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1989 Ford Escort 1.6GL Estate


lincolndanny

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That's just the right age and type of car to bring back so many different memories for such a broad range of people.

Who wouldn't want it in their collection!

On another note, although it wasn't exactly his thing, the whole aura of it made me think of Hendry...

+1 for both sentiments. Hendry would have loved this, and it took me right back to when I was four or five and watching my grandparents arrive in grandad's orange (!) shooting brake three door example. They'd done the journey from Havant to the Midlands in six hours, and this was before the A43 was dualled from the M40...

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That's just the right age and type of car to bring back so many different memories for such a broad range of people.

Who wouldn't want it in their collection!

On another note, although it wasn't exactly his thing, the whole aura of it made me think of Hendry...

Indeed, I learnt in an F plate 1.6d gl which was quite a nice smooth drive, first car was an A plate 1.3l and Mum had a brand new eclipse (run out special edition that looked like a 5 door XR3 but had the wheezy 1.3hcs engine in the same year (1990)

 

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We had an suffix X reg estate in Blue (I presume it was the same mk), this was sold and towed away by an electric milk float in around '95 to make way for a 309. It did however have the same floor mats which are hard wearing and live on in the family cars today. Although the drivers floor mat has had a section cut out to fit round the clutch foot rest in a mk1 Scénic.

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Thing is my 1.6 go was a g plate too so I'd have thought they'd have Sam trim.

Ford were probably gearing up for Mk5 production so either were slowly running out of stock of bits, OR deliberately knocking back the spec so they can introduce the "better equipped" new model on an H plate.

 

I deffo remember in 1988, when my mum got her LX, the GL had nicer wheeltrims, body toned bumpers and dash, velour trim and electric windows. You had to go to Ghia for electric mirrors.

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