1971: The '70s CARS of your DREAMS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

[@mickyeverton]

I'm off back to the 70's!! 🙋🙋🙋

[@AJ-qn6gd]

I’m taking £2k with me for one of them new fangled Range Rovers !

[@puppets.and.muppets]

you hair never left....

[@DanWest-i7y]

Fool.

[@VickersDoorter]

All those thighs and leather. It's like a night out with Max Hastings.

[@willardr100]

@@AJ-qn6gdApple CarPlay a £100K mandatory option today!

[@patricksmith4424]

Thanks so much for posting this gem. What a car show! The Range Rover and the Citroen sm on the same bill. Two of the classiest motor vehicles ever built. Not forgetting the wonderful Nationwide team running us through it. They were in a different league to anything nowadays, talking to you like adults instead of the patronising garbage that graces our screens these days. Forget what the press tells you, the 70s were a wonderful decade.

[@senianns9522]

As soon as he said: 'Maserati engine' my computer went into limp mode!

[@jimsimpson1006]

I believe they had to chop 2 cylinders off the V8 to make it fit. 😕

[@CricketEngland]

Wow the late Hugh Scully who hosted Antique Roadshow for so long

[@VioletBagpipeSack-xf3ke]

Famed monobrow

[@tobyfletcher6803]

When he's in the Citroen he looks like Jazz Club "nice"

[@bonnetdedouche437]

"Coventry Climax" sounds like something straight out of Viz Profanisaurus 😅

[@rar321blue]

22 seconds in

[@phillipecook3227]

Yes. I was wondering exactly what was being sold at the car show. Well at least it was Coventry Climax and not Happy Ending ....

[@simes205]

Quite the engine, win many an F1 race

[@NicJones-ss9bg]

Yep, and The Sound Of The Horn conjures up visions of a musical Julie Andrews would never have appeared in.

[@williamreynolds1163]

"Sorry about the banging " at 13.00

[@Thenogomogo-zo3un]

£940 for a brand new Mk1 Ford Escort two-door? Who else is crying?! 😭 Well, at least you get the wonderful sight of Diane Harron in a mini skirt and thigh high boots to lift your spirits 😍

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

It's about £11,500 in today's money, but that's still well over £15,000 cheaper than the cheapest new Focus 😮 I know comparatively they have extra bells and whistles, but the price difference certainly seems relatively excessive!

[@martin-uz1py]

@@IThinkYouLookLarvely I paid £500 for mine, it was my fist car back in 1988. Sold it on about 5 years later and the guy wrote it off within a month.

[@peterbowden2646]

£2,500 for A1 number plate I wonder how much it is worth now?

[@Art-is-craft]

That was a sports model at a premium price. Not the base model.

[@nicksellens272]

Hugh Scully seems to bear an incredible resemblance to Odd Bod in Carry on Screaming.

[@ianmangham4570]

More like junior 😅

[@hongkongphooey-kw4nd]

I was thinking the same pmsl...odd bod

[@lyndoncmp5751]

😂😂😂

[@thephilpott2194]

@@ianmangham4570 Very much so.

[@richardsmith4992]

The unique anti-theft technology of the Morris is that it's a Morris. Door locks are an unnecessary optional extra.

[@neildutton8077]

The door locks were to deter fly tippers.

[@waterboy8999]

​@@neildutton8077brilliant!

[@patricksmith4424]

That's cruel!

[@mickymazda1]

As a hardened car thief, I would have been totally stumped by the handbrake combination lock!

[@tullioderosa5657]

Morris Marina used the same system

[@ScreamingLordStokes]

Wow, Donny McLeod, i remember him from Pebble Mill at One, along with Marion Foster, Bob Langley and Peters and Lee!😊

[@mpwheatley]

I wish BBC Archive would put the whole programme on rather than just clips.

