1969

[Big Dave]

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[MisterD]

I want to read that mag...love that Lammy Vega.

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[Big Dave]

Real men ride Vespas.....no wait....

[fridayflash]

the original dubya...

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[Maha]

To be fair, in 1969, I didn't have a record collection, or a car/bike (does an Army Jeep Peddle car count?) but I remember the Shadows being played on the radiogram
The Maori family next door use to play Hendrix, was the first time I heard Purple Haze.
A cousin had a MKIII Zodiac with venetian blinds ...total class!
We had a female cousin living with us (trainee nurse) who had a boyfriend with a Kawasaki, it had MM on the tank, as a seven year old at the time, I thought he was in the Mongrel Mob, could have been Manawatu Motorcycles for all I knew at the time.
SS Camaro beat all others.

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[Banditbandit]

http://www.kellymotodepoca.com/images/1969_BSA_A65_Firebird_Scrambler.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUpI9MeLZkQ

[Paul in NZ]

Bloody strange forks on the Firebird bandit dude....

I was just finishing primary school (old form 2) and was kacking myself about high school...

[Banditbandit]

Bloody strange forks on the Firebird bandit dude....

I was just finishing primary school (old form 2) and was kacking myself about high school...

What's strange about them? I beleive it's a standard Firebird - I've always loved them - could never afford one back then ... and now they are classics I still can't afford one ... It was three years later I rode my first bike ...


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[SPman]

What's strange about them? I beleive it's a standard Firebird - I've always loved them - could never afford one back then ... and now they are classics I still can't afford one ... It was three years later I rode my first bike ...




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It was 3 yrs after I rode my first bike...watched the moon landing live from a flat in Kirribilli, had got my PPL and was working my arse off to earn enough to carry on flying. End of the year went back to NZ, enrolled at Auckland Uni and bought another bike. The flying petered out for a while........

[Motu]

I was 16 - It was a Whole Lotta Love. '69 Firebirds had external springs, I don't think they are Cerianis, so probably off some Jap Crap - the bike would've been burned in 1969 for that.

[Paul in NZ]

[QUOTE=Banditbandit;1130611020]What's strange about them? I beleive it's a standard Firebird - I've always loved them - could never afford one back then ... and now they are classics I still can't afford one ... It was three years later I rode my first bike .../QUOTE]

In 1969 BSA were using the 'group' forks. External springs, steel sliders (black) and black headlight ears, rubber gaitors. Essentially they are the same as on our '70 TR6C except by 70 they had better damping (cough)

The whole group (triumph-BSA) changed in 71 to the ceriani look a like group forks and conical hubs.

In your picture look at the brackets holding the front guard on... hmmm....

Nice bikes all the same

[Drew]

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[MD]

Seriously! How can anyone, especially so called Kiwibikers, reflect on 1969 and not come up with Easy Rider first?

Over 40 years and still COOL FLICK MAN. Still the best looking Harleys as well. They had cost control sorted back then. Just check out the low cost front brake mechanism on Captain America's bike. (the riders boot heels)

[Robbo]

Ah! 1969 Brings back fond memories. Great times. :niceone:

[unstuck]

Was only 3 and dont remember fuck all about it.:oi-grr:

[Drew]

Was only 3 and dont remember fuck all about it.:oi-grr:Fuck, I was -19. But the cool shit, seems to be cool to me none the less.

[Big Dave]

Seriously! How can anyone, especially so called Kiwibikers, reflect on 1969 and not come up with Easy Rider first?



Lots of things from then I like a lot better.

[Drew]

Seriously! How can anyone, especially so called Kiwibikers, reflect on 1969 and not come up with Easy Rider first?


Lots of things from then I like a lot better.
I watched it once. Thought it was crap.

[Robbo]

Fuck, I was -19. But the cool shit, seems to be cool to me none the less.


Geeze Drew, another 1950's model also

Cheers :nya:

[Drew]

Geeze Drew, another 1950's model also

Cheers :nya:I think you misunderstand.

I'm 35. In 1969 I was minus 9. Although that's not as good as minus 19 like my dimwittedness had me at earlier.

[Robbo]

I think you misunderstand.

