S2000 Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Hex are free eye innit m8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marm Toastsmith Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 is the passat still around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 13 minutes ago, Marm Toastsmith said: is the passat still around? Yes, recently polished up the headlight lenses 💪 bunglebus, sdkrc, Lacquer Peel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 French Billancourt ( or in this case Osnabruck) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 Tubbo and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl1981 Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Looks very Ford escrot to me 🤔 Amazon green 1.8 cab? HMC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marm Toastsmith Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 17 minutes ago, Carl1981 said: Looks very Ford escrot to me 🤔 Amazon green 1.8 cab? Winner winner chicken dinner!! mercedade, Lacquer Peel, mk2_craig and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 Supplying dealer local to @egg ? Vantman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 9 minutes ago, HMC said: Supplying dealer local to @egg ? yup, my dad worked on the spares desk at Invicta in the 70's (cos my mum made him get a proper job) somewhatfoolish and HMC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davehedgehog31 Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 19 minutes ago, HMC said: Winner winner chicken dinner!! What juice is that colour? HMC and horriblemercedes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low ontime Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 On 6/28/2023 at 5:25 PM, HMC said: BOSE and its november 2003 in here My stepsons Astra goes back to 1997. It’s a 2003 Astra g bertone coupe. must be a GM thing… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 Not the best example, but seems to run and drive well, lots of history. Shitefest transport sorted! bigstraight6, Pat Earrings, Isopon and 20 others 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 Plus lets not forget the GHIA plastic clock and “wood” rob88h, Tickman, Brodders and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marm Toastsmith Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Looks good to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadgetgricey Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Auto roof? Button behind window switches? HMC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted July 1, 2023 Author Share Posted July 1, 2023 Escort news… living up to its dire reputation, the rear spoiler fell off today. Either the downforce levels were epic, or it was stuck on with crappy sealant. I think ill leave it off as it looks less fussy/ slightly less tragic. Matty, Tubbo, Cookiesouwest and 7 others 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grogee Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 We are down in Tavi 17th (ish) July. I wonder if the Escrot will still be your daily by then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted July 1, 2023 Author Share Posted July 1, 2023 8 minutes ago, grogee said: We are down in Tavi 17th (ish) July. I wonder if the Escrot will still be your daily by then? Might be although it will be in North Wales at shitefest that weekend. grogee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted July 1, 2023 Author Share Posted July 1, 2023 We got in and amongst the tavistock pride procession on out way back from swimming today. Our theme presumably was to represent the hairdresser contingent.. timolloyd, privatewire, Semi-C and 7 others 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marm Toastsmith Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Spoiler is back! Looked better without I think. I think someone asked before, is it a manual or auto roof? Never been able to work out why these were so derided compared to other escorts, they always seemed no more or less shit than the mk3 and mk4 to me, just more of the same really… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 5 hours ago, HMC said: Escort news… living up to its dire reputation, the rear spoiler fell off today. Either the downforce levels were epic, or it was stuck on with crappy sealant. I think ill leave it off as it looks less fussy/ slightly less tragic. Doubt it'll be slower without it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 I’m not really Ford person at all… but an escort convertible of that age always appeals. I think it must be an association with pretty young female drivers of these from my teenage years. Anyway, well bought… if I’ve managed to resist buying anything else by the time you sell I’ll have sit hard on my hand… before typing the PM so it feels like someone else has done it. Floatylight, grogee, Cookiesouwest and 5 others 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 7 minutes ago, brownnova said: I’m not really Ford person at all… but an escort convertible of that age always appeals. I think it must be an association with pretty young female drivers of these from my teenage years. Anyway, well bought… if I’ve managed to resist buying anything else by the time you sell I’ll have sit hard on my hand… before typing the PM so it feels like someone else has done it. pervert (both paragraphs) grogee and AnthonyG 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Has been welded at the rear end a couple of times, phew, all is in order! HMC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 The Mk3 Escort convertible was Glynis Barber’s car in Dempsey and Makepeace, and also I think featured in some Leslie Ash private detective dross named Cats Eyes from about the same time. This was when Ford’s press department knew how to get their cars into the ‘right’ sort of programmes. I can see the Mk5 convertible featuring more in something like ‘Birds of a Feather’. I think the blonde one had a Nissan Sunny ZX coupe with that awful factory body kit, so a flabby Escort cabby would be a perfect replacement. RoadworkUK, HMC and Floatylight 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timolloyd Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 There was a bit of a storyline in Soldier Soldier that revolved around one of these. IIRC Robson Greene’s wife was portrayed as a bit dizzy and crashed it. HMC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted July 5, 2023 Author Share Posted July 5, 2023 Escort news- Use has not eased the sticky brakes. I hoped they would fix themselves. Ill need get the front wheels off and see whats what. Ive found a suitable replacment passenger door- because of the rigourous* quality standards employed throughout the car, the current one has dissolved… Im glad/ relieved that the main structural bits all seem pretty solid. Im weighing up taking it to shitefest AND collecting the door AND camping in it one night. The rear seats do seem to fold down, so it may not bequite as ambitious/ stupid as it sounds. Hmmm. Cookiesouwest, sierraman, Burnside and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 On 7/3/2023 at 8:40 PM, AnthonyG said: The Mk3 Escort convertible was Glynis Barber’s car in Dempsey and Makepeace, and also I think featured in some Leslie Ash private detective dross named Cats Eyes from about the same time. This was when Ford’s press department knew how to get their cars into the ‘right’ sort of programmes. I can see the Mk5 convertible featuring more in something like ‘Birds of a Feather’. I think the blonde one had a Nissan Sunny ZX coupe with that awful factory body kit, so a flabby Escort cabby would be a perfect replacement. There was a yellow one in the spy drama Bugs in the early 90s too. Though it was the Mk I Cherokee XJ one of the other main cast drove I was always more interested in... CaptainBoom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted July 5, 2023 Share Posted July 5, 2023 do like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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