Vintage UK Car & Transport Adverts (Vol.1)

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Vintage car & transport adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video.
Check out the playlists on my channel page for more vintage ad compilations: / retrosteveuk
Chapter Markers:
00:00 VW Polo (Geoff Capes)
00:50 Renault 5 (Bad Dreams)
01:31 Austin Montego
02:02 Bristol Street Motors
02:33 Renault 5 (Bickering Couple)
03:04 Peugeot 205
03:55 Fiat Punto
04:25 Halfords (Special Offers)
04:46 Ford Fiesta Si (Drive to Paris)
05:27 Renault Clio (Nicole Papa)
06:08 Ford Transit Vans
06:28 Honda C50 Moped
06:41 Ford Servicing (Richard Briers)
07:23 Good Year Grand Prix-S
07:34 Kenning Motors
07:55 Land Rover (4 x 4 x Far)
08:36 Metro (Batman & Robin)
09:37 Hyundai X2 GSi
09:58 Kwik-Fit Euro
10:29 Renault 21 (Remote Office Worker)
11:10 Renault Laguna (Reunion Party)
11:42 Earls Court Motorfair 1981
12:02 Vauxhall Cavalier LX (Martin Shaw)
13:03 Kwik-Fit (You Can't Get Better)
14:04 Peugeot 309 (Endurance Test)

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27 июл 2024

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@118scale 2 года назад

The rubber mirrors on the polo brilliant

@sandyshine6690 2 года назад

Good spotting the rubber mirror ❤ I actually meet Jeff when I was a kid he was signing autographs in a sport shop got one then qued again when I walked up for another signed photo he said to me oh you've already had one now f off! Good days the 80s ❤

@andydavis7254 2 года назад

Love all these old car ads. From a time when cars actually had a bit of character

@thescottishcyclist4640 2 года назад

they did?

@reverendbluejeans1748 2 года назад

Na!, these boomer cars war proper butters.

@reverendbluejeans1748 2 года назад

Mind you, the landcover, fait500, mini, VW Beatle and golf, E class Mercedes was ok.

@glenn9683 2 года назад

I learned to drive in my Dad's Cavalier, first car of my own was a Nova, great memories

@nigelcarren 2 года назад

I met Geoff Capes at Dinard airport here in France in 2012, I confessed to him that at junior school I told everyone he was my dad so I didn't get bullied. He laughed and shook my hand which almost wrapped twice around mine, I still have no idea how he got on that tiny aircraft? Nice bloke, and a true giant! 🏆💪🇬🇧

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

What a lovely story! 🤗

@garethbramley1 2 года назад

I remember the strong man in the first ad - he was on TV a lot at the time. His name was Geoff Capes. Great to see Richard Briers. Love the Metro 'Batman' ad - I remember seeing that at the time.

@dglcomputers1498 2 года назад

Kwik fit adverts are great as they are the complete opposite of what they say in their adverts, our local independant tyre place is no more expensive and actually know what they are doing. I know when we were there last someone else had brought their car in for tyres and one that Kwik Fit had fitted was the wrong compound for that make, and one of the mechanics did not have any good words to say about them!

@richbutler718 2 года назад

Kwik fit garages are totally crap , I’m really shocked people use them , they are a rip off

@cornishhh 2 года назад

They're a franchise so some are maybe better than others. Having said that, I've never heard a good word about the local ones. Replacing parts which don't need it seems to be the main complaint.

@FishpondsLady 2 года назад

I've actually never had a problem with Kwik fit, but to be honest only with minor jobs like replacement tyres. My John was an excellent mechanic and solved most of my problems with his knowledge, RU-vid, and some replacement parts from Halford (other car parts shops are available). Gosh, I do miss him. X

@bobknox9942 2 года назад

excellent series of vids Steve! i knew an old woman who had virtually all her wall space in 2 rooms filled with shelf after shelf of old VHS tapes going back to the late 70s.. i often wondered about them, not about the programmes they contained, but all those classic old gem adverts that she must have.. will be an absolute goldmine of retro.

@billygillan821 2 года назад

Such smart looking cars,and I loved alot of front and back seats were one seat like American cars,from Austin's,to Austin Princess,and unlike to day cars which so many look the same,every frame seemed so different,happy days as a kid.

@richardgreenwood3355 2 года назад

Many of the ads look old but I still think of many of the cars as quite modern. It's hard to imagine that in the 80s this would have been like looking back to cars of the 50s! 😕

@garrywitcomb2334 2 года назад

Another brilliant selection,a manic Nicholas Parsons . . . In a R5 . . A Ford garage full of mk2 Granada's. . . Worth a mint now . . Some real old school moments,well remembered . . . I'm sure the Girl in the Fiesta was in Grange Hill !!???? And a Smiley face Transit,some of the best vans ever . . I had many . . Thanks for posting. . . Crackin 😆😆😆👍👍👍👍

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Somebody else mentioned the Girl from Grange Hill. I couldn't remember, but it seems likely.