[@UKArtlover]

How fab to see the presenters of my childhood ! Never saw this feature though , brilliant thanks !…love the pronunciation of “Steereo Unit” 😊

[@jazztheglass6139]

I remember those car horns, completely forgot about them. True blast from the past

[@RicArmstrong]

You can still buy them here in the US. You could probably have them shipped to the UK

[@lemcakes32422]

most 3rd world countries use em on vehicles

[@phillipecook3227]

Funny thing. For some reason I was driving and thinking about these recently and was trying to remember when they'd become illegal in the UK. This answers that question: 1973

[@leopoldbluesky]

I had some on my Mk1 Capri, played the same La Cucuracha tune. I had fun and swapped all the pipes over at random to create different tunes!

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

The Dukes of Hazzard immediately sprang to mind 😅

[@malcolmelias3496]

What a wonderful video from a time when cars looked different from manufacturer to manufacturer and Britain still had a car industry.

[@stevenprickett6773]

Wow what bodywork!!!! And the spitfire doesn't look bad either!!!!😂😂

[@Art-is-craft]

All the cars looked great.

[@danielktdoranie]

“Do you come with the car?” “Oh you!”

[@Beardodoomus]

Came here for this comment. Wasn't disappointed.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@Beardodoomus1971: The '70s CARS of your DREAMS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 0922am 17.10.24 what's a steerio?

[@Feakre]

Oh you are awful.

[@kevinfitzsimons41]

Simpsons?

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@kevinfitzsimons41 which branch?

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I love the way Bob Wellings holds the steering wheel and talks about car 'steerios'.

[@ajs41]

My dad still says stereo that way.

[@eitanros]

Wow! So rare! You hardly have any TV motor show broadcast footage, let alone in colour! Thanks BBC ❤

[@NandiCollector]

*No Cads, just an engineer with a ruler and a pencil, respect.*

[@Roog1111]

“The past is another country. They do things differently there.” OMG I miss it 😂

[@veneration1]

Hugh Scully used to come in to my record shop every week for his classical music CDs in the 90s.

[@nellyfett2681]

Mini skirt and thigh high boots draped over a sport cars bonnet!

[@melgrant7404]

Ladder in her tights.

[@phillipecook3227]

and not a model, a Nationwide presenter if you please 😂

[@postscript67]

Those were the days! Mind you, with all the nylon she's wearing she probably emitted blue sparks when she slid off the bonnet.

[@NicJones-ss9bg]

Quite right. I can't recall anything else about this footage.

[@TechOne7671]

What a treat.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

Wow! Donny MacLeod, Hugh Scully, Bob Wellings and Michael Barratt - what a team! 'As we go ... Nationwide ....' Da da dada - da da dada - da da da da da da

[@leopoldbluesky]

Early forerunner of The One Show of course!

[@LostsTVandRadio]

@@leopoldbluesky Indeed!

[@almartin115]

who is the female? Northern irish accent

[@LostsTVandRadio]

@@almartin115 Diane Harron from BBC N Ireland. I don't remember her being on Nationwide.

[@almartin115]

@@LostsTVandRadio Very kind, thank you. I actually came across her again after i asked this question on the very next video i watched she was on the 1986 car show and it showed her name.

[@marciabaldwin2506]

That 1300 sport was absolutely stunning, absolutely Love em always have ❤

[@volt8684]

Rode better than any car

[@indieshack4476]

Wonderful presenters, all of them. I'd forgotten how good they were. Absolutely fascinating segment!

[@robp8218]

That Citroën SM though ❤

[@Bertie_Ahern]

Gorgeous car

[@tonydry8189]

1971 i was 17 years old and living in Reading where my dad had a Wolseley and my mum a Daf (remember them ?), loved the original Range Rover...

[@paulentwistle1204]

Wow, I’ve sat in Albert Burtons Roller when I was about 7 years old, not the one shown but his previous one. My Father was MD of a brickworks and Albert had a haulage company and used to bring the ash and stone in. On Saturdays they would go to the pub and I would sit in the roller with crisps and lemonade. Happy days.

[@fburton8]

"This new steereo unit... lets you steer left AND right at the same time!"

