The last time I had a car phone was in 28years ago...I was the king of the lads, we used to ring the pub to order our beers!!!!
Fully plumbed in to the car too, with a long flexi wire....happy days!
That'd be a nice spec car to have: all the options by the look of it!
I agree I’d take it all but the phone!
A quick google on it says that in 2003 it became illegal to use your phone whilst driving in the Uk, but fines were introduced as late as 2007! Strangely, when I was a sales rep, it was the done thing and having a car phone would speed things up because you could call the orders through on the way to your next garage!!!!! It was actually encouraged by the big bosses....how times have changed (for the better I must add)
Funnily enough I did start to write a reply saying I thought attitudes only started to change around the mid noughties. Amazing looking back to think it was legal for so long. I guess the thinking was that it's perfectly legal to talk to someone in the car, so what's the harm in talking to that same person, just via a phone.
I'm old enough to remember the wearing of seat-belts become compulsory. As a kid, I remember my brother and I traveling in my uncle's Escort (MKII) van with the seat-belt around both of us sitting side by side. Also, lots of people would hold the seat-belt around them without engaging it 'we're only going down the road, I'll just hold it'. What was that all about?
Around the same time, drink driving was still seen as pretty much: Meh. Shouldn't really do it, but one for the road and all that.
Amazing how times change and how things appear when we look back.
I should point out that I'm not 94, but 49, so we're hardly talking 'that' long ago, the above would have been, what mid-late Seventies, very early '80's.
EDIT: Compulsory seat-belt wearing in front of the car? Not, 1970, 75 or 80 but last day of 1983 (A reg then?). Seems incredibly late to me.
I’m 43 and remember all of those things and what seemed socially acceptable at the time. For that I’m glad things have changed.Funnily enough I did start to write a reply saying I thought attitudes only started to change around the mid noughties. Amazing looking back to think it was legal for so long. I guess the thinking was that it's perfectly legal to talk to someone in the car, so what's the harm in talking to that same person, just via a phone.
I'm old enough to remember the wearing of seat-belts become compulsory. As a kid, I remember my brother and I traveling in my uncle's Escort (MKII) van with the seat-belt around both of us sitting side by side. Also, lots of people would hold the seat-belt around them without engaging it 'we're only going down the road, I'll just hold it'. What was that all about?
Around the same time, drink driving was still seen as pretty much: Meh. Shouldn't really do it, but one for the road and all that.
Amazing how times change and how things appear when we look back.
I should point out that I'm not 94, but 49, so we're hardly talking 'that' long ago, the above would have been, what mid-late Seventies, very early '80's.
EDIT: Compulsory seat-belt wearing in front of the car? Not, 1970, 75 or 80 but last day of 1983 (A reg then?). Seems incredibly late to me.
Yes, and think there was an element of retrospective fitting required for some cars as well.Compulsory fitting was 1967 (front) 1987 (rear)
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Yes, and think there was an element of retrospective fitting required for some cars as well.
Even so, it took, what, sixteen years before you 'had' to wear them in the front.
The last time I had a car phone was in 28years ago...I was the king of the lads, we used to ring the pub to order our beers!!!!
Fully plumbed in to the car too, with a long flexi wire....happy days!
As a former driving instructor and defensive (advanced) instructor, predominantly re-educating company car drivers, the argument re talking to passengers - v - talking on the phone whilst driving being the same was one I regularly faced. The fact that a passenger would understand why you had stopped speaking in more difficult road conditions, unfamiliar road layouts for example, or when another road user caused you to take evasive action, was my reply of choice.Funnily enough I did start to write a reply saying I thought attitudes only started to change around the mid noughties. Amazing looking back to think it was legal for so long. I guess the thinking was that it's perfectly legal to talk to someone in the car, so what's the harm in talking to that same person, just via a phone.
I'm old enough to remember the wearing of seat-belts become compulsory. As a kid, I remember my brother and I traveling in my uncle's Escort (MKII) van with the seat-belt around both of us sitting side by side. Also, lots of people would hold the seat-belt around them without engaging it 'we're only going down the road, I'll just hold it'. What was that all about?
Around the same time, drink driving was still seen as pretty much: Meh. Shouldn't really do it, but one for the road and all that.
Amazing how times change and how things appear when we look back.
I should point out that I'm not 94, but 49, so we're hardly talking 'that' long ago, the above would have been, what mid-late Seventies, very early '80's.
EDIT: Compulsory seat-belt wearing in front of the car? Not, 1970, 75 or 80 but last day of 1983 (A reg then?). Seems incredibly late to me.
I've seen this optional extra fitted to loads of A2s when I've been working on A2s in Central Europe. They're actually really useful, because it's possible to get cradles for iPhones and such, meaning the feature isn't at all obsolete.
Have you seen/fitted any in UK cars? Is anyone out there willing to admit they have one?I've seen this optional extra fitted to loads of A2s when I've been working on A2s in Central Europe. They're actually really useful, because it's possible to get cradles for iPhones and such, meaning the feature isn't at all obsolete.
Cheers,
Tom