@neilmustow368 Год назад

Memories of these car ad's the Mk 1 Punto loved mine back in 1998 a 1994 1.1 SX 5 door metallic red when in my early 20's

@helios1912 Год назад

1984. I had just arrived at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk. I walked to the local garage in Barton Mills and rented their green-gold Viva until I bought a new car. Great time.

@kins749 2 года назад

Great vid, can't believe Austin Rover managed to get the Batman licence. And love that old Kwikfit ad, that song will be in my head for days.

@MrThecarebear 2 года назад

The Batmobile was in for it's MOT that day, and Batman and Robin had to nab the Penguin quickly before the Metro rusted away.

@FishpondsLady 2 года назад

I think you are wonderful taking the time to put these ads online. Thank you from a very tired girl, and an ill cat, in Bristol. (By the way I remember Bristol Street Motors in Birmingham. They had a car on the top of the roof, and as a child I always wondered how it got there). X

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Most of these ads are already out there in the public domain. I just clean them up and curate them into compilations. Thanks for watching. Makes all the work worthwhile. 🙂👍

@TheBlaert 2 года назад

That Montego actually rusted away when it drove through that water.

@daveslife9486 Год назад

Oh send me back to the 80's STAT!!!!!!!😲

@stevedickson5853 2 года назад

My E reg Mini metro City X was the biggest rot box I've ever had the pleasure to own, but it drove lovely, and the kwikfit ads ,how familiar was that tune back in the day

@MrThecarebear 2 года назад

and the Renault 5 lasted longer, and it's ad had Nicholas Parsons!

@robertward7382 2 года назад

I was genuinely surprised Batman's metro started first time....used to have to push my dad's down a hill to get it started to go to school sometimes!

@mylescartwright3115 2 года назад

Probably down to very poor or no maintenance. If there was one thing A series engines were known for it was easy starting, even in the depths of winter. We pulled one out of a river once after an accident, let the water run out of it and it still started after a few turns.

@robertward7382 2 года назад

@@mylescartwright3115 think it was just the battery to be honest, so not really the engines fault.

@stephielulu9096 2 года назад

Some of those old cars were so cool at the time. Now they look like something Mr Magoo would drive 🚙😂

@mrstandfast2212 2 года назад

Some of us are still driving 'em. My eyesight is still good though.

@thefloorkiller 2 года назад

I had 2 Montegos, great cars, all the cars in these ads are only seen at classic car shows today

@stuartleckie 2 года назад

I was a Rover mechanic for a short time when they were in production. Having come from a Vauxhall dealership, I can tell you the Montego and Maestro were an absolute PITA to work on, and to try to get the correct part for. Didn’t mind how they looked, but oh man, working on them sucked. 😆

@andrewwilliams6936 2 года назад

great compilation

@jamestravis7340 2 года назад

The girl in the fiesta ad I’m sure it’s Justine from Grange Hill

@Elvis_TheKing 2 года назад

I am simply astounded the ‘KwikFit Dance’ never caught on… 😏

@katkylekim 2 года назад

Love the Peugeot ads ,nothing like them today...

@cornishhh 2 года назад

209 mpg from a C50. I wonder? Thanks for the link; I don't think I've seen any of these before.

@katkylekim 2 года назад

@@cornishhh Yeah makes you wonder ,but any way thats marketing ..

@stuartleckie 2 года назад

4:35 I still have some colour magic left over. I brought it with my car cleaning kit when I moved to Canada 20 years ago, and it’s still usable now 🤪

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Stuff like that does tend to lurk in garages & sheds.

@rob-fb5xs Год назад

Funny how I didn’t want to watch these adverts at the time, yet they bring back memories of good times. How odd is that?

@RetroSteveUK Год назад

It is a strange dichotomy.

@mylescartwright3115 2 года назад

I remember that Thorn TX9 chassis well, repaired a few of those in my time!

@kasperkjrsgaard1447 2 года назад

Had one. I believe it was called DUX here in Denmark.

@keithlestrange4249 2 года назад

Great video Some fab ads

@mrstandfast2212 2 года назад

Doyle in the 'wilderness years' doing adverts for Vauxhall. Luckily the Judge John Deed gig came along, or he might be still doing them.

@RoadCone411 Год назад

I was at the '81 Motorfair!

@paulie-Gualtieri. 2 года назад

That's him from Titanic in the red Renault 5

@cavedweller2000 2 года назад

Man, I forgot that old cars used to be new! 😂

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

These days on my motoring budget I'd expect to buy cars like these for under a grand and get as many years out of them as possible before they go to scrap.

