BorniteIdentity Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 That's brilliant. Tatty and honest - just the ticket. I remember in 1999 I was 16 and me and my mate knew another guy who was a year older than us and he'd just passed his test. Lovely guy - Christian family - and his NAN insisted that her car went to him. Robert therefore had a brown Mk2 Escort on a V plate and everyone (other than me) felt sorry for him. His contemporaries had Clios, Fiestas, the odd 205 and Novas - and he had to park his Mk2 Escort around the corner to avoid getting RINSED by his mates. Nowadays, he'd be everyone's hero. Same with Cortinas. Our caretaker had a brace of MK5 Cortinas and by 1999 I remember marvelling at them in the school playground thinking 'Fucking hell they look shit nowadays'. They were both 17 years old, my daily is now 25. Crazy how things change so quickly. Anyway, enough bumbling of the insane - well bought @HMC N19, Wibble, egg and 8 others 9 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 1990 just arrived with someones first set of wheels….. Datsuncog, Tubbo, mercedade and 35 others 38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 Once off loaded…. rob88h, danthecapriman, GrumpiusMaximus and 32 others 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 But first matter of business…. lets just turn the orgy of stickerage down a bit…. rob88h, Tickman, adw1977 and 23 others 21 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 However- this one can stay And this one ive added…. Coprolalia, egg, wesacosa and 23 others 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 So the paints knackered, and its a bit accessorised. So very 1990. But then again its unwelded and original- not very 1990 at all. Carl1981, wuvvum, rob88h and 38 others 41 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesacosa Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 love it. I'd be inclined to bin those red Ford badges too, even though I used to have them on my old Capri and thought they were cool Carl1981, CGSB, BorniteIdentity and 1 other 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 Just now, wesacosa said: love it. I'd be inclined to bin those red Ford badges too, even though I used to have them on my old Capri and thought they were cool My thoughts too, I remember they looked cool (in the 90s) wesacosa and Shite Ron 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 23 minutes ago, wesacosa said: love it. I'd be inclined to bin those red Ford badges too, even though I used to have them on my old Capri and thought they were cool Am I right in saying you used to be able to sand the back of them down to get rid of the blue paint and then spray them whatever colour you wanted? Car looks ace BTW! CGSB, Tenmil Socket, mk2_craig and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 Ah, it's great. Well bought. The only thing I prefer about the earlier models is the older style 2 spoke steering wheel. ProgRocker, Burnside, danthecapriman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthecapriman Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 That is awesome! Well bought that man👍 Goes to show what a decent climate does for cars. Hopefully it’ll not rust into the ground in this wet cold salty shit hole! Back when I got my Capri in 2001 all these old Ford’s were at that point of being deeply unpopular. I got loads of shit off my peers for having it. How the tables have turned! Which is a blessing and a curse in some ways. Burnside, Dick Longbridge, HMC and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 I was driving back up the M5 towards Bristol last night and saw a transporter heading your way with a car that looked a lot like this but assumed it must be another one. Was he still towing the mk2 Transit when he got to you? egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 6 minutes ago, catsinthewelder said: I was driving back up the M5 towards Bristol last night and saw a transporter heading your way with a car that looked a lot like this but assumed it must be another one. Was he still towing the mk2 Transit when he got to you? That must have been him, he was dragging an empty trailer behind when he got to me. Was it white/red? think i remember him saying something about a mk2 transit ex german fire dept. catsinthewelder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 @HMC I think it was red but I did nearly 15 hours yesterday so its all a bit of a blur 🫠 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 1 hour ago, dome said: Am I right in saying you used to be able to sand the back of them down to get rid of the blue paint and then spray them whatever colour you wanted? Car looks ace BTW! I remember that! My mate used to change the colour of his badges on his red Cortina P100 pickup every other week. Yellow seemed to be a favourite from what I remember. While I'm reminiscing, the boss at the garage at the time bought a white mk2 Escort on an N plate for the forecourt. I remember stuffing a load of p38 in the front wings to cover his shonky plates. It was an unusual one though - it was on an N plate. Has anyone seen another on an N? I remember mk1s were still being registered on N plates. The Escort looks really solid - well bought. I see the sticker tells the story of its Portuguese past - that would explain the rogered paint but lack of rot. danthecapriman, Burnside and dome 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_dyane Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 I had a neighbour with one the same colour, model and year however pretty rusty by the time it failed and MOT to be scrapped and replaced my a mk2 Fiesta by the late 90s egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesacosa Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 30 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: I remember that! My mate used to change the colour of his badges on his red Cortina P100 pickup every other week. Yellow seemed to be a favourite from what I remember. While I'm reminiscing, the boss at the garage at the time bought a white mk2 Escort on an N plate for the forecourt. I remember stuffing a load of p38 in the front wings to cover his shonky plates. It was an usual one though - it was on an N plate. Has anyone seen another on an N? I remember mk1s were still being registered on N plates. The Escort looks really solid - well bought. I see the sticker tells the story of its Portuguese past - that would explain the rogered paint but lack of rot. My first car was an N reg Mk2 Scruffy Bodger, Tenmil Socket, Burnside and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 1 hour ago, HMC said: That must have been him, he was dragging an empty trailer behind when he got to me. Was it white/red? think i remember him saying something about a mk2 transit ex german fire dept. Not this one posted on ebay tat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_dyane Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 That not a Transit it's an A series Christine and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 18 minutes ago, egg said: Not this one posted on ebay tat? more like that but red/white egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 Hasta driven it yet boss?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 42 minutes ago, Matty said: Hasta driven it yet boss?? Just around the block to park it up. Gearbox feels nice, but needs a bit of a serice/ tune up. Much choke and some bogging down. Much preferable to a weldathon! tooSavvy, Shite Ron, danthecapriman and 6 others 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 16 minutes ago, HMC said: Gearbox feels nice in my memory they do feel nice to use too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesacosa Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 10 minutes ago, egg said: in my memory they do feel nice to use too. No external linkages or cables IIRC. just the lever directly into the box egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 Thanks, I wanted to say 'snickety', but that's a car review cliché 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbaldy Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 4 hours ago, danthecapriman said: Goes to show what a decent climate does for cars Yes they definitely last well in eu land. This one was the very first car bought and collected from Germany and popped in yesterday for coffee and still with the mate that bought it after all the work I did on it, still looks just as good as the day I first set eyes on it on the guys drive all those years ago. Can't be arsed to hunt for the collection thread to see how long ago it actually was. Burnside, HMC, mk2_craig and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVee8 Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 15 minutes ago, garbaldy said: Yes they definitely last well in eu land. This one was the very first car bought and collected from Germany and popped in yesterday for coffee and still with the mate that bought it after all the work I did on it, still looks just as good as the day I first set eyes on it on the guys drive all those years ago. Can't be arsed to hunt for the collection thread to see how long ago it actually was. I think that passed me on Friday afternoon heading to Wooler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbaldy Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 8 minutes ago, DVee8 said: I think that passed me on Friday afternoon heading to Wooler. Yup he was off work screeving about clocking up some miles, I'd have been with him if I'd finished the colt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 6 hours ago, egg said: Ah, it's great. Well bought. The only thing I prefer about the earlier models is the older style 2 spoke steering wheel. Have you got any more pictures of STF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 5 hours ago, wesacosa said: My first car was an N reg Mk2 Quite an early mk2 ! wesacosa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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