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Ottery St. Mary (darkest Devon) now cancelled, but the Tour of Exmoor is going ahead! looking forward to tomorrow!

Im booked in for the Tour of Exmoor next weekend and Ottery St Mary show on the 30th, first time the Cortina will have been out this year! looking forward to them.

and a happy belated birthday!

Good to hear you are on the road to recovery! I'm getting on in years (73) I think youve' got to get things fixed as they happen, Ive had 4 new hip joints (to one side) a left knee, glaucoma fixed, cataracts fixed, on blood pressure and colostrol tabs, and waiting for a new right knee, but still working walking and driving - a bit like an old Ford, keep fitting the spares and keep going! beer helps a lot!

Pic taken just outside Cortina d' Ampezzo.....

Iv'e got the crossover pipe on mine and it's been fine for about 20 years or so! I did get them rebuilt by Big Red a few years ago - just because they were old........

Ive got a set of 5 Mk2 Escort RS alloys - H75AB-1007-FA, in fair condition 4 fitted with Yoko A539 tyres with 5mm of tread, and 1 with a new budget tyre as the spare, what are they worth? I used to use them on my Mk3 Tina but changed them for 5 spoke 14" Revolutions....

Car and Classic auctions have got two on their site, a Montreal 22 for £48 - £52,000 and a Marrone Metallizzato for £78,000.

That was a fun day @ Silverstone! couldent beat the escorts though...........

Probably right, shouldent be any problems with mine as its only done 14,700 in 7 years and no advisories last year, I still dont trust them though!

The MOT is due on my daily driver, I checked the .gov status and it says due in October, they have added the 6 months on but I'm sure that the insurance company's would use this as a 'get out of jail free' card not to pay out is there was a serious accident, so its booked in anyway to be done on Thursday, perhaps I'm too distrusting?

I still have my factory open as we have been designated key suppliers, manufacturing main frame computer cabinets, needed around the world their use has been diverted for new build hospitals and and resurch centres, we also supply the worlds railways with vairous hardware that fixes the signaling frames in-track, supplied to vairous locations in Europe, the States and Australia, we are observing the 2 metre rule and staggering tea breaks and start/stop times, hand wash reminders and anti bac gel, not good but hopefully it will not be for too many months......

Yeah I thought again, car safe at home now the place is just about empty now, I'm still working as we supply two key company's with parts.......

My Cortina is on lockdown! it's in the local bodyshop (which shut today) having some rusty spots sorted, nearly ready but not able to bring it home as the police are stopping cars to check it your journey is really necessary, fines if not! well it will give me a chance to tidy the garage......

Calcium carbide was used to get rid of moles in the past, I've got a carbide lamp that I used to use on my hat when I was pot holing in the 60's ok till they exploded! saved up my pennies and bought an ex coal miner's knife cell from one of the mines, huge improvement!

Thanks for looking iI will continue the search!

I'm looking for a new old stock or good reproduction front offside wing, there's a pair on ebay for £850 - a bit steep though, any ideas?

Re the bog roll shortage, back in the hard up 50's, it was my job being the youngest child to tear newspaper into usable squares, make a hole in one corner for the string and hang it in the bog, it would still work now but not sure about the modern bio degradable bit though!

So what do ou have on yours? I can recommend Balsamic vinagar! sounds weird but the flavour is something else

Ive got all the parts that have been modified/removed from my mk3 Cortina, when new it was a 1.3 with 4 speed box and wallowing suspension, it is now a tweaked 2.9 v6 on throttle bodys with 190 brake at the wheels, 5 speed box, power steering and sorted suspension, so it could be returned to factory but why would you? if it had been left as standard and not acquired by me 20 years ago it would be long gone as it was destined to be a chicken shed!

I will be there again! this will be my 20th year of Powderham!

The EU makes the threat of import tariffs on our exports to them, so guess we would add import tariffs on all the German. French and Italian cars and white goods? a nice Australian Ford Fairline seems a plan!

Iv'e been looking to see if my Father in Laws old car is still around for a while now - RHR 717M, red Escort Mk1 poss a XL? it had the cloth seats and wood effect dash, it's not on the Gov web site so guess it's been squashed but you never know.....