Amishtat Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 I remember that 384 16/60 at Mildenhall, one of the most rotten I've seen raced. I haven't got a lot more banger pictures, most of the photos taken after about 2005 were on a phone and since lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 1970 Capri 1600GT XLR. The only Ford I've owned so far, bought from a workmate late in 2001 for £150,which actually seemed expensive at the time. Needed welding in most of the places you'd expect but still a nice thing to drive and went surprisingly well. Sold to a madman from Canterbury the following year who drove it home from Coventry without even a nod to roadworthiness because ANPR wasn't a thing then. About ten years ago I saw a nicely done RS2600 replica at a show with this registration on it but didn't get a chance to speak to the owner, it looked pretty good in white with left hand drive and huge arches but the only part of it I could recognise was the number plate Dick Longbridge, Junkman, mercrocker and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 9, 2018 Author Share Posted June 9, 2018 This was my next purchase after the Capri. A 1972 Cresta, tucked away in 1978 after its only owner passed away. Apparently his widow couldn't drive but wouldn't part with it. Needless to say she was no sooner cold than the sons had the fucker up for sale. Sold in 2004 to a chap from Long Stratton who had the screens out, attended to some bulkhead welding and gave it a much-needed respray in its original white. I saw it at a show in Norwich around 2008 looking absolutely beautiful and the last I heard it had been sold to someone up near Newcastle. Apparently the Cressida estate you can just see the corner of still attends ECR meets, which pleases me mercrocker, danthecapriman, Junkman and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treehugger Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 This thread is brilliant. It’d have been around the same time I was massively into banger racing too, me my dad and my mate went to loads of meetings. Some of the cars they were using as routine at the time was amazing. I’ve got some old pics from one of the Firecracker meetings at Arena Essex on the computer, it’s wall to wall Yank chod and Brit classics! Sadly racing is nothing like it used to be anymore.Sunday 17 june............a weeks time.........theres a big pre 85 cars unlimited size class team bash reunion at skegness..12 noon start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treehugger Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 mercrocker, Junkman, danthecapriman and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treehugger Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Junkman, mercrocker, danthecapriman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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treehugger Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 danthecapriman, Junkman and warren t claim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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treehugger Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 danthecapriman, Junkman, JeeExEll and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Amishtat Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 Civil war at Arena Essex, probably 2005 davocano, warren t claim, NorfolkNWeigh and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 Interesting to hear about the Cresta/Long Stratton conection. Did you live over this way? The 'RT' plate on it suggests it started off in Suffolk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 It was sold new by Mcnamaras in Ipswich to a farmer somewhere near Woodbridge. I was living in Coventry at the time but a friend of mine heard about it for sale in Ipswich. One of the things I liked most about your thread was seeing registrations local to me.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 Somewhere in Dorset 2003These two were in Coventry, probably the same year danthecapriman, davocano, mercrocker and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 I got this in June of 2003 and was just ridiculously excited when taking these. Having wanted one since I was fifteen this was just the be all and end all to me. Three speed floor change with overdrive, no power steering and (in my opinion) one of the nicest colours they offered, although maroon and cream would have been better. It didn't drive anything like as well as it looked and I didn't have it on the road for long as I was flummoxed by its litany of annoying little faults. Nowadays I'd know enough and enough people to sort it out but it defeated me in the end and I sold it to a mate who only parted with it about four years ago. It's been on ebay a couple of times recently down in the South West so at least it's still about and still looks pretty good NorfolkNWeigh, mercrocker, Cardinal Wolseley and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 This was my next purchase after the Wolseley.. I say purchase, I was owed some money and was offered this instead. My first car was an HB SL so naturally I agreed. This was a lovely little thing and was used as a daily for a while, it went to the VBOA at Billing in either 2004 or 2005 but I don't seem to have any pictures of that. Photos taken after three years in the shedA good wash did wonders for it, shit respray notwithstanding. Sold in 2009 for what it owed me, last seen in Classic Car Weekly about five years ago up in Northampton for ten times what I let it go for and sporting a butch set of