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[perry]

I've just spotted one of my old cars on the bay

Browsing as you do , checking out current old ford prices ( ouch ) and thought " oh a 100e , had one , wouldn't say no to another if I can get a mate to throw in a xflow , looks straight , not too bad money , hang on that plates familiar , I wonder which one of my old mates it is " . Looked at a few old photos and it was mine :roll:

Got it from a guy in Essex a few years ago , only broke down twice on the way home , it ran out of fuel . Mental note , ignore the fuel gauge and again when the dynamo ( none of that modern electrickery there ) nearly fell off . Other than that though it was brilliant . Pre dated the seatbelt law , so didn't have any . The seats don't have any adjustment and you can see in one of the photos they only bolt down at the front , with a hinge so you can get into the rear . The indicators are that tab on the centre of the wheel , so no stalks needed . Washer jets run on a pump , you press the white knob on the dash and you physically pushed water out the jets .

Why sell it ? well , I got pretty sick of the fuel vaporisation , they put the fuel line next to the exhaust manifold so 20ft away from pulling away from traffic lights it would just cut out as the petrol had , vanished

Once in a while you can live with , but every day :x

Ok that can be worked around no big deal , but it had only 4 gears , and one of those was strictly for backwards So your left with 3 . 1st is low , very low . being only a 1275 sidevalve it needed a low gear for any hills , only useful for standstills ( and a cheeky wheelspin ) which left you with 2 gears . 2nd gear was the one , 3rd was for cruising , at 50mph which it rarely made it up to

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Classic-Ford-Angl ... mobiles_UK

Here it was next to my tin corner .

Oh and that black ring on the impeccable red rear seat , tin of hammerite

This one will always be my favourite , George built it in about a month

Original paint

 

[lewis1641]

Have you had any bad cars (before now!) sorry didn't mean it.

Can't beat original paint

 

[perry]

Yeah cheers Dave :roll:

I sold the 100e for only slightly more than I paid for the clio ( had to remember what it was for a moment there )

I did kinda own a escort rs turbo , non runner before I got a license . Sold it to a mate who got it running then went to live near Leeds , got sick of having to push chav girls away whenever he stopped anywhere . Went home but the law eventually caught up with him for lacking a license , mot , tax , well everything

Before the 100e I had this

Bad lighting in that photo makes it look a strange colour . It was daytona yellow

At no point did I get stopped for lacking a front number plate .

Before the mk1 I had a mk2

Looker eh what you can't see is the one previous owner on the log book ( would drive only when drunk ) or that it was still pulling in 4th gear at 120mph , or that it could easily spin the wheels in 2nd gear . Oh the looks on people faces

I was on a job in a town about 40 miles away and talking to a guy about cars mentioned I had a mk2 , described it and he said " I've heard about that , what's in it ? "

I had to stop using it , it was quickly going to be my coffin , that's why I got the mk1 and why the mk1 was so tidy in comparison . I was no safer though , just looked cooler . That mk2 could probably put me in prison if it could talk , good thing it's now red and last seen in Scotland

Pretty gutted now

Even a 4 door escort goes for 2k now , yep we live in a time when people will pay 2k for a 4 door escort I remember it wasn't that long ago that a rs2000 would go for 2k . They now fetch 8k . I can remeber the 90s when they were still seen in scrappys and could change hands for pocket change .

 

[lewis1641]

Nice escorts. I was offered a 30k mile 4 door mk 2 in brown. Absolute mint for 300about 5 years ago. I turned it down becase it had run out of test.

Kinda regret that one!

What motor was in the mk2? Mk1 looks wicked.

 

[IDB1]

That Mk1 . . . . . lovely.... I'll show the Wife when she gets out of her pit, she is mad about them...

I came so close to buying a 3.0 Mk1 but tales of chassis flex and them leaving the road because of it made the decision for me..

Should've got it really.. soon whip the 3.0 out and put something 2/3 the size in


But I prefer Capri's.....

That 100E is cool too.. I'd hate seeing an old car of mine on ebay, especially if it was one that I liked...

 

[legrandefromage]

I sold my RS1600i....

it was mint, 3rd owner from new, uncracked dash.

I paid £995 in 2003...... :roll:

 

[perry]

It was only a 1660 xflow , nothing wild . I think I was just willing to push it just beyond its limit . Got it from a mate who was swapping it out for a pinto as she thought the xflow was slow . Coming back from santapod we cruised most of the way as I didn't know how to get home when we eventually got to a road I recognized I dropped her , got a text shortly after something along the lines of " wtf , what gear were you in ? you passed like I was standing still " . She threw quite a bit of money at the pinto but it still wasn't up to the pace

I got the mk2 for £300 around 2003 , few hundred on the engine , exhaust etc £300 on a grp4 rad ( ran pretty hot ) oh and a new gearbox as the original one didn't last very long . Sold it a few years later for £100 less the running gear , I think I got my moneys worth out of it . Was very tiring to drive , when it wasn't overheating it was swapping ends , I had it too low at the rear and the axle came into contact with the chassis rails , bang-no grip , lots of opposite lock Had wilwood calipers on the front so would lock up in an instant , good fun with a mate as I would say " hey what's that behind us " when he turned around to look I'd slam the brakes on and slide for a bit , shit him up every time

The rs1600i is probably the only mk3 worth having , the series 1 turbo has that image so they are all a bit dodgy unless you find one that's concours condition , but it'll have the price to match .

 

[IDB1]

My S1 RST (bought for £7k in 1990) is right up there with "those I should never have sold"..

It'd been messed with though..

Chipped ECU with adjustable boost (which I blew up)
Koni (or was it Spax) adjustables
Sierra Cosworth alloys (yuck!!)

Still like them now but totally agree concourse is the only way to go and the price tag that carries isn't, imo, worth it. . .

 

[perry]

I bet you had the towing eye cover on the front too . From what I remember they were easily lost or stolen so became a bit rare

The s1 looked good in the other mk3 models so when your shell was ruined you could use all the bits on a van , estate or cabrio .

 

[IDB1]

My towing eye cover was present and correct.. yup...

Bet it wouldn't be now (if I still had the car, that is)

3.0S Capri is still more appealing though.. my old blue one (wrecked the crank :roll: ) was luuuuuuvvly....