Growing up in the 1970s, Australian bias, but a good laugh & a bit of a shock for millennials! https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conv...8/10416794 'Incinerate everything on Saturday & off to the tip on Sunday!'


In high school all we made during the entire year of metalwork, was ashtrays! With the teacher continually smoking! It is surprising I didn't take up smoking! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18

Whats an Avocado  FL2 MY10 TD4 GS traded in at 2 years
FL2 MY13 TD4 GS Current

Didn't you ever take your girl to a Berni Inn where you would have a Schooner of Sherry (or a Rum and Black) followed by a steak with a prawn cocktail for starters? Oh and don't forget the bottle of Blue Nun. If you were really sophisticated you had a bottle of Amateus Rose and took the bottle home to make a table lamp. Those were the days. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

born in 1955 but the 70s was a superb decade for rock music !

Classic albums by Pink Floyd, Santana, Deep Purple, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Jackson Browne, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Springsteen, Manassas and many more etc etc etc  2017 SEAT Ateca 4drive 2.0 xcellence (May 2022 -
2007 HSE with HST bodykit in Zermatt Silver 169,700 miles (dec 2016 - May 2022 )
2007 Honda Civic Type S GT (2012-2017)
2002 Mini Cooper S (2008-2012)
1992 Honda Legend 3.2i (2003-2008)
1990 Honda Concerto (1999-2003)
1985 Honda Accord (1997-1999)
1983 Honda Accord (1993-1997)
1983 Mini Mayfair (1988-1993)
1974 Mini 1000 (1979-1986)

Many of my highlights from the 1970s include:

Led Zep live at Knebworth 1979. We lost the tent poles whilst hitching lifts down from Wakefield - had to use the tent as a big canvas sleeping bag.

Sammy Miller's record run at Santa Pod in Vanishing Point - 0 to 314 mph in 4.2 secs. He improved on that (his still unbroken record) later in the year IIRC

Apollo 13, my dad and I were glued to the TV Jules

19th June 1976. Bob Marley @ Ninian Park Cardiff best gig for me also going to watch some great bands in Merthyr .
Regular from then to this day watching the mighty Cardiff City back in 70's some right scary moments at the footie  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

I'm only a youngster then compared to you lot!
Born in '74 most of my growing up memories are of the '80s. Looking back I can't imagine how much freedom I had ad a child to go out and about to places my parents hadn't a clue. Sadly my own kids today don't get the same freedom now we are more cautious and risk averse.
My favourite radio station is naturally radio2 and Jonny Walkers sounds of the '70s is a Sunday afternoon treat. Landrover - turning owners into mechanics since 1948

2014 Orkney grey Freelander SD4 GS.
2004 Zambezi silver Discovery 2 Td5 (Gone)
1963 Surf blue Morris Mini Minor Super de Luxe (my little toy)

The radio voice I miss the most is Alan Fluff Freeman not arf.

dorsetfreelander wrote:

Didn't you ever take your girl to a Berni Inn where you would have a Schooner of Sherry (or a Rum and Black) followed by a steak with a prawn cocktail for starters? Oh and don't forget the bottle of Blue Nun. If you were really sophisticated you had a bottle of Amateus Rose and took the bottle home to make a table lamp. Those were the days.

Absolutely ! and then there was the Cavalier Steak Bar . The Farmers Inn at Thornbury , outside Bradford was one such incarnation . I took my first true love for dinner , which was quite posh for a lad who normally ate at tea time ... Prawn Cocktail , Duck a l’Orange , the ubiquitous Black Forest Gateaux and If I remember rightly a bottle of Liebfraumilch , Black Tower of course .

I drove there and back in an HB Viva, because of course in those days you could have 27 pints and drive quite legally  2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

2016 Subaru Outback SE 2.0 diesel SE Premium Lineartronic Sold 2024 after 8 years and 80k miles . Best Car I ever owned !

2023 Toyota Hilux invincible X 2.8 Auto .

The 60's were my time - Eel Pie Island , Marquee club, Isle of wight festival in '69 where we tried to climb over the fence for admittance only to land on security who ejected us quite forcibly. Mars bar shaped Vauxhall Viva (my 1st car)and best of all my mates Ford Zodiac which was a great bird puller.
Went to the same school as Daltrey, Entwistle and Townsend (Acton County Grammar) who were in the year above me but was in the same class as Alison Wise who became John Entwistles wife.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/08/21/...e-commune/ MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

MY 15 SD4 SE Auto Orkney Grey with colour coded Bumper Door Mouldings

SYFL2 wrote:

The radio voice I miss the most is Alan Fluff Freeman not arf.

jules wrote:

Apollo 13, my dad and I were glued to the TV

And before you called the TV repair man in, you'd have thumped it on the top

I used to be sent up on the roof being the youngest to mess with the Ariel. h&s  If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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Freelander 2 HSE auto 2014 ( Florrie ) ..... Try again.
Freelander 2 GS 2012...... Gone.

Northcroft wrote:

born in 1955 but the 70s was a superb decade for rock music !

Classic albums by Pink Floyd, Santana, Deep Purple, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Jackson Browne, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Springsteen, Manassas and many more etc etc etc