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so, just to update, we now have 5 cars for the stand, and an even more reason to book those tickets, we have Colin joining us, first time since 2017, and hes bringing Prince Harry

theres one of your answers colin lol, a nice vista estate, 2 capris, and the other person has a choice, and is undecided which at the mo lol

good news, the club has been offered a stand at the NEC again this year, and Kellye has sent the acceptance e-mail, the stand will have 4 cars this year, which the spaces are all spoken for already unfortunately, and not one 1300E will be seen on there this year But the good news is, if you want to see a 1300E, the 1300E owners club have a stand opposite the old skool ford one, where you will find 5 1300E's, and Nick Heers purple one will be on the AVO stand across the hall, the 1300E celebrating its 50th year and the owners club its 40th year all will be in hall 8, which seems to be referred to as the Ford hall these days, and neareer the time a discount code for tickets will be posted in the OSF CULT CLUB HOUSE for the cult members to take advantage of its a good show to visit, so cult members please take advantage of the discount code when its posted, the code unfortunately does only apply to single day visits and not 2-3 day entrance tickets, as they do already discount those hope to see you all there this year

gets very busy down there, the beige is sahara beige, and that particular one is quite famous, and the metallic green one is onyx green purple velvet was the launch colour, then followed by amber gold and venetian gold, and the series one was only made in those 3 colours, purple being the most popular, and only around 5000 series one were made, production started in dec 72 for a 1st march 73 launch, but ceased production in October 73, to make way for the series 2, at that point it was available in most of the colours, but the 2 golds were dropped, and series 2 was also the later body shell

Another great day at Southend beach, we had 15 1300E’s attend this little show 5bdc2e23-9c20-4482-9ce0-6fd2bbdff93c.mp4

this coming Sunday, the 21st May, is classics on the beach show at southend, if anyone in that vacinity wishes a few hours out its a good show, and we have at least 12 1300E's will be there, and a few yank tanks the show is open to any classic over 25 years old, and free to both display and visit, you book your place on the eventbrite web site, but should you wish to bring a 1300E and not already booked, pls PM me with details and ill book you in, then we can hopefully get you in the line of E's

the guy that runs the sporting escort owners club, Geoff Lane, used to make repro to order, not sure ifhe still does or the cost either, but imho it still needed re veneering to look anything like original originally all the dash pieces were veneered in american cherry, except the glove box wich could have either been american cherry or walnut, whatever they had to hand, and were originally RS/MEX, the along came the 1300E, and they made door cappings to go with it, these were not veneered, and were 1300E specific early wood appears to be of a light stain, almost golden in colour, but by November 73, this had changed to a very much darker shade

well going by tfl checker, and a few other online checkers, neither mine or nicks are exempt whilst other info says they should be, its vague, but im not likely to take mine into that situation, so i wont loose any sleep over it

hard to get, very expensive in crap condition and very expensive to have restored properly badly stored and the inner protective paint worn off, the glove boxes warp

ive just checked on the TFL web site, and none of my 3 classic cars are either ULEZ or congestion charge exempt, and i had read somewhere about 6 months ago that london residents were selling their classics for that very reason, but as to how true it all is i dont know, just something i read online

if away still means what it used to lol, hopefully not in the same place as youve been lol

i like it, just not sure on those arches, they look ok till you see the view from the front

you mean the wife lol

i think RP was looking more in the area of making it a hearse lol, make a good funeral rental

Colin, change the title, the thought of seeing you in your speedos does nothing to encouraging looking at the post lol

lancaster, i was with hagerty, but the price shot up, lancaster were prepared to take out parts of it i didnt want, need or use to get the price down, hagerty wouldnt do that

nice day on Southend beach today witha line of 8 1300E's

as far as im aware you cannot drill toughened glass, even polishing it carries a high risk of it shattering

thats now with me

You better be looking after my battery H

well in true style, Nick Heer cant miss a show, hes at the NEC resto show with Penelope on Lord Loxleys auto anonymous stand, and hes sporting his old skool ford polo shirt whilst mingling with the stars, well one star at least, good old Ant

take it your buying then Dave, nice little replacement for the mex with change in your pocket

i stopped trying to buy from them years ago, everytime i placed an order and paid for it, they cancelled the order and returned my money but have to say, i never lost my money, just appeared they were trying to sell stuff they never had

the red dual bulkead plugs with one being red, were used on Capris, but may not be limited to just that, as i bought a couple of capri looms for parts (connectors) with the dual plug one red

very hard to find them these days, you will need to make your own from using the door pillar bungs, the round ones that go in the square holes, there are repro ones of these knocking around but the rubber on genuine is far stronger