Ford Saphire Cosworth ('88)

Ford Saphire Cosworth ('88)

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Levin

2,019 posts

123 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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Baryonyx said:
It is fantastic to see all these beautiful cars together here. My favourite sports saloon, dare I say my favourite car of all time?
Please do! Help me sound slightly less weird by saying the same thing. wink

LanceRS

2,171 posts

136 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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thefrog said:
I've been asked many times, something to do with WOO ? As far as I know it wasn't no, but I never checked for a metal disc. Maybe the new owner can.
All the Press cars at the time were registered with WOO on them. I used to have an XR4x4 (D177SVX where are you now?) that was from the fleet, wondered what the disc was until I came across D178SVX ( White 3door Cosworth) and D17*SVX (Scorpio, can't remember the missing number) also ex fleet with the same thing.

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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Willhire89 said:
Yep - it's the original Roger Dowson prepped Hales & Borgudd winning car, In '89 it was a 25 hour event to celebrate the anniversary of Roger William's company.

Hales was also the overall class A champion in Prod Saloons that year.
Have you still got the Hella spots? smile

Willhire89

1,327 posts

204 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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Here is Roger Williams with the '86 Willhire winner and my car at the 360 MRC six hour last weekend @ Snett and this time with the Hellas on:


T66ORA

3,474 posts

256 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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The metal disc had nothing to do with press cars specifically.
Ford would buy back or replace problem cars with there 30 day exchange plan,(not all cars were problematic) these and cars failing factory quality control would have a round disc riveted to the front slam panel, normally were the Vin plate was and then sold through closed auctions,with no factory warranty.

All Ford press cars were registered at Brentwood/Chelmsford, along with all the other retail cars.
Ford also had a habit of self registering cars to boost sales. I have such a Sierra Reg A***NOO.

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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Willhire89 said:
Here is Roger Williams with the '86 Willhire winner and my car at the 360 MRC six hour last weekend @ Snett and this time with the Hellas on:

Cool pic cool

The WillHire races had a great atmosphere thumbup

rallycross

12,747 posts

236 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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s m said:
Willhire89 said:
Here is Roger Williams with the '86 Willhire winner and my car at the 360 MRC six hour last weekend @ Snett and this time with the Hellas on:

Cool pic cool

The WillHire races had a great atmosphere thumbup
I remember that red 2.8i it had the Ok Yah plate on it when it won.

danwebster

503 posts

233 months

Monday 25th August 2014
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s m said:
Used at the Willhire back all those years ago?

My old one

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Edited by s m on Monday 25th August 16:23
Excuse me, old one!?

LanceRS

2,171 posts

136 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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[quote=T66ORA]The metal disc had nothing to do with press cars specifically.
Ford would buy back or replace problem cars with there 30 day exchange plan,(not all cars were problematic) these and cars failing factory quality control would have a round disc riveted to the front slam panel, normally were the Vin plate was and then sold through closed auctions,with no factory warranty.


My new thing that I have learned today.

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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danwebster said:
Excuse me, old one!?
As in quarter of a century old hehe

Fury RS

463 posts

181 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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My 1st Sapph, including dodgy facial hairlaugh, sold it back in 95', think the car is no morefrown

My 2nd Sapph, nice rims eh?eek sold it back 96'/97', think it was still taxed till recently.


My last Sapph which I sold earlier this year...

AreEssTimbo

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23 posts

115 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Fury RS said:
My 2nd Sapph, nice rims eh?eek sold it back 96'/97', think it was still taxed till recently.
Three spokes... They were cool for about 6 months in the early 90's lol.

Fury RS

463 posts

181 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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AreEssTimbo said:
Fury RS said:
My 2nd Sapph, nice rims eh?eek sold it back 96'/97', think it was still taxed till recently.
Three spokes... They were cool for about 6 months in the early 90's lol.
Give us a break, cool for about a year lol.
The guy I bought it off had bought them new a couple of months before I bought itconfused... Was a clean car though.

LanceRS

2,171 posts

136 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Just out of interest, how did you end up going through three? You obviously like them. Just wondering, I have come across a few people that have done the same thing over the years. I tend to keep hold of my cars for years because I like them.

LanceRS

2,171 posts

136 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Just out of interest, how did you end up going through three? You obviously like them. Just wondering, I have come across a few people that have done the same thing over the years. I tend to keep hold of my cars for years because I like them.

Baryonyx

17,990 posts

158 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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s m said:
Used at the Willhire back all those years ago?

My old one

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Edited by s m on Monday 25th August 16:23
That is a stunning photograph.

Fury RS

463 posts

181 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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LanceRS said:
Just out of interest, how did you end up going through three? You obviously like them. Just wondering, I have come across a few people that have done the same thing over the years. I tend to keep hold of my cars for years because I like them.
I owned a S1 Turbo for 4yrs before I bought the Ebony Sapph, was originally after a 3 door which back then were cheaper to buy than 4x4 Sapphs but I couldn't find a nice example, the Ebony belonged to a local businessman from new who i bought it off for a steal. Enjoyed the car for about 18 months and decided I wanted a 2.8i Capri (itch to scratch), whilst looking the white 2wd one came up for sale locally. I knew the car prior to the chap selling it locally again and knew it was a good clean car so I bought it, kept it about 18 months again and sold it on.
I have owned various warm performance cars since but always missed the Sapphs and over the later years of the 00's I viewed several supposidly mint Sapphs to no avail. The Smokestone I sold recently I bought back in 2011, seen it advertised and viewed it a couple of times and knew it was a good one so I bought it. Lovely straight clean car but I just wasn't using it enough, 2013 it covered just under 700mls between MOT's.
Sold the car to a local older fella who collects some quite odd cars who originally offered to buy it off me after just a few days of my early ownership.
If i'm honest I wish I'd kept it. Have bought a BMW since with a bit of grunt in it and all the mod cons but my Mrs and mates said it just ain't me, a little to modern!
I've been looking at Cosworths and Mk3 RS's again of latebanghead...

wongthecorrupter

2,382 posts

170 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Owned 3 2WD sapphires over the years, all in white. Great cars ,does anybody on here own F618 JUE

s m

23,164 posts

202 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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andygtt said:
I know what happened to my crystal blue sapphire, I rolled it on a revs fossils track day and reshelled it from my own pocket to better than be standard, when I came to sell it it Was worthless as apparently all re shelled cars were stollen blah blah blah so I broke it for parts, still have a lot of the parts though lol
Was that the one in Revs magazine?

shoehorn

686 posts

142 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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T66ORA said:
The metal disc had nothing to do with press cars specifically.
Ford would buy back or replace problem cars with there 30 day exchange plan,(not all cars were problematic) these and cars failing factory quality control would have a round disc riveted to the front slam panel, normally were the Vin plate was and then sold through closed auctions,with no factory warranty.

All Ford press cars were registered at Brentwood/Chelmsford, along with all the other retail cars.
Ford also had a habit of self registering cars to boost sales. I have such a Sierra Reg A***NOO.
There is a silver MK5 Cortina 2.3 Ghia around on a A---NOO plate.

I used to service fleet vehicles for a highways contractor,all their Escort and Fiesta vans had this metal tag.
Vauxhall used to do a similar thing with Balfour-Beatty Astra vans,a thick hand stamped oval plate.