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I have a Mk1 Escort Estate too. Vista Estate will be back on the road for this season 🤞

Long time member of the forum as I had wanted a Capri for the longest time. I had a few 1965 Mustangs in school and now are silly prices. I wanted a Capri for the longest time, but in 2024 I found a 1973 MK1 Capri then traded a Westfield Lotus 7 replica for a MK1 Escort estate. Since Escorts didn't come to the US till 1984 I never expected to own a MK1 Escort let a lone a fantastic estate. Through school until I could get my driving license I wanted an Anglia. There was a pair of 105e parked in a guy's side yard. I planned to try to buy one once I passed my driving test. I got to his house a week after I had my license and found that he sold the cars the week before! Forward to present day I now have a MK1 Escort estate and just procured a fantastic 1966 Anglia Deluxe project that has been off the road since 1972. The 1970 Escort was built in Genk, Belgium and sold new in Finland. It was brought into the US by the second owner and since passed through 4 other US owners till I got it. Original 1300 motor will be swapped for a 2.0 Pinto motor. I added four pot HiSpec calipers, Minilites and decals, otherwise it is stock. The '66 Anglia was built at Halewood in October of '66 with a 1200. I have a 1600GT motor I will put in it and contemplating Escort front suspension on it. I will lower it 2" and plan on VW Denim blue for the body and Fiat Celeste blue for the roof.

A couple more pics taken during my road rally days. First pic is on the Altlas plant rally in Herefordshire in 1981 and second on the August Moon Rally 1982 (I think). Hope you like them.

It is tan, hearing aid tan. Not sure the name, I'd have to see if the color is called out on the chassis tag.

Love the long roof! My first car was an Anglia 1200 Super, it had so much filler in it, if i had hit someone the'd have died of asbestosis. It had a partial wooden floor too, but at 16 getting ready for my 17th birthday I didn't care.

What do you call a sarcastic Yorkshire Cowboy? Tex Piss

Car 1 or Car 2? How the experts can tell a pure-bred classic car from a fake: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/afe4d8bfeb176126

Droop snoot Mexico anyone? Always dry stored

Nice collection.......................................

Yes, I must renew mine 😐

Hi recently joined the group here’s my 3 Ford Fiestas

Shit, just seen this post, timing is everything as they say

Of course! No way I was spending 50 bucks on a tool I only get to use once every 5 years! And in a number of years time when I go to try find it again I will swear i bought one of these things and have no idea where it is after all this time. So it has a spot with other similar tools I will always know exactly where it is.

Thanks Scott, that worked , all paid up now 👍🏻

James, it looks like it'll peel spuds too, charge it to the housekeeping budget, Result!👍

Glad you found out why, there are alot of good pictures in your builds and it would be a shame to lose them

Two doors gettn rare these days. Keep it.

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I call my car Winston, for Winston Ingram off of 'Still Game' as the character had a prosthetic leg which is similar to my car's color other than the painted toe nails That picture was taken during the summer which was very dry, since November we have had loads of rain and I have had to trim my yard 4 times so far in the dead of winter! It is a nice change from the usual yellow dead plants that usually covers the region.

That’s a real 70’s colour, mines Clifton Sand or, hearing aid brown as my mates call it. Digging the wooden house, no rain there I see 🤔😂

Welcome to OSF @whitebuffalo Good to see the old Fords representing worldwide What colour is the Escort? Cant quite make it out.

Good to hear the Yanks know a good car when they see one. 👏🏻

Agreed mate. My daughters just passed her test, I’ll remind her about the puddles. Yes unfortunately, some poor soul will end up seriously maimed or dead. Clearly, this shit pot of a government have other priorities.

Nice pair … I do love the look of an Anglia. I probably should have bought one instead of the escort

Flipping terrible in Devon as well, even worse on a motorbike

Thank's. something must have been gone wrong with connection then

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Lovely stuff. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257360185591?_skw=ford+escort&itmmeta=01KHH50RPP6TFAEYM55E9V4M5F&hash=item3bebdcc8f7:g:nfAAAeSwH4lpkGLy&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xDFIiN60K%2F59zCeMcT4NPACO%2FxwE0hlNrJCFCmz6Vmlc3wXUfTE6jKAhQ1DSIU%2F52VHphde6glsBoORyIk7G3uUw%2BI3k38%2FYnlQT25ajea8lvqj7XQ1lvdNkYk81D4uQ0kIA70upZ15wpq1I6berTTsPRiEwZZzJfI9B3SvzFdZBdwxXgwwblkEHMo0A4TQ8cKrtRlkwf%2FH%2BxEn0NUq9BOvRQ9YBQu069n5wyclbRveOYwGt%2Bo4OMk2%2B1ZyhWLH3oU%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8qLg6WMZw

Yep, those are the official Group 1 top plates. When searching for "just-in-case" spares in the 80's I came across a Group 1 air filter housing, but it was cracked in the area where those plates go. Needless to say, the plates hadn`t been fitted, so I concluded that they were there to stop the filter housing flexing and cracking

The man who invented the speed boat has died. it’s his funeral tomorrow, followed by a wake.

In high school my first job was working for a Local Wildlife park on Sundays. For a 10 hour day you would be paid the princely sum of $5,00. It was always perceived as what appears to be a dream job feeding caring for all those cuddly animals or so my friends at school thought. Nothing like that at all! 90% of your time is raking out animal sh*t and scrubbing slimy water bowls. Trying to clean out a water trough with the creature wanting to stay in it resulted in my first crocodile bite. (Fortunately just a baby) A camel who had a line drawn in front of its pen to indicate its spitting range. Or a goanna who wouldn’t let go of my ankle drawing blood i had to crush its head in to make it let go. A Cassowary (Worlds Third largest bird) who hated you so much it had worn its beak off to a stump making threatening gestures along a wire fence. Then the Ostrich season with a mother who wouldn’t sit on her eggs so they needed to go to other zoos for incubation. trouble is she didn’t want to give them up regardless. The lowest employee on the totem (guess who?) had to scale a six foot fence with her attacking with a 3kg egg under their arm and not allowed to drop or break it. A job back then is now considered child exploitation. 🤔

@Dave Knight thanks Dave, all credit due to the Swedish engine builder….can’t wait until the spring to take her out again, we are currently under a metre of snow here in Sweden…the car is tucked up in bed in a dry lock up !

The Lumenitiom rev limiter was set to 4000 RPM as the engine was hardly run since the build was completed in July 2024 and Simon the previous owner had only put 400km on it in a year until I bought it in July 2025, he’d fell out of love with the car and his missus wanted a boat……poor guy in answer to your question is it lively, it is now since I’ve adjusted the rev limiter to maximum whatever that is, I took it to 6000 RPM yesterday In the first 3 gears before I bottled it, I’m told she’s good for 6500 RPM after she’s properly run in 😈

1972 Estate 1760 Kent, h/d type9, quaife ATB in narrowed axle, banded steels. Rs2000 struts, lowered spring cups, Gaz short inserts, Wilwoods. Standard drums with new everything incl relined drums with high grip linings. 130mph 6dial dash, Springalex, and a line-lock. MR2 recaros. Was even a RetroFord feature. Was Electric Effect Orange it's now in primer/satin black

Dreading spring and summer taking the car out. Some real horror stories about. I have never, ever seen the roads as bad. I nearly came to an untimely end a coupe of weeks ago out on my bike. Someone will seriously injured or killed. Last week I was all over country working. It’s a pandemic, they are everywhere. Government would rather send millions abroad and spend money on hotels. Meanwhile, the motorists are shafted ! The country is a shambles.