HMC architecte britannique

[holbeck]

 Yes to Ghent.

 

Genk surely?

[egg]

Whoops, yes, easy mistake

[Pillock]

If you search for the Information Sites page on here there's a link to Ford Etis, and a login where you can look up the build sheets of all the Fords you buy (might take a while....!)

[HMC]

What’s the collective verdict on this Sierra? Something about it- the trims, the colour and spec and of course the sloth like 2.3 indenor that I’ve already had the pleasure of in a rotten pug 504. Sorry I’m shit at doing proper links if someone could sort one?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FORD-SIERRA-2-3-D-GL-/392112944185

PLus anyone fancy driving this one back to Devon for me?

[bramz7]

I'd definitely give it a go, but it's already on £1.1k with just under 4 days to go....it could go mental. Do people still drive old Fords they buy off eBay or are they just put away as investments?

[HMC]

True, I was hoping to minicab it over in Cornwall, beaded seat covers and whip aerial etc

[AMC Rebel]

 

Everything comes apart so easily, and it's just held together with philips head screws! 

Posidriv Shirley?

[jonathan_dyane]

Oh God, I might have just soiled myself.

[BorniteIdentity]

I know a bit about that car. A serial pauper on the FB page agreed to buy it, paying something like £200 a month until he’d cleared the balance of £1500. Then he couldn’t pay. Then he got the arse when the vendor listed it for sale.

 

It’s worth about £13-1600. It’s been on a few times which will hopefully dissuade some.

 

They’re abysmally slow. About 25 seconds to 60. But it’ll plod on forever; completely irrelevant when you’ll have sold it by the time you’ve got it into 5th gear.

 

Do it man. Do it.

[Tamworthbay]

I have been watching this and it seems to have crept up quicker than expected. But that doesn’t mean anything, it for for what it’s at now or make 2k. Looks an interesting one, not messed about like some.

[sierraman]

That will go for some decent coin, the diff in them is quite prized for anyone tuning a Sierra.

[dean36014]

I had an ex taxi one years ago. Had done something like 300k and still drove fine, but slow as hell.

[cort16]

I imagine they're properly miserable to drive.  Back in the 90's I remember the diesels aways seemed to be the most hanging.  This was pre turbo's xud when diesels started to become even mildly desirable so you had to be a taxi driver or a right tight fisted bastard (no offence dean36014) to put up with it. In fact I don't think I've seen one in anything above L spec so that must be really rare.

[dean36014]

Oh I was I'm definitely was a tight bugger back then!

[BorniteIdentity]

I think he has it on Gumtree for £1200

[theorganist]

That is lovely I would have it in a heartbeat if I had the money.

[Matty]

Mate had one when we were 17. Like a van with seats. Decent enough and would do slides on a gravel all weather pitch. No where else though...

[lisbon_road]

I think that looks quite good.  The inner wings look ok and generally go around the struts when they are bad.  I for one would want to look at it though.  How many times have we seen cars that look great in photos and disappoint?  Not that I'm saying anything bad about it - it looks remarkably original and there must be the smallest handful of these left.  Be interesting to know how it has managed to last so well, as most of that age were Dagenham made and (sorry) did not last well.  And no-one bought a diesel in 1984 other than to do miles.

 

Sierraman is right thought - the diff in these is worth a packet so someone might buy that for it.  High chance of it being modded frankly.

 

Edit, had another look.  If someone was trying to make that look better than it is, they'd have done something about the sticker residue on the back.  That at least makes me more optimistic.  I'd still want to see it!

[HMC]

All the sierra stuff made me look back in the incomplete and neglected HMC archives and dig out pics of my last Sierra

 

 

 

2013 and the ex wuvvum robt (and as i was at the time) brookjm and subsequently Garycox Ghia 2.0i estate.

 

Where is it now I wonder?

[HMC]

I remember it had factory aircon and this meant sourcing the replacment for a borked radiator was a ball ache as it was somehow different, and it was an auto which IIRC added further complexity to figuring out what would fit.

[sierraman]

I’m just hoping that nobody buys it and puts some shit banded wheels on it and goes all ‘rollin coal’ on it.

[bramz7]

Man that Sierra estate is lovely. i really did miss the boat on those, ah well.

[Lacquer Peel]

I’m just hoping that nobody buys it and puts some shit banded wheels on it and goes all ‘rollin coal’ on it.

It'd be pretty good hotted up with a TD Indenor out of a Leyland Daf 400 or something.

[HMC]

Man that Sierra estate is lovely. i really did miss the boat on those, ah well.

 

I didnt, but jumped overboard shortly thereafter. One I should have kept. I paid rob 300 quid for it IIRC

[greengartside]

Yogurt truck well and truly smashed on that Sierra. It’s one of the first GL’s with the rear number plate appliqué/trim as they inherited that in the summer of 1984 from the Ghia model.

[HMC]

^ yes its the little trim details and the apparent originality of it that appeals. I even love the font of the bootlid model/engine/trim designation and how there so many separate parts. #saddo

[greengartside]

^ yes its the little trim details and the apparent originality of it that appeals. I even love the font of the bootlid model/engine/trim designation and how there so many separate parts. #saddo

Nowt sad about that. One of the best fonts of badges Ford ever did IMHO.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1985, somewhere in Surrey, I was a snot nosed Yuppie in a leased XR3i, dead of night ,snowy back roads and I had to approve some printing that was about to come off the press( ask your grandad).

Left the pub to follow the print rep to factory, he was late 50's driving a 2.3d Sierra estate. Had my arse handed to me. I'll never forget how hard I had to try to keep up, maybe he knew the roads, maybe he was fearless because of drink, he could have been the best driver ever, or maybe 2.3d Sierras have hidden super powers..

( that I'm not as good as I think I am/was, is not an option)

[HMC]

I think he has it on Gumtree for £1200

 

Couldnt find. There is however a late 4x4 ghia estate in light metallic blue on there. It is in ireland, and the rear arches look like they will disintegrate if you sneeze near them. Still want tho

[RobT]

I remember it had factory aircon and this meant sourcing the replacment for a borked radiator was a ball ache as it was somehow different, and it was an auto which IIRC added further complexity to figuring out what would fit.

Yup, that was my excuse for not fixing it, oil cooler pipes for the auto 'box meant the rad was either unobtainium or too expensive. Just needed topping up regularly. I had the same scenario on my Cav auto until I eventually found a replacement. Both those experiences led me to think I could run the ex-Bo11 Rover 623 with a radiator leak. How wrong was I...

 

H97 was a press car or something, and had all teh extras including the posh stereo that Ford lickers jizz over.