Carpark cack

[bigstraight6]

It's been a bit quiet on the spotting front of late, but a Bournemouth carpark played host to this pair of beauties today, a MK2 Escort in a wonderfully dull colour appeared to be the pride and joy of 'Bert and Aida'

And what about this lovely shite condition ADO16, see the undersealed sill panels no doubt hiding a horror story!

[fordpoplier]

Wow, that escort looks like it's been washed every Sunday morning since it was new. What a survivor!

[Split_Pin]

 

'Hello? Is that ADO16 there? Its 1979 calling'.

 

I wish some cars could survive in this condition - agree though, its curtains for those sills though.

 

Escort is lovely, grille alone is pretty nickable I'd bet, being round lights.

[Vin]

I love the fact that they both have Bournemoth (RU) number plates, so they are still local residents.Things like that make me feel all warm inside

[Station]

Sorry, I would've broken into that Escort and drove it off.

[hugh janass]

that escort is amazing......christ ive not seen a standard one for years.Absolute quality

[Mash]

Sorry, I would've broken into that Escort and drove it off.

And hidden it away to preserve it in that state forever I hope

[Negative Creep]

Nice to see a 2 door Escort in standard guise. Nothing against modding them, just refreshing to see an original poverty spec one

[The Main]

Couldn't agree more. That Escort is lovely, yet 20 years ago you couldn't move for them on the streets of Swansea. Much as I'm pleased that so many cars have undoubtedly been saved because modding them is so popular (not intended), it's now the pov spec examples that I lust after. It's the same with Anglias - how many solid, roadworthy 105E's are actually left in standard (Deluxe) form? There can't be many. If I ever buy another Anglia (which I'm sure I will one day), it'll be a faded-but-solid daily runner in Imperial maroon, with it's original (chipped-looking) number plates attached with a piece of wire to it's slightly bent and discoloured front grille. Maybe a nice set of Woolworths stripy seat covers to protect the vinyl and keep your arse from going numb in January. It sure as hell won't have a shiny two-pack paint job, a set of lairy brand-new alloys, low profile tyres and Milton stickers all over it.To me (at least) part of the charm of running an older car is the sense of recreating a bygone era. I don't mean the mint-condition-badge-bar-extra-spotlights-what'veyoubeenuptothistimeGreengrass-justoutoftheshowroom look of most of the 'classic' cars you get in summer 'shows' on school playing fields. I mean the type of motor you'd have walked past without noticing (and avoided touching with your new Wranglers on) in, say, 1979.For my money, an old car should be a well-maintained A60 estate with patches of red oxide proudly highlighting the nicely-repaired wings and sills, the odd bit of filler here and there and maybe a dent in the driver's door to finish it off. Parked on the street in the rain. Crap all over the back seat. Fag packet on the dashboard. The kind of car you'd see casually left outside an old pub in 'Minder'/The Sweeney/Professionals. Gives me the feeling I used to get when I saw cars such as these still being pressed into everyday use in the early/mid 80's. For some reason many people don't seem to agree with me and think that so-called 'show' condition cars are more interesting, and anything less shiny isn't worth saving (''it'd be cheaper to go and buy a minter in the first place'').Frankly, in ten years time I'd like to look back and thank my lucky stars we haven't ended up with a couple of fields full of Autoglym Cup winners and that nagging feeling that perhaps we shouldn't have flogged that down-at-heel-but-eager Vauxhall 101 to MrMentalSpudgunSuicideDeathSquadDemonFollowin or whatever his name was who took it round Wimbledon. Because the bloke in the club had a 'better' one.Or is there something wrong with me like the missus says?

[AXrescuer]

Couldn't agree more. That Escort is lovely, yet 20 years ago you couldn't move for them on the streets of Swansea. Much as I'm pleased that so many cars have undoubtedly been saved because modding them is so popular (not intended), it's now the pov spec examples that I lust after. It's the same with Anglias - how many solid, roadworthy 105E's are actually left in standard (Deluxe) form? There can't be many. If I ever buy another Anglia (which I'm sure I will one day), it'll be a faded-but-solid daily runner in Imperial maroon, with it's original (chipped-looking) number plates attached with a piece of wire to it's slightly bent and discoloured front grille. Maybe a nice set of Woolworths stripy seat covers to protect the vinyl and keep your arse from going numb in January. It sure as hell won't have a shiny two-pack paint job, a set of lairy brand-new alloys, low profile tyres and Milton stickers all over it.To me (at least) part of the charm of running an older car is the sense of recreating a bygone era. I don't mean the mint-condition-badge-bar-extra-spotlights-what'veyoubeenuptothistimeGreengrass-justoutoftheshowroom look of most of the 'classic' cars you get in summer 'shows' on school playing fields. I mean the type of motor you'd have walked past without noticing (and avoided touching with your new Wranglers on) in, say, 1979.For my money, an old car should be a well-maintained A60 estate with patches of red oxide proudly highlighting the nicely-repaired wings and sills, the odd bit of filler here and there and maybe a dent in the driver's door to finish it off. Parked on the street in the rain. Crap all over the back seat. Fag packet on the dashboard. The kind of car you'd see casually left outside an old pub in 'Minder'/The Sweeney/Professionals. Gives me the feeling I used to get when I saw cars such as these still being pressed into everyday use in the early/mid 80's. For some reason many people don't seem to agree with me and think that so-called 'show' condition cars are more interesting, and anything less shiny isn't worth saving (''it'd be cheaper to go and buy a minter in the first place'').Frankly, in ten years time I'd like to look back and thank my lucky stars we haven't ended up with a couple of fields full of Autoglym Cup winners and that nagging feeling that perhaps we shouldn't have flogged that down-at-heel-but-eager Vauxhall 101 to MrMentalSpudgunSuicideDeathSquadDemonFollowin or whatever his name was who took it round Wimbledon. Because the bloke in the club had a 'better' one.Or is there something wrong with me like the missus says?

Nothing wrong with you matey. The older I get the more I want to see preserved vehicles that were commonplace in my younger days. In fact anything that reminds me of happier times when life was less shit is fine by me.

[The Main]

Cheers, AxRescuer. Actually the missus is very supportive of my old car hobby I was only kidding with that last (throwaway) comment.It's the Oh-well-it-isn't-concours-and-two-new-wings-and-a respray-are-going-to-be-expensive-so-let's-race-it-and-buy-another-one brigade that wind me up.Although my miffedness is directed squarely at anyone supporting the 'Scrappage Scheme' at the moment!

[MrRegieRitmo]

Nothing wrong with you matey. The older I get the more I want to see preserved vehicles that were commonplace in my younger days. In fact anything that reminds me of happier times when life was less shit is fine by me.

I'm experiencing this & I'm only 26! I love 70s / 80s cars because they remind me of when I was a kid & all I had to worry about was homework. I love 70s / 80s continental cars because they make me think of family holidays abroad in the 80s & 90s & the idea that everything was rosy because we were all together as a family & enjoying being with each other (on the whole). I keep having dreams where I go back in time, not necessarily to see people but just to walk around places in the 80s & imagining what it would be like & what I would see. A time machine would probably be the number 1 thing I would like science / technology to develop! But I would only use it to travel back, I don't really have any interest in the future

[keef]

its curtains for those sills though.

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