Show me your old Fords :)

spjmorris

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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!

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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 :eek:


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.

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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.

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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....

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then this:

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and another Fiesta before the current Blurple

Your turn :)
 
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Nice collection of cars im sure ive a few pics somewhere loosing track of the fords ive had but off top of my head- 2 mk2 escorts one was a mexico- 1 mk5 escort -1 mk2 capri 3.0 s and 2 mk2s- 2 focuses- 5 v6 c1 cougars oh and a sierra think thats the lot.
 
Of the 9 cars I've owned, only 3 have been Fords, although that's still a third so not too bad. I also did my HGV lessons in an Iveco, so I'm going sort of count that!

First Ford was my Ebony Cougar. Bought in 2006 for £4900 (advertised at £5300) with around 27k on the clock. She was a completely standard 2001 C1 V6 X but was an ex-dealer demonstrator and had a heated front screen and a (perfectly functioning!) sunflap. I added 17" chrome BK299s, Mongoose twin exit exhaust, K&N panel, Superchips Bluefin, Sony head unit, US C2 front grille (chopped down to fit the C1 lights) and a Cougar head boot badge. I sold it to a colleague in 2009 for £3000.

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Next up was a 2004 Fiesta Ghia with a ripsnorting 59 BHP of 1.4 TDCi power, bought in 2008 for £6500. The car was actually bought for Joanne but ended up being our little workhorse, we owned it for 7 years and took the odometer from 27k (again!) to 165k, feeding it 2 clutches, 2 exhaust sections and a battery along the way. Mods were limited to clear side repeaters, a full complement of genuine Fiesta ST shocks and springs, Mondeo ST200 alloys (bought from Andy Quicksilver) and a pair of facelift rearights (wired in by... Andy Quicksilver!) for the dual foglights when we moved to Germany. We adored this little car, with it virtually becoming a member of the family, but it eventually made way for our current Audi A3 and was sold to Steve Morris.

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Concurrent to the Fiesta was my second Cougar. A 2000 C1, it was bought in 2009 for £2000 as another bog standard V6 X with 77k on the clock. I owned it until last year and treated it to 'one or two' mods before selling it to Steve when we were posted to Gibraltar. I won't bore you with the details as you've all read my witterings a million times already. Suffice to say that I'm thrilled with the way Steve has moved the car forward and I don't think it could be in better hands.

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That frosty looked nice.
My old man had one of those Granadas, 2.9L ex-police, went well.
Of all the cars I've had only a few were Ford's, a Capri mk3, Sierra, A Probe, 2 Puma's, and 2 Cougars.
 
That frosty looked nice.
My old man had one of those Granadas, 2.9L ex-police, went well.
Of all the cars I've had only a few were Ford's, a Capri mk3, Sierra, A Probe, 2 Puma's, and 2 Cougars.

The rear bumper from that Frosty is fitted to your car :D
 
After my first 'wheels', an ex-GPO Moggy van, everything has sported the Blue Oval:

Mk2 Cortina 1300 DL
Mk3 Consul 2000 L
Mk2 Capri 1600 GL
Mk3 Capri 2000 Ghia
Mk3 Escort XR3 with RS1600i spoilers
Mk2 Orion 1600 Ghia
Sierra XR4i
Sierra 2000 Ghia
Mk4 Escort 1300's x 2 (bought brand new)
Mk3 Fiesta 1300 Flight (bought brand new)
Mk3 Fiesta XR2
Sierra Sapphire 2000
Sierra Sapphire 2000 Ghia 4x4
Mk1 Mondeo 2000 Ghia Auto Hatch
Mk1 Mondeo 2000 GXL Saloon
Mk1 Galaxy 2000 Ghia Auto
Mk1.5 Galaxy 2300 Ghia X
Mk2 Galaxy 2000 Ghia Auto
Mk2 Maverick 2000 XLT..............KA 1300 Collection
Mk3 Granada 2000 Ghia Auto......Mk1 Focus CMax 1600 Zetec
V6 C1 Cougar X pack..................Mk2 Focus 1600 Zetec
V6 C1.5 Cougar X pack...............Mk2 CMax 1600 Zetec
Mk3 Mondeo ST220....................Mk3 CMax 1600 Titanium
 
I've had more than I care to mention, but some of them I took photos of....:LOL:
First Ford I owned was a gold Mk2 Escort Ghia with vinyl roof! No pics though sadly(n)

Full '90 spec XR3i, Richard Longman engine, full stainless exhaust, lowered all round, big stereo install, Cobra seats, in boy racer red:LOL:
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2.0 Probe - ratty and not that quick, but I loved it(y)
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2.5 Probe - rare colour, very fast but very tired when i'd finished with it.
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Freebie Maverick(y)
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Then I got this - should be familiar:LOL:
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Any excuse for a gratuitous walnut shot:devilish:
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And currently.....
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After my first 'wheels', an ex-GPO Moggy van, everything has sported the Blue Oval:

Mk2 Cortina 1300 DL
Mk3 Consul 2000 L
Mk2 Capri 1600 GL
Mk3 Capri 2000 Ghia
Mk3 Escort XR3 with RS1600i spoilers
Mk2 Orion 1600 Ghia
Sierra XR4i
Sierra 2000 Ghia
Mk4 Escort 1300's x 2 (bought brand new)
Mk3 Fiesta 1300 Flight (bought brand new)
Mk3 Fiesta XR2
Sierra Sapphire 2000
Sierra Sapphire 2000 Ghia 4x4
Mk1 Mondeo 2000 Ghia Auto Hatch
Mk1 Mondeo 2000 GXL Saloon
Mk1 Galaxy 2000 Ghia Auto
Mk1.5 Galaxy 2300 Ghia X
Mk2 Galaxy 2000 Ghia Auto
Mk2 Maverick 2000 XLT..............KA 1300 Collection
Mk3 Granada 2000 Ghia Auto......Mk1 Focus CMax 1600 Zetec
V6 C1 Cougar X pack..................Mk2 Focus 1600 Zetec
V6 C1.5 Cougar X pack...............Mk2 CMax 1600 Zetec
Mk3 Mondeo ST220....................Mk3 CMax 1600 Titanium


Wow, seriously impressive list there Andy!