1983 Masterpieces

1983

 

Motorola introduces the first mobile phone.

 

 

You needed big pockets to buy it and put it in...

 

 

Also,

The year seatbelts became mandatory in the U.K.

The world population reaches 4.72 billion.

Richard Noble set a land speed record of 633.468 mph in Nevada.

There's a 3.75 million dollar gold bar robbery at a Heathrow warehouse.

Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.

Margaret Thatcher wins landslide victory in U.K. elections.

And "The best cars in the world just got better..."

 

Rolls-Royce's 1983 line up consisted of 'Five Masterpieces' :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And I turned 21..

 

(Posted by David Irvine)