£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 😍
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!
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.
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
Jeez I was born that year and remember watching these guys as a kid… the tech leap from this period has been beyond anybody’s imagination at that time.
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.
£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)
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. 😃
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..
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! 🙏🏽🌹
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.
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
@@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.
ruclips.net/video/i_GrkkjjLOc/видео.html - Range Rover - "Highland Country Gentleman, Huntin', Fishin' & Shootin' up the glens and .... " Fast forward 50 years, Range Rover - "Ferrying kids to school. Account manager going to client meetings. Software Engineer because it's cool" NOBODY but a farmer or outdoorsman would be seen dead in a Range Rover in 1971 - now these vehicles are bloody well everywhere. Good job our parking spaces and road sizes are big enough to cater for them right? ... oh wait, they aren't!
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.
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.
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 .😉
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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!
@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’
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.
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.
@@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😊
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
When English tv had presenters with wonderful clean accent and the shorter skirts were not considered sexist. British tv reached its highest point of excellence and now it is dropping awfully bad
@@ThomasCorfield RUclips has dropping since at least 10 years ago, now you can't put children's faces or car licence plate numbers, you can't say China v irus, no murdering, beheading or burning alive like before, but it's giving normal people the opportunity to upload their videos and if thy are watched thousands of times RUclips pays you a sum
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......
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)
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.
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.
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.
11.40 seconds exactly like a spoof, but it’s not. I kept expecting her to say something really stupid, like “We’d like to apologise to our viewers in the North. It must be awful for you up there”.
1971: The '70s CARS of your DREAMS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 0918am 17.10.24 you can watch hugh jeers try to steal your car... top notch. i am sure i used to drink with hugh's son in the baum.
@@TTVEaGMXde Were there? I didn't know of these. I knew there were portable, that is, backpack-sized Quads. But I suppose they hauled a proper sized one in an OB Van.
£900 in 1971 would be around £16000 today, for a basic bottom of the range small family car. Ford escort mk1 weighed around 850kg and wasn't much bigger than a mini
£40 less than the Spitfire in this feature, and infinitely less "cool" to some. Today's collectors would probably ignore the Spitfire and compete for the Escort.
I owned a Mk1 Escort Mexico when I was 18 in 1979..I had mushrooms growing in the carpets due to the floor being constantly wet. Floor was pretty rotten. 😊. At the time though, it could certainly nip on....
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I'm off back to the 70's!! 🙋🙋🙋
I’m taking £2k with me for one of them new fangled Range Rovers !
you hair never left....
Fool.
All those thighs and leather. It's like a night out with Max Hastings.
@@AJ-qn6gdApple CarPlay a £100K mandatory option today!
Wow the late Hugh Scully who hosted Antique Roadshow for so long
Famed monobrow
When he's in the Citroen he looks like Jazz Club "nice"
"Coventry Climax" sounds like something straight out of Viz Profanisaurus 😅
22 seconds in
Yes. I was wondering exactly what was being sold at the car show. Well at least it was Coventry Climax and not Happy Ending ....
Quite the engine, win many an F1 race
Yep, and The Sound Of The Horn conjures up visions of a musical Julie Andrews would never have appeared in.
"Sorry about the banging " at 13.00
I love the way Bob Wellings holds the steering wheel and talks about car 'steerios'.
My dad still says stereo that way.
The unique anti-theft technology of the Morris is that it's a Morris. Door locks are an unnecessary optional extra.
The door locks were to deter fly tippers.
@@neildutton8077brilliant!
That's cruel!
As soon as he said: 'Maserati engine' my computer went into limp mode!
I believe they had to chop 2 cylinders off the V8 to make it fit. 😕
Mini skirt and thigh high boots draped over a sport cars bonnet!
Ladder in her tights.
and not a model, a Nationwide presenter if you please 😂
Those were the days! Mind you, with all the nylon she's wearing she probably emitted blue sparks when she slid off the bonnet.
Quite right. I can't recall anything else about this footage.
What a treat.
Hugh Scully seems to bear an incredible resemblance to Odd Bod in Carry on Screaming.
More like junior 😅
I was thinking the same pmsl...odd bod
😂😂😂
@@ianmangham4570 Very much so.
£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 😍
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!
@@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.
£2,500 for A1 number plate I wonder how much it is worth now?
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.
I remember those car horns, completely forgot about them. True blast from the past
You can still buy them here in the US. You could probably have them shipped to the UK
most 3rd world countries use em on vehicles
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
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!
