Street machine and Custom Car Magazine Cars
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Years and years and years ago, the late 70's and early eighties, years before anyone even drempt of the net I used to get my fix from monthly magazines car wise.
Street Machine and Custom Car.
They'd even have their own show up at Ally Pally every year, I once went with my Dad.
Street Machine had a fabulous blue P5B rover they snapped off alternate strips from the front grille, and painted it blue.
They used to do projects, like "french" the number plate. Looks so terrible now, but all that stuff was part of it.
Everyone used to add fibreglass cr4p to their cars then.
In them days sticking on a set of wolfrace slot mags was awesome.
The magazines, and the whole scene sent me Ford Crazy.
I lived in Harrow at the time, and had a two door cortina gt on a G Reg.
Around harrow at the time, there waere a few tasty lotus cortinas, in white and green. A 15GT Mk2 cortina with a side draft 45 on it.
Many cortina gts. A few good mark1 gts. The odd minisprint. An arched anglia with a 15gt in it. A brown mk1 cortina with a 3litre V6 in it. A two door savage cortina GT. A few Capri 3000's.
That was the scene for me, I went onto Lotuses. A ford red mark 2 and an escort twin cam LTW4J arched, and minilited.
Its so long ago.
Anyone of a similar era that had project cortinas, or remember those two magazines and the stories?
Street Machine and Custom Car.
They'd even have their own show up at Ally Pally every year, I once went with my Dad.
Street Machine had a fabulous blue P5B rover they snapped off alternate strips from the front grille, and painted it blue.
They used to do projects, like "french" the number plate. Looks so terrible now, but all that stuff was part of it.
Everyone used to add fibreglass cr4p to their cars then.
In them days sticking on a set of wolfrace slot mags was awesome.
The magazines, and the whole scene sent me Ford Crazy.
I lived in Harrow at the time, and had a two door cortina gt on a G Reg.
Around harrow at the time, there waere a few tasty lotus cortinas, in white and green. A 15GT Mk2 cortina with a side draft 45 on it.
Many cortina gts. A few good mark1 gts. The odd minisprint. An arched anglia with a 15gt in it. A brown mk1 cortina with a 3litre V6 in it. A two door savage cortina GT. A few Capri 3000's.
That was the scene for me, I went onto Lotuses. A ford red mark 2 and an escort twin cam LTW4J arched, and minilited.
Its so long ago.
Anyone of a similar era that had project cortinas, or remember those two magazines and the stories?
I remember it well. Me and Dad went to a lot of shows in the North London/ Herts area in the late 70's and always read SM and CC.
I remember customised Bedford CF's being my favourite, along with the obligatory Ford Pop and any jacked up Ford. A neighbour had a ratty, but fast Camaro that had the widest rear tyres I'd ever seen, think he used to take it to Santa Pod.
Good times.
I remember customised Bedford CF's being my favourite, along with the obligatory Ford Pop and any jacked up Ford. A neighbour had a ratty, but fast Camaro that had the widest rear tyres I'd ever seen, think he used to take it to Santa Pod.
Good times.
Good times, so seventies.
Two brothters used to run Fords with mahoosive v8's in them. Proper trick motors.
There was a guy in Kenton, was it Dennis Boyle? who had a Pop with a massive V8 in it.
That was a lot of the scene. Taking really old fords and sticking great big yank v8's in them.
Imagine how awesome that was when you were 17/18.
Mental.
The world was full of allegros, maxis, even the old bill used to cane it round in zircon blue P6 Rover 3500's and Triumph 2500S's.
BNormality was the new cortina mk4, the Granada, and the mk3 capri 3000S
Two brothters used to run Fords with mahoosive v8's in them. Proper trick motors.
There was a guy in Kenton, was it Dennis Boyle? who had a Pop with a massive V8 in it.
That was a lot of the scene. Taking really old fords and sticking great big yank v8's in them.
Imagine how awesome that was when you were 17/18.
Mental.
The world was full of allegros, maxis, even the old bill used to cane it round in zircon blue P6 Rover 3500's and Triumph 2500S's.
BNormality was the new cortina mk4, the Granada, and the mk3 capri 3000S
iphonedyou said:
That's an hilarious misspelling of 'dreamt'. 
The aitch isn't silent you know.A bit more recent but I do remember a purple Mk1 Capri on the cover of Street Machine that had a blown 302 V8, 15" Mickey T's and a wheelie bar.
A Capri with a wheelie bar!!!
The way they had squeezed in the huge drag rubber while still maintaining the lines of the car was really well done.
Well as you can see from my PH name I have been into the scene since 1975 and still have every copy of Custom Car, Street Machine, Hot Rod and Custom plus a raft of American mags dating back to that time. I was also a member of Smoke City Wheelers, how many of you remember them?
Back in the 70's I used to hang out at American Autoparts in Thornton Heath and would witness Andy Harris and the rest of his clan cover the high street in rubber smoke as they left in there Ford V8 powered Mk 1 powered Zodiacs, happy days.
I still own my first custom car; here is an old pic, circa late 80's. It was my first car and I started to customize it a day after I got it. Please excuse my fashion sence, it was cool back then
This is my old mate and fellow club member Gary Layton's Supercharged and Pro Streeted Angle box, again back in the late 80's. All built in his home garage. The guy was and still is a legend
I still hang around the scene which is still going strong and which is still populated by the guys I knew back in the 70's. We all just have a lot less hair and bigger bellies now
Back in the 70's I used to hang out at American Autoparts in Thornton Heath and would witness Andy Harris and the rest of his clan cover the high street in rubber smoke as they left in there Ford V8 powered Mk 1 powered Zodiacs, happy days.
I still own my first custom car; here is an old pic, circa late 80's. It was my first car and I started to customize it a day after I got it. Please excuse my fashion sence, it was cool back then
This is my old mate and fellow club member Gary Layton's Supercharged and Pro Streeted Angle box, again back in the late 80's. All built in his home garage. The guy was and still is a legend
I still hang around the scene which is still going strong and which is still populated by the guys I knew back in the 70's. We all just have a lot less hair and bigger bellies now
Edited by Streetrod on Tuesday 23 August 14:39
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