NEW SCHOOL, OLD RULES
Nov 26, 2021
4 minutes
Words DAN BEVIS
Photos
JASON DODD
The 1980s were undoubtedly the prime era of the hot hatch. This new-found thrill brought performance in a brilliantly accessible package; everyone from Clarence at Lloyd’s of London to Bob at Jewson’s hankered after an XR3i, Golf GTI, Astra GTE, 205 GTi or – most of all – an Escort RS Turbo.
How did people modify these cars? Why, with plastic, of course. It was the Eighties, and big business lay in bodykits; all the cool kids had an assortment of plastic addenda bolted onto their cars – all colour-coded, of course – and if the wheels were colour-coded too, all the better.
Oh, and don’t forget the tiger stripes. Your
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