first osf you owned.

[bronze4door]

1.4door mk1 escort 1300xl

2.looked good on the utside but needed new front floor pans

3.17

4.£500

5.i still do

6. coming home from a 1/12th stockar national at about 70 on the m6 when my friend in the front threw a milkshake out of the window and it went staight in the back door window all over my other friend in the back and it didn't even touch my cars interior just the rear window

7.it is sat in my driveway waiting for new front wings and rear wheel arches

8.a 2door mk1 coz i am greedy and wanted it

[martymk1]

1. WHAT IT WERE. - h reg mk1 escort, ex police panda

2. CONDITION. - looked good, but when i lifted up the carpets, the floor was plastic padding, not steel

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. - 18 my first car.

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. - £200

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. - yes

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. - only had it for 2 weeks

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. - gave it back to my brother in law

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. - mk1 cortina, owned since jan '83

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY.

 

 

[razersedge]

1. WHAT IT WERE. mk 1 escort 2 door 1.1 light blue drum brakes alround

2. CONDITION. solid as a rock apart from the front panal

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 16 when i bought it

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. £895

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. yes and no

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. getting pulled over at 1am 2 days after i passed my test for going sideways round a round about for the first time and the copper letting me off because he couldn't belive i'd only been driving for 2 days didn't have the hart to tell him i'd praticing alnight (and sods law the first one i got it right and theres a copper coming the other way) cos i'd seen a capri do it and thought it looked cool and him saying same time tomorrow

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. blew it up 2 weeks later put a 1.6 in it and melted that 2 months later and swaped it for a cortina mk5 2.0 because it went sideways better

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. mk2 escort 2 door , mk1 fiesta

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. i love escorts i've owned so many old ford i think i've corsed the shortage single handedly (13 moter's in first year 18 in the second and about 500 gearboxes in my motering fun may be a slight exageration put i cannot remember working on a car and not changing a gearbox and i had to work on them a lot lol)

[Mr Sam]

a P-100 cortia sold for £20 i was 14 at the time

[omj624p]

1. WHAT IT WERE.

- My current white Mk2 (OMJ624P) - bought it 21 years ago

2. CONDITION.

- Not bad, but not good. Completely standard

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME.

- 16

4. HOW MUCH IT COST.

- £400

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT.

- I still do

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD.

- Oh so many, cant pick one out

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT.

- Hopefully it is still in my garage

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW.

- Same car, plus RS2000, plus Fiesta 1.3

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY.

- Nothing compares to it

[Vista]

1. M1 Escort 1300 XL 2 door.

2. Fair (till I wrecked it)

3. 15.

4. £60 (it was 1985)

5. No

6. Going over a large jump on a forestry commision track and one of the struts came through the strut top

7. Swapped it for a Triumph Dolomite

8. Mk1 RS2000

9. It's not quite the same car, but I wanted a mk1 RS2000 right from the outset as there was a lovely black one on my village when I had my 1300XL

[Mrp]

1. WHAT IT WERE. Mk1 Fiesta Supersport in silver LOX 485X

2. CONDITION. At the time rough but now a days would be called 'mint'

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 18

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. £400

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. Fook yes

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. Trying despratly to keep with a saphire cossie on the Salcome rd 1300 screaming me thinking i was the the round ones!!

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. Sold on (at a profit) stayed local for a few years then got scrapped

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. Anglia

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. N/A

[caprixpack]

1. WHAT IT WERE. Mk3 Ford Capri 2.8i Special

2. CONDITION. Average

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 19

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. £1500

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. no

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD.

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. sold it to a guy in irleand

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. mk3 capri 2.8i

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. i love them

 

 

[crapichris]

1. WHAT IT WERE. 105E Anglia DeLuxe Spruce green

2. CONDITION. Good

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 19

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. Zilch, it was Mums car and she didn't want to drive anymore

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. yep

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. sh*tting myself driving to my girlfriends on my own after passing my test 30 minutes earlier

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. sold it to a young girl who had just passed her test

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. mk3 capri 2.0S and a Mk1 Capri

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. luv Fords, never let me down ( am I saying this too early as the LTB is tomorrow?)

[escort21]

1. WHAT IT WERE.

mk2 escort 1600 ghia

2. CONDITION.

A bit shoddy

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME.

17ish

4. HOW MUCH IT COST.

125 quid

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT.

nope

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD.

it acted like a bird bath

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT.

went on the classic ford tour with classic ford and had a double page spread on how crap it was

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW.

mk2 tina

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY.