I'm 35. In 1969 I was minus 19

LOL My Bad, did'nt see the minus :(

[scumdog]

I watched it once. Thought it was crap.

That's 'cos you're a young punk that just doesn't get it!


You lot expect two-seconds on each scene max.

'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.

[Drew]

That's 'cos you're a young punk that just doesn't get it!


You lot expect two-seconds on each scene max.

'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.A possibility for sure. Or, the movie just wasn't that good and you old coonts are too old to know better.

[scumdog]

A possibility for sure. Or, the movie just wasn't that good and you old coonts are too old to know better.

'Good' is relevant - for its day it was.

(You'll never say that about The Fast and the Furious etc).

'69? Mrs Scummie just started high school and I hadn't met her for another three years.
'69? The Monaros looked cool...and petrol was 36 cents a gallon for regular.

Carry on Camping was at the Odeon.

[Drew]

'Good' is relevant - for its day it was.

(You'll never say that about The Fast and the Furious etc).

I can think of a few good early seventies movies.

But we are spoilt for what computers can make real these days, and it gets used to make up for serious shortfalls in plot and cinematography.

I don't think anyone will ever consider Fast and Furious a classic.

[AllanB]

I was 4. A big red trike was the coolest thing in my life.

[Drew]

I was 4. A big red trike was the coolest thing in my life.Was it a Honda? Those fucken deathtraps were AWESOME!

Oh, four, probably not then.

[pete376403]

My last year of college. Got my first bike - a Royal Enfield 250. Hid it in the shed for about a week before parents found it, made me take it back. Had to wait until I was working, the following year before getting a bike I could ride, '53 Matchless G9. Like every other bike I've had, wish I'd have kept it.

[AllanB]

Was it a Honda? Those fucken deathtraps were AWESOME!

Oh, four, probably not then.

Nah - but I know the ones you mean - I rode one on the beach when I was 12 or so and in find fashion a sharp turn with too much speed threw me off the ride! The 3 wheelers got banned in the USA and became 4!

[mashman]

I was standing in line with 400 million of my comrades.

[scumdog]

I was standing in line with 400 million of my comrades.

And the best one was YOU???:eek5:

[Drew]

And the best one was YOU???:eek5:You ride a Harley man. You are well aware that "fastest", doesn't mean "best"!

[Big Dave]

'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.

Primary school. Watched it on TV in the Auditorium.

[mashman]

And the best one was YOU???:eek5:

:rofl: pot kettle... but every dog has his day.

[Bald Eagle]

'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.

Same, must be getting old now.

[Motu]

Lots of things from then I like a lot better.

If you were 16 when you saw Easyrider it made a pretty strong impression....so did Woodstock, On Any Sunday and The Wild Bunch. You've got to be at an impressionable age to be impressed by unimpressive things.

[AllanB]

But did they really land on the moon?

[Berries]

Seriously! How can anyone, especially so called Kiwibikers, reflect on 1969 and not come up with Easy Rider first?
Because it was shit?



Mind you, I was only one so less impressionable. Bring on the fucking Wombles I say.

:headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang: :headbang::headbang::headbang::headbang:

[ellipsis]

...an American guy in the US Navy Deep Freeze force was courtin' the girl just over the road from our place...one night he turned up on a brand spankin' new CB750 and it was candy apple red and I've been besotted by the homo things ever since...God Blessa Merica...

[koba]

...On Any Sunday... ...unimpressive things.

:shit: Take that back!

[Grubber]

Shoot! This takes me back, way way back. I must be gettin old!
I was 11 at time of landing and was already wrecking myself on bikes.

[MisterD]

I watched it once. Thought it was crap.

You were right, I'm a '71 baby so didn't get issued with the rose-tinted specs that Scummy obviously wears to watch it ('cos cops don't get stoned, right?).


You've got to be at an impressionable age to be impressed by unimpressive things.

Well that's the most profound thing I've read in a while.

I first saw Easy Rider in a double bill with Taxi Driver at the Tyneside Cinema when I was 19. I remember thinking ER was pretty good until TD put its quality in proper perspective...

Anyhoo, back to the subject:

Last band of the 60's, first band of the 70's isn't it? Hmmm?

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Meanwhile in Workington, a band called Black Sabbath were playing their first gig...

