whats the best bargain you've got for your OSF?

[Mr Sam]

black 'period' furry seat covers.,free

[Wessie]

another good deal i got was 4 split rims (7.5J and 9.5J) wrapped in yokies with good tread for £200 ! or the engine and box (running) for £30

[Rick]

i once bought a huuuge set of slots for £10 lmao

 

 

didnt use em in the end though i sold them

 

and my 1600 xflow with box and a few boxes of escort parts for £100

[V8ian]

At a toy fair, on one stall were a couple of New Mk1 Zodiac bits [When I had my Zodiac], how much, eventually he told me there were a few more bits on the van and he wanted £100 for the lot,which included 5 new steering boxes for a Mk2zz, There was so much stuff I had to make 3 runs home with it, all for Mk1/2/3 Zodiacs and consuls, , 3 weeks later I had sold the lot at a couple of autojumbles,-------£1700 and this was 20 years ago

 

Or 4 sets of Koni style adjustable spring lock rings and tops for springs, 50p per Item, £6.00 all made in TITANIUM, and a Mk1 Cortina Column mounted GT rev counter for £2, off the same fella.

 

I was given a Mk1 capri Atlas, Full rebuild, new bearings, gears, brakes. the lot. and from the same man, who had abandoned his Pop build, a Ford 8" axle with new 4.11 gears for £25, BTW I still have both

 

The axle thats on my Cortina, Toyota Celica LSD, tough as they come, another gift

 

Pair of Porsche Bembros, [on the cortina], from a breakers,------£20, what a nice man

 

I suppose this should be tempered with the piles of crap I have also bought oner the years

[Rick]

kinell

[awesome]

I bought a Anglia for 200 squid with a brand new safety devices full roll cage still in the wrapper changed the bonnet with mine as it was mint

my mate fetched the car for the log book sold a few bit off the car for

50 odd notes then sold the shell for £200 to a chap in Ireland

so cage would have cost me 350.00

bonnet worth about 80.00

parts sold 50.00

nice saving of £ 480.00

[Delotus]

I got a near mint GT center consell for a £100 for me mk 1.

 

A lot you may think ,but not when there goin for over 3 ton on ebay for tatty ones.

 

Every thing else i've had to pay for top wack!! arhhhhh

 

Tim

[GT_Jim]

i bought a 15 gt pre xflow for £120 got it acid bathed and honed for free and sold the block on its own for £140

[RFChris]

My lowered and uprated springs, granada 2.8i claipers, mintex pads and a genuine ford overhaul kit, £30.

 

Granada 2.8i Front Splitter £30

 

Longmill 600watt amp, £20

 

Ghia alloys, fuill set, £20

 

1982 2.0GL Cortina Estate, £270!

 

[fiesta_dan]

payed £30 for my car great bargin

[mk1mexico]

I forgot in 2003 i bought a solid 2 door mk2 escort, no sunroof, no vinyl roof, with 2 litre pinto, polished/ported head twin 45's and a lumpy cam. 4 branch exhaust and a genuine set of rs2 wheels/tyres 250 quid

 

I was still on apprentice wages and couldnt afford the fuel so i sold the carbs at an AVO day for 275

[arch]

couple of bargins me my car mk2 escort 4 door ghia 63k on the clock auto so un ragged x-flow for £125

 

early mk2 round headlight grill for a tenner at ford fair

 

brand new rear bumper for a mk2 chrome for free

[antz]

erm........refurbed front struts with adjustable GAZ inserts..brand new never been on car!...£100 pair

 

genuine rs2000 centre console £8

 

2x F-O-R-D round headlight grills and a oval badge round light grill £50 for the 3!

 

white needle rs2000 dash clocks £23

 

two more round headlight grills for £55 (sold one to sweden for £70 )

 

brand new NOS in bag square headlight grill £5!

[sambo]

I got a 2 door mk2 escort with 1660 x-flow with 234 cam etc, rs 4 spokes, rear cage, twin 40's. Basically a really nice car re-sprayed in metallic blue.

Trouble was the owner didnt check under the carpets before forking out for a respray and they were nearly non existant!!

It also had a badly fillered over sunroof that was cracking and flaking.

 

My dad got it for my 19th b'day for £150!!!

The guy selling it just wanted some money for his weed habit!! God i hate stoners.

[Rick]

also bought a mk1 2 door for £60

 

scrap but was a great donor for my car and made nearly £500 in flogging the parts

[Gareth]

Best bargain has to be my capri...

 

Paid £150 for it....

 

Cost a lot more than that to get it on the road tho

[bozie]

i got a fiber glass bonnet that was £120 new it had never been fitted and i paid £16 (ebay)

[mossy]

parts from my friend cisco24..the legend he is

 

2.1 brand new fully rebuilt and tuned pinto, with type 9box....£1k

Atlas axle £35

[Chris!]

i got a complete mk1 cortina for £350, this included

a re built cross flow lump

re built 2000e box

new hub caps for a mk1 corty

set of 6j steels with brand new tyres

re chromed bumpers door handles and bonnet bezel

new lights

add on anti roll bar

corbeau seats

gt gauges

new quarter bumpers and brackets witch wer new aswell

set of new gt cortina dials

all the rubber grommets for the car etc

set of mexico steels

set of new lotus twin cam pistons

cortina gt centre console

strut brace

gt handbrake

new window rubbers

lotus brake servo

gt remote gear change

 

the list goes on:):)

[james p]

4 door mk2 escy

 

bought it off a lady for £50

 

striped it bare and sold the shell for £200

[Alan G]

I got a pair of BRAND NEW weber 45's with linkages & a Xflow manifold for €480, sold the Xflow manifold for €100 so do the maths (and don't forget to carry the one ) €380, which is £250 your money!

[mr squidian]

the car?

£200 with MOT?

[Revival]

mk1 with mot used it every day since i bought it £500

[H.P.E harry]

My dad got his 1973 mk1 escort for about £500. Absolutely mint inside and out, MOT + tax and only 24,000 miles on the clock. Then bought

and fitted my Grandads old engine (2.2 pinto) with running gear for cheap too.

[pelvins]

none , i usualy get ripped off for everything