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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 12:35:07 GMT
Be quick:
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Post by Loz on Dec 19, 2014 12:57:00 GMT
 on it nick,just ordered. its a bugger that they don't take pay pall LOL.that bloke looks like mick grant
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 13:07:12 GMT
That's a Dream is it not? Still around and in adverts in January 1981!
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Post by greybeard on Dec 19, 2014 13:25:21 GMT
Probably Cheggys grandad modelling the ad!!!
January 81 eh? It was Christmas 80 that I was given my full Belstaff wax-cotton outfit from my parents.
I remember getting all togged up (Belstaff, derri-boots, seaboot socks, Frank Thomas gloves with silk liners, genuine Honda pullover and balaclava and Griffin lid) to go for a Christmas morning ride over to Heathrow. The sun was shining and there was hardly any traffic on the road - bliss!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 14:02:36 GMT
I believe it is Mick Grant. I remember Barry Grant but not Mick - too young. Was he a racer?  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 14:03:56 GMT
That's a Dream is it not? Still around and in adverts in January 1981! Yeah I think it's the Hondamatic in the other pic I just uploaded. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 14:20:40 GMT
How much would 60 quid in 1981 be now? I remember I really wanted one but by the time I had left college and could afford one I was out of bikes for a while.
At college I had to make do with a quilted nylon Castrol jacket- bought out of an offer or ad in MCN- that when I did fall off the CB200 grabbed the Tarmac, melted and turned me into a tumbleweed.....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 14:23:21 GMT
.....cue Fungo re the group Tumbleweeds.....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 14:47:15 GMT
How much would 60 quid in 1981 be now? Firstly, let's convert £ to USD......therefore at today's rate it is: £60 = $93.89
Now we can enter this figure into an inflation calculator.
And we get $243.92. Now simply convert back to GBP and we have a final figure of £155.76.
data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=93.89&year1=1981&year2=2014
Job's a gooden. 
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 14:49:02 GMT
I remember the grumbleweeds but not the tumbleweeds..... LOL
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Post by Cheggy on Dec 19, 2014 14:56:49 GMT
155 quid.... That is a bloody bargain.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 14:59:04 GMT
Gone up a bit, ain't they young Cheggamundum....?
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Post by Cheggy on Dec 19, 2014 14:59:28 GMT
These models make me giggle, my mum found an old catalogue from the eighties... The underwear models are hilarious.
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Post by Cheggy on Dec 19, 2014 15:00:16 GMT
Gone up a bit, ain't they young Cheggamundum....? I tthink you could buy a sleeve and a few buttons for that now? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 15:02:09 GMT
Empire Stores and Marshall Ward catalogues used to make me laugh.....my mum used to have new versions every autumn/winter & spring/summer.
I recall one of them used to also have Tomos mopeds at the rear.
The catalogues were thick old things - thicker than the phone book at the time.
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on it nick,just ordered. its a bugger that they don't take pay pall LOL.that bloke looks like mick grant
