HMC- XK8 Starts!

[S2000]

Hex are free eye innit m8

[Marm Toastsmith]

is the passat still around?

[HMC]

13 minutes ago, Marm Toastsmith said:

is the passat still around?

Yes, recently polished up the headlight lenses 💪

[hairnet]

French

Billancourt ( or in this case Osnabruck)

[HMC]

[Carl1981]

Looks very Ford escrot to me 🤔 Amazon green 1.8 cab?

[Marm Toastsmith]

Nice.

[HMC]

17 minutes ago, Carl1981 said:

Looks very Ford escrot to me 🤔 Amazon green 1.8 cab?

 

Winner winner chicken dinner!!

[HMC]

Supplying dealer local to @egg ?

[egg]

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)

[davehedgehog31]

19 minutes ago, HMC said:

 

Winner winner chicken dinner!!

What juice is that colour?

[Low ontime]

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…

[HMC]

Not the best example, but seems to run and drive well, lots of history. 

Shitefest transport sorted!

[HMC]

Plus lets not forget the GHIA plastic clock and “wood”

[Marm Toastsmith]

Looks good to me!

[gadgetgricey]

Auto roof?

Button behind window switches?

[HMC]

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.

[grogee]

We are down in Tavi 17th (ish) July. I wonder if the Escrot will still be your daily by then? 

[HMC]

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.

[HMC]

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..

[Marm Toastsmith]

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…

[High Jetter]

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...

[brownnova]

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. 

[hairnet]

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. 

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[egg]

Has been welded at the rear end a couple of times, phew, all is in order!

[AnthonyG]

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. 

[timolloyd]

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]

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.

[Zelandeth]

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...

[stuboy]

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