Which attainable car from your youth would you still like?

Which attainable car from your youth would you still like?

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mfmman

2,362 posts

182 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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s m said:
Stick Legs said:


One of these with an LSD.

I remember when really good ones were sub 5k.
Nice cool

Really good ones were sub 3k mid 80s

Friend’s RS1800 was around 5k at that time
In about 1989 (I was 20) I saw a 1980 Mk2 RS2000 advertised for sale in South Wales Auto Trader at a used car lot in Pontypridd for £895.

Raced over there from Bristol the next morning for 9.00am (bought the paper the evening before and didn't bother waiting until they opened before checking, such was my haste to bag a bargain) and there amongst the Sierra 1.6Ls and Nova 1200s and other shopping car fodder was a perfect red RS2000 Custom. The only downside it was actually £2895.00 frown . Left disappointed, I didn't have 2895 and it wasn't much of a bargain anyway.

Bought a Mk1 RS2000 a few months later for £1500 smile

£2895 in 1989 is about £6400 now. I'll readily drive to Pontypridd tonight if there are any there in the same nick for that now



Edited by mfmman on Wednesday 25th May 20:59

DickyC

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49,550 posts

197 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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FilH said:
A Sierra Cosworth. Although I wouldn't say they are attainable now . Fortunately bought one 10yrs ago, when I could afford one!
Yes, I meant 'attainable at the time of your youth' but it sounded stuffy and it was too long for the title.

I'd like to add Gilbern Invader to my list. Also not BMC you'll notice.

Drooles

1,361 posts

55 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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I’d really like an Opel Manta…

I was going to say Lancia Delta Integrale but they are crazy money now

mike9009

6,919 posts

242 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Simple for me...

My MK1 MR2 t-bar with leather. Perfect car for me.....

aeropilot

34,302 posts

226 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Escort3500 said:
DickyC said:
Escort3500 said:
DickyC said:
A hotted-up Anglia for me, please.

I won't do it, but I like the fact that it still intrigues me.

The spec I can still reel off for you: Classic struts and discs, 5 1/2 Js, 1650 pushrod - or a Lotus Twin Cam! - with a bullet box from a 2000E.

I even enjoyed typing the words.

Marvellous.

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Your wish is my command smile

My 105e from my heady ‘70’s college days: 1760 big-valve Lotus TC, twin 45s, 200E ‘box, Classic Capri front struts with uprated inserts, turreted Bilsteins at the rear, English axle, quick rack, full cage, buckets, harnesses, seam welded shell, fireproofed rear bulkhead, Cibies, Lotus steels etc.

Happy (boy racer) days biggrin



Ooh, yes, please.

I'm amazed you wrangled 1760 out of a 1558. Collectively we seem to be looking back fondly at those days.

There was one at a Goodwood Breakfast Club in the paddock. I took quite a few pics. I'll post some when I remember how my filing system works.

Sold a twin choke Weber from a Cooper S to a bloke with an early Escort. He asked for his money back when the car didn't run right and his mate told him it was probably jetted wrong. A little knowledge and all that.

Thanks for that smile
You’re welcome.

Although it was a bit of a handful in town (very ‘cammy’ and the Webers regularly needed fettling/balancing), it was great on rural Gloucestershire roads. It’s one of the few cars I really regret selling. The engine was allegedly a Vegantune, but I was doubtful as it didn’t feature their cam cover and the build sheet made no mention. I know that boring to 1760 resulted in very thin cylinder walls, but it was a strong engine. It was certainly quicker than the standard TC engine the car had for a while after the crossflow it came with died, so it could well have been a 1760. I can’t remember the name of the engine builder, but he was well known in the area back in the day.
1760TC can be done using the original 1500 block, at max overbore, and fitted with the longer strong crank from a later 1600, but not all TC blocks could be taken to that. I had a Cosworth built, all steel bottom end for a TC that was in this configuration ready to go in my Escort Twin Cam back in the late 80's, but had to sell the car and engine before getting a chance to put one into the other.
Usual easier route to a 1760TC is to use the 711M x-flow tall block with spacer etc.

Escort3500

11,830 posts

144 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Thanks smile

OutInTheShed

7,374 posts

25 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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A Hillman Imp with a couple of 50mm ducati throttle bodies and bald crossply remoulds might be 'amusing'.

Register1

2,131 posts

93 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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3 liter V6 Cortina mk 2

Turbobanana

6,160 posts

200 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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thebraketester said:
Which is the title of the thread....
OK, hands up: I misread that as "unattainable". D'oh. I'll slope off quietly now and go to bed. Sorry.

ambuletz

10,693 posts

180 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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I'd like to say a late rover mini cooper in thahiti blue.. but 1- too expensive 2- not ULEZ
mk1 MX5? not ULEZ..

that leaves the mk7 celica which i would still very much like to own

hilly10

7,076 posts

227 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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I have mine all I ever wanted way back in 1974 when I was 18


Milkyway

9,292 posts

52 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Register1 said:
3 liter V6 Cortina mk 2
Savage... my brothers mate had one in the dreaded ‘silver fox’, complete with a Perspex bonnet.
( Didn’t look so cool, due to the oil leak spraying it) rolleyes

Gareth9702

370 posts

131 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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A Fiat 850 or a Fiat 124 Coupe. The former because it was a miracle of packaging and the latter because it was so stylish.

Super Sonic

4,518 posts

53 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Mk4 Civic (87-91)

Mr E

21,584 posts

258 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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At one point I could afford one of these. I bottled it and bought a Toyota.

jeremyc

23,336 posts

283 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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DickyC said:
A hotted-up Anglia for me, please.

I won't do it, but I like the fact that it still intrigues me.

The spec I can still reel off for you: Classic struts and discs, 5 1/2 Js, 1650 pushrod - or a Lotus Twin Cam! - with a bullet box from a 2000E.

I even enjoyed typing the words.

Marvellous.

smile
Get yer wallet outwink







Clarkedontgo

311 posts

58 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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A celica supra 2.8 , black with the big arches

DickyC

Original Poster:

49,550 posts

197 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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jeremyc said:
DickyC said:
A hotted-up Anglia for me, please.

I won't do it, but I like the fact that it still intrigues me.

The spec I can still reel off for you: Classic struts and discs, 5 1/2 Js, 1650 pushrod - or a Lotus Twin Cam! - with a bullet box from a 2000E.

I even enjoyed typing the words.

Marvellous.

smile
Get yer wallet outwink



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jeremyc

23,336 posts

283 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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And for me, something like this please. cloud9


Neil1323bolts

1,079 posts

105 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Well back in my youth I was a proper Ford fanboy so I guess a few of the fast Ford gems of that era, s1 RS turbo absolutely loved that car , sapphire RS cosworth , mk2 fiesta xr2 , v6 24v cosworth xr4x4 massively modified, mk1 fiesta super sport , that’s some of the fords I’ve owned, I did quite like my cavalier Sri 130 it seemed a rocket ship back in the day . What else golf vr6 was pretty good , if a bit front heavy !