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The Ford Appreciation Thread



Mr R.

ClioSport Club Member
  A special one.
Here are a some pictures of some old Fords i have owned in the pass (years ago now)

Sorry for the rubbish quality but the are phone pictures of camera pictures (thats how long ago it was)

My 1st car, MK1 Fiesta 1100, cut springs to get lows, Fista Supersport RS 4 spoke wheels and a Peco exhaust.
Thats me in the picture @ 19 years old.

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After the Fiesta i bought a R5 Turbo which i owned for around 18 months, got fed up as i was doing a few miles to work so i sold it and bought the Orion 1.6i Ghia.
It was a mint car and 1 owner when i bought it, i had a Gmax suspention kit fitted and the 16" AST wheels i was 21.

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I then bought this Mk2 Escort Mexico, i payed £1600 for it at the time. I think i was about 23.

It had a 2.0l pinto with twin 45`s and a 5 speed Sierra g/box, i drove it for a few months then decided to pull it apart and get it painted as i was working in a Porsche Bodyshop at the time.
Being young and stupid this never happened and i ended up selling the car in this state for £400, this is the worst mistake of my live and i wish i still owned it.

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Moving on a few years (think i was 29) i bought a MK2 XR2 with 38k on the clock, we had also just had our 1st son but with the 2nd baby on the way i sold the car to a mate who i work with.
I only had it for a year but we needed a bigger car. Funny enough i bought the car back about 2 years ago but i broke it up and sold the parts.

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This is a friends of mine MK2 Escort, it started life as a 1.3 auto in beige. It now has a HT Racing 2.3L pinto with flat slide TB, RR @ 238 BHP.
It runs 10" wide x 13 wheels and electric PAS with a stright cut gearbox, i think John uses it for trackdays and i belive he uses it at Brighton Speed trials.

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  RS Cosworth & Clio 172
The rondells look so good as they were styled on the 18 inch optional Wolf wheels, which were a dealer option - mainly in Europe. Other Wolf parts could be spec'd up. These are quite rare additions, options were stuff like the wheels, extra rear spoiler, oil temp gauge rather than volt meter, 2 bar boost gauge rather than 1.3 bar, speedo with higher speed, plus engine and suspension tuning options.

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-J-

  RS2'ed 172 Cup
Love that Mallard a issue with upper wing delete, looks very much like one that used to be owned by one of the Fletcher brothers (Steve)
 
I've only ever seen one Escort Cos with no top wing, it was a black one. Years ago (in 2000) I went to look at a bog standard Fiesta RS Turbo in red, when I got there, only one front wing was red, the rest had gone pink so I walked away. The dude replaced the RS Turbo with the escort Cos. I didn't have the cash to fix the Fiesta, & was fed up of looking at minters 'well in reality they were knackered old dogs' so I bought a Clio 16v.

I've heard of Wolf, some of their bits are a bir err...
 
  Ph1 Clio V6, Ph2 172
As above. I find it funny how, to me anyway, 95% of cossy sierra's look dog shite but there's always the odd one with out all the stupid bling and chrome that looks amazing. Externally, that black one looks superb.
 

Gally

Formerly Mashed up egg in a cup
ClioSport Club Member
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Simply love those mk2s with the kits. There was a grey one a frw years back with a moulded wide kit. Anyone find the picture?
 


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