[@tinatrainer6003]

Hilarious😂

[@johnhehir508]

​He sounds like he was trained at the Jacob Rees moog , marbles on the mouth club ​@@tinatrainer6003

[@leejam5268]

The combover at 2.43 and the monobrow at 5.10 are the highlights for me

[@brizzieleif5258]

@0:36, after the girl on the bonnet I can imagine The Two Ronnies doing a sketch where Ronnie Barker says ‘So there is the reason for buying the Spitfire’

[@QuoPaperPlane]

I can see Benny Hill doing this, sliding of the bonnet and the director scorning him!

[@goodiesguy]

@@QuoPaperPlane *Cue Benny dressed as women* 'Phillip! Phillip!, It wasn't my bloody fault!'

I don't think they'd use unfunny 'gags' like that.

[@Android-vk8yh]

Fantastic footage! I can't believe she gave us the horn😂

[@EarlRoark]

I live in the USA, very enjoyable video!!!

[@verioffkin]

Charming forms. True aesthetics. Unlike today's aerodynamic bricks.

[@BOABModels]

My grandparents had an auto compass in their VW Golf - whilst they and their car are now no longer with us, I do still have their compass in my office.

[@CascadiaBC]

Those were the best chrome bumpers on the early Spitfire 1500's the North American variants had the rubber protrusions like my '76. That lady looks very nice on the hood of that Spit..

[@ranjanaluwihare1511]

Gosh I remember the Earl’s Court motor show, and grabbed as many brochures of cool motors, especially the Range Rover, Citroen SM & the Aston V8 beast! Wonderful dayz! 🙏🏽🌹

[@ajs41]

They moved the motor show to the NEC in 1978.

[@zebedep]

The humble and long-forgotten Simca 1100 gets a mention @4:01!

[@AtheistOrphan]

My uncle had one of those (in turquoise). Traded it in for a gold Mazda 323 which some bar steward keyed.

[@michaelstaley2241]

Wonderful stuff with the cut glass accents ..❤❤

[@M_Bamboozled]

Bob Wellings comes across as the poshest of the bunch, but good on him for his modest taste in cars.

[@gavh]

Steer’reos! 😂

[@phillipecook3227]

Goodness. Donny B Mcleod. Not heard his tones for years. Already gone 4 decades.

[@Traveller69]

39 at time of filming! 🤯

[@mrroobarb]

6:58 - a heavy smoker by the looks of his fingers

[@djidroneadventures4059]

​@@mrroobarb or cheap toilet paper

[@mrroobarb]

@@djidroneadventures4059 🤣

[@phillipecook3227]

@@Traveller69 Funny thing: his suit, tie and shirt is actually colour coordinated to the Rover he's talking about.

[@ukusanz]

That Escort, so shiny mmmm

[@tinatrainer6003]

There is so much funny stuff in this great video. Hard to know where to start

[@QuoPaperPlane]

When a Range Rover didn't look like a pimpmobile and used for drug pushers and driven by footballers and talentless celebs.

[@campacolasworkshop6042]

My moms rich friends had a mk1 beige RR in early 1970's, I felt like a king of the road in it😊

[@bermudaguy5003]

There's the car I wanted so bad after graduating high school in 1969.The 1971 Triumph so cool, I was working but my Mom wouldn't co-sign a loan with me. Oh well, not to long after that I bought my real dream car in 1976, a brand new Corvette. I love the sports cars & also off road vehicles still. Pursue your dreams with all of your heart.

[@teryd5672n]

I loved my triumph spitfire in the early 80’s.

[@ROOKTABULA]

0:25 Quite chilly and no bra. This is _is_ a Triumph.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

In those days Nationwide was not shown in the Radio Times as being broadcast in colour - even though it was - because certain regional feeds such as from the Plymouth studio were still in black and white.

[@darrensmith6999]

Brilliant loved this thank you (:

[@rogerking7258]

1971, the year of the bleedin' obvious comb-over.

[@richards9407]

The same colour as the Range Rover

[@simonjones7727]

@@richards9407 I think it might have come as one of the factory extras.

[@fatbelly27]

It's called a Bobby Charlton

[@agfagaevart]

"okay darling, you sit on the bonnet in mini skirt while the guys stand and present" imagine the uproar today! :-0

[@paulandjana]

Wow them ‘steareos’ look ace. I mean preset stations and everything. The guy with the headphones on on the right, I think he was having a fit.

