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Well everyone, this year's NEC Classic Motor Show has finally kicked off. For OSFs 21st birthday we have really put on a show. Big thanks as always to @Rayand @stephens_xpack and of course all the fellow members bringing their car. So come on gang show us some support and get down to the stand 8-050. 20251106_155710.mp4

A day out on Sunday, bloody freezing and going dark at 3 before she goes into hibernation. Just took some shots outside the house 😉

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1971535 Anglia bumpers 🤔

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Wait until your next birthday is 70! I got in a conversation a vicar, which I ended by asking him, "If God is great, why did he design me with sealed for life joints instead of fitting my spine, knees, and elbows with grease nipples?" 🤣 The look on his face was priceless.

Took a trip out to the Petrol Heads cars and coffee morning in Runnymede pleasure Gardens this morning, surprised how busy it was, probably well over 100 cars there. Well worth going again.

So I had a bit of luck earlier this week. A contact of mine in my industry had had someone drop out of an event he'd organised with a local car dealer, he called me up late last week anf asked me if I wanted to come instead for a few hours out behind the wheel on Monday.......... I had to think hard about it 🤔 It was a really tough call but I let him twist my arm. House, Alfa and kids will be going on the market next week. You can live in a car right?

No idea, it was bought from my Bro-in-Laws boss's mother who'd allegedly bought it a base spec car. It was built in the first week of January, maybe they just chucked anything on it due to back to work dilligaf blues?🤭

It would have depended on how many pints the assembly workers would have consumed on a Friday lunchtime 😁

leave it looking just like it is, but chuck a turbo honda motor in it 🤣

What can say.... Well done Ray, another year at this event, excellent display again this year . A big thanks to all who had taken the time to Display and attending while supporting this event and keeping OSF on the map.... No tee shirt's.. No stickers... No hoddies... Why is there no BACKUP.... from the club !! I take it Ray you still are covering all costs !! Anyway, Big Big thanks again to all who supported this display. Excellent. Popeye xxxx

Well, as depressing as I sound, only seems 5 minutes since I attended many car shows this year. Bastarding winter just around the corner, fecking fire works going off, Rachel Thieves budget, Halloween, bonfire night and bastard Christmas and the challenges of an unheated garage. 💩💩. Anyone else a miserable sod?

I’d swap the cold and rain for Black Widows, Crocs and heat. My knackered joints from years of Martial Arts are cooked. Here’s me in the morning getting up for work, once the joints have warmed up from the bedroom to the toilet.

Hi All, just over a week to go to the NEC, so if you haven't got your tickets then get your wallets out and get them you tight arses. Discount code is in the previous post. I don't want any moaning about costs and parking @Ray @stephens_xpack and myself have heard it all before. You don't think twice blowing £100 on a night out. 🤣 Come and give us some support we've got a great line up and it is the clubs 21st birthday 🎂.

It was a last moment decision to go this morning as it was dry and sunny well worth the drive. Just under an hour each way, and gave the old girl a good long run on the motorway before the weather disappears. The Ren 5 Turbo 2 was lovely! Loads more not photographed

Nice lineup of Escorts. And the Mini is sublime!

Did they really just say that?? 😆 12 of the finest (unintentional) double-entendres ever aired on British TV and radio: 1 Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator - 'This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.' 2. New Zealand Rugby Commentator - 'Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him.' 3. Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator - 'And this is Gregoriava from Bulgaria . I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing!' 4. Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 - 'Ah, isn't that nice. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew.' 5. US PGA Commentator - 'One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh my god !! What have I just said??' 6. Carenza Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on 'Time Team Live' said: 'You'd eat beaver if you could get it.' 7. A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked, 'So Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night?' Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard! 8. Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: 'Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday.' 9. Clair Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on 'Look North' said: “There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this. ' 10 Mike Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on 'Sky Sports': “Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets.' 11. Michael Buerk on watching Philippa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK eclipse coverage remarked: 'They seem cold out there. They're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts.' 12.. Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: 'Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny; other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.

There are water buffalo, they like to get soggy! Seriously though the heat in Summer these days is literally Hellish. While our Winters may be mild we pay for it during Summer merely going outside becomes unbearable with the excessive heat. (We are pathetically the skin cancer capitol of the world of which I personally am a member, on the backs of my hands from driving) I wish I was there during this time truly. Interesting is that you guys take your cars off the road for the Winter and hibernate them and at the exact same time I do the same thing but for the opposite reasons. Taking it out into the Summer sun for a few hours is deadly to visors and spoilers and your door trims crinkle like cabbages. The Twincam says FU im not running in this! Sometimes when you simply open the door and standing in the doorway you can feel the life being sucked from you and no amount of watering will keep your garden alive and I wish for your chill and rain! I guess what goes around comes around.