[sambo]

1. WHAT IT WERE. - mk2 escort 2 door popular plus 1300cc

 

2. CONDITION. - really bloody good, bit of crusty engine bay but really sound

 

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. - 19

 

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. - £460 but i got a provident loan so interest was high and it probably cost me 700 in total

 

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. - not really

 

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. - putting in a 1700cc x-flow with a 234 cam and a few other mods. Thought it was the fastest thing on the roads!!

 

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. - I sold it to a mate

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. 2 mk1 escort

 

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. Well, once you have an escort, you just dont go back!!!

 

[atomic punk]

1. WHAT IT WERE. Mk2 Escort Popular 2 door in Midnight Blue

2. CONDITION. Almost totally rotfree but covered in dents

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 17

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. £250 (in 1997)

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. God yes *starts dreaming* I'd get a fortune for it now

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. the noise it made, the way it drove, polishing it every weekend

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. Sold it to my brother, bought it back then swapped it for a mk1 Fez

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. Mk2 Escort, MK5 Cortina

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. Cant get them out of my system

 

[Nettles]

1. WHAT IT WERE. 1976 MK2 Escort 1.3 GL

2. CONDITION. Took me twelve months fixing it up before I could drive it.

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 17

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. £100 in 1991.

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. Hell Yeah.

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. Shagging in it.

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. Sold it for £350 to a fella who eventually wrote it off.

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. 1953 Ford Anglia.

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. I love all OSF's but I do prefer the older models.

[lee_capri]

seems like these old fords saw a lot of shagging its made me chukle to hear you guys and girls had simerlar expenices to me and wernt they cheap back then i can remeber when you cond'nt give the dam things away, ive enjoyed reading yours

[LUKE261]

in this order

 

59 pop 100e

78 mk2 escort

66 mk1 tina 4 door

74 mk1 escort

67 anglia 105e

and another 67 anglia 105e

[Copey]

1. WHAT IT WERE. 1986 Ford Capri Laser 2.0

2. CONDITION.drivable nearly rust free, but only runnin on 3 outa 4

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 18

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. £750

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. i do still have it!!

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. smokin chavs, even wen she was only on 3

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. still got her

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. see 1

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. 1

[Conor]

HELLO BOYS AND GIRLS.

1. WHAT IT WERE.

2. CONDITION.

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME.

4. HOW MUCH IT COST.

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT.

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD.

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT.

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW.

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY.

 

 

1) MK2 Escort Van 1100.

2) Rotten as a dog. Had to pop rivet a plate in the drivers floor cos there wasn't anything to weld to and a spring hanger parted company after some sideways action. Hand painted it black and painted the steel rims white - it was 1988 after all.

3) 18

4) £50

5) If I'd known what stupid prices they're fetching now...

6) Going sideways through a set of S bends at 80MPH

7) I seized the diff, unseized it with a bit of brutish driving then scrapped it a week later.

A moneypit of a 2L Capri Laser.

[Daz271]

1. WHAT IT WERE. MK2 1300 2dr, 27k on the clock

2. CONDITION. solid

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. 15

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. £200 from bradford motor auctions

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. oh yeh

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. Driving it around the village aged 15 every time my parents went out

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. sold it to a mate when i was 18, he had it a fortnight before he crashed it

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. just bought this...

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. wanted a mk1 really but this came up for sale and i couldn't resist it.

 

[trissybabes]

1. WHAT IT WERE. - Capri 1.6 Laser in Rosso (Dog Dick) Red with 1 faded red wing

 

2. CONDITION. - Not bad, save for the faded and fairly frilly drver's side wing.

 

3. YOUR AGE AT THE TIME. - 25

 

4. HOW MUCH IT COST. - £995

 

5. DO YOU WISH YOU STILL HAD IT. - No.

 

6. FONDEST MEMORY WITH THAT OLD FORD. - Eating fried chicken in it the first night I bought it and the fact that the bent steering rack meant it would turn left tighter than right.

 

7. WHAT HAPPEND TO IT. Sold to a chap in Wembley 3 years after I had it.

 

8. WHAT DO YOU OWN NOW. Capri 280 turbo

 

9. IF ITS SAME TYPE OF CAR WHY. - My ultimate car. Was always going to be Capris in some form or another. Would love a GT4 as well one day.