The Eighties

[Tony Moanero]

[Trumo]

Eddie Murphy 'Delirious'.

 

 

[Dr Nowt]

@Tony Moanero

 

Do you remember this?

 

 

It was an answer on University Challenge just now. Immediately brought a flood of memories back which had been lost for decades. Completely forgot it ever existed.

[Tony Moanero]

25 minutes ago, Lizzie Birdsworths Wrinkled Chopper said:

@Tony Moanero

 

Do you remember this?

 

 

It was an answer on University Challenge just now. Immediately brought a flood of memories back which had been lost for decades. Completely forgot it ever existed.

Yes, mate. It’s one of my all-time favourites. I watch it every other Christmas. In fact, I bought a new copy on DVD last month from Amazon. £3.99, it was. Bargain!

 

Fun fact, Nick Berry, of Eastenders and Heartbeat fame, plays a rat in it.

 

[Dr Nowt]

10 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Fun fact, Nick Berry, of Eastenders and Heartbeat fame, plays a rat in it.

 

Ha.

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

[Tony Moanero]

 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

[Guest]

 

[mattyq]

 

[Gruntfuttock]

[Trumo]

Cliff Thorburn's 147 maximum at the Crucible in 1983. The camaraderie between the players, the referee and even the commentator stand out.

 

 

[easytoslip]

1 hour ago, Trumo said:

Cliff Thorburn's 147 maximum at the Crucible in 1983. The camaraderie between the players, the referee and even the commentator stand out.

 

 

 Brilliant.

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

[KMD7]

 

[TheHowieLama]

17 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

These were out before I was born pal -- early 1960's

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

These were out before I was born pal -- early 1960's

Sorry mate I was only born in 84 

[TheHowieLama]

1989 - the number

 

 

 

[Trumo]

[Babb'sBurstNad]

[Nunavut Patrick]

On 13/01/2020 at 15:58, Bjornebye said:

 

 

 

Begbie’s long lost American cousin.

[Chairman Meow]

 

 

Group B, both good and bad. Good because they were absolutely mental and spectacular bad because the regulations were badly implemented and things went very mental very quickly. From 260 or so brake horsepower Escorts to claims of over 600 in about 3 years.

 

The regs supposedly were meant to stop manufacturers taking the piss by building homologation specials to sneak into the old classes on limited build quantities. Someone at the governing body really fucked that one up!

 

I was only 6 when they banned the things so only saw them in the flesh once really as rally cars, the likes of the video above give some element of what they were like. But all I really remember from the RAC where I saw them was totally overwhelming levels of noise and the fact that with the Quattro in particular the ground shook when they went past. 

 

 

They filtered down into rallycross after they banned them from rallying and a batch of them off the line at full throttle all at the same time was absolutely mental for the noise. 

[Chairman Meow]

Group A, pretty much nothing but good in my opinion. Cars that at least had a basis in the road car (plus some fiddles to gain an advantage as well) and the touring car racing that I grew up watching and still really love.

 

Gave us the Cossie.

 

 

And the M3.

 

 

 

And also what was probably the ultimate in touring car racing. The DTM in the 80s. Video contains a tiny bit of early 90s but the majority is 80s and has the added bonus of whatever the hell the music is meant to be.

 

 

[rubble-rouser]