DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

A guy I know through watches posted this pic on Facebook today and said....


'70s flashback... my brothers and I drove some pretty cool cars back then. If you were into Alfa Romeo, you needed to be a mechanic to keep it going or have a lot of money to pay a good mechanic to keep it running. I am on the left and Kent is on the right. We both worked on our own cars back then.'

BILLY BEAN wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:19 pm Never seen one of these before. A Wells. Looked very much like a rebodied Elise.

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Looks like it's based on an early 1960's ATS.

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I may have said this before but for anybody of a certain age from Sutton Coldfield, that car will always remind us of an independent clothes shop called Street Fighter which sold Fila, Tacchini, Kappa, Ellesse, Lacoste, etc. fashion wear during the Miami Vice era. Outside the owner kept his black Corvette with flames down the side. As school kids we'd tie our school ties the wrong way round so they were super skinny. Puma G Vilas were the trainers to have.

The Corvette just seemed so ridiculous to me at the time with its massive 6 litre engine, enormous back tyres and 3 speed automatic, but to us schoolkids it was a thing of folklore.







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Rob did you also know the band the au pairs. Also fr Birmingham in the 80s

https://youtu.be/0_kcElE9Biw

I only came across their music recently. This song is brilliant

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Afraid not. I'd have been 11 then, listening to mainstream pop music Yazoo, Communards, Thompson Twins etc.

Twenty years later I promoted a lot of live music in Birmingham but never came across them. I assume they would have packed in by then.

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RobFrost wrote:I may have said this before but for anybody of a certain age from Sutton Coldfield, that car will always remind us of an independent clothes shop called Street Fighter which sold Fila, Tacchini, Kappa, Ellesse, Lacoste, etc. fashion wear during the Miami Vice era. Outside the owner kept his black Corvette with flames down the side. As school kids we'd tie our school ties the wrong way round so they were super skinny. Puma G Vilas were the trainers to have.

The Corvette just seemed so ridiculous to me at the time with its massive 6 litre engine, enormous back tyres and 3 speed automatic, but to us schoolkids it was a thing of folklore.







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1986/87

A young Mr Lubbock in his Football Casual or ‘Dressers’ as we preferred to be known - on tour in France - a rare Fila track top, no doubt a Lacoste Polo underneath, bleached jeans and Diadora Gold trainers.

My collection of 80s casual clothing was unrivalled! Worth fortunes now if I’d have kept it / not that any of it would fit!




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That R4 is gorgeous! Thanks Andy!

My pal test drove that R4 the other day: https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1445009

Apparently it runs really rough and the motor actually takes away from the sweetness of the R4 experience. He was gutted. He really wanted it before the drive.

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Local police from back in the day

hot66 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 7:58 am

Local police from back in the day

With a “run flat” front tyre?

JW