Things you don't see any more

Emp_Fab

Female pubic hair.


Apparently.

west

cherry lips....

milk vending machines ...

bubbly gum machines ....

nestles milk dairy crunch vending machine on a railway platform

tax discs....

half day closing wednesday ...

real bobby on foot on the beat ...

chips wrapped in newspaper with scraps misses please ...

don cortez wine ( sort of )

carlsberg bottled elephant beer yum ...

ship in a bottle of dimple whisky ...

lamp made  out of mateus rosey bottle ...

snake belt with accompanying lads sheath knife for innocent whittlin carving ..

badger brush and open razor leather belt sharpener ...

boogieman

MagicPigDetective said:

Kays Catalogues 
Sodastream
Teasmade
Hostess trolley
Pacers sweets
Biros with several selectable colours
Rubik’s magic

We’ve got a hostess trolley. Or more accurately, my wife had one when I met her. It must be 40 years old but it still works. It’s actually quite useful, especially at Xmas. It is bloody hideous though. 

Chalky

Did anyone else have a car with a black vinyl roof?  Mine was like the one in the Sweeney, 3 litre V6.  Stopped for speeding many times but back in the 70s they'd let you off with a warning and "mind how you go"!

boogieman

Chalky said:

Did anyone else have a car with a black vinyl roof?  Mine was like the one in the Sweeney, 3 litre V6.  Stopped for speeding many times but back in the 70s they'd let you off with a warning and "mind how you go"!

I had a Rover V8 with a brown vinyl roof. Remember the spray on pretend vinyl-roof-in-a-can? 

richardhomer

Rumbelows....

guitars4you

Chalky said:

Did anyone else have a car with a black vinyl roof?  Mine was like the one in the Sweeney, 3 litre V6.  Stopped for speeding many times but back in the 70s they'd let you off with a warning and "mind how you go"!

my dad did 1973 - Ford Cortina 2000E - yellow with a black roof - thanks for the memory on that

NickL

Chalky said:

Did anyone else have a car with a black vinyl roof?  Mine was like the one in the Sweeney, 3 litre V6.  Stopped for speeding many times but back in the 70s they'd let you off with a warning and "mind how you go"!

I did. My first car, a 1980 Fiesta 1.1 which I had in the mid '90s as a 'project'. Faded Sonic blue, brown check seats, chrome bumpers and a natural relic finish. If the Fender Custom Shop made dodgy '80s hatchbacks...

Phil_aka_Pip

richardhomer said:

Rumbelows....

I had a job with them when I left school ... until I went to Uni

Axe_meister

Lotus Elise S1s. Used to see them all the time. Have they really all be crashed or had head gasket failures? I see more MG Tv's and MG Bs

EricTheWeary

guitars4you said:

Chalky said:

Did anyone else have a car with a black vinyl roof?  Mine was like the one in the Sweeney, 3 litre V6.  Stopped for speeding many times but back in the 70s they'd let you off with a warning and "mind how you go"!

my dad did 1973 - Ford Cortina 2000E - yellow with a black roof - thanks for the memory on that

My father’s Cortina. 

The problem with vinyl I believe is that if moisture got underneath it could rot away the car without being noticed until one day the roof caved in. The last production car with a vinyl top was, according to Wikipedia, the Lincoln Continental in 2002. 

guitars4you

kids playing conkers

Clackers

munckee

Axe_meister said:

Lotus Elise S1s. Used to see them all the time. Have they really all be crashed or had head gasket failures? I see more MG Tv's and MG Bs

My best man drove me to my wedding in a lotus elise, I'm 6'2 and 14 stone, I was like Hightower in police academy, if it had a back seat I would have ripped out the front seat and sat in the back!

west

Sunbeam alpine tiger .....

jenson cv8 .... 

midlifecrisis

20 smash hits on K-tel record label

guitars4you

video tapes
Cassettes
4 track car stereo

Phil_aka_Pip

guitars4you said:

Emp_Fab said:

TV sets with valves in.

those big TV's with wooden cases and some had wooden doors to cover the screen when turned of - like Decca,

and radiograms ... and while we're at it, magic eye tuning indicators

Phil_aka_Pip

I know you can get kits for them, but ...

Nixie tube clocks

fandango

guitars4you said:

Clackers

I was in Italy at the time they became a hit. Without being rude, i still have the pair of white clackers i got in italy, tucked away in some box at home.

Rocker

Cars stopping on the street to let an elderly or disabled person cross the street safely.

Blue Band margarine

pint bottles of Guinness

pole climbers. I used them when serving my time to be an electrician. Now they all use those lifts mounted on vans and trucks.

fax machines also Telex...