The Dukes of Hazzard immediately sprang to mind 😅
How fab to see the presenters of my childhood ! Never saw this feature though , brilliant thanks !…love the pronunciation of “Steereo Unit” 😊
Wow! So rare! You hardly have any TV motor show broadcast footage, let alone in colour! Thanks BBC ❤
Hugh Scully used to come in to my record shop every week for his classical music CDs in the 90s.
Bob Wellings comes across as the poshest of the bunch, but good on him for his modest taste in cars.
Steer’reos! 😂
That 1300 sport was absolutely stunning, absolutely
Love em always have ❤
Rode better than any car
Jeez I was born that year and remember watching these guys as a kid… the tech leap from this period has been beyond anybody’s imagination at that time.
“Do you come with the car?” “Oh you!”
Came here for this comment. Wasn't disappointed.
@@Beardodoomus1971: The '70s CARS of your DREAMS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 0922am 17.10.24 what's a steerio?
Oh you are awful.
Simpsons?
@@kevinfitzsimons41 which branch?
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.
Charming forms. True aesthetics. Unlike today's aerodynamic bricks.
When a Range Rover didn't look like a pimpmobile and used for drug pushers and driven by footballers and talentless celebs.
*No Cads, just an engineer with a ruler and a pencil, respect.*
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...
£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)
entry level Roller is a Ghost at @£238000
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. 😃
Is an entry level Focus really £28,000 now?
@@NeilBarratt It certainly is.
That Citroën SM though ❤
Gorgeous car
There is so much funny stuff in this great video. Hard to know where to start
What a wonderful video from a time when cars looked different from manufacturer to manufacturer and Britain still had a car industry.
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..
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! 🙏🏽🌹
They moved the motor show to the NEC in 1978.
Wonderful stuff with the cut glass accents ..❤❤
"This new steereo unit... lets you steer left AND right at the same time!"
Hilarious😂
He sounds like he was trained at the Jacob Rees moog , marbles on the mouth club @@tinatrainer6003
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.
Mate you made me smile today. Thanks
Piano falling on the roof is not an optional extra but an eventuality.
If I had a Marina I'd park it with the doors open and the engine running.
@@MrToddy31likewise 😂
And yet they sell for good money despite people like you awful little lot.
That Escort, so shiny mmmm
Fantastic footage! I can't believe she gave us the horn😂
Goodness. Donny B Mcleod. Not heard his tones for years. Already gone 4 decades.
39 at time of filming! 🤯
6:58 - a heavy smoker by the looks of his fingers
@@mrroobarb or cheap toilet paper
@@djidroneadventures4059 🤣
@@Traveller69 Funny thing: his suit, tie and shirt is actually colour coordinated to the Rover he's talking about.
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
Early forerunner of The One Show of course!
@@leopoldbluesky Indeed!
who is the female? Northern irish accent
@@almartin115 Diane Harron from BBC N Ireland. I don't remember her being on Nationwide.
@@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.
ruclips.net/video/i_GrkkjjLOc/видео.html - Range Rover - "Highland Country Gentleman, Huntin', Fishin' & Shootin' up the glens and .... "
Fast forward 50 years, Range Rover - "Ferrying kids to school. Account manager going to client meetings. Software Engineer because it's cool"
NOBODY but a farmer or outdoorsman would be seen dead in a Range Rover in 1971 - now these vehicles are bloody well everywhere.
Good job our parking spaces and road sizes are big enough to cater for them right? ... oh wait, they aren't!
The humble and long-forgotten Simca 1100 gets a mention @4:01!
My uncle had one of those (in turquoise). Traded it in for a gold Mazda 323 which some bar steward keyed.
I loved my triumph spitfire in the early 80’s.
1971, the year of the bleedin' obvious comb-over.
The same colour as the Range Rover
@@richards9407 I think it might have come as one of the factory extras.
It's called a Bobby Charlton
Brilliant loved this thank you (:
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.
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.
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!
My moms rich friends had a mk1 beige RR in early 1970's, I felt like a king of the road in it😊
I really look forward to seeing some these splendid innovations incorporated in modern cars.
The combover at 2.43 and the monobrow at 5.10 are the highlights for me
Wow what bodywork!!!! And the spitfire doesn't look bad either!!!!😂😂
@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’
I can see Benny Hill doing this, sliding of the bonnet and the director scorning him!
@@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.
"Are you happy Henrietta?" 😂 What do you think?
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.
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.
I loved this video !!! So many special cars ; i would pay a fortune to get one today.
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😊
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.