Rostyles. mercrocker, danthecapriman, Dick Longbridge and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 Somewhat disappointingly, I appear to have mislaid any/all photos of this car's predecessor (a beige Riva 1500) although it's in the background of the A55 pictureThis came from its original supplier as a trade in (Lifestyle Lada of Braintree, long gone) and was a wonderful little thing. The picture doesn't show the colour properly, it was almost purple and I never saw another like it. It was part-exed for a Xantia at a garage in Market Drayton in 2005 and to this day I don't know why I didn't just bung it in the shed and keep it Christine, Yoss, Fumbler and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Drooling over the pictures of Squire Dawson's lovely new toy set off a suspicion at the back of my mind that I must have had more than one photo of Jason's Series 1. This proved to be the case, although still not showing it very clearly. Whatever, it's all the excuse I needed to inflict some more crappy old photos on this forum.All these were taken in June 2001,which seems simultaneously yesterday and a lifetime ago. The farm is now gone, replaced with a housing estate. Most of the cars are gone too, the Magnette and the Corsair were bought by a chap from Suffolk the next year and I'm fairly certain both were raced at Mildenhall in 2002 or 2003. The Mk. 3 Cortina went to Norfolk for restoration and hasn't been seen since so it probably went the same way. This is definitely still about, it wound up with one of the writers on Classic Car Weekly a few years ago. JeeExEll, Junkman, Spottedlaurel and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Propah Motahs. Etc. Great pics, and you are right about 2001, it does seem a long time ago which just reminds me how long I have been putting up with this bloody century. Love seeing these pics.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 Some more from Jason's collection, these from about 2003. The white 6/110 came from a chap in Chelmsford who'd had the idea of doing weddings with it. Unfortunately this had meant a terrible blow-over on an otherwise nice Connaught green example. Fairly sure it went up North as a part-ex on an Austin 3-litre a year or so later and never seen again. UJH196E, are you still out there?1971 FD Victor 2000 automatic, rotten as a pear and seized solid even before it arrived at these climate - controlled* facilities. Behind it is my white PC Cresta from earlier in this thread. The dark blue Hunter you can just see next to it is currently on eBay, stripped and engineless.1970 FD 3300SL estate, to this day the only one of the few I've seen which wasn't white. Behind is a Minx series 6 automatic and a Gazelle 3a,both of which ended up with me. Still got the Gazelle but had to part with the Minx last year. It had been laid up following its only previous owner's death in 1970,returning to the road for the summer of 1996 only. Still only had 27000 miles when I had it. It went to a good home and the new owner promised me a ride when he's got her back on the road. danthecapriman, mercrocker, richardthestag and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted August 31, 2018 Author Share Posted August 31, 2018 He had to clear out the shed in the previous post early in 2016 and this was the last to come out. Notoriously averse to being photographed, this image reminds me how ill he was by this stage. He passed away that summer at 42.RIP mate, still miss you. The A105 was held in lieu of rent after he was gone (I wanted it badly but didn't have enough money) and was last seen engineless on ebay being sold by some banger racers in Surrey. Junkman, mercrocker, andrew e and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treehugger Posted September 7, 2018 Share Posted September 7, 2018 These pics r superb! The last one looks good even in that state. Especially in that state.The white vauxhall estate looks a proper car for posing! Just look at the "patina". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 These were found on the edge of a small industrial estate near Ongar in about 2009. All rotten as anything, the last time I went past all of them had removal notices from Brentwood council and we subsequently wound up with a pair of series 3A Minxes. andrew e, Lacquer Peel, Junkman and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 This is the last of my surprisingly few banger photos. 2-litre team meeting at Hednesford, summer of 2003 I think. NorfolkNWeigh, danthecapriman, Lacquer Peel and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 Found some more whilst looking for something unrelated. Summer 2003, probably the first weekend I had the Wolseley. NorfolkNWeigh, Fumbler, Lacquer Peel and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 More from Jason's shed, 2003 Lacquer Peel and JeeExEll 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 Found some more whilst looking for something unrelated. 15364205706818332064352727748563.jpg15364207196598179627702851303805.jpgSummer 2003, probably the first weekend I had the Wolseley.And then in December the Lada was gone... apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted September 8, 2018 Author Share Posted September 8, 2018 This was the yard behind Earlpart, autumn 2001Riley Riviera, a special from Wessex Motors if I remember right. I think there's at least one other known survivor but this is the only one I've seen. JeeExEll, mercrocker and Lacquer Peel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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