The Ford Appreciation Thread

[Short Norman]

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[DaveDreads]

I wouldn't tell people I'd won the lottery, but there's be signs.

 

[Matt Cup]

 

[DaveDreads]

This bloke restores Fords and builds classic touring cars for a living.

 

[Cookson]

This bloke restores Fords and builds classic touring cars for a living.

Many, many years ago, Paul was the man to go and see if you needed Cosworth parts but weren't too fussed where they came from, if you know what I mean.

 

[Cookson]

Wasn't sure where to put this. My mate fancied swapping out his rusty subframes on his MK2 RS. A few "whilst I'm there" jobs and it's escalated a little.

 

[Cookson]

It's getting there now

 

[TC.]

It's getting there now

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Crackin looking unit he has.

Mate of mine has this in his shed, wheels haven’t turned in close to 8 years. I’ve suggested a few times I’ll give it a run for a few days, must float it again coming into the summer months.

 

[Cookson]

Crackin looking unit he has.

Mate of mine has this in his shed, wheels haven’t turned in close to 8 years. I’ve suggested a few times I’ll give it a run for a few days, must float it again coming into the summer months.

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Built it himself in his garden. Can easy fit 7 cars in there. He's thinking about raising the right hand side and putting another ramp in too.

 

[Matt Cup]

Poor Cossie 🙁

 

[Short Norman]

looking at the photo it looks like someone had a go at saving it with an extinguisher

 

[Paulie031]

The fuel pressure regulator caused it apprently.

 

[Cookson]

The fuel pressure regulator caused it apprently.

I came to say it was probably that. Paul Linfoot has been banging on about them for years now, so anyone in the cossie world should know they are on borrowed time. They aren't even that expensive, or had to swap out.

 

[realnumber 1]

looking at the photo it looks like someone had a go at saving it with an extinguisher

Used 3 apparently.

 

[davo172]

The fuel pressure regulator caused it apprently.

Common issue

 

[Matt Cup]

Cossie Ute Vert

 

[massivewangers]

My ex had an Escort Cabrio. Given how much that flipped and flopped, I'd hate to imagine what would happen if you added a load more grip and power.

 

[Cookson]

Cossie Ute Vert

Can immediately tell that's not a real one by the position of the front wheel in the arch. It's set back towards the body rather than being centred.

 

[cat171]

Can immediately tell that's not a real one by the position of the front wheel in the arch. It's set back towards the body rather than being centred.

And the brake calipers are in the wrong places!

 

[Short Norman]

The fact that the roof was missing was the most obvious for me 😜

 

[massivewangers]

Just saw a video about it. Seems someone built it to emulate a concept Ford were toying with in the '90s.

 

[Matt Cup]

Everybody loves a ST220, this fella has put on an insane about of miles on his.

 

[Short Norman]

I had a TDCi Zetec in that shape. It was one of the best cars we've had as a family car, decent'ish power, frugal, handled great and was massive inside. Just a shame it wasn't rwd.

 

[Cookson]

Best looking shape Mondeo for me 👌

 

[Willo40]

I had a TDCi Zetec in that shape. It was one of the best cars we've had as a family car, decent'ish power, frugal, handled great and was massive inside. Just a shame it wasn't rwd.

i had one from work for a couple of months, it was really quite nice, and would happily sit at 100 on the motorway....kph of course.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Everybody loves a ST220, this fella has put on an insane about of miles on his.

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Running 452,000 miles in a 2006 Ford Mondeo ST220 would cost approximately £129,863 in fuel, based on realistic mixed driving habits.

 

[cat171]

I watched this last night, f**k me it's bad!!!

 

[Pep]

Don’t remember ever posting these but thought it might be interesting to some on here.

My dad was a bit of a ford nut before he moved into jags and had most of the hot ones through tne 70s and early 80s, highlights for me being a Lotus Cortina and his Escort Mexico.

The escort was pretty special as he had the full roll cage, buckets, bilsteins etc and then fitted a BDA engine into it, basically threw every part available at it from the RS brochures:

Found an original 1971 owners club application!

This was the letter he received back from Ford about fitting the twincam, pretty cool response back!

He always used to moan at me spending money on cars, complete hypoctite!

 

[massivewangers]

That's brilliant. Ford used to be brilliant. I've got a load of brochures and catalogues from the '90s, when they reintroduced loads of MK1/2 competition parts, alongside all the Ford Motorsport bits for the current range.

Now look at them - how the mighty have fallen.

 

[Pep]

That's brilliant. Ford used to be brilliant. I've got a load of brochures and catalogues from the '90s, when they reintroduced loads of MK1/2 competition parts, alongside all the Ford Motorsport bits for the current range.

Now look at them - how the mighty have fallen.

I guess they’re no worse than anyone else nowadays but nice to see some personality was there with them back in the day.

Found some old insurance stuff too, he was paying the equivalent of £3k a year to insure the Lotus Cortina at 20!