'93 Mondy thread - a K reg estate *exists*

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9 minutes ago, KWhite said:

Nice!! looks like it has traction control so will have adaptive damping too!

And air con...

edit: soz of course std on Ghia

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So the 5 HAR 2 litre Ghias now known which have a crazy survival rate...

K388 HAR    28/05/93    Ghia
K389 HAR    28/05/93    Ghia
K546 HAR    15/06/93    Ghia
K584 HAR    16/06/93    Ghia
K631 HAR    17/06/93    Ghia
 

[KWhite]

30 minutes ago, egg said:

And air con...

edit: soz of course std on Ghia

Yep! only a manual sunroof as standard though  (until 1994 and the 'Ghia Grile') unlike the late Sierra Ghia's that had electric sunroof but no air con

[greengartside]

14 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

@egg Not only do I have photos of the K-reg Ghia near to me, I spoke to the owner and I have news about it.....

 

Bodywork looks very straight and tidy.

 

 

As is the interior. Mileage up to 54k from 52,991 at its last MoT in 2008.

 

Battery was flat, so I didn't hear it running.

Period plates front and rear plus dealer sticker all from the same Suffolk dealer, but I doubt they would have sold it brand new on that 'AR' registration. Were Ford pre-registering them back then?

Apparently it's had a long-term owner. More recently the brother of the chap I saw had it on a farm, then needed space and it got moved to where it sits now. It will be for sale, at something like £2,000 with a fresh MoT. Seems like a good buy to me for that money.

It's very local to me on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, I can pass on details if required.

It wouldn’t have been sold new by John Grose, more likely it was sourced from Ford directly as a lot of them were in the day and sold when it was nearly new.

A fantastic survivor and if I had the room I’d be very interested. I hope it goes to a good home.

[Datsuncog]

On 29/09/2023 at 15:24, egg said:

Good to see L1FMC, one of the Overland Challenge cars, front and centre!

Still on permanent display in Belfast, and a car I've known since it joined the Ulster Transport Museum in the mid-90s.

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35 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Still on permanent display in Belfast, and a car I've known since it joined the Ulster Transport Museum in the mid-90s.

Yep,  I got the black and white original(?) print from eBay.

Thinking of the HAR cars again...

Circa 400,000 UK MK1 Mondeos were sold. More than 99% are gone. Of the few left, less than 200 are K-reg. And 5 are from the same 'block' of cars!

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, greengartside said:

It wouldn’t have been sold new by John Grose, more likely it was sourced from Ford directly as a lot of them were in the day and sold when it was nearly new.

A fantastic survivor and if I had the room I’d be very interested. I hope it goes to a good home.

Rong coolant though! 

[DVee8]

On F/B marketplace

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/326775296603479

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I've got the passenger footwell leak for the first time now - classic issue - but never afflicted mine before until the recent heavy rain. In other news, I like the dealer stripe on this 1995 Dutch example. Cool*.

[Missy Charm]

On 11/09/2023 at 08:25, egg said:

Spanish equivalent of a bran find!

Spanish bran find?  El locacion de cereales, surely!

Nice to see the work that goes into keeping these old buses going.  My parents had an L registration 1.8 Mondeo hatchback in the nineties; it was a great car that looked smart in maroon coachwork but met its maker one night on the A12 when someone failed to look when exiting a slip road.  The maroon car was replaced by a State Blue mark two with a two litre engine; that was faster and better specified (may even have been a Ghia), but succumbed to the usual mark two foibles of bumpers that cracked like eggshells at the slightest contact and ended up looking quite shabby.  That car was replaced by another blue one, a mark three with a two litre petrol engine.  The mark three was probably the best of the bunch, being a Ghia X with a cream leather interior.  Overall quality seemed a little higher on the mark three, and the engine was better.  It was sold, eventually.    

Separately to all that, I have owned two Mondeos, both mark ones.  The first was an N reg baby blue example that - I think - was an Si Ghia.  Did such a thing exist?  Anyway it had a strange mixture of styles in the interior: sports seats and wooden dashboard fascia.  The exterior was beautiful: full RS Zender bodykit with Ghia grille, spoiler and sports alloy wheels.  I liked the car but never loved it as there was only a two-litre under the bonnet.  Without any real go to back up the looks, it was too much of an all fur coat and no knickers proposition for me.  Someone else has mentioned traction control; baby blue didn't have it, but I would encounter the system later...

