Who remembers the Crossply & Radial Tyre road safety Ad !!
28 January 2005, 11:18 AM
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Who remembers the Crossply & Radial Tyre road safety Ad !!
Those were the days, You did not need BIG power to get your **** end out, Full 4 wheel slide, Front end drift, Just Mix & match those tyres 
My Mums MK1 escort was a beast to control, spent more time sideways than forwards, Who says driftings a new thing !!
Can anybody remember what the car was in the Telly Advert, That ended upside down, Smoking & lost a Hub cap ???
Dean
My Mums MK1 escort was a beast to control, spent more time sideways than forwards, Who says driftings a new thing !!
Can anybody remember what the car was in the Telly Advert, That ended upside down, Smoking & lost a Hub cap ???
Dean
28 January 2005, 11:36 AM
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I don't remember the advert but about 8 years ago I had a mark 1 escort fitted with a 1.6 crossflow with a weber twin choke and 12" dia radials on the front and cross plys on the rear 
To make it worse it still had drums all round too It was rather interesting to drive 
To make it worse it still had drums all round too It was rather interesting to drive
28 January 2005, 11:40 AM
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Damn it was an Austin 1100
Originally Posted by http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/printthread.php?t=18323
2) My very favourite ... illustrating the dangers of mixing crossply and radial tyres on the same axle by showing what I think may have been a red Austin 1100 being put on its roof. As if ANYONE could get an Austin 1100 to go fast enough to put it on its roof 
28 January 2005, 12:43 PM
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Was this the one - "If you drove like this on the road you would deserve to be called a mainiac!"
Or was that Goodyear GrandPrix S with that ex-copper.
Or was that Goodyear GrandPrix S with that ex-copper.
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28 January 2005, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by OllyK
Damn it was an Austin 1100
Top Marks,
Yes that was it, I should of known really as my Mum had one of those also when she first started driving, was not until many years later, we discovered she had not even passed her test, !!!!!
Dean
LOL,
Yes it was my Mum in the Advert 
Woo Hooo A whole page worth of Austin 1100's Inc the Crossply One in real player format. Just scroll down the Page, These cars must of been deadly
in the wrong hands http://www.ado16.info/vidssafety.shtml
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28 January 2005, 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
I am convinced - I am convinced that these are a MAJOR contribution to road safety.
Sir Robert Mark.
As copied by Griff Rhys Jones, 1980...
Sir Robert Mark.
As copied by Griff Rhys Jones, 1980...
"Well.. drive like that on a public highway you deserved to be called a raving MANIAC. 25 years I've been in the police force and I've never seen anyone drive quite like that."
"that was fine. Just one small thing. If you could emphasis the road saftey aspect, slighty more than you were there, in your own words. If you could emphasis that the tyers are more about safter then danger. If you rember your script "I am convinced.. I am convinved that this is a major contribution to road safty".. on your spot there..."
28 January 2005, 04:38 PM
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I run crossplys on my Landy...great off-road...interesting on-road
Actually dry grip under braking is superb the tappley metre reading on a MOT test is 98% (beats the scooby everytime) with drums all round (although they are uprated), and it is predictable in the wet.
It hard to understand what all the fuss is about really!
A pair of Road champ radials are the most deadly and lethal tyre out there...and there are many many other cheapo brand tyres sat there at a local kwik fit waiting for some cheapskate to risk their and others lives with
They are far more worse and dangerous than the £100 each cross-ply BF Goodriches I run with!
Actually dry grip under braking is superb the tappley metre reading on a MOT test is 98% (beats the scooby everytime) with drums all round (although they are uprated), and it is predictable in the wet.
It hard to understand what all the fuss is about really!
A pair of Road champ radials are the most deadly and lethal tyre out there...and there are many many other cheapo brand tyres sat there at a local kwik fit waiting for some cheapskate to risk their and others lives with
They are far more worse and dangerous than the £100 each cross-ply BF Goodriches I run with!
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28 January 2005, 04:42 PM
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A pair of Road champ radials are the most deadly and lethal tyre out there...and there are many many other cheapo brand tyres sat their at a local kwik fit waiting for some cheapskate to risk their and others lives with
They are far more worse and dangerous than the £100 each cross-ply BF Goodriches I run with!
A pair of Road champ radials are the most deadly and lethal tyre out there...and there are many many other cheapo brand tyres sat their at a local kwik fit waiting for some cheapskate to risk their and others lives with
They are far more worse and dangerous than the £100 each cross-ply BF Goodriches I run with!
Luckily they didn't have my tyre in the cheapo size so they had to fit a pirelli instead 
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