People don't talk like that any more. Now they sound "street" .... "It's a naaaahse cah"
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
1971. By then end of the 1970's, high inflation in Britain meant that a car cost double what it did at the start.
And no car was ever stolen again. A few knobs were still getting twiddled with those thigh high boots though
😂😂😂👍👏
Haha oh yes!
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
Now worth about 50k, stunning car
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
The mk1 Range Rover is the best of the lot and probably still running truth be known!
When English tv had presenters with wonderful clean accent and the shorter skirts were not considered sexist. British tv reached its highest point of excellence and now it is dropping awfully bad
They'll say the same about RUclips in 50 years' time. Nothing is lost but everything changes.
@@ThomasCorfield RUclips has dropping since at least 10 years ago, now you can't put children's faces or car licence plate numbers, you can't say China v irus, no murdering, beheading or burning alive like before, but it's giving normal people the opportunity to upload their videos and if thy are watched thousands of times RUclips pays you a sum
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......
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)
They all look great
Real style
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.
1971 was the year tvr had naked models draped over their cars shame we didn't get to see that
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.
What a time to be alive.
And now the horn of choice is the Baby shark one 😂😂
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.
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.
The fact that it's a Morris Marina, was the ultimate anti-theft device.😁
Hilariously original.
“A French body with Italian guts. What man could ask for more?” Quite!
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.
Hugh Scully advertising he drives at 117mph
Definitely different times. Noticed the pre oli crisis American gas guzzlers also.
'Well I like it'. That's my new catchphrase. 😂
Steerio unit ,oh lovely jubbly
To think I was exactly two months old when this aired on BBC....
I had 3 of them. Mini, Mk4 Spitfire & Range Rover classic 2-door.
5:26 Morris Marina ❤
11:53 "How do you make sure your children travel safely?"Lollll
A young Hugh Scully!
How the car industry has changed. They almost refer to buying a foreign car as treachery.
11.40 seconds exactly like a spoof, but it’s not. I kept expecting her to say something really stupid, like “We’d like to apologise to our viewers in the North. It must be awful for you up there”.
They don't make them like that anymore
1971: The '70s CARS of your DREAMS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive 0918am 17.10.24 you can watch hugh jeers try to steal your car... top notch. i am sure i used to drink with hugh's son in the baum.
Thankfully.
Great bit of fun blast from past
Unfortunately, I cannot see which video system was used. Quadruplex stripes are not visible and 1" video did not exist at that time.
They had nothing but the Quad back then. Looks quite good. I wish the BBC included the metadata in the description.
@@ConsumerDV But there were also portable 2" recorders with helical tracks.
@@TTVEaGMXde Were there? I didn't know of these. I knew there were portable, that is, backpack-sized Quads. But I suppose they hauled a proper sized one in an OB Van.
COM1C is now on a Lexus Hybrid.
0:28 good lord!!😜
Indeed!
Pure femininity of which the mini skirt ladies were unabashed to wear. No tattoos, track suits or fake tans
Donny Macleod is the same colour as the Range Rover he's sitting in!
Contrast the speech with today and convince me society hasn’t declined somewhat.
Note that the cost of a "steerio" was around 10% of the cost of a new Escort.
Security nuts on your Morris Marina steel rims. Those were the days 😂.
2.45 Now that's what I call a comb over 😂
I love the 70’s Range Rover Cars
Brilliant 👌
5:05 - Not sure how I feel about that Coventry Climax sign
Sad to think that the lovely Irish Lady is now an 80year old , old Woman, she was a looker though !
How time flies.... I wonder ... if like me ....the body is 64 .....but the mind still mid 30’s 🤗
When a family car cost around $900 let that make you reflect on inflation today and the devaluation of the dollar/pound. 😢
£900 in 1971 would be around £16000 today, for a basic bottom of the range small family car.
Ford escort mk1 weighed around 850kg and wasn't much bigger than a mini
No it wouldn't. It would be more like £11k.
@@Uamaretwot
Go back and watch it. The car was around 900 pounds.
@@RicArmstrong yeah, I'm I did watch it, but still £900 in 1971 would be worth £11,052.18 in today's money.
I've owned many cars in my lifetime and the closest one featured here was the Escort MK1, I had and Escort MK2
£40 less than the Spitfire in this feature, and infinitely less "cool" to some. Today's collectors would probably ignore the Spitfire and compete for the Escort.
I owned a Mk1 Escort Mexico when I was 18 in 1979..I had mushrooms growing in the carpets due to the floor being constantly wet. Floor was pretty rotten. 😊. At the time though, it could certainly nip on....
six lotus europas for the price of one rolls royce? and whats one 70s roller worth now compared to a single europa?