MK1 RS000 and The vintage working mans car.

[Drift]

Any one over 35 years old, watch this and be honest, did your underpants twitch?


If hey didnt, more boner material in a slightly newer guise
A truly iconic and at the time cheap car to mod

[Hound Dog]

Funny you post that Ste I was talking about Capri's, Cortina's, Granada's and the Mexico the other day.

Still miss the old Capri.

[Drift]

My mate had the Brooklands 2.8 with the scorpion suspension system x thingy, you had to drive it to believe is you couldnt swing its ass out..unless you really tried... but if you have ever driven any Capri you will know it pretty much heads for hedges and walls and hates road

[Dannyboy]

Memories, my grandad used to have one in green, awsome cars, beautiful!

[Hound Dog]

I had my Capri for 8 years before she went to the scrap in the sky.
One of best rides in the wet better than any theme park.

[Drift]

Great...feel really young now



We had a Mk1 Mexico rally prep (but with sound system ) in Rhyl with us the original day live Aid was played, they kicked you out the pub at 15.00 then so we bought a couple of cases and got the beds out the 8 berth caravan and the telly on the step they opened the car doors and cranked it up, the weather was fantastic (yes Wales I said and weather) then off the pub again when it opened, two weeks we where there, 6 lads one 8 berth caravan, got messy the night we all coped off at the same time, 12 writhing bodies ugggg

[westo123]

Lovely cars but preferred the MK1 Cortina, this was me doing the South West Stages gaining points for the RAC ( as it was then). Oh and I had 3 capris!

[Shrekkles]

My first car was a mk2 1300 capri in red with black vinyl roof , what a bonnet to get used to with first car

[Drift]

Westo, you must be even older than Smiffy

Yer Shek the bonnet was a bit General Lee'ish

[fronteramac]

had a couple of mk 1s and the best was my 2.8 special with limited slip ..lovely for doughnuts

[Shrekkles]

Strange thing is it's still registered but not taxed or mot'd , would like to know what state it's in

[fronteramac]

and as for the mk 2 escorts i cud only eever afford to make them look like rs2000s and as did my sierras cossy lookalikes but will get a proper 3 door cossy one day thats on my wish list

[fronteramac]

i had a mk 1 cortina est my first car ,,u shud try and find out where it is etc

[Hound Dog]

My wish is to have a brooklands 280 Capri one day i will even if I have give up the fronty but hope to have both.

[Shrekkles]

Wish I could find it but dvla site just says it's still registered but not licenced

[fronteramac]

about 3 years ago got offered 2 capris gathering dust in a unit down the docks to make a good one out of both ,,1 was brooklands and 2nd was early 2.8 both needed a lot of work but were £1500 for both

[gregster]

You seen the prices of a brooklands lately Phil, giving up an organ or two is more likely to be required than your fronty!

Love an old skool ford though, sadly most are too expensive these days to warrant having proper fun in them...

I had 4 rs2000 mk2's at one point, when they were worth peanuts...a good un running a burton 2.1 on 45's, sporting a set of brooklands 15's, a tidyish one that I swapped for a Supermirafiori sport eventually (and the fiat was much quicker too!)..and the other two I weighed in as couldnt be bothered to weld in sills and turret tops!

Had a cossie mk2 at one point, the first in kent, running a 205 block, 16v head with major mods, rouse racing cams and twin 50's...250bhp at the rear wheels, 7.5j x pack RS wheels with cut slicks (naughty but sticky!)...started out as a 1 owner 1600ghia auto that I bought off an old lady with 45k on the clock!

My mate Daz had a Mk1 with a BDA in it, that went well and sounded fab...

Capris are ok, but never handled as good as a scort, even with the X frame. I had a couple of 3.0s mk3's. one with X pack looked nice, and wound up with a 3.9 rover lump in it.

Would love another scort, but they are too much £££ for me to abuse it properly..so might build a tr8 instead at some point, tr7's are still cheap and the V8 lumps are cheap enough to come by thanks to landrovers...reckon I could build a nice sideways monster for a couple of grand, me thinking a Tony Pod replica in the red white and blue BL livery.

[westo123]

[quote="Drift"]Westo, you must be even older than Smiffy /quote]

Probably how old is he ?

[Drift]

Your so right Greg, though molested fords are cheaper and a good project you can never get back whats put into them as they are to butchered and generally history-less

I digress though, my other wet dream is a twin carbed 13.00 mini cooper


Westo, Smiffy is older than Gandalf (looks a bit like him to

[Dannyboy]

Can we also remember the Manta GTE and Monza GTE, again both nice motors even tho a bit on the square side and what about the LOTUS CARLTON!! MMMMMMMMMM