where did it all start for you?

[Retro-gone.]

so how and when did you realise cars were going to be youre passion?

for me it started way back in 1973 (hence my username) i was 11-12 years old, a neighbour bought a brand new MK3 Cortina GXL2000 in daytona yellow, i remember waking up one day and looking out of the bedroom window and seeing this car, i was completely taken in by it, my dad had a MK2 Tina at the time and i remember thinking it was an old mans car (even though my dad was younger than i am now!)

i pestered my neighbour to take me for a drive and i loved it, i washed it for him every other day, from that moment on i was completely hooked, not long after my dad bought a 72' 1600 mk3 in metallic blue, wasnt as nice as my neighbours but it was pretty cool, at 14 years old i saw a sebring red mk1 capri for sale, spares or repairs, my dad bought me it to 'do up' for when i got my licence, it was a heap but i enjoyed fiddling around with it and my mates were dead jealous..

i remember i wanted wide wheels on the capri so i took them off , turned them round and bolted em back on , my dad kept the keys hidden so i wouldnt sneak out in it but i could start it with a screwdriver, so i waited for my parents to clear off and i took her for a blast .... with the wheels the wrong way round

actually all went well lol.

i lost interest in the capri when i hit 16 and got a suzuki AP50 moped on the road, at 17 i passed my car and bike test within 2 days of each other (2 weeks after my 17th b'day) from that day on ive never been without a car or motorcycle, mostly classics inc minis ( i had 3 at the same time, all brush painted , 1x white, 1x blue and 1x red as in the italian job), although my 1st car was a £60 vauxhall viva with handpainted white wheels and a sunstrip in the front screen with ''saturday night viva' in white letters .

 

since those early days ive had 5 MK1 capri's, 1 x MK3 cortina, 2x MK5 cortinas, a few 70's datsuns and a few cars i wont mention, bike wise ive had over a hundred and currently run a 1976 suzuki GT750 2stroke triple and a 1999 1200 suzuki track tuned bandit.

my 2 brothers own a 1972 rover p6 V8 and a 1962 Ford Zodiac mk3 straight 6 which has been in the family since new.

is there any wonder im an old skool nutter?

so whats your story?

[Trevmk3]

ive always been into cars, from when i was really young when my dad would be working on them i would be there getting in his way and always loved being out in the cars even though i was travel sick as a kid

 

ive always liked old fords and got a mk1 escort when i was 21, now ive got a mk3 cortina and love it. i cant do without cars (even if its a new one), at one point i had to borrow a car from someone as i had 1 written off on the drive waiting to be sold, 2 broken and ready to be fixed on the drive

[surfingturnip]

Been into cars from a very early age, mainly Landys and the like untill I got to about 12 when I started looking at other classics ( my dad used to have fords and had an mg at the time) my auntie and uncle were into retro cars like mantas and minis adn I just thought ' that looks cool' so started reading about old fords and the like and fell in love with an imperial blue mk1 escort with bbs split rims and bubble arches that I saw on ebay. Its been old ford from then on

[mk1super]

Where do i start!

For me always been intrested in anything with an engine, dad was into his bikes big time and mum bought me Matchbox cars when i was like 4 which only fueled the fire, as i got older bikes were more my thing but always still had the intrest in cars, which my "biker mates" couldnt quite get that i could like both.

 

Old skool influence - As a kid of like 10 there was a fella in my street called Norman who had a 4 door mk2 escort, mk2 estate and a 2ltr capri S. Now Norman drove em all like he nicked em,and had loads of time for a nosey car mad kid like me, i'd regularly watch him do oil changes and clutch changes etc on his drive way and seeing him on a daily basis wheelspin away in any one of the 3 really influenced me i thought i wanna car that can leave rubber on the road like that! ( I now know why he was always changing clutches too ) i moved away and dad got me back into bikes more so than ever! But always liked my old fords.

Met up with a fella at College by the name of Gary who was old skool daft he had a mint Mk1 Xr2 as a daily driver and a mk1 Escort Mexico, well he banged on so much about how good Mk1 escorts were that i got intrested again, started buying any mag with a Mk1 escort feature and low and behold kinda brain washed my own self into owning one!