[Swoop]

But did they really land on the moon?
Yes. I watched it live on the black & white telly!
No photoshop back then!

[Banditbandit]

'69 Firebirds had external springs, I don't think they are Cerianis, so probably off some Jap Crap - the bike would've been burned in 1969 for that.


In 1969 BSA were using the 'group' forks. External springs, steel sliders (black) and black headlight ears, rubber gaitors. Essentially they are the same as on our '70 TR6C except by 70 they had better damping (cough)


Nice bikes all the same

Yeah - you're right - just goers to show ... my memory that far back is shot to hell ... The forks look a lot like the 1971 American market Firebrd forks .. but they are not quite BSA forks ...


'69? -listening to the moon landing on a smuggled-in transistor radio at high-school.

I remember doing just that - I had a small white plastic transistor in a leather case - which was about the size of my hand and could be smuggled into school - and I had an earpiece ...

I used to hang the tranny off the handlebars of my bicycle while I delivered the Dominion in Masterton in the mornings ...

[ellipsis]

...I pulled a sickie from school the day they landed on the moon...listened to it on my crystal radio...

[Big Dave]

I've done grande dissertations on Easy Rider before.

Minus:
Class A drug dealers.
Those bikes had a range of 60 miles.
Give me a break with the hippies.
Billy is a total putz.
Ends with senseless double murder.

Plus:
The opening Born to be Wild ride sequence. An all-time cinematic highlight. It goes down hill from there.
Nicholson.
The Bikes.
Tits.

[Big Dave]

On Any Sunday is unique. First Documentary that enjoyed a big box office? That I can recall anyhoo.

1971 though.

[Mo NZ]

Yep your right Dave
Easy rider 1969
On any Sunday 1971.

Ha.. I still remember going to the movie with my mates with our trail bikes parked up in a row outside the theatre in town.

[MIXONE]

1969?
I lost my virginity.Still haven't found it...

[Paul in NZ]

1969?
I lost my virginity.Still haven't found it...

Did you keep the box it came in?

[Blackbird]

Errrrrr.... two photos taken in 1969. Both of me and one is bloody excruciating, but never mind - all part of history :innocent:

One taken at the Isle of Man TT on my 1955 Tiger 100. Cord jeans, suede boots, green cardy and orange T shirt. The world's worst dresser and nothing's changed much :facepalm:

The other taken at Santa Pod dragstrip, UK on my supercharged Triumph. Once a Triumph fan, always a Triumph fan :laugh:

[Mo NZ]

Awesome photos.
Nah mate once a cool dude, always cool.:cool:
Love the bikes btw

[MIXONE]

Did you keep the box it came in?

The box was alright but it's life support system was pretty rooted so I got rid of it.;)

[Blackbird]

Awesome photos.
Nah mate once a cool dude, always cool.:cool:
Love the bikes btw

Thanks, but the complete opposite of what my wife thinks :no:

[Mushu]

I watched it once. Thought it was crap.

I thought easy rider was quite good, especially compared to the other motorcycle movies I can think of (biker boys and torque immediately come to mind) I liked the end too, similar to the ending of vanishing point (possibly the greatest car chase film ever made)

[Paul in NZ]

The box was alright but it's life support system was pretty rooted so I got rid of it.;)

Probably played with it too much

[fridayflash]

Errrrrr.... two photos taken in 1969. Both of me and one is bloody excruciating, but never mind - all part of history :innocent:

One taken at the Isle of Man TT on my 1955 Tiger 100. Cord jeans, suede boots, green cardy and orange T shirt. The world's worst dresser and nothing's changed much :facepalm:

The other taken at Santa Pod dragstrip, UK on my supercharged Triumph. Once a Triumph fan, always a Triumph fan :laugh:

real cool pics man! i reckon you look pretty mod in that gear, did you marry the bird?

[Blackbird]

real cool pics man! i reckon you look pretty mod in that gear, did you marry the bird?

Hahaha - thanks. Nope, she was on holiday in the IOM from Scotland (it only lasted a few days-probably appalled by my dress sense). Got married 3 years later and celebrated our 41st anniversary just over a month ago. Very tolerant woman is my wife, even though the thumbprint on my forehead is clearly visible

[Banditbandit]

Errrrrr.... two photos taken in 1969. Both of me and one is bloody excruciating, but never mind - all part of history :innocent:



:killingme: Did you have a guitar and sing folk songs (or maybe Child ballads) .. love the bikes though ..

