Classic Ford show photos

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For the last few days I've been getting pestered to go along to Santa Pod for the Classic Ford show, I wasn't too bothered as i was told it's full of Escorts and that it's a bit boring, but due to a change of plans on Sunday i was finding myself home alone for the day yesterday so I accepted a mates offer of a lift to the show with another mate of mine, plus i meant i could pop my Pod cherry.

 

I'm glad i did accept the offer now as it was a great day! The stead for the day was this MG ZT 190, it cost my mate £250 with a knackered engine, he had a spare V6 out of a Rover 75 sitting around so fitted that (changing the belts first) and it's been running it fault free since, bit revy mind, over 4000 rpm at 75mph! no wonder it was so juicey.

 

 

Anyway i digress, here's some photos of the day.

 

We passed this old Audi on the way.

 

 

There was a fair queue to get in but it gave a change to see plenty of old stuff, this P100 sounded like it was running something modern.

 

 

a few happy campers.

 

 

 

 

There was some beautiful cars running up and down the strip.

 

 

 

 

These were nice.

 

 

 

Genuine Mk2 Lotus Cortina as used by Mid Anglia police.

 

 

 

 

Banded wheels are very much in fashion this year.

 

 

 

Vtec kicked in Yo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Escort is a monster, If you remember the Royal Nail van then much of the running gear is in this, Cosworth 4x4 running 700 bhp and doing mid 9's on the 1/4 mile!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.8 Diesel Cortina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More to follow. 

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My mate who i was with built this RS2000 engine Orion 7 years ago was seemed quite emotional to see it still about.

 

 

This on the other hand made me emotional for all the wrong reasons. 

 

 

Now this one's interesting...

 

 

 

Now back in 2010 it looked more like this as some of you might remember, personally i preferred it's old style but at least it's been saved and is being enjoyed.

 

 

 

This Ute was stunning, it even had a kangaroo as a emblem on the bonnet!

 

 

206E is it's genuine plate, it must be worth a mint.

 

 

 

I loved this transit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Those banned wheels are back again.

 

 

 

 

I really liked this one too.

 

 

 

I LOVE red RS Cosworths.

 

 

 

Tidy 1.6 Ghia.

 

 

 

Nothing is safe from Rat look.

 

 

 

 

and there's more...

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I'm not sure what this was running but it was doing well on the strip so i doubt it's a 1600 any more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I remember when all these Mk3's wore Cloverleafs.

 

 

 

 

This Fiesta was mint but no less mint than the Mk3 Escort i had was, I think i undersold that.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I loved this van, it was also minty fresh. Interesting plate too.

 

 

 

 

This belongs to one of the guys in the club i run, I'm not keen on the front spoiler personally.

 

 

 

This Capri was amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These next few were on the Classic Ford magazine stand, they were under cover until 11am before being uncovered to show everyone.

 

This is a 3.0 V6 Uren Salvage, it's a bitsa though it's a reshell with a vin bought of ebay i believe.

 

 

 

This Granada was simply amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

Gosh. Some nice stuff, and some thoroughly nasty stuff, too.

 

That motorsport Tranny has made me go a bit giddy. "The 1.3S" badging on the tail of the Zakspeed tribute caused coffee to project from my face.

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Last few, This Escort van packed a BMW diesel engine, again i can't remember the details on it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Words can not explain how shit this looked.

 

 

This is a mega rare Taunus 15M RS which had a 1.7 V4 engine and ran front wheel drive.

 

 

 

 

 

Someone wanted £2250 for this Orion, It wasn't nice.

 

 

Some boring monster truck thing.

 

 

 

 

 

This ratty Corsair was going up and down the strip during the day.

 

 

 

 

Gorgeous Zodiac in the car park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE END.

 

 

[TRW]

Sorry to interrupt you there in mid-post!

 

I don't 'do' Fords, but the Corsair really is the Bulls Bollocks. As a child my old man had a Mk1 Orion and the guy next door had one of these as a cheapo runaround. It looked better than the Orion IMO!

 

Did ford ever fit the Essex V6 to these, or was that only for the Zodiac, Granada and Transit?

[cort16]

some serious trouser tent material there

[RoadworkUK]

Did ford ever fit the Essex V6 to these, or was that only for the Zodiac, Granada and Transit?

 

I don't think there were any official Ford ones, but the V4 in the UK cars was an Essex V4...

[eddyramrod]

Was my old Granada there?  I believe it now wears RBY 879K and Ghia alloys...

[Vince70]

Thanks for putting the pictures up of Santa pod... I normally go myself due to a couple of friends owning old fords and racing them up the strip and we normally all go camping for the weekend...

 

I hear this year it was a bit of a mission leaving on the Sunday as it took my friends forever and a day to get out the car park...

 

Every year I get bitter and twisted when I see all those Escorts and Anglias which I sold for penny's now worth a billion quid lol

[Vince70]

Sorry to interrupt you there in mid-post!

 

I don't 'do' Fords, but the Corsair really is the Bulls Bollocks. As a child my old man had a Mk1 Orion and the guy next door had one of these as a cheapo runaround. It looked better than the Orion IMO!

 

Did ford ever fit the Essex V6 to these, or was that only for the Zodiac, Granada and Transit?

For extra autoshite points you needed the horrible V4 Essex engine Corsair which I believe was in the later ones rather than the decent pre crossflow Kent series engine.

[Ghosty]

Some great stuff there, bit of a purist's nightmare!

 

Reminded me of C889FRO, a rather fast Escort RS Turbo lowered on Speedlines that used to always be parked on the next street next to me, then disappeared a few years ago. Just checked and it seems it was scrapped early last year.