 

Sadly i found out a few years back,that about 2 years after i moved away Norman was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and sadly passed away So when i got my Escort i went to my old street and in Normans memory did the best wheel spin i could and left some rubber on the road, i think he would have apreacited my effort, i know my clutch didnt

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well if you a matchbox car fan check these out, im reluctantly selling my collection

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=014

[mk1super]

well if you a matchbox car fan check these out, im reluctantly selling my collection

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=014

 

Nice collection you have there bummer they have to go

 

Heres my lot, well some of em

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/vi ... hp?t=44319

 

Anyways back to topic how did you get into old fords!?

[Retro-gone.]

wow thats a very impressive collection

heres all my models inc the matchbox ones, checkout my other vids too to see more of my toys

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UXSRIKmQVkg

[quickrack]

bout 20 years ago was hitchhiking to see a mott and got a lift in a MK1 powered by a Holbay Tuned Crossflow.

Got where i was going and spotted an RS2000 pulling away from a shop with a snarl and lots of tyre smoke

That was me....

Was building a Cal Look Oval Beetle at the time

Was gone a week later

[Noodles]

My whole family was into bikes my dad, me bro and when I got old enough me. But when I got my first car a little 106 I messed about with it a bit. Then got my tigra I had saved for ages for and spent quite a lot of money on that doin the whole boy racer thing. Then when I got a job surveying I needed a car I could put the kit into ( 3 tripods, about 4 boxes etc) so I was looking for a car for work, I was after a saloon cos I had been watching them race in Sarahs dads campionship and my bro used to have one as his first car. Then the words that changed everything came from my dad 'You know you can out a 2 litre pinto in one of them'

 

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[lee_capri]

since i was about 14 first car 3.0s cappa im now nearly 40thy and still have cappa's

 

it's like that song by neil diamond, forever in blue jeans

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since i was about 14 first car 3.0s cappa im now nearly 40thy and still have cappa's

 

it's like that song by neil diamond, forever in girls jeans

[sab6024]

I've been into cars since about the age of 5 but I liked anything Mercedes though. My brother was younger than me and my dad wasn't really a car person. I dunno who I got it off really As I got older I decided I wanted to be a Mechanic but would only work on Mercs, by the time I hit 15 I had made some friends who were always stripping and rebuilding Mk1 Escorts. I didn't know anything about them but they showed me the way. There were 13 Escorts between 7 of them and eventually I got one as my first car about 6 months after my test. I had 2 Escorts then I got into Sierra's and now I'm back onto OSFs And my brother is also into them so I have my own Technician too

[richie_stix]

to be honest t all started back when i was 13 or 14 or so... a mate in school had max power (the shame) and i got a copy cos it had tits in it... then i noticed cars in it and started lovin chav motors....

 

then when i was 16 i went to barbados and they had an American Muscle channel (i know, sweet) and i saw wheeliying mustangs and shit and was blown away... then on my return saw a capri at college and knew i would own one one day

 

then i realised i hated max power, mainly thanks to this site! and that all show and no go is about the wankest thing ever!

[lee_capri]

 

since i was about 14 first car 3.0s cappa im now nearly 40thy and still have cappa's

 

it's like that song by neil diamond, forever in girls jeans

 

what ever rock's your boat my man

[Slammed]

im carrying on the family gene and passing it on

 

wat someone has to do it

[antz]

when i was 4 years old my dad had a mk2 cortina crayford. It was a shit heap but i used to like the style of it. I remember travelling for 3 hours in the snow in december with no heater to trade it in for a reliant scimitar.

 

He used to show me pics of his old cars and for some reason his old granada and escort vans always took my liking the most.

 

Then i go into rallying and watching colin mcrae throwing a mk2 escort around like a mad man and i thought I WANNA DO THAT! (i cant of been more than 8 years old)

 

Then i got into the jap scene, then the 4x4 scene (my dad bhought me a suzuki sj to learn to drive round fields in), then when i was 16 i saw a copy of classic ford mag in the newsagents and bought that. started to buy it every month and i told him i wanted a mk2 escort when i passed my test. 4 months after that i saw an advert for a mk2 escort 4 door.

