Ray

hope you got the tea making equipment then lol, no electric on the stands, you need a second mortgage to have that, unfortunately its gonna be down to the rip off NEC food outlets

and on the stand opposite you got two essex boys, one sarf londoner, one south coast, one south west, that with your east ender and 2 more essex boys, i think you 2 northerners willbe well out numbered and need to go and make a brew lol, and when youve drunk too much tea youll be able to go and see nick in the toilet

peoples, there is only 3 months remaining till the NEC, please book your tickets online, on the NEC site, the closing date for ticket purchases is the 9th Novenber there is a discount code posted in the old skool ford cult club house for some un explicable reason, some people have trouble accessing it, so if you do, just PM me we would love to see as many of you there as possible, RP, i hope you have those plane tickets booked, if i can get one come especially from america just for the show, then you have no excuse we will have some loverly cars on display vista estates mk1 estate colins Harrier Popeyes rover V8 powered mk1 escort Kellye's X pack capri Ian (aka Munch) lotus mk2 cortina (i think, or might be his RS2, or if he was to get his finger out even a a highly modified mk1 tina lol) he was hoping but it wont be ready right opposite is 5 1300E's, 4 of which never seen at the NEC before and across the hall, right by the toilet lol, will be Nick Heers purple E that line up is worth the trip on its own, so come on guys, book those tickets

Dont forget peoples, if your going to the NEC this year, the discount code for booking tickets, is in the old skool ford cult club house it can be a bit hit n miss getting in there, so if you have a problem finding the code, just pm me

well i know Gerbil all about mk2 escorts, not my thing, but the reg no. says enough to put me off lol

on a mk1 1300E, ford used sound deadening under the bonnet, until they had several episodes of it falling off onto the exhaust manifold and catching fire, it took a year before they deleted it if you put too much or too thick a sound deadening on the floor in the main cabin, an original carpet wont fit properly as an aside, didnt the mk2 RS2, have a factory deadening mat on and shaped to the upper bulkhead, that should fit a std mk2 as well, i would have thought

Dont forget peoples, if your going to the NEC this year, the discount code for booking tickets, is in the old skool ford cult club house it can be a bit hit n miss getting in there, so if you have a problem just pm me

Bit of a damp start. should have stuck with avo national day lol

Lol

all this plugging i need a wire attached ill give this a go on here as i know event posts dont always get read right, i know this is a tad close to the event this Sunday the 9th July, is the AVO national day, but this is a special yer you can go to any car show at any time on any year, but if your into old fords, especially Mk1 escorts, THIS show, THIS year is a must, forget thje rest, go to the best this year celebrates the 50th Birthday of the RS2000, 1300E and RS3100 Capri, and the AVO national day is going all out to celebrate this there will also be Mexico's, twin cams and RS1600's in the main field you will never see such a large gathering in your or the cars lifetime again, this is a one off opportunity not to dismiss, you can go to any other show at any other time, but this one will never be repeated in your lifetime on a side field youll find all sorts of non AVO models, theres also stalls with anything from auto jumble to Beer its also attached to Hatton country world, where you can dump the wife and kids for a few hours its also the cheapest day out, at £5 a car, 4 in a car thats only £1 a head for the best car show out there, thats cheaper than chips its held at Hatton Park in Warwickshire, CV35 8AX, this Sunday if Scott can make the NEC un announced all the way fron Cornwall a couple of years back, then this event is no excuse come on guys, you can even drive your classics there

really, load of old tosh lol, escorts rule, bring on national day lol

RP, I hope you got that plane ticket booked, be good to put a face to a name on Sunday

