why did you choose.

[antz]

why did you choose to follow OSF's as a passion? why old fords?

 

i been thinking this all week with my car in the naughty corner and i went for old fords because of colin mcrae and the whole rally excellence supreme...and ym dads old cortina.

 

but everyone else in my family are huge jap fans and i keep feeling like im being sucked into it i really really want a ae86 (no chance cos of the price) or a old RWD starlet....but again i cant afford it.

 

 

so why did you go for old fords and not something else like MG's

[sab6024]

I wasn't into OSFs until I met a group of lads who between them had 13 MK1 Escy's and 3 Angles They used to come and pick me up and take me back to theirs and we'd work on one I was only 15 and had already decided that I wanted a Merc 190 Cossie. I was in the Mercedes Fan Club and everything Luckily the boys showed me the error of my ways and I've had a few OSFs since

[Vista]

I chose them quite some time ago when they were still tuppence hapenny and you could still get parts cheaply and readily. My first car was a mk1 2 door escort that I bought in 1986 for £45.

 

So 7 years later when I had funds to restore and run a second car it ended up being a mk1 3 litre capri. I looked around for other options as I also fancied Triumphs but Stags and TR5's / 6's but they were silly money when the capri I got cost me very little to buy as a part complete project.

[Smudger105e]

Only cars I have ever owned that were not Fords were a Austin Princess 1100 and a Cambridge.

 

My first Ford was an Anglia, my second was an Anglia, my third was an Anglia, fourth a 2.0 Capri,, fifth another Capri, sixth a Sierra Sapphire 1.8, next a Granada hatch, next a Sierra hatch, Escort Estate.

 

So I started with Anglias as my daily drivers, and now have them as second cars (well third, fourth and fifth actually )

[Burns]

i think the first anglia agm that i went to was when i was less than 1 year old, it was pretty inevitable

[Guest MK1gaz]

I love and have lots of makes of old cars but NOTHING drifts like an old escort can

[bortaf]

Never not been into em since i started driving, never been one to follow the heard to be cool, when i started out with em they were just cheap shitters and as far as i'm concerned they still are, well OK expensive shitters nowdays but thats all due to the cool factor bringing heard followers into the scene

[pauln]

I found my Cortina by accident, I had heard the owner was going to drop a V8 into it and I was hoping to get the x-flow to put in a morris minor. In the end he sold me the whole car for £250. I got it back on the road and fell in love and have'nt looked back (lost interest in morris minors about the same day i first drove it).

[MexDan]

I got into them through the rally scene as well, my uncle used to rally a MK1, then a MK2 and my auntie had a mk1 fez... I can remember the noise and the smell of the mk1 from an early age.. and jus seeing it being thrown around was immense...

 

He had two photos of it in his living room I remember which just always made me want to get one, get out there and tear it up!!!...

 

[bmxdave]

I used to be mad into jap stuff. And to be honest, i still would love a 200sx or an early evo, and im considering something along those lines soon as a daily.

 

But nothing will ever replace my pop.

 

My Dad always told me stories of him and his mates Lotus Cortinas, RS capris and RS Escorts. I always loved mk1 Capris anyway, and once i started to get more and more into them that was it, i was hooked, and i had to have a mk1 Cortina.

 

I like all classic cars as a whole though. Im not specific to any one type, id love a black humber super snipe, but i do prefer my old fords. Nothing has the coolness facter, and not all of them are so expensive. Everywhere i go i get attention, attention i wouldnt get in an S14 because theres so many of them out there.

[antz]

good point dave. you get so much attention in a old ford.

 

today my dads escort was parked on my aunties drive along with her MR2 and her boyfriends celica GT4.

 

four people stopped to look at the escort and didnt notice the jap cars.

[surfingturnip]

my auntie and uncle are big into their retro cars, mantas, beetles, fords, minis and all that. My dad used to have fords and I just fell in love with them

[Wessie]

got into OSF's via escorts from watching hotrods (small ovals), rallying - nuff sed ! the track is what make escorts what they are now, it both makes and breaks them

[bronze4door]

i just wanted someting different and decided on a mk2 cortina but i fell in love with escorts when i started to notice them more at car shows

[Savvi]

I got into them sort of by mistake.

 

I bought an Imp at 13 from my school teacher sold it and got a Marina but hated it so sold it to my brother (who was old enough to drive).

 

A guy a few doors up had a Mk1 Escort which was customised, jacked up rear, fur interior in primer etc but he'd blown the engine i kept asking when he was going to repair it and in the end said you can have it if you can repair it !!!

 

I was 14 or 15 and had the car until i was 19 or 20 fully restored all fur gone, mex wings (2 wings and front panel brand new ford panels ............. £50 ) 1600 gt bright yellow with black vinyl roof !!!

 

All that time i also found that the cars were easy to repair popular, cheap (early 80's) and used to buy and sell them with a mate, so had most models including a mk1 van which we used to deliver parts we'd stripped out !!!

[radar tech]

my dad used to be a mechanic on the ford works rally team in the 50's/60's . He had a mk2 lotus cortina that he restored when i was a kid. That was the bug that bit me. I brought my first mk1 escy at age 12 with my paper round money and havent looked back since. that was 25 years ago

[Yeomans22]

When i was about 10, i saw a yellow mk2 escort, come off the island by me sideways, and that was it, now 10 years on ive got one:)

[davreeve]

Dad always had fords(escortmk1,cort mk3,fiesta mk1 etc).I had a fiesta mk1 as a first car and have had old fords ever since(bar a datsun 180b).

Dont really know why i have them as compared to modern stuff they are noisey,thirsty,uncomfortable and damn annoying from time to time but i would,nt change for all the tea in china.

[trakevlyn]

I grew up watching Mick Duffy Collard and Barry Lee racing escorts at speedworth and got a mk2 escort as my second car at the age of 19 and have owned 1 ever since (nearly 20 years now)

[Mk1-Maher]

Always loved old cars

Me bro bought a mk1 cortina about a year ago

started going to the meets etc

joined here etc

bought a mk1 escort, the rest is history

 

Used to restore citroen ds's

 

 

 

Still love them tho ( sorry ford )

[X-pack-Glyn]

why did you choose to follow OSF's as a passion? why old fords?

 

i been thinking this all week with my car in the naughty corner and i went for old fords because of colin mcrae and the whole rally excellence supreme...and ym dads old cortina.

 

but everyone else in my family are huge jap fans and i keep feeling like im being sucked into it i really really want a ae86 (no chance cos of the price) or a old RWD starlet....but again i cant afford it.

 

 

so why did you go for old fords and not something else like MG's

 

thats quite simple to answer.... they WERE the affordable drivers car... but these days im not so sure, prices have got just silly now, quite ridiculas to be honest... im looking at moving on soon to something else.

 

im mean the price of em now compares used supercars really...

[MK2Ed]

From my era and they're cult cars...

[Mr Sam]

about 2003/2004 my nan bought me some magazines from a charity shop 10p each one of them was that months classic ford with an XE'd yellow mk1 on the front and a fiesta RWD V6

 

 

then when looking for my first car i stumbled across the fiesta and it was love at first site was caked in dust had rust bubbles and very basic inside i knew all my mates would take the piss big time but i just loved the way it went and stood out a mile in any carpark

 

i wanted a RWD osf after that and would of loved a mk2 escort but the prices put me off.........still i do love anglias

[lead foot]

i have been into them from the start took my test in a mk 2 tina and never been without one since !!

[deltamal]

Mine got left to me, was Father in laws, "sell it and keep the money" too good for that! keep it and play with it was the better idea!