[@neildutton8077]

The fact that it's a Morris Marina, was the ultimate anti-theft device.😁

Hilariously original.

[@toastoflondon3362]

My aunt's "gentleman friend" had a Range Rover in 1971, people would actually stop and stare at it! He worked as a collections officer for a company called Richardson bros in S.E London, it must have been a perk of the job......

[@gt777p]

Citreon decided to stop building the SM, as production had dropped to 294 cars in 1974 and 115 units the final year. Though the 1973 oil crisis had a large impact on the end of SM

[@simes205]

Now worth about 50k, stunning car

[@iconicshrubbery]

Now the French seem to be doing styling ( exercise?) re-makes of seventies French cars {R4,R5 DS} I pray to the Car God to materialise a 21st C. XM

[@onenightblitz]

cars in four figure price tags compared to the six figures they used to present on the ones showcased in top gear, we've really come a long way

[@windemup5316]

'Well I like it'. That's my new catchphrase. 😂

[@marcushill78]

I really look forward to seeing some these splendid innovations incorporated in modern cars.

[@peterharvey1762]

And now the horn of choice is the Baby shark one 😂😂

[@chrislee2221]

Where we live in France our near neighbor has 2 Citroen SM parked up . Sadly one is now more rust then car while the 2nd has been left out on some ramps for over 18 months. Good too see these old cars at launch at a car show.

[@bardo0007]

I loved this video !!! So many special cars ; i would pay a fortune to get one today.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I think you can pick up a Marina quite cheaply.

​@@AtheistOrphan Not these days. Relatively speaking they'll still be on the cheaper end of the scale but a tidy example will set you back a good few grand these days. From this video, I'll take the mk1 escort and the Marina😊

[@octaviussludberry9016]

£940 for an Escort. £12000 for a Roller. Effectively 12x as much. Entry level Ford Focus (Escort equivalent) £28000; entry level Roller £330000. So about the same difference (12x)

[@tali4569]

entry level Roller is a Ghost at @£238000

[@Rialas]

Interesting. Also the cost of that cheap looking radio was £100. More than one tenth the price of the escort. Approx £2800 for a radio in todays money, ouch. 😃

[@NeilBarratt]

Is an entry level Focus really £28,000 now?

[@octaviussludberry9016]

@@NeilBarratt It certainly is.

[@chrism2nm]

11:53 "How do you make sure your children travel safely?"Lollll

[@edwardwilliammorris1340]

Nobody by would steal a morris marina, i know my dad always had one for many years ❤

No one who actually had one would schit talk them though, asides the ones who had a mate of a mate etc etc.

[@sandgrownun66]

1971. By then end of the 1970's, high inflation in Britain meant that a car cost double what it did at the start.

[@GK-qt7qg]

What a time to be alive.

[@IThinkYouLookLarvely]

Reminds me of pre-revamp Top Gear when they used to report from the car shows. Great quality, nice to see it didn't fall victim to the BBC's habit of wiping the tape to be reused.

[@wingnut71]

I've got the horn for her. Lol😮

[@joe-vl3nd]

They all look great Real style

[@spango1]

1971 was the year tvr had naked models draped over their cars shame we didn't get to see that

[@nigden1]

Had to smile at that Morris Marina, all kitted out with anti theft gadgets. I was given a 1300 Marina fastback, in hearing aid beige as a company car, it wouldn't pull a soldier off your sister and anyone robbing it wouldn't have been shopped by me even if I'd caught them in the act.

[@MrToddy31]

Mate you made me smile today. Thanks

[@danielnoye223]

Piano falling on the roof is not an optional extra but an eventuality.

[@johnbeaven8951]

If I had a Marina I'd park it with the doors open and the engine running.

[@jazzhands7771]

​@@MrToddy31likewise 😂

And yet they sell for good money despite people like you awful little lot.

[@tangerinedream7211]

Marina 1.8 in teal blue with the Moggy 1000 lever arm fron suspension, argh, but a now very collectable series1 Range Rover in Harvest gold, oh for a time machine. Tbh id be happy with an Escort mk1 sport .😉

To be fair it was only the very first press release cars that had handling issues. It was largely sorted out by the time volume sales were underway and many improvements were made down the line. I will also happily take a mk1 Escort. So much prettier than the mk2!

