HELP........I'm in deep sh!t

[Silverback]

Offers till stands dude

[GT_Jim]

ill come sounds like a right giggle

[Mick The Mig]

Just come back off holiday in northern Italy. Didn't spot a single OSF while there. Major problem was roads very narrow, even on the autostradda and the crazy b'****d's drive on the wrong side of the road. Still well done on your purchase hope it goes well for you.

[Doc]

i bought a porsche on my credit card when i was drunk !

 

Wife cut it up and i had to pay it off ! the car was shitter and sold for £800 on flea bay .

 

Now i dont have a card as she cut it up and i have to beg for anything i want now

 

 

Nae Luck pal.

[Delotus]

See honesty DOES pay.

 

I'd get linched if my missus knew half of it!!

 

Best of look bringing the car home,hope it was well worth the pertentail fall out with her in doors..

 

Tim

[pelvins]

good luck getting her home bud

[PaulAshman]

Yea, all the best with the journey mate. Look forward to seeing some pics when you get it back.

[escysean]

Update

 

I have decided to go on the 24th this month after my missus' brother's wedding to Italy with co-driver (BTW, thanks for the offer for keep me company to OSFs members!! LOL)

 

I have ordered and fitted new tow bar to our Ford Focus, I am planning to bring the Escort on A-Frame towing bar like you see campervan with car attached on the back of the van.

 

Anyone got A-frame towing bar for sale or let me borrow one for few days? Will it be able to cope with long-distance towing Escort back to Blighty?

 

Will put up pics and story of my road trip!

[mossy]

i so want a road trip!

[Mr Sam]

i genuiely made a mistake and bid £1000 for a car that was a pile of poo , i was spose to put £10.00 and missed me decimal point .....i said sorry to the guy and he kindly removed it

 

easily done i stuck £14 in for something was about to confirm bid and it said £14,000

 

 

have fun dude

[escysean]

mate, speaking from experience you dont want to do the journey in an unknown car. its a bloody long drive through switerland and france .do yourself a favour and get a local transport company to bring it over for .cost should be around £700 . not too much when you thinlk of flights, hotels.fuel, tolls,food, ferry or train. plus the car getrs to you in the same condition. its unfair to expeact an old escort to do that sort of milage after been sitting for nearly 10 years.

 

Can I ask how did you experience on bring that mint red mk1 Escort LHD from Italy that you are selling at the moment? Did you bring it by car and a trailer or low-loader truck?

 

I was told it is illegal for my car, Ford Focus 1.6 Ghia to tow a car on a trailer or bring it with A-frame towing dolly attach to it?

[mossy]

mate, speaking from experience you dont want to do the journey in an unknown car. its a bloody long drive through switerland and france .do yourself a favour and get a local transport company to bring it over for .cost should be around £700 . not too much when you thinlk of flights, hotels.fuel, tolls,food, ferry or train. plus the car getrs to you in the same condition. its unfair to expeact an old escort to do that sort of milage after been sitting for nearly 10 years.

 

Can I ask how did you experience on bring that mint red mk1 Escort LHD from Italy that you are selling at the moment? Did you bring it by car and a trailer or low-loader truck?

 

I was told it is illegal for my car, Ford Focus 1.6 Ghia to tow a car on a trailer or bring it with A-frame towing dolly attach to it?

 

what was the reason of it being illegal?

[escysean]

mate, speaking from experience you dont want to do the journey in an unknown car. its a bloody long drive through switerland and france .do yourself a favour and get a local transport company to bring it over for .cost should be around £700 . not too much when you thinlk of flights, hotels.fuel, tolls,food, ferry or train. plus the car getrs to you in the same condition. its unfair to expeact an old escort to do that sort of milage after been sitting for nearly 10 years.

 

Can I ask how did you experience on bring that mint red mk1 Escort LHD from Italy that you are selling at the moment? Did you bring it by car and a trailer or low-loader truck?

 

I was told it is illegal for my car, Ford Focus 1.6 Ghia to tow a car on a trailer or bring it with A-frame towing dolly attach to it?

 

what was the reason of it being illegal?

 

Someone from other website said it is illegal, so I am asking for clarification if you know if they are correct or not?

[Osgood Isgood]

Mate, you've just given me and my mate a bloody good laugh.....I would suggest you are not just IN deep shit, but positively DROWNING in it!!!!

