MK1 RS000 and The vintage working mans car.

[gregster]

My brother had a manta gte exclusive coupe as his first car!

[Dannyboy]

Id like one for a toy, c20let engine in and get plenty bhp out!

[Drift]

And they all produced good rally variants .. okay Capri didnt but I reckon a serious fettle and an engine relocation (as allowed in the early 80's) would sort that

[gregster]

The ascona 400 was just so horny....

RWD is just the nuts...

Its just that everything I own seems to go up in price stupidly a few years after I get rid!
In addition to my Fords and Vauxhalls, my starlets, my corrola gt's (rwd ae86 jobbies), e30 M3, Delta Hf Intergrale, strada abarth, 3 door cossie...all were big bucks a few years after I sold em!

Lucky I have learned from this...and got into Fronteras...

I can sell these with confidence knowing that I wont get bitten again!

[Drift]

Rertro Greg, no fecker realises they are 2wd yet in 75 years they will be like series 1 LR

[gregster]

and nearly as rusty!

[Drift]

True... a 4x4 is born......cant you tell what it is yet?

[gregster]

That was a britpart catalogue assembled, with a Landy logbook and tags on it...

[Drift]

[Kevin1964]

OMG you just reminded me of a ford showroom i visited years ago. I went spacifically to view the Brookland Capri..Hmmm very nice motor..Until i sat in it or attempted to should i say..I was too tall for the damm thing coz my head stuck out the sunroof even with seats at it's lowest point..Back then i was 6'4'' but now 6'2-3/4''..Hmmm.

Had the Mk2 RS' but have to admit i much prefer the mk2 flat fronted version because the twin headlight (droopsnoop) setup looked to plasticy for my liking .. Wish i sodding kept it coz i would be well minted now going on wot they have been advertised for.

[gregster]

Agree there kev...flat fronted rs2000's were much 'arder...especially with some 2up 2downs and 4 cibie super oscars.

but viva's hc firenzas looked much better with the droopsnoot front though.

[Kevin1964]

HS Chevette & the Lotus Sunbeam were on my list also ..The Hs Chevette was a bit of an unkown quantity but proved it had all it required when it came to simplicity and was very rugged and a great looking on road rally car in truth...Ahhh those were the days ehh .. I don't really recall the viva HC but i do the Firenza coz a mate owned one...Nice compact mile muncher

[gregster]

The firenza was a Viva HC mate...

In the same way as a 1600sport, or Harrier were a Mk2 scort.

Droop snoot for ya...
Standard...


Toyed with...



and in Gerry marshall old nail guise...




and Gerry's masterpiece Baby bertha...

[john boy]

Proper cars there love em wish i still had my mexico be woth a bomb now. Steer from the rear 2.1 pinto, twin 40's, stage 3 head & top sec fast piper cam, 5 link rear suspension, full cage, fire walled, seats & 4 point harnesess, stut brace, capri tank, world cup cross member, quick rack, aero quip hose's for fuel and brakes, skid plates & sump gaurd. I could carry on. Loved it

[horses45]

Ah the good old days i remember my bright yellow Mk 1 escorte and my green talbot sunbeam they were fun never had the capri but plenty of mk 1 and 2 escortes and some cortinas and even had a transit van but they were fun and so easy to fix

[wideformat]

Wow what a trip down memory lane.

Don't get too excited though lads I had a chance to drive a Mk1 Lotus Cortina a few years back, oh how I wanted one for years.
Got behind the wheel started it up fantastic, pulled away, drive it like you stole it the owner said it can take it again fantastic, the engine was lumpy on tickover but when on full chat fantastic, then I got to the first corner and the bl**dy brakes were non existent I nearly sh4t my pants slowed down after that and returned to the pits.

Like all dead relatives remember them as they were and dream about driving them along twisty A and B roads on long hot summer nights but for all thats holy leave it at that in reality they are slow, noisy, unreliable money pits with the brakes and suspension made out of plasticine, they will bu99er up your back kidneys and all internal organs and the only comfortable trip will be driving back home in the cab of the AA wagon with the car on the back the only thing still working will be the hazard warning lights that's if the battery hasn't gone flat lol.

Ohhh !!! wait a minute we all drive Frontera's so were used to all the above, so carry on as normal lads

[john boy]

Just watched on i player worlds wildest rallycars all about the group b years is on bbc4

[fronteramac]

i brought my lastest fronty in 2009 and had to sell my sierra on driveway to make space cos that was i project i was goin to do into cossy lookalike so put it on ebay with no reserve it was a sierra saphire 2.0 ghia 4x4 in like a magenta colour ,black leather, electric everything and it went for £450 ,a lads got it up in wigan now and iam gutted not to have kept in a few more years just to see if price went up ,i will have to find the pics i did for ebay and put one on

[Drift]

A mate sold one like that John, he lives in St Helens, he got £900 for it from ebay, a lad in Ireland bought it and had it picked up on a car transporter, it was a great base for a project, in fact it needed tiding rather than restoring.
It would have been worth a few grand with very little effort, race spec too

[fronteramac]

just remembered last year i had to move a mk 2 esort shell that had been in mates back garden since 90,s and rust had destroyed it so chopped it up into pieces to weigh in ,,, it was a flat front nordic blue with rs running gear but me mate stripped it for spares his garden is like mk 2 heaven ,nettles and weeds upto waist and i came accross 3 full set of tinted glass 2 crossflow engine and boxes 2 sets off rs alloys 1 set of old wolfrace alloys ,stuts crossmembers its aladins cave ,hes just put another mk 2 in there with shed full of new panels plus interior oh and on the flagged area he has 4x4 k reg cosworth