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I hear this year it was a bit of a mission leaving on the Sunday as it took my friends forever and a day to get out the car park...

 

It was a utter nightmare! We just sat in the car park for ages with some other friends waiting until it died off in the end, we still never got out until 6.30pm, the show finished at 5pm!

 

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Was my old Granada there?  I believe it now wears RBY 879K and Ghia alloys...

 

Not that i can remember ready, sorry.

 

Did ford ever fit the Essex V6 to these, or was that only for the Zodiac, Granada and Transit?

 

Corsairs are the nuts, they have really grown on my over the years and I'm gutted i missed out on that 2.0 V4 GT recently, I know someone local selling a early 1500 project which would be tempting. As for the V6, It has been done but not by factory and I don't think by Salvage 

[londonm]

The guy who rat looked the MK1 Cortina should be banned from driving for life.

[RobT]

Corking pics there Trig, cheers. Gold Sierra for me please, bar the stupid exhaust. Was it quick?

[Skizzer]

Good pics! Some interesting stuff there - but (at the risk of sounding creepy) nothing I'd crawl over your Cortina (or Eddy's Granada) to get to...

 

I find stretched tyres profoundly depressing. Fake German number plates ditto. Each to his own.

 

Do rather like the Corsairs though, ratty and otherwise, and the silver Mk3 Scrote, and the baby blue 100E, and some of the proper hot rod things.

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I must say, My Mk3 was still nicer than many the one's on display yesterday (except the Uren one), they all looked a bit tired and bodgy, those Escorts with the German plates were in fact LHD German imports, Mk3's must be the latest thing to ship over now.

 

A mate of mine who's a local car dealer has this Corsair project for sale at the moment with the 1500 crossflow, it needs a few jobs but it's far from rubbish, he's told me to make of offer on it but I haven't got much spare cash at the moment.

 

[Skizzer]

NOW you're talking.

 

Red vinyl? Pea shooter exhaust? That Corsair bumper that looks like it's on upside down? Inappropriate Serck plates? Get on it!

 

Proper early 60s colour too. I've just painted my kitchen that colour, in fact, it being a 1963 house.

[sheffcortinacentre]

ford had a few Essex V6 corsair ests as chase cars while the mk2 cortinas where being rallied before they where replaced by mk1 escort

think race proved did some along side their mk2 savage Cortina's..

the cossie powered mk3 escort is owned built by the owner of "royal nail" van far as I know he still had both.

shame that mk3 savage was written off/reshelled as it was the original development one.

recognise quiet a few of the other tina's .

[AlabamaShrimp]

Gosh. Some nice stuff, and some thoroughly nasty stuff, too.

 

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What he said

 

Tbh I hate "scene" cars, I've no idea why everything has to be lowered or why you would ever want to change the engine especially for one from a different company.

 

Each to there own and all that, but when there "ruined" like some of them obviously are how how does this bode for the next owner? If there ever is one

[In The Pit]

Now this one's interesting...

 

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Now back in 2010 it looked more like this as some of you might remember, personally i preferred it's old style but at least it's been saved and is being enjoyed.

 

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I first saw this on your Flickr pictures in 2010 and loved it for its original untouched look and also its colour a very rare shade called Green Jade.  It appeared for sale in 2011 for around £1200 but I was unable to buy it as I was in the process of trying to secure a 1976 (1975 built) MKII Escort 1300 Ghia totally original down to dealer plates/rear window sticker etc, so I was unable to buy this green 1300L.  I had seen on another forum a while back what had happened to it and was sad to see that.  On the plus side I did purchase the 1300 Ghia its in safe hands with me as I won't be selling it and its staying totally standard.

 

Great pics as usual, thanks for sharing.

[cort1977]

_{Some tasty cars there, that silver Capris 3.0S would do me nicely.}

 

_{Does anyone know where I could get some of those stripes on the side of the gold Mk 2 cortina?   Are they off the shelf anywhere or is it a matter of getting them made up at a graphics place?}

[In The Pit]

_{Does anyone know where I could get some of those stripes on the side of the gold Mk 2 cortina?   Are they off the shelf anywhere or is it a matter of getting them made up at a graphics place?}

I think these might be the ones:

http://www.dmb.uk.com/prod/2212/ford-retro-side-stripe-kit

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Seeing the VW scene influence on presumably younger modders is interesting and whilst not for me ,I'm just happy people are willing to mess around with old cars. It did make me think what's the Ford equivalent of Pineappled? Not the Old Skool, Sarf Landon, Rally / Race rep , Pikey VIP look that's all well established, but the new generation stuff. Coconutted ? Potatoed ? ( maybe for the £50,000 re-shell Irish rally cars)

 

As for banded steels,I' can usually take them or leave them, but, that 3.0S Granada looks pretty hot,never seem that done before- who needs scabby Cossie Scorpio allys ?

[Skoze]

Shame i didn't know you were there! Would've been good to see you. 

 

I was doing my bit for AS in the corner with the Capri, complete with poorly-applied dealer sticker in the window. Good weekend. 

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I would have said hello had I off known! Which Capri was yours?

[scruff]

The one with bald rear tyres... 

[Skoze]

The black 3.0S on the Flux stand, mostly surrounded by middle-aged men tutting about things. 

[cort1977]

I think these might be the ones:

http://www.dmb.uk.com/prod/2212/ford-retro-side-stripe-kit

Hey, thanks very much, i have spent hours* googling for those before without finding them.

[trigger]

The black 3.0S on the Flux stand, mostly surrounded by middle-aged men tutting about things.

 

So you was on the stand with all the young girls with nice arses, lucky man! I do remember seeing it on there now, it looked fantastic.