Paul's thread about his Scorpio got me all nostalgic for my old one, I dug out some pics and also found some of other Ford's I've owned
My First car...a 1980 mk1 Fiesta 1.3 SuperSport in sunburst red, cost me £300!
These are unfathomably rare cars now and even more so than XR2s. This one was a full on XR rep with the round lights, bumpers and arches and even the interior, I did an engine swap to a genuine XR2 1600 engine so in effect I had a full Mk1 XR2 in everything but the log book.
We'll gloss over the fact that I killed the 1.3 engine trying to race an XR4i on the A13 one day!
My favourite thing about it was that it had an electric rear washer, unlike lesser Fiestas which had a foot pedal!
Some dumb tit had fitted a ful length Webasto which was great fun to hang out of but leaked like sieve.
I sold her for £100 to a local lad, who in turn sold her to a guy who lived in the next street who just parked her up. This meant I had the privelige of seeing her get carted away one day to the scrapper.....do you know what these things are worth now
That car was replaced by a Renault 20...I won't subject you to pics, it was a truly hateful car that refused to die, but to this day remains the comfortablest car I have ever sat in.
That was replaced by one of my favourite cars I've owned...1986 Granada, 2.0 Ghia auto in Balliol Blue, bought in about 95 or 96 for £1200 I think.
Bought completely standard from a guy who used it for chauffering, I transformed into the above with genuine Ford RS kit, wheels, late model rear lights, I had a full respray done and she always looked good, getting this huge thing powersliding sideways was so much fun!!
I sold it in 99 or 2000, with over 200K miles on the clock and it was still going, albeit with a dying gearbox, I still catch myself looking at them and thinking of buying another one.
The granny was replaced by this
1997 Mk1 Mondeo 2.0 Ghia X auto in Radiant Red.
Bought totally standard again, I paid a lot of cash for this car and modified it in true early 2000's style, Touring car sunstrip, big 'evo' wing, and of course those morrette twin lamps that every car then had to have!
Lowered 30mm on 17s (they were huge then!) and again was a really good looking car, sadly I let her rot away like a twat and ended up breaking her for parts.
Then a brief spell with VW and Seat vehicles before this came along....
then this:
and another Fiesta before the current Blurple
Your turn
My First car...a 1980 mk1 Fiesta 1.3 SuperSport in sunburst red, cost me £300!
These are unfathomably rare cars now and even more so than XR2s. This one was a full on XR rep with the round lights, bumpers and arches and even the interior, I did an engine swap to a genuine XR2 1600 engine so in effect I had a full Mk1 XR2 in everything but the log book.
We'll gloss over the fact that I killed the 1.3 engine trying to race an XR4i on the A13 one day!
My favourite thing about it was that it had an electric rear washer, unlike lesser Fiestas which had a foot pedal!
Some dumb tit had fitted a ful length Webasto which was great fun to hang out of but leaked like sieve.
I sold her for £100 to a local lad, who in turn sold her to a guy who lived in the next street who just parked her up. This meant I had the privelige of seeing her get carted away one day to the scrapper.....do you know what these things are worth now
That car was replaced by a Renault 20...I won't subject you to pics, it was a truly hateful car that refused to die, but to this day remains the comfortablest car I have ever sat in.
That was replaced by one of my favourite cars I've owned...1986 Granada, 2.0 Ghia auto in Balliol Blue, bought in about 95 or 96 for £1200 I think.
Bought completely standard from a guy who used it for chauffering, I transformed into the above with genuine Ford RS kit, wheels, late model rear lights, I had a full respray done and she always looked good, getting this huge thing powersliding sideways was so much fun!!
I sold it in 99 or 2000, with over 200K miles on the clock and it was still going, albeit with a dying gearbox, I still catch myself looking at them and thinking of buying another one.
The granny was replaced by this
1997 Mk1 Mondeo 2.0 Ghia X auto in Radiant Red.
Bought totally standard again, I paid a lot of cash for this car and modified it in true early 2000's style, Touring car sunstrip, big 'evo' wing, and of course those morrette twin lamps that every car then had to have!
Lowered 30mm on 17s (they were huge then!) and again was a really good looking car, sadly I let her rot away like a twat and ended up breaking her for parts.
Then a brief spell with VW and Seat vehicles before this came along....
then this:
and another Fiesta before the current Blurple
Your turn
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