[Blackbird]

:killingme: Did you have a guitar and sing folk songs (or maybe Child ballads) .. love the bikes though ..

Hahaha! You REALLY, REALLY don't want to hear me sing!

[Robbo]

Great pics Geoff, wish i'd kept a few of mine on the old Velo in 69

Cheers

[Banditbandit]

Hahaha! You REALLY, REALLY don't want to hear me sing!

I really really never want to hear people sing folk songs from 1969 - tho' a good Child ballad now and then ..

[Voltaire]

Errrrrr.... two photos taken in 1969. Both of me and one is bloody excruciating, but never mind - all part of history :innocent:

One taken at the Isle of Man TT on my 1955 Tiger 100. Cord jeans, suede boots, green cardy and orange T shirt. The world's worst dresser and nothing's changed much :facepalm:

The other taken at Santa Pod dragstrip, UK on my supercharged Triumph. Once a Triumph fan, always a Triumph fan :laugh:

+ 1 on cool pics, thats a T110 colour scheme init?

[Blackbird]

Great pics Geoff, wish i'd kept a few of mine on the old Velo in 69Cheers

Cheers Robbo - Got quite a few photos from way back but thought the '69 ones were perfect for this thread. Somewhere, I have a box of slides of heaps of racebikes at the '69 TT. It would have been great to see your Velo photos!


+ 1 on cool pics, thats a T110 colour scheme init?

Voltaire, may well have been. I bought the bike in '67 and it had been resprayed with lots of extra chrome by the previous owner and fitted with US-style hi-rise bars. Didn't like the hi-rise so fitted ace bars about a year after buying it. See attached pic as purchased..... was slimmer with more hair then :drool:

[Swoop]

See attached pic as purchased..... was slimmer with more hair then :drool:
Looks well cleaned and properly maintained!

















The bike, as well!:shifty:

[Paul in NZ]

+ 1 on cool pics, thats a T110 colour scheme init?

It was also an option on later T100's (towards end of 50's)

I think

[Road kill]

1969 I was 12 years old living in Owairaka boys home while paying for the sins of my parents.

Actually,,1969 sucked big time.

1973 was a much better year.

[scumdog]

Hahaha - thanks. Nope, she was on holiday in the IOM from Scotland (it only lasted a few days-probably appalled by my dress sense).

Pfft! I wish I had such good dress-sense, I'm envious.

[Blackbird]

Pfft! I wish I had such good dress-sense, I'm envious.

Reckon I'd fit in well down south Tom? :bleh:

[Oakie]

Memory of a nine year old at the time ... only the moon landing

More importantly ... it was the year Monty Python's Flying Circus first aired.

[PrincessBandit]

I was six and cute. What the heck happened to me?

[Paul in NZ]

I was six and cute. What the heck happened to me?

Well - you are not 6 anymore - rest is up to you really ;-)

[tri boy]

69
Building forts in bracken patches and finding out about tetanus injections after diving into box thorn to avoid sling shot stones from the enemy.
Life is/was good.

[HenryDorsetCase]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969:_The_Velvet_Underground_Live

I have this on vinyl. Its interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_%28album%29

So this is the first album after Reed wrested control from Cale. Doug Yule plays bass. And it is the beginning of the brutal pop sensibility triumph that the best of Lou's songwriting contains. That of course comes to complete fruition with "Loaded" in 1970.

"What goes on?" "Beginning to see the light" and of course "Pale Blue Eyes" are probably my favourite tracks.

Perhaps a slightly more interesting story is the "lost tracks" from these sessions which appeared on "VU" and various bootlegs: in particular my (current) favourite Velvets track of all "Foggy Notion"

This was what was happening on the East Coast (well on a small part of it). This speaks to me in a way that fucking hippie shit never has. Flowers and psychedelia can get fucked.

CiT_O90jkUI

[HenryDorsetCase]

I've done grande dissertations on Easy Rider before.

