Good spotting the rubber mirror ❤ I actually meet Jeff when I was a kid he was signing autographs in a sport shop got one then qued again when I walked up for another signed photo he said to me oh you've already had one now f off! Good days the 80s ❤

they did?

Na!, these boomer cars war proper butters.

Mind you, the landcover, fait500, mini, VW Beatle and golf, E class Mercedes was ok.

What a lovely story! 🤗

Kwik fit garages are totally crap , I’m really shocked people use them , they are a rip off

They're a franchise so some are maybe better than others. Having said that, I've never heard a good word about the local ones. Replacing parts which don't need it seems to be the main complaint.

I've actually never had a problem with Kwik fit, but to be honest only with minor jobs like replacement tyres. My John was an excellent mechanic and solved most of my problems with his knowledge, KZfaq, and some replacement parts from Halford (other car parts shops are available). Gosh, I do miss him. X

Most of these ads are already out there in the public domain. I just clean them up and curate them into compilations. Thanks for watching. Makes all the work worthwhile. 🙂👍

The Batmobile was in for it's MOT that day, and Batman and Robin had to nab the Penguin quickly before the Metro rusted away.

Somebody else mentioned the Girl from Grange Hill. I couldn't remember, but it seems likely.

Probably down to very poor or no maintenance. If there was one thing A series engines were known for it was easy starting, even in the depths of winter. We pulled one out of a river once after an accident, let the water run out of it and it still started after a few turns.

@@mylescartwright3115 think it was just the battery to be honest, so not really the engines fault.

209 mpg from a C50. I wonder? Thanks for the link; I don't think I've seen any of these before.

@@cornishhh Yeah makes you wonder ,but any way thats marketing ..

Some of us are still driving 'em. My eyesight is still good though.

and the Renault 5 lasted longer, and it's ad had Nicholas Parsons!

I was a Rover mechanic for a short time when they were in production. Having come from a Vauxhall dealership, I can tell you the Montego and Maestro were an absolute PITA to work on, and to try to get the correct part for. Didn’t mind how they looked, but oh man, working on them sucked. 😆

It is a strange dichotomy.

Stuff like that does tend to lurk in garages & sheds.

Had one. I believe it was called DUX here in Denmark.

Oh, hell yes. One of the things about modern life that really sucks; the massive increase in traffic. We used to play in the street as kids in the 80s. Can you imagine that now!?

@@RetroSteveUK That's our fault, tho'. In the 1970s and '80s becoming a two car family was seen as an aspiration. Now it's a basic necessity, 'coz we all have to drive everywhere for anything at all: sometimes justified in the circumstances. However, cars are now suffering a 100% obesity rate, so many roads and streets are now single track, rather than double carriageway. My town is on a historic car rally route, so we have convoys of MGBs or Moggy Minors driving through now and again, and the exhaust fumes are pretty bad. We grew up in that...as I tell the air cadets I teach at our local ATC Squadron. When I teach them about the RAF in the Cold War I tell them we used to have pop songs about Nuclear War, but that's another retro topic...pop songs. about political and social matters. 🙄

@@jamesbussey2911 Yeah, Prince's 1999 springs to mind. Most people don't realise that's a song about nuclear war. On the car thing .. I had a feeling things were getting bad in the early 90s, when one of our neighbours became a six vehicle family. Mum, dad, two boys and a girl. Each had their own car and one of the boys had a van as well. The little car park in our cul-de-sac that was designed to allow one vehicle per home suddenly became a lot more crowded. Unfortunately parking wasn't designated.

@@RetroSteveUK My parents in-law must be the only people I know who actually use their garage to put their car in. Their double garage is by their 1980s built bungalow, but it's only half full of workshop benches, tools and other junk. They own a Dacia Duster goobermobile, a car designed to confirm the fact that these days, one's choice of car says nothing about one's aspirations or personality.

These days on my motoring budget I'd expect to buy cars like these for under a grand and get as many years out of them as possible before they go to scrap.

Same here. Just bought a Fiat Punto for 250,-. Hopefully it will do for a couple of years.

Not sure how to respond to that! 🤣

Martin Shaw.

As David Brown mentioned in the other reply, it's Martin Shaw. The lady on the other end of the phone in the same commercial, I'm certain is Judy Dench.

Nowadays he would be stuck in a horrendous traffic jam for hours 🙄.

Martin shaw from the proffesionals

Those what?

The girl in the ad looks like her but it's not her. I'm told this actress played a character in Grange Hill when she was younger.

@@RetroSteveUK thanks Steve!

Definitely the past. Then back again.

@@RetroSteveUK Back to the future you mean...

@@JonnyInfinite Definitely! 😆

Funny ad, tho' .. at the end.

"British built" meant something back then. Now we're just a bit sh*t as a nation, in general.

They used to have a plant near Coventry I think it was. They later made 206s there as well.