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[RetroShite]

Some more arrivals plus painted the cortina all one colour. It was labelled as cosmos blue but upon opening the tin it was clearly too dark. 

By that point we just thought fuck it, it'll do. Looks fine from 20 feet.

[MAF260]

27 minutes ago, RetroShite said:

Some more arrivals plus painted the cortina all one colour. It was labelled as cosmos blue but upon opening the tin it was clearly too dark. 

By that point we just thought fuck it, it'll do. Looks fine from 20 feet.

635 CSi - yes please!

[Pieman]

Did you put the BMW in front of the No Parking sign just to fit the stereotype?

[JeeExEll]

Cosmos blue is a light metallic. How can they get that so wrong?

[CortinaDave]

Yeah looks more like midnight blue now which was another mk4 colour. Whatever it is,  all one colour is a bonus

[RetroShite]

What a beauty!

[MAF260]

22 minutes ago, RetroShite said:

What a beauty!

I've lusted after one of these forever. Always scared off by potential rot.

Are you raffling it....? EDIT - just seen it on your site. I will be purchasing tickets!

[chancer]

22 hours ago, RetroShite said:

 

That 190 is a honey. Don't see many, especially without the Sacco plastics on the doors. Swap for fucked van and a camping trailer? 🤣 now this is one i will be buying s ticket for

[Shite Ron]

2 hours ago, RetroShite said:

What a beauty!

 

 

 

 

Nice car, good to see the transmission matches the plate.

[Pieman]

Just come across this - surely there's scope for Retroshite: The Game.
 

 

[RetroShite]

Found in a hedge by the looks of it.

[RetroShite]

Unexpected eBay win today!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, RetroShite said:

Unexpected eBay win today!

I've had a moment. Recognised from the dash pic. Hng.

[Wibble]

7 hours ago, RetroShite said:

Found in a hedge by the looks of it.

Looks like a 5 speed box conversion, excellent!

[Wibble]

1 hour ago, RetroShite said:

Unexpected eBay win today!

Looks like the one I posted on the eBay tat thread.

[Matty]

7 hours ago, Wibble said:

Looks like a 5 speed box conversion, excellent!

Got its twin down here being done up by my uncle.

[camryv6]

On 01/06/2025 at 22:13, RetroShite said:

Unexpected eBay win today!

@dollywobbler

[yes oui si]

On 01/06/2025 at 23:56, High Jetter said:

 Recognised from the dash pic. Hng.

Same. Got unfinished business with Montegos, particularly diesel estates, and I've got a spare set of unused 6n Polo coilovers sat around... 

Edit:

I loved this piece of shit, but it was rotten. Utterly rotten, and a load of oil had been spilled on the back seat. Sills and pillars made of wob and rolled up newspapers... So rattle cans and drunken lowering it was. 

[High Jetter]

Drove them new. Our drummer had an estate, got most of the lighting rig in too

[Wibble]

14 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Drove them new. Our drummer had an estate, got most of the lighting rig in too

So did I. Can’t remember but it would have been around 1993 when I had a call from the lease fleet manager at Thames Water, asking me to take a new Montego Countryman diesel for a run. It had been on loan as a demonstrator for a month and no one had used it and it was due back the next day. She asked me to take it for the night and put as many miles on it as you can and gave me a £20 fuel voucher.

It was ok to be fair. Far better than the 1.6L I’d had for 6 months previously. British racing green, decent spec and I put 110 miles on it that night before taking the now Mrs W home. Fleet manager was happy it didn’t go back with no miles added. It really was quite enjoyable.

[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, Wibble said:

So did I. Can’t remember but it would have been around 1993 when I had a call from the lease fleet manager at Thames Water, asking me to take a new Montego Countryman diesel for a run. It had been on loan as a demonstrator for a month and no one had used it and it was due back the next day. She asked me to take it for the night and put as many miles on it as you can and gave me a £20 fuel voucher.

It was ok to be fair. Far better than the 1.6L I’d had for 6 months previously. British racing green, decent spec and I put 110 miles on it that night before taking the now Mrs W home. Fleet manager was happy it didn’t go back with no miles added. It really was quite enjoyable.

I remember one in the car pool where I worked in the 90s. Affectionately* known as the Massey Ferguson.

[rob88h]

On 01/06/2025 at 16:01, RetroShite said:

I’m a big fan of the Ascona B. We had a couple of these as our family car growing up in the 90’s. A rare sight even back then!

I shall certainly be looking out for a draw on this one if you decide to.

[RetroShite]

I picked up this Polo over a year ago and sold it cheap with no mot and no V5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Got it back recently with a v5 and 10 months mot for not much more than I sold it for. There was a lot of surface rust along the bottom of the doors, sills, arches etc so I ordered some paint and chucked some at it.

 

 

Quite pleased with the result and because it's only the lower area of the car it doesn't really stand out that much.

[RetroShite]

Another delightful old motor has arrived again!

[Metal Guru]

On 08/06/2025 at 19:12, RetroShite said:

Another delightful old motor has arrived again!

My brother had one of those. I remember the terrible gear ratios. I think it was a 4 speed with the 1-3 fairly normal and then 4th was about the same as 6th on modern cars. On a long hill on a motorway it was impossible to maintain 70 in 4th, so you had to change down to 3rd with it revving it’s nuts off.

Still it started every day first time, which was more than you could say for my Fiesta of the same age.

[RetroShite]

It's amazing what can be found up people's driveways!

A V6 MK1 Cortina? Yes please!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, RetroShite said:

It's amazing what can be found up people's driveways!

A V6 MK1 Cortina? Yes please!

Savage?

[Westbay]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Savage?

Nah, just a bit rustic ... 😁

[mercedade]

On 04/06/2025 at 18:44, yes oui si said:

Same. Got unfinished business with Montegos, particularly diesel estates, and I've got a spare set of unused 6n Polo coilovers sat around... 

Edit:

I loved this piece of shit, but it was rotten. Utterly rotten, and a load of oil had been spilled on the back seat. Sills and pillars made of wob and rolled up newspapers... So rattle cans and drunken lowering it was. 

I used to own K612 WOL, a Rover 827 that had similar vibes

 

[CortinaDave]

On 10/06/2025 at 21:03, RetroShite said:

It's amazing what can be found up people's driveways!

A V6 MK1 Cortina? Yes please!

Might have a punt on that one! Had a mk1 years ago and although it looked great the bloody thing broke down every time i took it out or id probably still have it