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duncs500 wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 6:33 pm

This very picture, sent to me by TVR after I wrote to them for a GCSE project.

I love that era of Cerbera. Perfect wheels, no stupid lights.

mik wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 12:38 pm Countach. It was an LP5000 as opposed to the QV I wanted it to be. This widescreen one in fact...


288 GTO

Bimota (Tesi?) hub-centre steering job.

Mine was similar to that except it was in portrait format, still had the 3 images though.

I had a bunch of Max Power and Street Machine magazine posters but those are the two cars I always remember.

Has to be the back of the 288 as well, it’s the best angle.

mik wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:18 pm I also had an A3 sized image of a naked lady, but my mum made me keep that on the inside face of my cupboard door. No skirts or spoilers.

Dunno why but I expected you to have this one.

No - I could even see her face. I think she had a face.

I had a couple of Max Power Ones, Iron Maiden and loads of 125cc, 250cc & 500cc GP bikes as well as WSB stuff. Mainly from MCN. Had them all over my ceiling too. Downside was a mahoosive spider dropped out of them one night and landed on my face. I shrieked like a tea kettle!

F40 and xj220

Despite not being a Ford fanboi, I had a poster of a Ford GT90

The thing is, before the days of the internet, it wasn’t as though you could easily say “I want a poster of a *very particular* car for my wall”.

You went to Athena/Woolworths/whatever shop and flicked through their wall hung hinged display thing and picked the one that was closest to what you liked.

Or went to the motor show and grabbed as many freebies as possible !

I remember coming back from things like motor shows/BTCC/air show/etc with absolutely bags full of shit that I didn’t ever look at again!

Ooh that. 90% went straight in the bin when you got home.

I think I had a glossy promo poster of the Argyll Turbo from the Scottish Motor Show that lived on my wall for a few months.... because slot-mags.

I can't remember any car posters . For some reason I recall having a soft spot for the TR7, though I've never wanted to own one since being able to drive and don't fancy one now.

Lots of music posters, some of which I may still have in the loft, for no sensible reason.
There was one of Wendy James that I saw in Athena that I have fond memories of but never bought.

Other posters were a couple of movie posters, Leon and Trainspotting and music posters. Mostly Placebo and Marilyn Manson.

Rich B wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:10 am The thing is, before the days of the internet, it wasn’t as though you could easily say “I want a poster of a *very particular* car for my wall”.

You went to Athena/Woolworths/whatever shop and flicked through their wall hung hinged display thing and picked the one that was closest to what you liked.

A lot of mine came from cut up Autocar mags.

A bit later than the Countach poster, I had this on my wall (it was all cars when I lived at home, music when I went to university):

Jimmy Choo wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:21 pm

mik wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:18 pm I also had an A3 sized image of a naked lady, but my mum made me keep that on the inside face of my cupboard door. No skirts or spoilers.

Dunno why but I expected you to have this one.

Company I worked for did a limited edition canvas of this and the woman in it came on our show stand at the NEC.

Poster wise, I had mostly Athena stuff so the 959, Countach, testarossa had various modded Mini and Beetle posters plus a flatnose 911 and goodness knows what else.

Gavin wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:27 am

Jimmy Choo wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:21 pm

mik wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:18 pm I also had an A3 sized image of a naked lady, but my mum made me keep that on the inside face of my cupboard door. No skirts or spoilers.

Dunno why but I expected you to have this one.

Company I worked for did a limited edition canvas of this and the woman in it came on our show stand at the NEC.

Poster wise, I had mostly Athena stuff so the 959, Countach, testarossa had various modded Mini and Beetle posters plus a flatnose 911 and goodness knows what else.

My uncle knew Martin Elliot, the chap who took that photo..

Simon wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:47 am

Gavin wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:27 am

Jimmy Choo wrote: Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:21 pm
Dunno why but I expected you to have this one.

Company I worked for did a limited edition canvas of this and the woman in it came on our show stand at the NEC.

Poster wise, I had mostly Athena stuff so the 959, Countach, testarossa had various modded Mini and Beetle posters plus a flatnose 911 and goodness knows what else.

My uncle knew Martin Elliot, the chap who took that photo..

He came on the stand too. I cannot remember if we had Page 3 girls or Hollyoaks girls there but he certainly seemed keen...

And following some wikipedia links there, the dress is now in Wimbledon's museum.