I really miss :

[thecolonel]

Thing I really miss,

the Corona lorry coming round every week with bottles of pop
sweet chewing tobacco (coconut)
wilko mints
everlasting toffee

Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Dangerman
Man in a Suitcase
Gideon
Orlando

Empty roads
Petrol at 3s 6d (a gallon)
Police that gave you a B*ll*cking instead of a ticket
Driving at 60 mph and thinking it was really fast

Your turn

[ncundy]

Magpie
Honk Kong Phooey
WKRP in Cincinnati
Decent indie music and venues
Scrap yards you could wander around
Ronnie Peterson
Derby County in Europe
Sportsnight
Sherbert dips
Student holidays


next...

[DavidLaver]

Michael Benteen's potty time
Sherbert lemons
Scrap yards as climbing challanges
Three channel TV
Borrowing dad's car
Accepting mole grips as a means of gripping an odd size nut
Lessons outside
Collecting photos from the developers
The ambition to one day race an Aurelia

...and for you its???

[sparehead3]

character mode
doctor who in five parts
a "choice" of one mobile phone (that just made phone calls)
the friday rock show
being hoem at 4pm having tea and dipping biscuits

[fensaddler]

Eddie Shoestring
Rallycross from Lydden Hill on TV
RAC Rallies that lasted five days, had 180 entrants (including Stratos and Saab 99s), and ran through Sutton Park
Vinyl records
Being at university
Katjes fruit sweets (last seen at Sainsburys some time in the early 90s)
Having my whole life ahead of me
My grandmother
Quiet Sundays
Being fit enough to play football without feeling old
John Peel
Proper old fashioned nee-naw police sirens
Believing that the problems of the world could be solved
My cat

[Harvey]

Fighting with my sister over who sat on the part of the vinyl seat that had been in the sun.
Playing with "proper" Lego (none of this fancy moulded stuff).
Toast with golden syrup for Saturday tea in the front room (children banned 6 days per week).
Enough hours in the day to do everything, and still some spare to declare "I'm bored".
Sherbet Dips.

[Scarpia]

Driving at 60 mph and thinking it was really fast

Colonel, in a Gamma, it is ......
I miss the time before mobile phones existed (because I could still do my job then perfectly well without one).

[SteveGales]

Tiswas....so much better than SwapShop
Sally James
The 6 week school summer holidays....the sun was always shining when you went outside after watching Robinson Crusoe, Banana Splits.
Scalextric before 'magnatraction'.
Sally James.
Apprenticeship years with B Gas, learning how to drop a 'sorry you were out card' through the letterbox, when customer's were in.
Driving before speed cameras.
Days when 'elf n safety' belonged in the workplace
Pretty F1 cars such as JPS Lotus72 or the last good looking F1 car, the first '7UP' Jordan.
Full size Wagon Wheels, or is it because my hands are now bigger.

Oh, and did I mention Sally James

[sparehead3]

Sunshine ......

[Betaboy2.0]

Lancia dealers

[Paul Greenway]

Car magazines that were fair & reasonable in their verdicts, when Audi's, Beemer's & Merc's where slated and italian marques were praised for their products.
Seeing Lancia's regularly on our roads.
Lancia building grand touring coupes rather than people carriers.
Texan bars- A mans gotta chew what a mans gotta chew.
Space Dust.
Addidas Teneriffa shoes.
The Obsevers book of Automobiles.
The Ladybird book of Cars.
The 50p pint.
Leeds United in the premiership.
Deltics & Tommys.
No tailbacks on my daily commutes.
The pound being worth something.
Casio FX730P.
Wigan Casino.
RAC rally going through the "Haigh Hall" special stage in Wigan in the Group B days

[Martin D]

what a brilliant thread; well done colonel.

stingray (and thunderbirds )
robinson crusoe, the b+w one
the persuaders
my mum's christmas cake
going on holiday to France an being "away in a foreign country"
our dog dino
buying size 28 jeans, we wore em tight in '76
having to choose from only 3 or 4 tv channels
the summer of 75, 76, 77, ........
sainsbury's jam tarts, box of 6, 2 x red, 2 x yellow, and 2 x vivid emerald green
New Towns still looking new
knowing where all 6 local potholes were
proper music, where you couldn't understand the words and there was no tune
when the biggest decision was what shall I colour-in today ? ( Oh no, I still do that )

[peterbaker]

I miss cricket, the bruises and broken fingers
And having to count loose change
While waiting for the 93 bus

I miss Brands Hatch and the long drive to Snetterton
Even more I miss Jim Clark

I miss every car Ive ever owned
   

[rogerelias]

being able to see my feet and having good eyesight

[chugga boom]

being able to see my feet and having good eyesight

AGREED!!!!

i miss my school yrs (because i didnt have to pay for anything!!)
i miss my 32 inch waste
i miss the energy i had 10 yrs ago and the fact i could stay out all night and not be tired
i miss time going slower than what it seems to now
i miss my grale 
i miss my blue fulvia too
i miss "lack of responsibility" employing drives me mad!!!
i really really miss a gallon of petrol for £2 !!, i remember this when i was 11yrs old my weeks pocket money to go in the appia's tank to drive around my mum and dads field, i'm sure theres more......................