My second Mondeo was a straight Si, i.e. not a Ghia, so had the sporting accoutrements but not the delusions of luxury.  It didn't look quite as good, being Diamond White, but still came with the RS Zender kit and the alloys.  Said kit was a variation on the normal one, which had a Ford Contour style oval grille.  Best of all, of course, was the V6 that powered the thing.  It was the normal spec. 2.5 litre, which gave better performance than any of the four cylinders without being Earth-shattering in any particular way.  The best bits were the smooth and supple character, which made the car seem plusher than it really was, and the sound, which elicited a frisson whenever heard.  The worst bits were the traction control, which was horribly intrusive, and the head-gasket failure that consigned the car to the scrapheap.  

[sierraman]

On 09/11/2023 at 09:49, egg said:

I've got the passenger footwell leak for the first time now - classic issue - but never afflicted mine before until the recent heavy rain. In other news, I like the dealer stripe on this 1995 Dutch example. Cool*.

Probably the pollen filter housing seal leaking. I just used to PU sealant in the end, Ford used to sell the seals for £6 but I’d imagine these are long since out of production. 

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On 10/11/2023 at 18:38, sierraman said:

Probably the pollen filter housing seal leaking. I just used to PU sealant in the end, Ford used to sell the seals for £6 but I’d imagine these are long since out of production. 

I do have an OEM old stock one somewhere, so yes, will need to change it. The car is going into storage for December, so just whether I can be bothered to do it before then or wait until January when it will probably be brassic.... 

[sierraman]

4 minutes ago, egg said:

I do have an OEM old stock one somewhere, so yes, will need to change it. The car is going into storage for December, so just whether I can be bothered to do it before then or wait until January when it will probably be brassic.... 

if it’s old it might just leak when you fit it. 

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19 minutes ago, sierraman said:

if it’s old it might just leak when you fit it. 

Indeed, absolutely possible!

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Posted by Paul Harbord on Facebook - yes, the 50mpg 'Sierra'! From 1989.

[Ghosty]

On 16/10/2023 at 22:07, egg said:

K631 HAR    17/06/93    Ghia

This is out and about! Saw it on my way home just now.

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Saloons look way better in Mk1 flavour, and the Mk2 just looks wrong especially with the 'wrap around' rear lights

[quicksilver]

Flickr has just reminded me of K492 HAR, photographed by @cms206 back in 2010. Sadly not a survivor as it appears to have been scrapped in 2011

 

[warren t claim]

[warren t claim]

Even for a black top bumper model, it seems on the steep side at £2795. I expect that he's hoping to get £2500 for it. 

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Just put the Mondeo in storage until New Year's Day. It can dry out! The battery might be a bit iffy though...

[sierraman]

On 18/11/2023 at 18:33, egg said:

Posted by Paul Harbord on Facebook - yes, the 50mpg 'Sierra'! From 1989.

The only time mine ever did anything like 50mpg was on the back of a beavertail as a shell. 😂

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, sierraman said:

The only time mine ever did anything like 50mpg was on the back of a beavertail as a shell. 😂

I had a 1996 1.8 LX diesel and that wouldn’t get 50mpg , so I’d expect 35ish from a petrol of that age.

[sierraman]

6 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

I had a 1996 1.8 LX diesel and that wouldn’t get 50mpg , so I’d expect 35ish from a petrol of that age.

About right, maybe low 40’s on a run. Not very economical by today’s standards but fairly robust. 

[Semi-C]

Please forgive me if this is a repeat but hopefully it's not.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/749490416992194/

[Cookiesouwest]

5 minutes ago, Semi-C said:

Please forgive me if this is a repeat but hopefully it's not.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/749490416992194/

You beat me to it by 3 mins lol

[sierraman]

2.0 saloon... the banger racers will be all over that. 

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11 hours ago, Semi-C said:

Please forgive me if this is a repeat but hopefully it's not.

Thank you, not a repeat, knew it probably existed from Greengartside data earlier in the year - but nice to have it confirmed, thanks! Registered 1st June, day before mine...

MOT history says it's done 200,000 miles - quite a lot for a Zetec!

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This French Ghia 4x4 was posted on one of the groups recently. Belle voiture!

[warren t claim]

16 hours ago, egg said:

Thank you, not a repeat, knew it probably existed from Greengartside data earlier in the year - but nice to have it confirmed, thanks! Registered 1st June, day before mine...

MOT history says it's done 200,000 miles - quite a lot for a Zetec!

A walk in the park for a Zetec.