Teenage Kicks

Cast your mind back to a time of sepia-tinged,1980s simplicity. No smartphones, no coronavirus, no more than four TV channels. ‘Social media’ meant the letters page in the local paper. The only electric vehicle around was your neighbourhood milk float. Young teens prowled the streets on BMXs, while those a few years older were tearing about in rear-drive Fords bought for peanuts. Stephen Hume remembers it well:

“The local boy racers would buy Cortinas for a few hundred quid, paint them red, yellow and blue, or matte black — Mad Max-style — then stick on some slotmags or white Wellers and cane around town,” he recalls. “You