 

my dad discussed it with me, made calls in secret behind my back, then told me we were going to look at one on sunday. Sunday came and we drove 4 hours to north hampton. Brought the car home and thats it....

[Retro-gone.]

good ol dad

we do come in handy dont we lol

[5hane]

core mine started years back lol, dad always telling me about his x pack capper, i loved looking at pic's of it. i was red and had wide slotmags on it in black and him telling em about his mex what ended up stolen , and his first car that he saved up for when he was 15. (mk1 escort 4 door) also told me about him racing round the 'romford circut' in the day.. since the age of about 7 i wanted a 3.0l s cappa... every one said to me a 2.8i's better but no replacement for displacement

 

then when i was about 10, we had a sliver harrier in the garage, it was fully stripped half cage and a MOUNTUNE ( ) built engine in it. and one day because the bonnet was marron i decided to spray it silver 'as a suprise :lol:' and then found a black can so i had to do stripes all over it : P, he wasnt impressed, so he bought me some more cans and reluctlantly he sprayed the stripes over it with me also my dad had his rs2000 at the time so i loved that on the driveway. then my dad said that the harrier was mine (I wasnt really but at the time i thought it was lol) so all i did was rev it and rev it.. o and ask for petrol . i almost killed my dads m8 numarous times showing him it... whilst the garage was fulling of fumes lol. but then for some unkonwn reason i let my dad swapp it for a mini (it was a rally prepped one tho) and that was end off

 

car is still sitting in my dad and his mates garrage.. looks really sorry for its self..

 

 

then.. when i was 14 i was told of a white 4 door ghia mk2 so i lepped at my dad and as it was so cheap he let me have it (real this time) but i didn't have any money so nothing mych happemed.

 

then.. a mk2 estate came up, it was better nick and i really liked the look of it, also one of my dads m8's hd just go one what i really liked, so i bought bits for that and stuff.. saved enougth for a paint job ect. (got a paper round to pay for it)

 

BUT then my dad told me about my harrier, so he went to look at it and it was mint, and because he has a rs2000, and numberus other mk2's he said that i may as well spend my money on that so now its mine.

 

heres my old harrier with its black stripes (bad pic, its burred and bloke wont sell it ) ~ note black stripe in top right hand corner ~

 

 

 

heres my 1st escot (mk2 ghia) (changed a bit since this pic lol)

 

 

heres a pic' of my estate (now danopier's) (this has also changed a tonne lol)

 

 

and my current car.. the harrier

 

 

sorry to bore you all

[louie bagel]

i've tried thinking back to when my love of ford and all that is old started but it seems to me that its always been there, i remember sitting in a blue mk3 gxl cortina, my dad bought it to have as his car (at the time he had a lime green morris marina mk1) but it was to rotten so i used to spend all my time playing in it.

then at most weekend i'd be at my great uncle's who had a whole yard full of old fords mk1 escorts mk2 escort van, cortinas. 100e's,transits, volvos.all sorts and ,y earliests memories are of sitting in all of those cars pretending to drive them, especially a white mk4 zepher and a mk1 estate.

then i got to the age of driving and my uncle said he was gonna give me a allegro 1300 super so in a desperate bid for freedom i bought a mk3 escort (i wish i had gone for the estate though ).

so after a few shite motors i started getting back into the old ford scene and bought a mk2 escort 2 dr with forrest arches then about 3 or 4 months after that my great grandfathers escort came back to me so i traded the mk2 and load of cash to get it back and after that its osf history

[PIG]

always had um,the old man had a 16gt when i was a nipper and it went from there,mexico as my 2nd car at 17 then mk1 rs2000just before my 18th,there really hasnt been that many times since then that i hav'nt had a rs of some desripction(sp)

remember driver when we was younger with his 3ltr mk1 escort when he visited our neck of the woods