Well at least we can order a 50p bolt without having to pay 50 quid to get it delivered 😜

I can totally empathise guys. We have just come out of a really rough Winter. Some days I had to wear a long sleeve shirt the entire day! Out of curiosity how do you mow when you do that white grass thing, or is it just coloured turf from the hardware?

That's the one I have but with a 4 port heater pipe, I have it mounted on a shelf and power it from a 12v transformer plugged into the mains.

I have a cheap Chinese diesel heater too, toasty, but bloody noisy on full, I'm about to run the exhaust through a domestic panel radiator as a silencer before it exits the wall, if it works I'll get recycled heat as well. @Rally Pack 2000 James will be along soon to tell us how to run cheap air conditioning during winter!😁

If it saves your life, pucker up and take it like a man!🤣🤣

Hi all, First few cars I owned were all RWD Ford's. Inherited a solid but tatty V8 mk1 escort project a few years ago and progress has been slow until this summer when I finally started getting onwith it....aim to be on the road for next summer, so no doubt will be looking for pointers and tips over the next few months.

That’s a good point about the RS models. There semis to be more MK 1’s than 2’s these days, especially for sale on eBay.

I hate chrome so that would go straight away 🤢

With Wisdom comes great stupidity ... woops ... I mean great responsibility.

I would leave it standard yes. One thing I have noticed is the most common Escorts left are the RS models. They were saved because of the badge and value. But regular models with no real sporting heritage have been forgotten and they are rarer than the RS models themselves. A standard one like that is precious. Would I keep in 100% original? As much as possible yes but there are things Ford didn’t get right or cut costs for mass manufacturing. If its subtle that most wont notice the change and it offers are greater longevity or cures a nagging fault always present in the original design then Im open to swapping out parts in that instance.

75 large..........gulp

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Good work lads, hope you have a cracking weekend

Brilliant, a great line up......loving the mk 3 cortina....hope it all goes well.........

There are 3 types of GP1 wheels. The UK type 6x13 ET19 with a H75AB number which you are referring to, the German 6x13 ET19 with a H75EG number which I was referring to and the German 6x13 ET5 wheel.

Same place different car! After over 25 years of joy with the RS1800 / rally car replica it was time to let it go. Getting in and out of that car became more painful every week (roll cage, bucket seats, harness) and the car isn't comfortable at all. Now got another Mk2 at the other end of the scale: completely standard. Me happy.

Same here, but from years of football, and still playing every week at the young age of 50 - I must be mad,

It's easy to mistake an American tourist for a wildebeest, similar size, the crocs just think they've taken their fur coat off to go swimming🤭

Cracking turn out. Liking the T5, REN Turbo and MK1 Focus. Look at the weather! Pissing down here in Manchester all day. We don’t tan up here we rust. Nice to get a late blast before the winter sets in. 👋🏻

Aren't they like wildebeests? Those thick buggers that always cross a river at crocodile infested spot in the wild life films? I don't think think I want crocodiles attracted to the river in front of my house, Nah , sheep'll do, they only attract Welshmen.🤣🤣 (I'll run and hide now as I'm only a handful of miles from the border🤭)

I blame Brexit, it wasn’t like that before but I have no idea why it would make any difference on Australian shipping but strangely it did!

Bloody Aussies! 🦘🐨🇦🇺🤣

This type sits on the floor. click here

With 620bhp, and a prancing horse on it, I can't say I cared too much.

I have a lorry cab heater in my barn, so I can't grumble 😆

Think with all strut braces incl. the oval ones you need to reposition (at least lower it) the washer bottle .

Easiest way to spot Lazer wheels at a glance is are by the circular casting around the bolt holes, twice as thick on Lazers.

Every government mate, no matter what party, they all spout shit and say what people want to hear to get into power, and then, well, just make excuses why they cant deliver what they promised. Lying cheating bastards the lot of them

I had a trip to my local farm shop. I was the only customer 😁

Morning Coffee and Cars at Emu Plains for pre-2000 Japanese and European cars last weekend. Several Old School Fords in attendance. It was hard to get good shots with the morning summer sun sending camera exposures all over the place. (Thats a bright burny thing in the sky we get here that ruins vinyl door trims) The event mainly caters for classic Datsuns and Mazdas with a flood of Datto 1600's and Mazda Rotary's But some nice British stuff squeezed in between too.

Popped out last night to a local meet, why not hey! The MK1 Tina was lovely, so was the bubble arch Twink, very clean all over

I'm heading to the Northern Ireland RS owners club meet today. Polished the girl up before I set off!