Mk2 Fiesta

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Quhet

2,409 posts

145 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Seriously cool cool
st old cars become really interesting once there are hardly any left on the road, good on you for keeping it goingbeer

yes i'm mad

139 posts

127 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Perfect! That is all!

KillerHERTZ

937 posts

197 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Great stuff!

J4CKO

41,284 posts

199 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Wow, timewarp car !

Please look after it, cant be too many left as good as that, nice to see.

DaveyBoyWonder

2,466 posts

173 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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I'm not much of a Ford fan but when we were kids, my mum and dads first car was a Y reg (GWX 155Y - I still remember the reg!) mk1 1.1 Poplar bought brand new from Polar in York. That little car took us everywhere and I have really fond memories of it. That looks amazing!

bigfella70

126 posts

123 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Great Fiesta, my first proper car was a mk 1 W reg 1981 950 popular in red. Went all over the country in that so again seeing your mk2 brings back good memories.

Brilliant to see such a smart example so well preserved. Would definitely keep predominantly standard with it being such a nice solid original car. Very rare and " try find another" springs to mind !

Thanks for sharing and looking forward to the updates........:-))

Tickle

4,879 posts

203 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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One of my mates had one as his first car, same colour with pepper pots too.

Brings back memories seeing this, cars that were so common but now so rare. Fair play for keeping going and in such condition.

I'm sure you won't but...please don't ruin it and add a cherry bomb like my friend did!!

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Looks great!

iacabu

1,348 posts

148 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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That looks a superb example and a great choice of first car

Matt97

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607 posts

127 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Thanks for all the comments, glad to see there is some appreciation for it. smile
No plans for a cherry bomb at the moment!

Stevenr

915 posts

193 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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What a brilliant first car.Well done,it looks fantastic.

I had a mk2 Fiesta van many years ago,great fun thing considering it was a diesel and it took a great deal of abuse before being sold on

Ilovejapcrap

3,274 posts

111 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Love it very nice

Alias218

1,485 posts

161 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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Quhet said:
Seriously cool cool
st old cars become really interesting once there are hardly any left on the road, good on you for keeping it goingbeer
Exactly this. I have had a nose around the Ford Heritage collection and amongst the usual suspects (GT40, ex-WRC cars, Model T, first and last off the line vehicles and so on) there was a pristine mk1 Mondeo. It still had it's plastic protective seat covers on! I probably looked around that more than anything else.

OP, if you ever think of selling up, I don't doubt the chaps at Ford would be interested in this.

Fantastic car by the way!

poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Friday 1st May 2015
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That's brilliant, great stuff. The car looks amazing and you've done some fantastic work on it.

Matt97

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607 posts

127 months

Saturday 16th May 2015
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I picked up a pair of rear arms cheap at Beaulieu a couple of weeks back so as the weather was nice i fitted them today. Also gave the inner arch a quick clean, needs tidying up properly though. smile











Regards,
Matt



Edited by Matt97 on Saturday 16th May 15:55

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 16th May 2015
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I was admiring the Mk1 Fiesta at Gaydon a few months ago. These look so delicate when you're used to the great whales we have rolling around these days. Now you see them so rarely and don't take them for granted it seems easier to appreciate what a great looking little car they are.

Good luck to you, it's the preserved versions of everyday cars that always seem more interesting to me than pampered exotica.

PGN

213 posts

213 months

Saturday 16th May 2015
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Nice to see such an unmolested example. Cars of this sort and age have to have escaped the boy racer modders and been cared for properly. That's quite a tall order so they're getting more difficult to find.

neilbauer

2,467 posts

182 months

Saturday 16th May 2015
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Lovely car, prefer it on steels as like the ordinal look smile

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 16th May 2015
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"Not many will be interested"....from the OP.

Whole lot more interesting than a lot of stuff on Readers cars and as already said a rare sight nowadays.

Keep it up.

Fartgalen

6,630 posts

206 months

Sunday 17th May 2015
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neilbauer said:
Lovely car, prefer it on steels as like the ordinal look smile
But it's a Ghia. It would've had some lovely wheel trims.
Good work OP.
I bought my first brand new car in 1987. A 1.1 Pop plus Fiesta.