 

I haven't got a clue how you get out of this one, but if you do I'll buy you a pint sometime....Good luck and bon voyage!!

[escysean]

Hi

 

Anyone know the lenght and height of average size trailer with mk1 Escort on it for booking of ferry trip, just in case I need the info, many thanks

 

Sean

[ZetecVan 2.0]

I hired a trailer from Swillington Trailer Centre. 16 Footer IIRC. Cost about £70 for the weekend.

[dssean]

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Can I ask how did you experience on bring that mint red mk1 Escort LHD from Italy that you are selling at the moment? Did you bring it by car and a trailer or low-loader truck?

 

I was told it is illegal for my car, Ford Focus 1.6 Ghia to tow a car on a trailer or bring it with A-frame towing dolly attach to it?

 

i had it brought over on an artic truck. just found a local shipper ,gave him the relevant paperwork and my address and paid £700 .got a phonecall afew wekks later to say it was on its way and then another phonecall to say hewasat dover. easy peasy.

[escysean]

Update

 

Right, just quick update, I got it all planned with trailer sorted, ferry trip booked, insurance covered for car and trailer to Italy and AA Breakdown European cover for one week starting on Sunday 23rd September

 

Wish me luck on road trip, I won't be online from today till I am back next week Thurs at the latest as I am away to missus' brother for his Indian wedding this week and weekend

 

I will put on my story and plenty of photos of my new OSF soon......

 

Sean

[escysean]

Hey....

 

I'm back home safe and sound with mk1 Escort from Italy

 

My story as follow....

 

Left on Sunday late afternoon from my wife's brother's biggest and hugely expensive Indian Sikh's Wedding over 5 days of non-stop parties and exchanging gifts and custom etc to meet up Andy Pipe (From Turbosport) to collect the trailer from him (Wicked car, would love to own race-prepped mk1)

 

Board the ferry in Dover, it was rather easy and straightforward trip over to Calais.

 

Around 10.30pm, I set off for a very long and dark drive overnight trip over France, Belgium and Holland motorways, I got to worried a little bit when my top of the range TomTom gave me direction and I found myself going to Amsterdam...., but lucky me, it was change direction to autobahn in Germany

 

Let you know my mate let me down at last mins due to his girlfriend went mental after hearing his plan to go without her, I had no choice but to go on my own!!

 

Anyway, for safely reasons, I had plenty of rests and sleep for good few hours on the way to Italy. It went smoothly with no hitch.

 

Enough of my blah, blah..... here the photos of my Euro trip, hope you like it?

 

View of Germany

 

Somewhere over Germany

 

German/Austria Border

 

Little town in Austria called W@NK!! (Pronounce in German as Vank)

 

 

 

Over Italtian Alps

 

 

 

Getting there to collect my important cargo

 

Here the car I came for, with many thanks to Andy Pipe, aka andypipe for the loan of his trailer

 

 

 

That the sight I would be checking my rear-view mirror

 

And both side of door mirrors to make sure my precious cargo is still there on the trailer

 

Finally few shots of my car at the driveway of my home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arrived home late afternoon on Wednesday, with over 2,030 miles of driving, not too bad for underpowered Focus trailered without problems

 

The hotel owner who sold me his mk1 Escort insisted on me staying at his hotel overnight for free as he was concerned for my solo driving back home at late night, I had wonderful 5-star treatment with hot dinner and early morning breakfast for me

 

More pics of interior and boot to come

 

Sean

[flyingbanana]

nice one mate ..looks good condition...go on the 4 doors

[ZetecVan 2.0]

Glad you got back safely. Looks a nice car.

 

And great hospitality from the italians.

[escortmad79]

Good God! It's a 1 litre mk1!! That'll be rare as rocking horse sh*t over here!! Ford only produced the 1 litre for the Italian market!

[Mick The Cabbie]

Well done mate, what an adventure!

What you gonna do with it now you got it home?

[Daggle]

Well done, what a road trip , glad you got there and back ok

[mk2 stu]

must be something about the name sean and 1ltr mk 1's from italy!!

 

Well done mate you and dssean can start a little club together!

 

Think I'm gonna start finding taunus vans in germany, come on all stuart's!!!!