Red C2 on Ebay

V6SINGH said:
It most likely is not a special order or anything so exotic as an import etc. There were a number of Laser Red cars that ended up in Europe to be converted to RHD for UK sales. They were converted and then realised as non allocated colours but sold anyway. I was working for Ford in 2003/2004. There were quite a few sold up North in particular. I once saw 3 sat in a breakers yard in Wakefield some years ago.

Good score on the car Wil. I hope it's as awesome in the flesh as it is in the pics. The car is standard spec for its allocation. The grilles etc were not swapped on the red ones because they weren't scheduled for the full image change. Any RHD ones were supposed to end up in Australia and SA. The ones that ended up here were cheaper to sell on than re-ship elsewhere in the world. They were already so highly priced here that roping more cost into them was not beneficial.

The one that is rarer than this one is the RHD, Laser Red C1, 2.0 Zetec Auto with the 15" propellor blade alloys and rear drum brakes. That's perhaps THE rarest combination ever to hit these shores. The Zetec laser red C2 is still about somewhere too I'm sure.
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Hi I'm mark I've just joined the club and i think I Av one of the earliest c2s in the UK its an x plate reg on 03.12.2000 the vin no is WFOHT61L715100409 could u shed any light on my car and how early it really is thank you
 
cougar2man said:
Hi I'm mark I've just joined the club and i think I Av one of the earliest c2s in the UK its an x plate reg on 03.12.2000 the vin no is WFOHT61L715100409 could u shed any light on my car and how early it really is thank you
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We're kind of in the wrong thread for this since it's about Wil's red anomaly, (and yours is Silver Frost) but... Your car was built on 16/11/2000 and registered less than a month later.

The C2 was only offered in Model Years (MY) 2001 and 2002, which (oddly) means "built between 1/1/2000 and 31/12/2002". That's not a typo.

Your car is X-reg, and I can't find any C2s that are W-reg. Since X-reg went from 1/9/2000 to 28/2/2001, it is fair to say that your car is a particularly early one, yes.
 
Useless contribution from me time................Saw a red one in Ibiza last week - it was battered to buggery and covered in dust in the finest Spanish tradition!
 
It's a bonzer motor for that trip to the billabong you've been promising yourself(y)

Wil are you happy for me to put up my photos from the last couple of visits?
 
Any from your last visit (eg Sierra and ST?)

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I just can't bring myself to name a car Sheila, plus it's my mother-in-law's name!
 
I only took one:giggle::LOL:

'Alike, and yet unlike'
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Wil Leaper said:
Any from your last visit (eg Sierra and ST?)

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I just can't bring myself to name a car Sheila, plus it's my mother-in-law's name!
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Well given it is an Aussie spec car and it is Red I thought that would be the only name for a car from down under............... But Bruce also fits very well.
 
Wil Leaper said:
So, from info kindly provided by the person who owned the car 'from new'.....
It was a Cougar that was destined for Australia and ended up in UK via Germany.
As Andy says it has some interesting 'differences' from a standard UK model, clocks,oil filler cap etc..
The exhaust, badges, spolier, etc were specially ordered and fitted after purchcase.

It is indeed a rare and fascinating Cougar, and I look forward to sharing it with the Club,

cheers,

Wil
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Wil, the clocks in yours aren't Aussie spec C2 clocks as we thought; because it seems the Aussie ones only have a km scale.
They aren't UK spec either as we discovered on Sunday by comparing them with your numerous other sets??
 
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