Minus:
Class A drug dealers.
Those bikes had a range of 60 miles.
Give me a break with the hippies.
Billy is a total putz.
Ends with senseless double murder.

Plus:
The opening Born to be Wild ride sequence. An all-time cinematic highlight. It goes down hill from there.
Nicholson.
The Bikes.
Tits.

I agree with that entirely. My favourite of the bikes is the Billy bike.

I would add to the minuses the sequence shot in the cemetery in New Orleans. Pointless drivel. Dennis sent some of his mates down there to shoot on 16mm cameras he loaned them and they got shitfaced and thats all they came up with. Thats why it looks so grainy and shitty even on my crappy DVD copy.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I liked the end too, similar to the ending of vanishing point (one of the greatest films ever made)

I fixed that for you.

1970's American cinema is pretty much my favourite era in film. Box office success, money, actors, and the auteur made for some great cinema.

I would argue that the ending of EASY RIDER as compared to VANISHING POINT are not really that similar. In EASY RIDER I think that the point was these guys have done this drug running, they got paid, then purely in a wrong place/wrong time they get murdered. Whether thats a reflection on the North/South divide in the US, the mainstream vs the counterculture, or just random isn't really explained. I've alsways felt it was a tacked on end purely designed to appeal to US censors: you cannot have these guys doing bad things and getting away with it. (As an aside, I am totally looking forward to the ending of BREAKING BAD to see how this is handled in the modern era).

VANISHING POINT's Kowalski is the perfect existential hero. He lives only to drive and when it becomes apparent he can't drive anymore he kills himself.

I love the way in VANISHING POINT that there really is no point to him doing what he does: its a delivery, its not his car, and the motives and such that are ascribed to him are projected onto him by others, in particular the Radio DJ. We never know why, just what he does. To (mis)quote another great film "He's a nihilist, he doesn't believe in anything". When I saw that film on the big screen (how I got into it I will never know) I was genuinely shocked by the ending.

Its still really powerful.

PS we'll agree not to mention the risible remake. It is AWFUL. Dont go there.

[ellipsis]

PS we'll agree not to mention the risible remake. It is AWFUL. Dont go there.

...ok.........

[Blackbird]

VANISHING POINT's Kowalski is the perfect existential hero. He lives only to drive and when it becomes apparent he can't drive anymore he kills himself.

Yup, one of my all-time great movies! Very cleverly scripted and even that meaningless meet-up with Delaney and Bonnie in the desert fitted perfectly into the overall tale. I think that Barry Newman sunk without trace after that.

I watched Bullitt again a couple of years ago. The car chase is still great but the rest of the movie was truly dreadful .

Thanks for the memories :2thumbsup

[SVboy]

ALL the people in the VANISHING POINT remake should be burned with fire[or acid]!

[Drew]

ALL the people in the VANISHING POINT remake should be burned with fire[or acid]!
Particularly the fag boy playing "The Voice".

[Padmei]

I was three. I had worked out that my sister didn't have a willy.

Since then I've never been able to make sense of the world.

[awa355]

Not sure how close to 1969, but am watching James Bond in 'Diamonds are forever'. Lots of beautiful late 60's american cars. Story plot is crap but the cars are beautiful.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Not sure how close to 1969, but am watching James Bond in 'Diamonds are forever'. Lots of beautiful late 60's american cars. Story plot is crap but the cars are beautiful.

released 1971 according to imdb:

http://www.imdb.com/find?q=diamonds+are+forever&s=all

The 1969 Bond film is George Lazenby as Bond in ON HER MAJESTIES SECRET SERVICE:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064757/?ref_=sr_1

It is very VERY slow paced compared to a modern film (in fact all drama of that period is, pretty much).

not even a good year for Gerry Anderson: after THUNDERBIRDS and before UFO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Service

I'd never heard of, much less seen, that.

[scumdog]

Not sure how close to 1969, but am watching James Bond in 'Diamonds are forever'. Lots of beautiful late 60's american cars. Story plot is crap but the cars are beautiful.


Yep, love seeing the old Yamk-tanks in these older movies - and in TV re-runs.

Something I noticed is that in Streets of San Francisco, Strasky & Hutch and others of that ilk there is ALWAYS a white VW beetle in the back-ground somewhere, parked or driving past.