[@jacksonmiked]

“A French body with Italian guts. What man could ask for more?” Quite!

[@glenjarnold]

I had a Spitfire exactly the same as this one (minus the girl on the bonnet!) Wish I'd never sold it - hindsight is a wonderful thing.

[@keep_it_tidy56]

Amazing seeing a Mk1 Escort as a brand new car. The chick in the mini skirt & thigh boots is pretty amazing too.

[@Pulsonar]

Most of the presenters are from the ‘Nationwide’ TV program, an excellent regional news show that ran in the 70s. I remember Michael Barrat (the guy at the beginning and main presenter), Hugh Scully (the guy talking about the Citroen Maserati hybrid car) and Bob Welling (the guy taking about exclusive number plates)

[@gerrynicol3951]

Steerio unit ,oh lovely jubbly

[@KekeElBecko]

A young Hugh Scully!

[@M_Bamboozled]

"Are you happy Henrietta?" 😂 What do you think?

[@JJONNYREPP]

1971: The '70s CARS of your DREAMS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 0923am 17.10.24 the 70's...? everyone was angry and i think these seasoned juncos (ie: journalists) were avidly barking incessant b.s at their charges until the cows came home... comic = tarby? he should have been sued by the trades description act.

[@Dee-u4r]

The mk1 Range Rover is the best of the lot and probably still running truth be known!

[@andrewkingdon2000]

2.45 Now that's what I call a comb over 😂

[@volt8684]

Great bit of fun blast from past

[@justinneill5003]

I had 3 of them. Mini, Mk4 Spitfire & Range Rover classic 2-door.

[@leonshackleford9585]

I love the 70’s Range Rover Cars

[@winstonmace4865]

To think I was exactly two months old when this aired on BBC....

[@neiladkins6726]

[@sanchoodell6789]

Hard to believe this was made some 53 years ago. It still looks so so modern! 53 years before this would be 1918! during the First World War! Even the Second World War ended just 26 years ago!

[@Thatdontsurpriseme]

4:09 2 blokes in the green overalls look like Jacob Rees-Mogg and a young Michael Palin 😂

[@coogeeman]

Well thats made my day seeing an early (correct wipers) Morris Marina 1.8 in teal blue. Ive still got my 71 TC coupe in the garage. I must get round to rebuilding it on e day. Save the £10 on the module and whip out the rotor arm!

[@Steve-GM0HUU]

Security nuts on your Morris Marina steel rims. Those were the days 😂.

[@binagarten4667]

I have got all th Ford Escorts. Including the cabriolet versions and RS Turbos. Alas I would trade them in for the women in the boots on the bonnet!

[@hugoagogo9435]

And no car was ever stolen again. A few knobs were still getting twiddled with those thigh high boots though

[@kevinford6420]

😂😂😂👍👏

Haha oh yes!

[@richardbrown1189]

Donny Macleod is the same colour as the Range Rover he's sitting in!

[@Mark-ec3lp]

Prices show just how much our currency has devalued since 1971, crazy to think that red Escort would likely fetch around £25K to £30K now if mint condition.

[@martinbaum5354]

oh wonderful - I missed the Gregg Wallace segment

[@garynicholls8609]

Everything seems so hearing aid brown and Downton Abbey accents love it 😅

[@kevinford6420]

Brilliant 👌

[@Ztandard32]

That is why I wanted a spitfire!

[@frankhall401]

Note that the cost of a "steerio" was around 10% of the cost of a new Escort.

[@marklorne6790]

I would have been starting school about then, my parents bought their un-modernised 2-up, 2-down cottage for £1800 around then. The "Escort Sport" would probably be the most valuable of the cars featured nowadays as "Fast Fords" are going thru the roof.

[@johnmunro4952]

0:28 good lord!!😜

Indeed!

[@volt8684]

Pure femininity of which the mini skirt ladies were unabashed to wear. No tattoos, track suits or fake tans