right, i know this is a tad close to the event this Sunday the 9th July, is the AVO national day, but this is a special yer you can go to any car show at any time on any year, but if your into old fords, especially Mk1 escorts, THIS show, THIS year is a must, forget thje rest, go to the best this year celebrates the 50th Birthday of the RS2000, 1300E and RS3100 Capri, and the AVO national day is going all out to celebrate this there will also be Mexico's, twin cams and RS1600's in the main field you will never see such a large gathering in your or the cars lifetime again, this is a one off opportunity not to dismiss, you can go to any other show at any other time, but this one will never be repeated in your lifetime on a side field youll find all sorts of non AVO models, theres also stalls with anything from auto jumble to Beer its also attached to Hatton country world, where you can dump the wife and kids for a few hours its also the cheapest day out, at £5 a car, 4 in a car thats only £1 a head for the best car show out there, thats cheaper than chips its held at Hatton Park in Warwickshire, CV35 8AX, this Sunday if Scott can make the NEC un announced all the way fron Cornwall, then this event is no excuse come on guys, you can even drive your classics there

that should read x pack capri, not c pack lol for some reason i cannot edit my posts

dont forget, theres a good line up this year, slight change from previously posted, and youll get to talk to Colr6 aka Colin with his Harrier and Gary, AKA popeye with his V8 rover powered mk 1 escort among others the line up is popeye, colin, vista estate, stephens x pack aka Kellye and Munch aka Ian mk1 escort V8, mk2 escort harrier, mk1 escort estate, c pack capri and i think ian is taking his lotus cortina and right opposite youll see the 1300E owners club stand with 5 1300E's on it and across the hall the AVO club have Nicks purple 1300E on their stand, hopefully along with an RS2OO and RS3100 capri

dont forget the discount code is in the old skool ford cukt club house, if you cant see it for some reason, just pm me

i have now twice been on the end of the DVLA creating problems over a V5, and once where they just issued it, so to a large degree, with anything modified, altered or changed, you now have a potential problem, i know others that have also had problems, on the 2 that i have had involvement with, ive had to re assemble one car back to standard and show in excess of 40 pictures, inclusive of vin no stamping, vin and body plates inc their riveting, the other car was purchased part restored, and had to be completed prior to them issuing a v5, as there was no prior pictures, and they again wanted lots of pictures, again very particular over the vin plates and stampings, and in both cases the cars had to be to a large degree how they rolled off the line, and the latter had to have an MOT on the car prior to issuing the V5, it seems to be a little hit and miss who they pick on tbh, but the problem is there

Ive just posted a flyer with the discount code in the osf cult club house, for booking day tickets at the NEC in november

there you go, what did i say lol

re the missing ice scraper, there were 2 people making them, but the injection moulded ones didnt fit properly, so get hold of Neil Fletcher, hed on FB and an avo club member, he makes them, they were around the £50 each touch neil has a web site, just google neil fletcher racing re the metal clip thats missing, theres a member on here that makes them, im sure he will pipe up soon enough

if i go back in time to when i was a lad, i do vaguely remember my dad telling me that if a car could be rolled onto the road, the vehicle had to be road legal, yes even on a private driveway, unless all 4 wheels were removed, or you built a wall around it so it couldn't be taken out now, i just took it at the time, as another one of those things he said to stop me putting cars on his drive, as was my want lol, and never really thought any more of it, but his brother was a copper, so could have been something in it, having read the above

are you fitting that classic trim one or an original ford one the ford one has a removable ice scraper, is fixed to the floor using the rear 2 handbrake gator screws, then 2 screws mid way, hidden under the scraper, and one at the front, no spacers underneath, but under the scraper near the handbrake youll find 2 slots, thats for a metal strengthener strap to stop it pulling apart the classic trim one does not have a removable scraper, and only screws to the tunnel with 3 screws, never fitted one, so dont know what theyre like tbh

its not actually tax exempt, only MOT exempt, if registered as a historic vehicle, it still has to have road tax, its just the tax is free, but they no longer check insurance when you tax a vehicle, so you can tax it without insurance, but, its actually an offence to have a taxed and un insured vehicle

the first 5000 1300E,s termed series 1s were all 2 door, and the series 2 ran for 6 months in 2 door before the 4 door 1300E was available, no hard figures written down, but they say in s2 there were 4000 4 door and 2000 2 door, most 4 door went to the place in the sky, making them scarce now

so basically what your saying is, just because the car is historic, dosnt make it exempt, you still have to apply to make it exempt, hence why the tfl website says mine are not exempt coin it in while no one realises