What got You into OSF's ??

[Yeomans22]

saw a yellow mk2 escort side way near my house around 1996, and in 2007 i finally got 1.

[qwerty]

Old Speckeled Hen and ebay........

 

 

I've always been obsessed with cars. Read a little bit of CF way back when I was about 12 but when I passed my test I had VW Polo's, Saxo's, Renaults, Morris Minor etc.

 

Then I was on ebay looking for Honda Civics and Saw the Cortina Nearby. Stuck it i my watched items. Made the mistake of drinking a "couple" of bottles of OSH on the night it finished and the rest as they say is history. Never looked back! Never thought I'd have an OSF after the prices seemed to rocket. Fortunately Mk5's are still cheap!

[ratman]

When i first passed my test 1982 my 1st car was a 1972 1275cc Hillman Avenger But My best m8 had a 1970 1300 MK2 Cortina in our regular A3 blast the hillman allways held its own just

 

But one day the left me standing sneeky bastard had fitted a twin choke and a GT 4 branch after that i was hooked and when i wrapped the hillman around a mini van i had no car so the Tina was my taxi fooking cool car takeing the girlfriends to wimbledon common to play hide the sasuage gotta love a ford

[Dazav8]

My grandad had always had mk1 escorts, my mum said when she first met my dad he had a black anglia with a yellow stripe from front to back and they called it the bumble bee bless em! growing up my older sisters boyfriends all had cortinas with jacked up rear suspension louver windows and twin choked webers with pancake filters, at the time i thought there cars where the nuts! ...all that said my grandad has long gone my parents had a bitter divorce and i havent spoken to my sister in 10 years! but i still love the old skool fords

[louie bagel]

always been into old cars and always really liked fords, then i saw the rothmans rally mk2 at beaulieu muesem when i was 13 thats when i stopped liking fords and started loving old fords

[Andrade]

Being born in a family with my older brother building a drag racing cortina, my other brother buildign a hillman hunter cosworth, and my dad restoring a lotus cortina from an age that i dont even remember (not cos it was an extremely long time ago, more because my memory sucks and can barely remember stuff from when i was 13) might have helped into brainwashing me to follow their steps

[Trevmk3]

i always liked them when growing up, my nan had a mk2 escort, then when i was about 13 there was a white mk2 with forrest arches and blue tiger stripes cossie powered and would throw flames out the back in the same town so from then i was hooked

[Twinkle]

i got into osf's so i could get closer to posse who i had been stalking for years. it worked, we had sex and he was crap, my dreams were slashed so i kept the cars as they were great and took away the pain of disappointment

[Posse]

lee

 

When i was 16 i saw one up my road and i ended up with it for my 17 birthday the rest is history love them long time.

[Twinkle]

[4DOOR-SHERWOOD]

My Dad is to blame!! we always had escorts for racing and I just had to experience the feeling of good memories myself!!! Thanks Dad!

[mk1super]

To cut a long story short.Up till like 4 years ago i had zero intrest in cars, bike mad but a

good mate of mine had a mk1 mex with a 2.1 on 45s/48s he used it in hill climbs the run over to get the mex was in his mk1 xr2 which i thought was cool fast an sounded good,but the escort omfg it was just insane, it just didnt seem to want to do owt but fishtail an go sideways and the noise was sexual, not long after that i learned to drive just so i could get a mk1 escort

[lotusless]

my first memory of an osf was when my class left school one day

to do some drawings of the local area, me + my m8 sat down + we

were sketching this mad car white with flames on it, jack up kit +

side pipes it was a consul capri! had that drawing for years after that.

but a few years later i bought a mk1 cortina estate this was 1979 so they

wern't osf's then but "normal" cars i took my driving lessons in

a post office mk1 escort van then went on to own 100's of

osf's since then + still not grown up yet

[GT_Jim]

I got into them because MGB GT's are turd

[russ105e]

Had a mk1 mexico as my first car 22 years ago had good times in that car , had Capris a 3.0s and 2.8 , couple of mk2 escorts etc used to meet up at a burger stand local to us and have a crack in the cars , good old days . My family used to race Anglias and cortinas back in the 60's so i suppose it was in the blood. Getting more obsessed wth them each year , and MGB's are crap

[caprinerd]

remember the capri hitting the road and just knew i had to have one when i was old enough, as i grew the capri changed , and still loved them and to this day i still long for another mk1

[Delotus]

World of sport and the lombard rallye got me into fords when i was a nipper.

Seeing mk2 escorts blow porshes off at lydden hill was superb.

My bro had a brand new mk1 escort when i was a kid too.

 

Just knew i had to have one when i grew up.

 

Got my first mk2 at 17.

It was jupitor red on an s plate.

DBV905S

Looked a tidy motor when i bought it,but soon started to fall apart.

 

I spent a year welding it in the first bodyshop i worked in .Did a bare metal respray on it.

And when i got it on the road i replaced gearboxes for fun in that car,just couldn't help myself.

 

Had another 2 door mk2 soon after i sold that,gave it to my girl at the time and she soon fuxxed me off hehehe.Bitch.

Miss the car don't miss her.

 

Had several mk1's,2 door 1300 e,4 door xl and the mintest 2 door xl i have ever seen with square lamps,looked like a twincam when i got the last pair of mex wings from fords.

 

Had mk 4,5 tina's,16.gl.2.0 ghia.

Had capris,2.0 ghia,calipso.

 

Never had the bees knees models as i was alway s too young.

 

Years in the wilderness restoring aircooled vws untill i bought my mk1 tina.

 

Stupidly Sold it .

Had a mk1 RS2000 and a RS Cosworth escort since.

But since got me tina back.

 

And the joy continues.

[rsdaz]

my dad had capris,cortinas and a few cosworths when i was a kid and ever since i could remember iv loved fords,

[stevepeanut]

When I left school I liked cars, but had no money, so bought a honda 90 stepthru, and did my bike test, and stayed with bikes till I was 24. One day I came home after night shift, and my fingers were so numb I couldnt open the house door so put in for my car test. Then bikes became weekend toys.

 

Had a few boring cars, but what really changed my was a go in my mates 400 bhp mk3 supra. That became the point where rwd cars were the only way to go.

 

Had a supra, and a 325i bmw e30 then when the bmw self destructed I was on the look out for something else rwd. Came across a 2.0 laser capri and bought that. Since then I have always wanted old rwd fords. On my 4 one now with the cortina.

 

But looking back, there were lots of memorys in the 80s of cool fords, that only now thinking about it I remember. My friends dad borrowed a mk1 escort and took us out in that, bright yellow with a black window louvre and we thought it was so cool. Also my a friend on the family had a 2.8 capri and I remember riding in that, I think she was called nancy and was quite a MILF! Also a few of my mates had mk1/mk2 escorts so always liked those.

[Ste-V]

Banger racing Being surrounded by Granadas, Capris, Cortinas etc. Been brought up around old cars, bangers and a few OSF's especially, eventually, invested in my own!

[moredoorAsh]

I remember a neighbour having a mk1 cortina and a mk2 escort van when i was very young and my dad used to do bits of work on them for him. Didn't take me long to learn how to hold the spanners and i changed my first head gasket at aged 12 on my sisters mk2 escort(which should have been mine!!!)

Started an apprenticeship with ford when i was 16 and got my first mk1 fiesta on the road within 2 months of my 17th Birthday......

14 years later no longer a mechanic, driving a bmw and having a mk1 project which all i had done in 4 years was fit pepper pots and recaro seats in i sold it......worse mistake ever...

Managed to grab a bargain mk2 escort 4 door and made a promice to actually finish this 1 and never sell it as my son likes it