nowadays cant even open a bonnet.....

@Steve-gc5nt Жыл бұрын

Even if they could it probably wouldn't help much.

@minimaxi802 7 ай бұрын

I have fond memories of eating a Montego ice lolly in my Austin Montego in the mid 1980s, once very ubiquitous, many were fleet cars, now they are nearly extinct with only about 40 left in the UK.

@redrebelpodenco7761 2 жыл бұрын

Love the Vauxhall royale

@garywinterbottom6073 2 жыл бұрын

I remember going to a local motor show in 1982 and the Sierra was on display as the latest model out.

@Steve-gc5nt Жыл бұрын

Isn't it funny how we mostly wanted to get out of these cars back in the day but now we'd all love to own one 🤭

@paulmcvay1625 2 жыл бұрын

Remember most of these well: they were everywhere then, suddenly, they were all gone.

@darrenmeears4667 2 жыл бұрын

Love 80s cars this is when I first started to take an interest in cars I fell in love with my teachers Renault fuego I'd still love one today 💕👍👌

@georgeedwards8156 2 жыл бұрын

I love 80s cars

@easydrive3662 2 жыл бұрын

Proper cars!!! The Peugeot 19gti and the escort rs are gorgeous!

@stephenricketts7764 2 жыл бұрын

I always loved the Saab 900 turbo, they were a beautiful design. Aston Martin Lagonda to some it was 'hiddious' but I thought it was special. Who could forget the Toyota Celica that was a beautiful design.

@oldclassiccarUK 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@rydermike33 2 жыл бұрын

Ooh that Bentley Mulsanne Turbo... Beautiful. Nice to see the Saabs as well. Great cars.

@grrlpurpleable 7 ай бұрын

Hey... my first car was an '82 Talbot Horizon bought in '89 for £150 and you definitely couldn't "hear [it] coming from around the corner!" It was a sweet first car... wish I could have kept it :)

@peterscotney1 Жыл бұрын

I loved my Saab 9000, wish I still had it !

@johneisen6341 2 жыл бұрын

I own a face lift MK3 Granada Scorpio last of the MK3s on a M Plate but ran from 1985 - 1994. My dad had a 1987 cream 2.0 Mk3 Granada Ghia in the late 90s. It was a great car.

@chucky2316 2 жыл бұрын

My first boss had a mk3 granada scorpio circa 2000 I remember the sea of leather in it lovely car

@colinwellman9480 2 жыл бұрын

Pure nostalgia, love it! You mention a lack of a photo of a Vauxhall fwd Cavalier. I thinks they mostly just rusted away. In their day they were more popular with the reps than the Ford Sierra and I think they outsold them. I bought a new one (1984) and ran it for 13 years. Very capable car with nice handling and easy to fix mechanicals. It was our only car and we were still touring France with two children and camping gear although it had 200K miles plus on it. It finally got too rusty to patch it up again for the MOT. It had started to rust within two years from purchase. They must be becoming quite rare by now. Thanks for sharing.

@vauxhallcrazy309 Жыл бұрын

I’ve got two

@kevinmcmahon7182 8 ай бұрын

Had a 86 escort one of the best cars I ever owned

@craigsmith7273 2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't touch a modern one with a barge pole... But you have to love a 1980s BMW the 5, 6 and 700s have to be some of the most handsome cars ever made!

@geewat 2 жыл бұрын

The Sierra is the only car where I've had two of them.

@Craig-sq3xk 4 ай бұрын

Back in the day when most of these ran on 4star leaded petrol and I diesel was unheard of

@allanriches9381 2 жыл бұрын

Pug 604 very nice cars

@NhwNews 2 жыл бұрын

Honda made a 4WS (4 wheel steering) Prelude in 1988. The first (and only) 4WS car I have driven. For smaller turns such as changing lanes, the rear wheels turned in the same direction as the front, reducing drag. Once the angle of turn exceeded a certain threshold, the rear wheels suddenly turned in the opposite direction making the car turn round corners much quicker. Parking in very tight spaces was very easy. You only needed a space just a few inches more than the length of the car. How the other two cars got out of the space is a different question!

@pauletchells4127 2 жыл бұрын

love ROVER SD1, a lot about in the 80s

@a11csc 2 жыл бұрын

nice one

@saxonstacker7269 2 жыл бұрын

Great vid. 👍

@oldclassiccarUK 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks S S

@johnmcgahan1001 7 ай бұрын

i'd love to buy an 80s car i think they're better than what we have now!

@oldclassiccarUK 7 ай бұрын

In many ways I agree, I can't see many new cars now lasting until their 40th birthdays

@christopherjohns968 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, great video, and excellent music. The Lancia at 17.05 is a four door Lancia Gamma and not a Beta. Dad bought a Beta 3 weeks before the rust scare in 79, and sadly it rusted away over the next 3 years. Best car of the eighties.... Lancia Beta coupe 2.0 Volumex.

@oldclassiccarUK 2 жыл бұрын

I did wonder about the Lancia a day or two after putting this vid live, I read something about a Gamma 4-door and it clicked, thanks for watching

@TA_Plus_Hemi 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not really into Renault as they didn't really hold up here in the states, but I love those Alpines. Not so much the new one, but the original 110, I think, through these GTAs. The G5As kind of put me in mind of a French 80s Camaro. Not exactly but sort of

@garywithers852 2 жыл бұрын

Had a mk4 cortina, then a mk 5, an x reg cavalier after that. I live at the coast so they dissolved like sterident tablets.

