When sexism really was everyday

[Clitheroekid]

Priceless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNhWmr_X5k

This brought back some memories – my papa used to arrange an annual trip to t’Smoke that included a trip to the Motor Show. I’d collect as many brochures as I could, then spend hours back home cutting out the pictures and pasting them in a scrap book.

I've since found out that if I’d just kept the brochures they’d represent a very nice little pension fund!

[scotia]

Priceless - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNhWmr_X5k

This brought back some memories – my papa used to arrange an annual trip to t’Smoke that included a trip to the Motor Show. I’d collect as many brochures as I could, then spend hours back home cutting out the pictures and pasting them in a scrap book.

I've since found out that if I’d just kept the brochures they’d represent a very nice little pension fund!

Watching the video, I could only drool at the prices - £10,500 for a RR convertible. But then I remembered in my first paid full-time employment around that time, I was receiving the princely sum of £55 per month after tax.

[Rhyd6]

You were earning a fortune scotia. My first weekly pay packet was £2 5s 6d and I gave ny mum 5s of that for my keep. I remember sitting in the tea room and discussing whether or not we'd ever earn £1,000 a year, it seemed an unobtainable sum to us. My grandaughter has a temporary job before she goes to uni and is on £15k a year, just for answering the phone and listening to people moan about a product they're not satisfied with, I reckon that these days they could outsource those type of jobs to pensioners at home, it would give pensioners a chance to earn a bit extra and banish lonliness as they would have someone to talk to

R6

[tjh290633]

Watching the video, I could only drool at the prices - £10,500 for a RR convertible. But then I remembered in my first paid full-time employment around that time, I was receiving the princely sum of £55 per month after tax.

I was already on my 4th vehicle by then, a Vauxhall Victor FB, which cost me £660 in 1963. Soon to be written off the next year in the snow, when MrsTJH had an encounter with a stone gatepost going sideways. Replaced with a second hand Cresta PB, costing £485.

The next year we bought our first second car, an Austin Seven (Mini) for £170 when needed to take children to nursery or school. Then in 1975 company cars started appearing, intermittently. When my daughter got her first job, she needed a car so she took the wife's car (a Lancia Y10) and we got a Fiat X1/9 to replace it. That got replaced by a Toyota MR2 and then the Lancia came back home, so we had 3 cars.

The MR2 was a great car to drive, but you had to watch your speed.

TJH

[sunnyjoe]

The MR2 was a great car to drive, but you had to watch your speed.

I put mine on its roof in a ditch within 6 months of ownership

[redsturgeon]

The MR2 was a great car to drive, but you had to watch your speed.

I put mine on its roof in a ditch within 6 months of ownership

I seem to remember that snap oversteer was a known problem with this car.

John