Things you wouldn't dream of doing now.. but back then
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While I was driving the students union Mk1 Transit between the pool and the bar as fast as I could (including a number of 90 degree bends) a mate used to get onto the back of the canoe trailer and race to see if he could climb along it then onto the roof rack of and look upside down in through the windscreen before I got to the bar.
How he didn't fall off or we get stopped/reported by someone I have no idea!
We got away with much more in the 70s than is possible now - including me driving a 15 seater with a big trailer when I was 19!
How he didn't fall off or we get stopped/reported by someone I have no idea!
We got away with much more in the 70s than is possible now - including me driving a 15 seater with a big trailer when I was 19!
When I was 18 I rode to Cornwall on a RD250 with a mate who wanted to see his girlfriend who was holidaying with her parents, I was assured she had a fit sister.
We got there with our action man tent, said sister was fit, we got invited to breakfast , they had everything, huge tent with a massive awning , me and my mate sat there talking to the girls when out of the tent comes their mum, who was very milfy wearing a white bra and knickers.
We just sat there , eyes on stalks , the girls shouted MMUUUUMMMM
She just looked at us, smiled and said, oh I'm sure they've seen it all before while her husband gave us the look, see that lads, I'm s######g that
We got there with our action man tent, said sister was fit, we got invited to breakfast , they had everything, huge tent with a massive awning , me and my mate sat there talking to the girls when out of the tent comes their mum, who was very milfy wearing a white bra and knickers.
We just sat there , eyes on stalks , the girls shouted MMUUUUMMMM
She just looked at us, smiled and said, oh I'm sure they've seen it all before while her husband gave us the look, see that lads, I'm s######g that
hornetrider said:
My dad used to drive me round the estate in his car when I was 6 or 7. I was sat in his lap doing the steering. Also when we used to drive to the coast I used to change the gears for him - he operated the clutch.
A mates dad had mastered the art of changing the Flint in his lighter at 60mph in a mk2 cortina when he couldn't get his pipe lit 
Used to have races over this when we were about 12. Those steel girders going over the top (3 of them) are about 1m wide. When you were on top of one and a train passed underneath, you had to lay down and hold on for dear life...
...then we'd jump into the Thames and swim across.
Considering the Thames water in the early 80s, I'm surprised I'm still here...
Edited by ukwill on Friday 3rd July 11:38
skiing down a snowy back road on the bonnet of a car towed by, another car.
driving round in cars like maniacs (again in quiet back roads) with no licence, never mind any insurance etc
steering with your feet while sitting on the roof of a car
jumping into a fast-flowing river with only a wet-suit, before I learned to swim..
many many others that my memory is unable to serve
driving round in cars like maniacs (again in quiet back roads) with no licence, never mind any insurance etc
steering with your feet while sitting on the roof of a car
jumping into a fast-flowing river with only a wet-suit, before I learned to swim..
many many others that my memory is unable to serve
1. Sitting on the handlebars of my pushbike whilst pedaling backwards
2. Cycling along Coney Street in York, I am on the saddle, someone else on the handlebars and someone else holding on as best he could, getting stopped by a copper who said 'oy oy oy, what circus are you lot from then?'
3. Riding round a buidlers site on a nicked builders dumper, I was 12.
4. Organising a competition amongst the girls, obviously, for who can do a hand stand the longest. (Must sell that game to Keith Lemon)
5. Putting some Potassiium Permanganate in the bath, the water and bath went deep purple.
6. Throwing three old torch batteries into a coal fire and then sitting on a sofa opposite the fire and against the wall. The explosion caused me to have a black face and a silouette of me on the wallpaper, now also black.
2. Cycling along Coney Street in York, I am on the saddle, someone else on the handlebars and someone else holding on as best he could, getting stopped by a copper who said 'oy oy oy, what circus are you lot from then?'
3. Riding round a buidlers site on a nicked builders dumper, I was 12.
4. Organising a competition amongst the girls, obviously, for who can do a hand stand the longest. (Must sell that game to Keith Lemon)
5. Putting some Potassiium Permanganate in the bath, the water and bath went deep purple.
6. Throwing three old torch batteries into a coal fire and then sitting on a sofa opposite the fire and against the wall. The explosion caused me to have a black face and a silouette of me on the wallpaper, now also black.
Edited by Vacumatic on Friday 3rd July 13:32
Edited by Vacumatic on Friday 3rd July 13:36
Creating explosives in my bedroom, which we would then set off in a derelict building near the town centre. Some of our creations were pretty powerful too, blowing holes in whatever they sat on and shaking the floor in the immediate vicinity. Had the police chasing us a few times too who had (correctly) deduced that we were responsible for the high street disturbing explosion.
Also used to make smoke bombs using potassium nitrate. Now that was fun, used to fill the place with smoke whilst burning a hole in the ground leaving behind a scorched mark and the molten aluminium can we put the 'fuel' in. This stunt had the police and fire brigade out a few times, but due to the smoke we could sneak off like ninjas.
Also used to make smoke bombs using potassium nitrate. Now that was fun, used to fill the place with smoke whilst burning a hole in the ground leaving behind a scorched mark and the molten aluminium can we put the 'fuel' in. This stunt had the police and fire brigade out a few times, but due to the smoke we could sneak off like ninjas.
I remember being towed along the road on a sledge behind a Simca van back in 1976 or 1977.
Damn good fun, but the exhaust fumes made your eyes water.
I was about eight years old at the time.
Still remember the registration: WWH 398K.
Dad cut down a couple of old chairs and bolted them down in the back of the van so that my brother and I had something to sit on.
Happy days.
Found the pic...
Damn good fun, but the exhaust fumes made your eyes water.
I was about eight years old at the time.
Still remember the registration: WWH 398K.
Dad cut down a couple of old chairs and bolted them down in the back of the van so that my brother and I had something to sit on.
Happy days.
Found the pic...
stuart313 said:
If there is so much health and safety about nowadays why do so many people end up dead, the level of stupidity much have reached moronic proportions in todays world.
Possibly because there wasnt this nanny state and we leaned through experience,and our older friends, plus the grat outdoors was our PC, Xbox, and PS4 all rolled into one. in a world where one day you played cowboys and Indians,cops and robbers, knock down ginger,scrumping, going from one end of a street to the other though the back gardensPutting a rope in a tree and swinging on it for hours, got bettr whrn the swing went over a railway line and one day one kid lost his grip and zoomed into an empty wagon all the way to Temple Mills
Train,plan and bus spotting, bird nesting, Jigger carts.
MrsMiggins said:
I used to push my dad's hackney cab with his volvo when it wouldn't start. Push to around 20mph, he'd toot the horn, I'd brake and toot when clear and he'd dump the clutch.
Effective, but maybe not the safest way to start it.
Yep done that many times with my Dads Daimler getting my 1946 Ford Anglia up to escape vlocity to dump the clutch and fire up the engine. On the reverse of this trying a 'drag start' in it from the lights one day and just hearing a 'crack' as the halfshaft decided it didnt want to play. two hours later all back in working order. Yep those were the daysEffective, but maybe not the safest way to start it.
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