@TheConsettcowboy Жыл бұрын

The Alfa Romeo 6 saloon is still on the roads

@seamusburke9101 2 жыл бұрын

There was quite a few good reliable cars appeared in the 80s. I think the only bad ones were British Leyland

@richardburns5925 Жыл бұрын

I don't remember any bad cars from British Leyland in the 80s. I only remember Metros everywhere, the Morris Ital, a stop gap measure till Maestros and Montegos were everywhere, Rovers collaboration with Honda which starting with the Triumph Acclaim, produced some cracking cars well into the 90s. Rust? They rusted as well as any Ford or Vauxhall of that time 👍

@stevencollis1973 Жыл бұрын

Shame theres no mk2 Cavaliers on here.

@healey100austin 2 жыл бұрын

Not my fave but... I learned to drive in a mk3 escort,I have a model kit of it to be built soon 👍😎😎

@chucky2316 2 жыл бұрын

Mk3 escorts are the best

@lowiepete 9 ай бұрын

Considering its iconic design status, and its 2nd gen debut in 1984, there's wasn't a "proper" Renault 5. Yeah, there's a Turbo 2 but that came over as a miniscule proportion of the type. Also missing is the Renault 11, the hatchback version of the R9. I have a 2009 Laguna Coupe GT and whenever I go to car shows with it, or even with my 1990 R5GTT, it'll often be the only Renault in the park. C'mon you fellow owners, we wanna see your metal, in the metal!

@oldclassiccarUK 9 ай бұрын

Fair comment, R5s have appeared in other vids though and a few interesting cars pop up in my '22 France visit, but I'll definitely keep my eye open for 11s. Thanks for watching, RJ (4CV owner)

@jodypitt3629 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, the Vauxhall Mova didn't sell in Spain, why because 'nova' is Spanish for 'no go!'

@craigsmith7273 2 жыл бұрын

They were called Opel Corsas in Spain and the rest of Europe... They were just called Vauxhall Nova in the uk

@russellbrooks1823 2 ай бұрын

For me the car's that I call proper cars are the cars that I grow up with as being born in the mid 80s the cars are Pretty much most of the cars from the 80s/90s and of course the classic cars that are from the 70s plus before and sometimes cars from the early 2000s Cuz I would think some peaple would agree with me that car's these days all look the same they just have a different badge that's it

@lindsey361 Жыл бұрын

So many Jems also so many shits. Banging vid thank xx

@oldclassiccarUK Жыл бұрын

Definitely a mixed bag I agree :)

@szilardtoth8814 2 жыл бұрын

What about TATRA 613 and 700 for example?

@oldclassiccarUK 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching - were Tatras ever sold here in the UK? I don't remember ever seeing one in the 1980s, just one or two that people have imported themselves in recent years.

@szilardtoth8814 2 жыл бұрын

@@oldclassiccarUK I visited Czech Republic for plenty of times. During a decade or more I saw only once a TATRA 613 painted red with the Czech Firebrigade's nameplate on it. It had happened on the Prague-Brno highway. The Tatra 613 was driven awfully fast. V8 is a V8 at last. Previously in 1990 I saw one black painted with CzechoSlovak plates around Vienna Austria. And another one during the '80s in ex-Yugoslavia, domestic plates, brownish/greenish paint as well as I have heard the roar of the Tatra V8 engine. Only these live examples till now.

@giulianomarco 2 жыл бұрын

👍😁 Favourite car in video? 18:13 Ferrari 308 QV. Favourite car of the 80s as a teenager? Magnum's Ferrari 308 GTS of course...

@yoranw4608 2 жыл бұрын

I heard that Seat Malaga, Fiat Ritmo and some other car I cant remember now(Seat Fura, was it ever sold in the UK) *are completely extinct* within the kingdom. Is it true?

@oldclassiccarUK 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure, the Fiat Ritmo was sold here as the Strada - there are a few survivors here in the UK, but not many

@yoranw4608 2 жыл бұрын

@@oldclassiccarUK Thanks for the reply.

@BananaFlipFlops 10 ай бұрын

That alfa 6 is still on the road 👍

@oldclassiccarUK 10 ай бұрын

Good news indeed!

@semiretired86 2 жыл бұрын

could hahve had a picture of a running MR2

@oldclassiccarUK 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I could

@sim6699 2 жыл бұрын

Vauxhall Nova's were not warm hatches. A GTE was 100bhp in car weighing around 800kg = 125bhp a ton. Whilst a Mk2 Golf Gti weighed around 1.4 ton and 120 bhp = 85bhp a ton. The nova GTE was the faster car.

@oldclassiccarUK 2 жыл бұрын

Fair point I guess, maybe I was thinking of the SR at the time :)

@Zed463 2 жыл бұрын

Rs cosworth Sierra and xr3i

@binagarten4667 7 ай бұрын

I think you should block out the number plates apart from the number showing the year where practical. I have several Fords, and I hate people taking photographs so mostly at car shows I take off the number plates.

@oldclassiccarUK 7 ай бұрын

If you take an interesting or eye-catching car out in public, people are bound to take a photo and have every right to do so, this has been the case since the car was invented, and even more so nowadays given that most people have smart phones with cameras built-in. Every petrol station has numerous cameras in it. Many main roads have cameras. Many other cars have dash cams running, same for commercial vehicles.