purplebargeken Posted January 2, 2015 Author Share Posted January 2, 2015 Nah, late 80's. Wilko220 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taff Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 if you are going to weight it in, let me know, I'll have some bits off it for mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Can we not all chip in a couple of quid and have it as an Autoshite pool car? ... ...or cover it in AS logo stickers and fill the boot with horse shit and just drive it around doing 38 in a 40 to piss of Audi drivers, and just when their A5 is on the rear bumper the boot is released, (operated by a special custom fitted lever, bit like a choke in an 80s Escort) ..or use it to park down the side of nearly new BMW's where the owners park across 2 parking bays, obvs in tight situations the boot could be used to climb out of oldcars, Lord Sterling, trigger and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctormop Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Can't a few selected shiters enter the scumball Dickinson Mosher rally or the escorts to Estonia endurance cluster fuck and give this fine steed the Viking burial it deserves?Just a few beer vouchers from each of the appointed crew could see Autoshite's profile raised by many per cents amongst the interesting and frankly hilarious types who participate in such events? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 WHS ^^ - something like Birmingham to benidorm, but obviously it breaks down just south of Oxford or something like that. EssDeeWon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcars Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 WHS ^^ - something like Birmingham to benidorm, but obviously it breaks down just south of Oxford or something like that.I feel the poor thing will be doing Weymouth to the Weighbridge 2015 Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 More like Edmonton to Tottenham breakers shortly. Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 7/10 sex pigeons said: Would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 The 3/10 sex pigeons said put it on Scumtree, so I have. I await offers of 80 quid tonite mate/X Box swappage or offers of a dubious sexual nature. Sigh. The car has a weeks reprieve. If no salee then parts will be removed and what remains will be bridged. I've tried, I really have. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Nobody can say that you haven't tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 Nobody? Nobody? Who's this bloody Nobody. I'll give 'em a bloody hiding I will, fancy saying I haven't tried. Cheeky beggar. AlabamaShrimp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 if nowt esle this would be good for something I've always wanted to do, which is see how fast I would dare reverse a car into a tree. sporty-shite, Jim Bergerac, cms206 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 Step this way...... I have just the car for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigmund Fraud Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 if nowt esle this would be good for something I've always wanted to do, which is see how fast I would dare reverse a car into a tree. You work for Top Gear, AICMFP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I'll get my order in then. Rubber mats, ford badges, the boot struts if they connect with normal clips er maybe other bits that I can't think of now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 That'd be tight on the tree. These cars are just inexcusable, soz, the only thing to do with them is crush the whole sorry lot of the last ones remaining. Rusty Pelican and Richard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted January 3, 2015 Author Share Posted January 3, 2015 This has to be a first for me. A car that I cannot sell. This is never happened before. I'm really sorry. It isn't you, I just don't know what happened. Maybe we can try again later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Pelican Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 That'd be tight on the tree. These cars are just inexcusable, soz, the only thing to do with them is crush the whole sorry lot of the last ones remaining.Shame there isnt a multiple like function as id hit it 16532.8 times just for this comment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 FFS, I am so loath to scrap this car.Lend it to Billy, I think he is of a different leaning. cms206 and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 This has to be a first for me. A car that I cannot sell. This is never happened before. I'm really sorry. It isn't you, I just don't know what happened. Maybe we can try again later. Sorry to bang on, like, but if this car was a first date the prospective bird would be in a taxi home alone, shaking uncontrollably and the Escort would be post hand shandy in the back car park of the Duck & Bastard as the sirens grew ever nearer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Tbh no matter what's written above I would actually buy this car! I've even got the money and somewhere to put it, BUT, I'm not messing about paying £50odd to get it registered and it will cost me about another £100 to get it back to Yorkshire. This coupled with the high scrap value means I'm sort of out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warren t claim Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 In all fairness they're not too bad to drive and for a couple of hundred quid you could do worse. I bought one from CAVCRAFT just to stuff full of junk and tow a trailer with and it coped very well indeed. IIRC I even made about £120 profit in it when I punted it on. Minimad5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I imagine they're an OK steer to be fair, and the estate ones are the best looking IMO although that's not saying much is it, its like saying 'hes just not that into you' is the best of all Jennifer Aniston rom-coms or something Wilko220, HH-R, dollywobbler and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Makes me sad that there's been no interest on it - if I was without a car and needed some wheels quick then I'd have it, I reckon you'd get a few years out of that with that low-mileage. I'll ask around and see if anyone I know is interested. purplebargeken and oldcars 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 These do handle very good indeed. My mate used to outrun faster cars round corners with his parent's late s plate 1.3. He even outran my other pal's Puma but that was more to do with his foolishness as my pal backed off . Nevertheless the car stayed on the road, just! A black bumper Encore model with a 1.3 Endura e it Endura D would be grim, but ace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sporty-shite Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 In general, these Escrotes aren't too bad, I reckon. But this one's just too much trouble. Jersey registered, never been MOT'd showing visible signs of grot. They aren't rare enough to be interesting or financially viable, yet, and won't be until a few more get baled. Verdict: do your bit for OSF tax, and weigh the fucker. You can't save them all, and frankly, a lot of them just aren't worth saving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 Well, as I said it's on Glumtree and will be a week before it gets scrapped if no takers. Bits will be removed as requested and the rest crushed. If the volunteer dog taxi thing would have happened this would have been perfect and I'd have fixed the rusty blebs slowly but surely. £55 wouldn't have broken the bank and an MOT would have been no real issue. It drives beautifully. I know not all of them are worth saving but........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 These cars are just inexcusable, soz, the only thing to do with them is crush the whole sorry lot of the last ones remaining. I have to agree. I know mine was an exceptionally bad example but things went wrong with that car (newest and most expensive car I've ever owned) that I have never experienced before or since in 27 years of owning rubbish cars. Every single bit of it was precisely engineered to be not quite up to the job. Rusty Pelican and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 The escort is great for one thing - for making you realise how good the focus is. Cavcraft, sporty-shite and AnthonyG 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Naa there both rusty old things these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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