RE: Time for tea? Datsun does Movember

[waldershelf]

Just remeber those that can grow a tash do, those that can't are all too vocal about how naff tach's are. I have offered a "cutting" to quite a number of people who are doing their best for movember, it's a good cause so get with it next year. If anyone actually cares, I've had mine for nearly 40 years. (it wasn't that good originally if I'm honest)

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cuda said:

they had tashes in those days because of the velcro effect with the lady-gardens of the era....

Brings back such very pleasant memories

[Crazy Torque]

Rubbish! Such insolence!!!

This was a GREAT car. Well, maybe not great, but I had one of these back in the mid '80's and adored it (and I never understood why back then almost everyone generally prefered the XR3i - which was about 50% more to buy!). And it was superior to things like Alfa Spiders, Golf Cabriolets etc (speaking as someone who owned all)

Previous owner to me spoilt it a bit though - he painted over the gold so it was all black!

I liked the pseudo Smokey & The Bandit Look


Ok, so it wasn't a sports car - but then neither was a Ford Escort with a rubber plank stuck on the boot.

[Arenki]

Times like this i'm glad I wasn't even around until the very late 80s.

[mickers70]

TheEnd said:

Am I right in thinking that advert has no link to movember at all, apart from someone in it had a moustache?

correct!!! ...............the girls are up to something next year.....Fanuary

[mikEsprit]

So far it's working.

I can't be the only one who can't stop thinking 'black gooold, black gooold', can I?

[thirsty]

The 240Z was a great car. Ten years later, this car was horrible.

[Frimley111R]

kentmotorcompany said:

Same car, much newer video and almost as corny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blSasyAyad4


Nice car though.

Blimey, that's mint. I like that in a strange way.

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anything fast said:

reminds me of very old TV ad for the Ford Sierra, introducing the range of new cars "we proudly introduce the Sierra GL, which has added luxury from the base model with a rear wash wipe and full wrap around ABS plastic bumpers" jeez.. how we have moved on!

We haven't moved on at all. Just replace "rear wash wipe" with "boot spoiler" and "full wrap around ABS platic bumpers" with "sporty fog lights" or "daylight driving lights."... Gi

[carinaman]

It's not quite beating this one for me. No tache, just lots of period cheese and some nice music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ZCj4T_064

[CypherP]

Instantly made me think of this:

[KIG1971]

I just keep getting visions of the dodgy "Gold Blend" coffee adverts from the 90's.

LMAO though!

[RPastry]

[quote]bet the advert (or should we say commercial?)
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mommercial surely

[Oddball RS]

Love it, why hasn't someone done a spoof, instead of all the arty sh*t we get now.....? it would be great!

[anything fast]

Prev said:

anything fast said:

reminds me of very old TV ad for the Ford Sierra, introducing the range of new cars "we proudly introduce the Sierra GL, which has added luxury from the base model with a rear wash wipe and full wrap around ABS plastic bumpers" jeez.. how we have moved on!

We haven't moved on at all. Just replace "rear wash wipe" with "boot spoiler" and "full wrap around ABS platic bumpers" with "sporty fog lights" or "daylight driving lights."... Gi

do you remember the more recent crummy adverts by nissan saying do you speak micra? the new language invented by nissan.. it didnt catch on.. they should have just been honest.. "are you a 17 year old girl who's a bit ugly? Or are you so old you wear nappies? if so this is the car for you, the new micra, available in beige!

[Crazy Torque]

I think the time between early '70's and mid '90's almost ALL cars were pretty crap - what passed for a sports car was a hatchback with alloys and about 15bhp extra. Companies like TVR, Ferrari, Triumph etc all forgot how to make cars (308 with 240bhp, TVR's going from Yank 5ltr's to 2 litre engines). 150BHP TR6's became 100BHP TR7's, Mini Cooper's became Mini GT's.

Then things got better, some moustached guy had the idea to fit the biggest cheapest engines possible, Ferrari discovered turbos, and Ford made the Mother of All Hot Hatches and went racing.

[J4CKO]

CypherP said:

Instantly made me think of this:

I was lookign for that, its Dodgeball isnt it, I was thinking Starsky and Hutch, but its bang on !

[Munich]

My best friend's dad had a 280ZX about 15 years ago. He had it painted in a horrid light blue colour with a awful old fashioned bodykit graphed on!

[S11EPS]

My dad actually had one of these - not a gold edition, a regular job (although it did have a two-tone paint job - all black with a silver bonnet). I remember being in the Datsun showroom when he collected it brand new.

As a 7 year old in 1982 (who was an avid Knight rider fan) having your dad drive a black 'sports car' with T tops was just too exciting for words.

This was replaced 2 years later by the newer (but still hugely cack, by modern standards) Z31 shape 300zx.
Being a light metallic blue it was a step backwards in terms of colour, but it gained 'pop-up headlamps' which, by my 9 year old's quality standards made it one of the best cars available!

Suffice to say, my standards are a little higher now.

[black gold man]

I do have the rare black gold in the garage. And two other z cars.
Back in the day the old man had balck gold new.
BGM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kWpqQHwY4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2q-k4X_H9o

Edited by black gold man on Friday 2nd December 15:37