Nige65

I had a GT125, a Mk2 Escort around this time, my mum and sister were born in Scotland but I was more of a Skids fan than Big Country!

Strange, I’m sure that I saw a photo of a white Mk1 with a red stripe earlier today 🤔

I remember cloth seats instead of vinyl plus mine was a 1.3 but that's about it, we're talking 40 years ago now so the memory is a bit foggy. I'm that someone out there will probably have a Mk2 Escort brochure that will show the differences.

I was really posh, my first car was a 1300 Popular Plus in a light metallic blue NTF704R.

Remember them well, Saturday morning Swap Shop was a must watch for this youngster back in the day, can't remember what Tiswas stood for but remember their 'Bucket of water' song around 1980!

Nice motor, the ‘PB’ on the number plate would suggest that it was registered in Portsmouth.

Some nice motors there, thanks for taking the time to post the photos Dave 👍

Glad that you’re back home now, see recovery as a challenge and take it one small step at a time, there will be good days and bad days along the way but we are all here if you need to get anything off your chest. Keep the chin up cobber and keep us updated 👍

That’s bad news, wishing you a speedy recovery James 👍

Are you calling James a convict? 😁

If my old memory serves me correctly, it was a Peterbilt 351 that appeared in the film ‘Duel’, do correct me if I’m wrong 😁

My first job was an evening paper round, when coming up to Christmas, I used to be given a lot of tips as the household’s thought that I did the early morning round as well, I didn’t even know the paperboy that I was taking tips from, well every penny counted as a youngster 😁

Are they the type that you lick and then feel very happy?

My property is accessed via a public bridleway that the owner or neighbour doesn’t maintain, I constantly fill in the potholes, it deteriorates quickly with the high volume of rain that we’ve had, the cars also get dirty every time I take them out this time of the year ☹️

As the title suggests, does anyone have experience of how to rejuvenate a rear parcel shelf, mine is brown and I’ve tried a few different substances to bring it back to life but nothing had improved it, is it just a case of finding a matching coloured paint or is there a proper restoration method available? It actually looks worse than in the photo: