Nige65

Whilst cutting up some logs yesterday, I discovered this from an ash tree: A striking resemblance to the painting ‘the scream’ by Edvard Munch don’t you think!

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:

Mine has the same number!

Is their a straight forward way of identifying the AX block? I have a SA Escort 1600 Sport and was intrigued as to whether it had one fitted.

I agree, down here in Cornwall the roads are really bad and there seems to be little money available for proper repairs, my daily drive is a Focus ST with 19” rims meaning rubber bands for tyres, there is still a lot of standing water on the roads that hide the potholes and I’ve had a few of those horrible sounding thuds as I’ve hit one!

Thanks for the suggestion, the bayonet fixing gave me a clue as to what I required so did a search and Amazon came up with these, so I took a punt on them for £8.99 and they fitted perfectly:

Morning all, I’m looking for another one of these wiper arm connectors, just had one disintegrate on me. Miniliteman kindly posted one the last time I had this issue but now looking for another. My other option is to replace the arms (mine are straight at the end) with the hooked type but these seem to be expensive at around £90 for a reproduction pair! Annoying that I can’t drive the car due to a small piece of broken plastic! Thanks in advance.

A little bit too futuristic for us down here in Cornwall 😁

I replaced mine, pretty sure that I got the new hose from Halfords.

Can anyone give me an idea of how to clean the outside of my washer bottle or is it a case of buying one in new or better condition?