@kasperkjrsgaard1447 2 года назад

Same here. Just bought a Fiat Punto for 250,-. Hopefully it will do for a couple of years.

@jamesbussey2911 2 года назад

....these days in the Vauxhall Cavalier advert, he actually would be stuck in the most horrendous traffic jam you can imagine...and it would be hours before he got home. 🤪

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Oh, hell yes. One of the things about modern life that really sucks; the massive increase in traffic. We used to play in the street as kids in the 80s. Can you imagine that now!?

@jamesbussey2911 2 года назад

@@RetroSteveUK That's our fault, tho'. In the 1970s and '80s becoming a two car family was seen as an aspiration. Now it's a basic necessity, 'coz we all have to drive everywhere for anything at all: sometimes justified in the circumstances. However, cars are now suffering a 100% obesity rate, so many roads and streets are now single track, rather than double carriageway. My town is on a historic car rally route, so we have convoys of MGBs or Moggy Minors driving through now and again, and the exhaust fumes are pretty bad. We grew up in that...as I tell the air cadets I teach at our local ATC Squadron. When I teach them about the RAF in the Cold War I tell them we used to have pop songs about Nuclear War, but that's another retro topic...pop songs. about political and social matters. 🙄

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

@@jamesbussey2911 Yeah, Prince's 1999 springs to mind. Most people don't realise that's a song about nuclear war. On the car thing .. I had a feeling things were getting bad in the early 90s, when one of our neighbours became a six vehicle family. Mum, dad, two boys and a girl. Each had their own car and one of the boys had a van as well. The little car park in our cul-de-sac that was designed to allow one vehicle per home suddenly became a lot more crowded. Unfortunately parking wasn't designated.

@jamesbussey2911 2 года назад

@@RetroSteveUK My parents in-law must be the only people I know who actually use their garage to put their car in. Their double garage is by their 1980s built bungalow, but it's only half full of workshop benches, tools and other junk. They own a Dacia Duster goobermobile, a car designed to confirm the fact that these days, one's choice of car says nothing about one's aspirations or personality.

@scottwojcik2148 2 года назад

I had a MK1 Clio and it had ended up completely rotting underneath. I had applied protective on the floor pans and it still managed to rot and let water into the foot wells lol.

@MrThecarebear 2 года назад

Pity that the Peugeot 309 "Endurance Test" didn't include rust prevention.......

@11carbuff19572011 2 года назад

Deffo mid 1980s for the majority of those car ads. Jingle for London's Motorfair deffo written & performed by of all people Mike Batt.

@jamesbussey2911 2 года назад

Bristol St motors had some great classic Mercedes Benz' for sale.

@soundseeker63 Год назад

It's a pity most of these cars will by now have rusted away to nothing (certainly in the UK). I actually wouldn't mind a Mk1 Clio 16v or a Punto GT as a little run about. They still look nice now IMO and with over 130hp in both, still very lively too. Probably no so safe as the modern equivalents though!

@Sjmby95 Год назад

Nicole and papa

@Sjmby95 Год назад

When I left school You could buy a Ford Escorts for under a £1000

@michaelsalisbury1960 2 года назад

free the renault 5 now!

@roodersclive8654 2 года назад

Anyone know who the actor is in the Vauxhall ad near the end? I swear he's well known...

@davidbrown7379 2 года назад

Martin Shaw.

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

As David Brown mentioned in the other reply, it's Martin Shaw. The lady on the other end of the phone in the same commercial, I'm certain is Judy Dench.

@jamesbussey2911 2 года назад

Nowadays he would be stuck in a horrendous traffic jam for hours 🙄.

@honestcommenterseany441 2 года назад

Martin shaw from the proffesionals

@jaap5398 2 года назад

4:50 Is this Glynis Barber (with a dubbed voice)?

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

The girl in the ad looks like her but it's not her. I'm told this actress played a character in Grange Hill when she was younger.

@jaap5398 2 года назад

@@RetroSteveUK thanks Steve!

@honestcommenterseany441 2 года назад

Bloody heck lol. The montego. Sack o shix

@paulharris9268 2 года назад

I could fix all of those.

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Those what?

@kasperkjrsgaard1447 2 года назад

88 mph? Back to the past or the future?

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Definitely the past. Then back again.

@JonnyInfinite 2 года назад

@@RetroSteveUK Back to the future you mean...

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

@@JonnyInfinite Definitely! 😆

@JD-wn3cc 2 года назад

If I was Papa, I'd still be bathing nicole

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Not sure how to respond to that! 🤣

@paultimson6674 2 года назад

Sarah... i like that, he's got himself into a pickle just by having a dream. i was dreaming about a guy last night called Roger Taylor? i woke up thinking.. who the fk is Roger Taylor? turns out he's the drummer in Queen. i did not know that.

@RetroSteveUK 2 года назад

Funny ad, tho' .. at the end.