Retro Cars | What is a Suspension? | Car maintenance | 1970s Cars | Drive In | 1973

[@zzhughesd]

Ray was lovely to listen too. In that 7Os way. Nice and slow. Or sedate as a commenter correctly affirmed.

[@JohnDoe-tx8lq]

Top Gear of the 1970's... crazy guys doing crazy things with reasonably priced cars. 🤓👍

[@coogeeman]

They missed a trick with the Marina, lever arm dampers and torsion bars at the front. Looks like a TC jubilee.

[@jasonayres]

Exciting? Oh, the suspension is killing me! 😄

[@Keithbarber]

I bet you enjoyed "springing" that on everybody - my kind of joke that

[@jasonayres]

@@Keithbarber Well, life's tough these days. I wouldn't want to appear to put a damper - ner on the proceedings.

[@EgoShredder]

@@jasonayres Yes budgets are being squeezed, in anticipation for a bumpy ride............... 😉

[@jasonayres]

@@EgoShredder Well, the wheels of progress turn very slowly at Thames 😁

[@nigelcarren]

A short story: When I was 10 I was invited to Pebble Mill to talk about my then hobby (British moths and butterflies). I know... you would think so wouldn't you but no I am not, I actually do have a girlfriend! Anyway, back to the story. After filming my piece, I was given a guided tour of the TV-station and I was introduced to Shaun Taylor, I immediately recognized him from the TV so I asked for his autograph, he was really friendly, he signed a piece of green card but he stole my pen, and I was too scared to chase him for it! For years after, every time I watched him presenting Police 5 I would look to see if I could see it sticking out if his pocket... Bloody hypocrite! 😉🇬🇧

[@sloth_energy]

4:09 This looks similar to the FRICS (Front to Rear Inter-Connected Suspension) system that Mercedes and other F1 teams used earlier this decade.

[@missyglittervlogs3543]

'73 baby here

[@simonmorgan7981]

Same

[@EgoShredder]

'71 here.................hey gimme my dummy back!

[@stuartkelly3106]

I seriously thought the Austin executive was going to hit the presenter with the dampener...

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Lusty did not seem inclined to share any details, if he had any, about the types of suspensions he was showing!

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Either those two knew very little or they were unwilling to share anything worthwhile!

[@zzhughesd]

Martin lusty

[@jasonayres]

Lacklustre Lusty

[@andyc3856]

Hydrasag!! It always amazes me that people actually bought BL products back then,I guess it was a misguided impression that it was a superior British made product compared to those offerings by Johnnie Foreigner!!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Police 5

[@lanehogger1532]

They could’ve picked a decent car manufacturer 😆

[@derekogilvie6942]

Always disappointing to wake up on a Sunday morning to notice that the featured content is not a car review and then to view what must be the worst lighting ever seen in the history of TV!

[@smorris12]

It always amazed me how far behind ITV was compared to the Beeb. But quite a fascinating tech time capsule

[@spankysmp]

Three day week and restricted electricity use! Probably lit by candles.

[@nkt1]

@@smorris12 Not *that* far behind, surely? LWT's studio complex was the most advanced in Europe.

[@smorris12]

@@nkt1 Compare Sapphire and Steele with contemporary Dr Who; apart from raw video quality, the studio tech (or maybe the operators) seem to be behind

[@glpilpi6209]

And unlike the BBC ITV invested from the profits they made , the BBC just milked the licence payer for everything.

[@volvos60bloke]

brill and now we have are brexit we can go back to these halycon day's. we can sell are product's like this to the eu