[Carrera RSR]

In trying to find some pictures of TCR racing ca sets I found this and thought some of you may like to remind yourself of your childhood in the '80's

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unlovea...th/2417477294/

Enjoy

[booforty]

Star Wars toys were my favourite growing up in the 80s

[AlanQS]

When I was little it was still the '50s

Thank God I don't remember one thing about it!

We did have electricity though!

TV - no. Telephone - no. Video recorders - no. Games consoles - no MP3 players - no Computers - no

Fuel injection - no Standard heaters in cars - no Disc brakes - no Power steering - no

The list goes on - bit like the Dark Ages!!!

[willhollin]

Originally Posted by AlanQS

When I was little it was still the '50s

Thank God I don't remember one thing about it!

We did have electricity though!

TV - no. Telephone - no. Video recorders - no. Games consoles - no MP3 players - no Computers - no

Fuel injection - no Standard heaters in cars - no Disc brakes - no Power steering - no

The list goes on - bit like the Dark Ages!!!

Porscha would have loved it.

[Carrera RSR]

Originally Posted by AlanQS

When I was little it was still the '50s

Thank God I don't remember one thing about it!

We did have electricity though!

TV - no. Telephone - no. Video recorders - no. Games consoles - no MP3 players - no Computers - no

Fuel injection - no Standard heaters in cars - no Disc brakes - no Power steering - no

The list goes on - bit like the Dark Ages!!!

As Harold Macmillan said ' You never had it so good'

[Zk1]

thats when real music was about, real R&N and soul music like .......bros!
When will i, will i be famous...

[AlanQS]

Naw, it means by the time I was old enough I got to see Free, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple in their prime

[Zk1]

Originally Posted by AlanQS

Naw, it means by the time I was old enough I got to see Free, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple in their prime

Led zepplin are awesome.... love kashmir, and stairway to heaven and so many more, but also paint it black by the stones..., dont like the who or deep purple (were they hippys ?)

[Zk1]

urghhh hippies.. they say if you kill one, two will come and take it's place
The pic is of deeppurple btw, check out robin hood in the middle with velvet outfit

[Mark II]

Had already grown up by the 80's and was hard at work - fave stuff from the 60's/70's: Tonka toys, I had a Spudmatic (real gangsta ), Captain Scarlet SPV, UFO Interceptor and Shado mobile, Scalextric (seem to recall a white BMW 3 series and a white Porsche 935 - think it might have been in Martini colours), and a Stars Wars light sabre - always useful for clobbering my bruv

Originally Posted by AlanQS

Naw, it means by the time I was old enough I got to see Free, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple in their prime

Bit younger than you Alan (42) but very envious - some of the best there mate - just add a few earlier ones like Cream, Hendrix and a few others and you'd have most of my faves.

Originally Posted by Zk1

... deep purple (were they hippys ?)

You're having a laugh right?

[NFS]

Originally Posted by carrerarsr

In trying to find some pictures of TCR racing ca sets I found this and thought some of you may like to remind yourself of your childhood in the '80's

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unlovea...th/2417477294/

Enjoy

Total Control Racing?

I really wanted one of those. I had a matchbox track, with a couple of chicanes, but I longed to change lanes at the touch of a button with a yearning that I can't begin to express.

Did they actually work?

Oh .... my .... God .......just looked at the photo's and there it is:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unloveable/2418792748/

Cardboard model of the Deathstar.

Quite simply the best toy in the history of the world ever. It even had a working trash compactor (made of cardboard and you had to push the wall yourself, but it did work!!!).

To think ... somewhere in the world it still exists.

I so wish I had one at home, with my childhood set of Star Wars figures (including a spare Luke Skywalker in orange x'wing jumpsuit that I singed with a lighter to make him look like he had just crash landed on Dagobah).

[NFS]

Zoids ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unloveable/2433751013/

Feckin brilliant they were ... clockwork robot dinosaurs ....

GENIUS.

[RockIt]

Originally Posted by Zk1

urghhh hippies.. they say if you kill one, two will come and take it's place
The pic is of deeppurple btw, check out robin hood in the middle with velvet outfit

Christ. Deep Purple, along with the Who, Led Zep, Black Sabbath and the Stones represent some of the greatest musicians to ever commit to a record. Out of Deep Purple came Ian Gillan (The Ian Gillan Band, Black Sabbath) , Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover, (Rainbow) and David Coverdale, Jon Lord & Ian Paice, (Whitesnake). They are the fathers of modern rock music.

WIKIPEDIA...Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertfordshire in 1968.[1] Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre.[2] The band also incorporated pop and progressive rock elements.[3] They were once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's loudest band,[3][4][5] and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.[6][7][8][9] Deep Purple was ranked #22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock program.[10]

Hippies!


rant over.

[NFS]

Originally Posted by RockIt

Christ. Deep Purple, along with the Who, Led Zep, Black Sabbath and the Stones represent some of the greatest musicians to ever commit to a record.

1970's though

[beemerbird]

+2 Smoke on the water - brilliant.

David Coverdale's voice especially

[Porscha!]

Originally Posted by willhollin

Porscha would have loved it.

Only the cars, Austin Healey 100 Ferrari 250GT MGA

[NFS]

Originally Posted by beemerbird

+2

David Coverdale's voice especially

Now this is 80's:

[beemerbird]

Excellent Simon Whitesnake 1987, got the CD. Aynsley Dunbar on drums.

My fav. is 'Is this love'.

[NFS]

Originally Posted by beemerbird

Excellent Simon Whitesnake 1987, got the CD. Aynsley Dunbar on drums.

My fav. is 'Is this love'.

1987 was a great album.

I was 14 then and remember some of the ladies from the vids with a special 'fondness'.

[beemerbird]

Originally Posted by NFS

1987 was a great album.

I was 14 then and remember some of the ladies from the vids with a special 'fondness'.

You only 35 - I feel a bit old now lol.

Yes, those ladies had great hair, typical 1980's. Mine would go like that if it wasn't for Frizzease. Happy, carefree days.

[willhollin]

Originally Posted by NFS

1987 was a great album.

I was 14 then and remember some of the ladies from the vids with a special 'fondness'.

I thought you were in your sixties?

[willhollin]

Just checked out the Whitesnake vi on Youtube, then listened to...

Here I go again, Broken Wings, I wanna know what love is, king of wishful thinking.

Will we ever see a great time loke the 80s for music?