1980's Autocar and Whatcar? Road Tests scans

[John Galt]

dockertrigger said:

Glad your all enjoying them, Yeah i have been busy!

Schermerhorn said:

How do you make the pictures bigger?

You need to sign up to flickr, It's free so don't worry, then when your logged in click on the all sizes tab at the top of the picture you want to see to make it bigger, It will be fully readable then!. :-)

You don't even need to sign up; just click on 'slide show' in the top right-hand corner, and you can read the articles in all their glory .

[Morningside]

Back in the days where you could point and say Ford, Vauxhall, Rover etc. Not "Ermmm...It was a BMW, I think"?

Interesting one: The "Rover SD1 2400 SD TD Road Test 1982". I only ever saw ONE and that was dark green.
Never did take off, but then again around that time the only Diesel things were... The Postvan, Peugeot 505 estates and rust buckets that fishermen seemed to drive

Edited by Morningside on Sunday 29th March 00:10

[dockertrigger]

EK993 said:

The 911 SE review has a page missing.. don't suppose I could be cheeky and ask you to scan it in??

Ah your right!, I'll have to dig that one out again and rescan it, I'll try and do it tomorrow.

[va1o]

Thanks a lot for those, very interesting reading, much appreciated

[Flanders.]

Thanks you've just cost me an hour of my life .

[dockertrigger]

dockertrigger said:

EK993 said:

The 911 SE review has a page missing.. don't suppose I could be cheeky and ask you to scan it in??

Ah your right!, I'll have to dig that one out again and rescan it, I'll try and do it tomorrow.

Updated now.

[Nolar Dog]

dockertrigger said:

Enjoy

This is why I love PH.

Thanks very much for sharing your articles.
It's given me some very good reading and I'm very grateful.

[dockertrigger]

Your all welcome, I've updated it a bit more, Got the Ferrari Testarossa test now plus the Aston Martin Virage Test uplaoded plus tons more!.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7869726@N02/sets/

Edited by dockertrigger on Thursday 23 April 20:46

[cpl_payne]

This is fantastic! Thank you very much!

I love the way they did reviews back then - so much more professional and technical as opposed to a lot of fruity words but almost no solid information in modern magazines.

[Hereward]

You have a review of my first car - a Talbot Horizon! Thank you, Sir, I'm off to do a bit of reading


Edit: Wow, it's even more woeful than I remembered. The review is of the diesel but I had the 1.3 litre petrol which had similar performance - 0-90 mph in 50 seconds! My current 911 does 0-90 in about 9 seconds. hehe.

Great stuff, many thanks.

Edited by Hereward on Thursday 23 April 21:45

[SoapyShowerBoy]

I'm sorry for the O/T post.....

If I had an Iphone or something similar could I view these superb image scans?

I'm due for an upgrade next month and that may just swing it!!




Bsck on topic, thanks OP

[dockertrigger]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

I'm sorry for the O/T post.....

If I had an Iphone or something similar could I view these superb image scans?

I'm due for an upgrade next month and that may just swing it!!




Bsck on topic, thanks OP

I Don't know TBH, I've tried on my crappy Samsung F480 and you can see them but not that clear, Though the Iphone is a much better phone for the internet.

[LayZ]

Just reading the Merc 2.5 Cosworth test. Its amazing people paid this much for cars back then.

E34 535i £24,235
Audi Quattro £30,199!

That was serious money in 1989 pounds.

[Puddenchucker]

That brings back memories.

I've still got a lot of those magazines in a cuboard - I think the oldest is from 1978.

[anonymous-user]

You sir are a legend! this should be a sticky!

[dockertrigger]

MonkeyMatt said:

You sir are a legend! this should be a sticky!

Thanks! *Blushes* Don't think they would do that though as i think autocar & What Car? both belong to the same company that own Pistonheads (Haymarket) and they might get funny over the copywrite.

Got loads of What car? Magazines to go though now, Might start again on Monday.

Edited by dockertrigger on Thursday 23 April 22:28

[cat220]

Another big thanks! Thats tomorrow sorted!

[air hog]

Been reading the forums for ages. Never post, but must say you are a star for doing this.....

Takes me back years, you are indeed a gent, good on you

[dockertrigger]

Thanks guys, Just thought I'd quickly add that you can view my collections here http://www.flickr.com/photos/7869726@N02/collectio... which helps you to search specifically which magazine to look at and if you want to add me as a contact so you can find my pictures easier then feel free! :-)

[dockertrigger]

Done a few more today including a Lotus Excel Vs Porsche 944 test & Aston Martin V8 Vantage test all from 1984.