Ultra rare mk 1 Escort at upcoming auction
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Fiesta 1.2 ...future classic 
Low price, but I don't think I'll buy it and stash it away as part of my pension fund!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-FIESTA-1-2-LX-3DOO...
Low price, but I don't think I'll buy it and stash it away as part of my pension fund!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-FIESTA-1-2-LX-3DOO...
Cool, just read this and never realised these old cars were worth so much or people even wanted them. My granddads got an old white one in his garage (dont know how old, just remember it was really old cos it had funny black number plates with a G on the end) which he calls twink, or might be twinky, sounds like a pet rabbit haha and he had it before like I was even born.
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
Notso said:
Cool, just read this and never realised these old cars were worth so much or people even wanted them. My granddads got an old white one in his garage (dont know how old, just remember it was really old cos it had funny black number plates with a G on the end) which he calls twink, or might be twinky, sounds like a pet rabbit haha and he had it before like I was even born.
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
Shezbo said:
Notso said:
Cool, just read this and never realised these old cars were worth so much or people even wanted them. My granddads got an old white one in his garage (dont know how old, just remember it was really old cos it had funny black number plates with a G on the end) which he calls twink, or might be twinky, sounds like a pet rabbit haha and he had it before like I was even born.
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
i had a mk1 mexico 1601 rs custom, overhead valve 40 years ago 74 reg, but my mate he had a V6 3.0 MK1 escort AVO built with chrome rostyles and rocker covers, cant remember much detail but seem to remember him saying 180 bhp at flywheel it was a beast burnt a few bmw,s off that where said to be fast at the time, not very reliable if i remember right.
aeropilot said:
Shezbo said:
Notso said:
Cool, just read this and never realised these old cars were worth so much or people even wanted them. My granddads got an old white one in his garage (dont know how old, just remember it was really old cos it had funny black number plates with a G on the end) which he calls twink, or might be twinky, sounds like a pet rabbit haha and he had it before like I was even born.
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
generationx said:
aeropilot said:
Shezbo said:
Notso said:
Cool, just read this and never realised these old cars were worth so much or people even wanted them. My granddads got an old white one in his garage (dont know how old, just remember it was really old cos it had funny black number plates with a G on the end) which he calls twink, or might be twinky, sounds like a pet rabbit haha and he had it before like I was even born.
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
aeropilot said:
generationx said:
aeropilot said:
Shezbo said:
Notso said:
Cool, just read this and never realised these old cars were worth so much or people even wanted them. My granddads got an old white one in his garage (dont know how old, just remember it was really old cos it had funny black number plates with a G on the end) which he calls twink, or might be twinky, sounds like a pet rabbit haha and he had it before like I was even born.
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
I remember him making me look at it in his garage just before I started driving and him goin on about this and that, twin this, special that, 4 Sibbys (whatever they are). He even said it had some special light Mini wheels or something which sounded a bit strange, Mini wheels on a Ford? I sat in it and there was nothing in it, no media, no satnav, no way of streaming stuff, no phone charger, no cup holders, no reversing camera nothing. How do you reverse a car without a camera? It even had funny levers to open the windows, are they all the same?
I also remember him saying it had an atlas in it, which I thought was odd but thought it was instead of satnav but reading this maybe it was something else. My dad doesn't like it and granddad now just drives an old 15 reg Honda Jazz. I'll have to ask him if he wants to give it to me if he dont use it hahaha
Evening all.
Thought I'd mention this as it could be Very useful info to those who have older cars with high compression engines with Big carbs.
My Mk 1 RS has been a right barsteward to start from cold even since i have had it, tried several different methods, but mostly it would do a proper "Basil" cold starting, or rather not starting.
Anyway, couple of weeks back, i removed a plug to see if it was flooded, turned it over to clear whilst stood by the door looking at the engine, so Not touching the throttle, and the bugger fired up instantly! Re fitted the plug, would not start.
More buggering around, would not start, removed another plug to check, turned over and it fired on 3 again chuffing like a steam engine. This time, i left it for around 10 secs to get some heat in.
Re fitted the plug, it started ok. It has always started well when warm.
Thought about this for a while and concluded the starter motor might be a bit weak and drawing too much current for cold starting. So, i bit the bullet and bought one of these Powerlite modern starters that claimed lightness,60% more power etc.
Fitted it, NO more starting problems, fires up well after enough pumps of the throttle.
So, the old adage, " you never too old to learn" is true
Thought I'd mention this as it could be Very useful info to those who have older cars with high compression engines with Big carbs.
My Mk 1 RS has been a right barsteward to start from cold even since i have had it, tried several different methods, but mostly it would do a proper "Basil" cold starting, or rather not starting.
Anyway, couple of weeks back, i removed a plug to see if it was flooded, turned it over to clear whilst stood by the door looking at the engine, so Not touching the throttle, and the bugger fired up instantly! Re fitted the plug, would not start.
More buggering around, would not start, removed another plug to check, turned over and it fired on 3 again chuffing like a steam engine. This time, i left it for around 10 secs to get some heat in.
Re fitted the plug, it started ok. It has always started well when warm.
Thought about this for a while and concluded the starter motor might be a bit weak and drawing too much current for cold starting. So, i bit the bullet and bought one of these Powerlite modern starters that claimed lightness,60% more power etc.
Fitted it, NO more starting problems, fires up well after enough pumps of the throttle.
So, the old adage, " you never too old to learn" is true
Mark A S said:
Evening all.
Thought I'd mention this as it could be Very useful info to those who have older cars with high compression engines with Big carbs.
My Mk 1 RS has been a right barsteward to start from cold even since i have had it, tried several different methods, but mostly it would do a proper "Basil" cold starting, or rather not starting.
Anyway, couple of weeks back, i removed a plug to see if it was flooded, turned it over to clear whilst stood by the door looking at the engine, so Not touching the throttle, and the bugger fired up instantly! Re fitted the plug, would not start.
More buggering around, would not start, removed another plug to check, turned over and it fired on 3 again chuffing like a steam engine. This time, i left it for around 10 secs to get some heat in.
Re fitted the plug, it started ok. It has always started well when warm.
Thought about this for a while and concluded the starter motor might be a bit weak and drawing too much current for cold starting. So, i bit the bullet and bought one of these Powerlite modern starters that claimed lightness,60% more power etc.
Fitted it, NO more starting problems, fires up well after enough pumps of the throttle.
So, the old adage, " you never too old to learn" is true
Out of interest, what compression are you running?Thought I'd mention this as it could be Very useful info to those who have older cars with high compression engines with Big carbs.
My Mk 1 RS has been a right barsteward to start from cold even since i have had it, tried several different methods, but mostly it would do a proper "Basil" cold starting, or rather not starting.
Anyway, couple of weeks back, i removed a plug to see if it was flooded, turned it over to clear whilst stood by the door looking at the engine, so Not touching the throttle, and the bugger fired up instantly! Re fitted the plug, would not start.
More buggering around, would not start, removed another plug to check, turned over and it fired on 3 again chuffing like a steam engine. This time, i left it for around 10 secs to get some heat in.
Re fitted the plug, it started ok. It has always started well when warm.
Thought about this for a while and concluded the starter motor might be a bit weak and drawing too much current for cold starting. So, i bit the bullet and bought one of these Powerlite modern starters that claimed lightness,60% more power etc.
Fitted it, NO more starting problems, fires up well after enough pumps of the throttle.
So, the old adage, " you never too old to learn" is true
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