Spooky!

[nudemetalz]

6 pages and no-one has mentioned this yet...

Mind you,..I have family connections as per my signature...

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[kevfromcoro]

1969..i was 17 I think... its a bit of a long time ago..
had a triumph 500.. tiger..
lived in papatoe.. where the stormtroupers from otara youst to come and bash us up...
got married after that and gave the bikes up for a while.. but into endro riding
remember the yam IT???
shit I have had some bikes... thinking about another one now.....................................
mayebe a motard...

[MisterD]

Something I noticed is that in Streets of San Francisco, Strasky & Hutch and others of that ilk there is ALWAYS a white VW beetle in the back-ground somewhere, parked or driving past.


Herbie did a lot of Extra work before hegot his big break in The Love Bug...that was 1969 too

http://www.herbiemania.com/marchmontpenny2.jpg

[avgas]

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[MisterD]

Wishlists? Well that's easy:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3065/2849588640_729f7918b5_o.jpg

http://www.carfolio.com/images/dbimages/zgas/models/id/2416/1969_911_s_2.2.jpg

[awa355]

Herbie did a lot of Extra work before hegot his big break in The Love Bug...that was 1969 too


Herbie, A bit like Hitchcock? He was good for cameo appearances.


Here is the Mustang in the James Bond movie I mentioned earlier.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnLAI-MV5ik

Spot the technical stuff up at the end.

[T.W.R]

I was standing in line with 400 million of my comrades.

:lol: I was 3mths into a gate pass & was keepin the old lady company before her stroll down the isle in Jan 70' :Oops:


The top yank muscle of 69 :cool:

http://cthst.com/vanguardmotorsales///9B398661-1sm.jpg

[Drew]

:lol: I was 3mths into a gate pass & was keepin the old lady company before her stroll down the isle in Jan 70' :Oops:


The top yank muscle of 69 :cool:I already posted a pic of a charger, and my find didn't have fucken gay wheels!

[T.W.R]

I already posted a pic of a charger, and my find didn't have fucken gay wheels!

oh boohoo :cry: nah but you've got one of your nuts stuck on the aerial :facepalm:

I wasn't waiting around for pic to load so get over it :motu:

[oldguy]

famous people Born in 69 http://www.biography.com/people/groups/born-1969/all

[MisterD]

Spot the technical stuff up at the end.

One of the all time great continuity errors, no doubt about that.

[Motu]

You lot had big dreams - but what every young guy wanted in 1969 was one of these, a MkI Zephyr. Jolly Wide Wheels with crossply tyres and triple SU's - we didn't want a stupid Mustang, only a MkI Zephyr.

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[scumdog]

You lot had big dreams - but what every young guy wanted in 1969 was one of these, a MkI Zephyr. Jolly Wide Wheels with crossply tyres and triple SU's - we didn't want a stupid Mustang, only a MkI Zephyr.



No-no, you WANTED a Mustang - but could only afford the MK1!:bleh:

(After all, a '69 'stang probably cost $3,500 - $5,000 or so even in the 70's.

And don't get me wrong, I love MK1s:cool:

(I've notice they are about the only car where the lower-rear of the back doors don't have a 'cut-out' to clear the rear guard)

[Motu]

I guess it was the socio-economic environment, in South/East Auckland there were cars in magazines, and cars on the street - we wanted the cars were saw on the road.

[Robbo]

I guess it was the socio-economic environment, in South/East Auckland there were cars in magazines, and cars on the street - we wanted the cars were saw on the road.

Nice Zodiac pic Motu, in 69 i had a 54 Zephyr, had a set of Jolly wide welded rims with firestone wide oval tyres. Did'nt go any faster but i thought it looked cool at the time. Do you remember the vacuum wipers they had that stopped working when accelerating? Great when you were going up a hill in the rain (not) :angry:

[T.W.R]

You lot had big dreams - but what every young guy wanted in 1969 was one of these, a MkI Zephyr. Jolly Wide Wheels with crossply tyres and triple SU's - we didn't want a stupid Mustang, only a MkI Zephyr.


Ha some had moved on from MkI Zephyrs by 69 coz they had them brand new, moved to the MkII and beyond

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