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Cool, I will talk with my buddy who is helping with the car. Only thing with Silverstone is, it is a 200 mile round trip, and for a car not driven much in recent times, just not sure it is a wise move, but saying that, you do only live once so I am torn........

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stephen the first trip i took in my old escort after a 6 year wait was 780km in same day. Never missed a beat and never stopped all day but for 1hour...

Plus side is we never stopped smiling during and after the trip.( between yawns) :)

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Irishtorag - You are a brave boy as that journey is hefty for a first ride out. I doubt I would be finished in time for Ford Fair anyhow, so I am looking at a more local meet which is a Ford show at Battlesbridge in Essex, which is a round trip of a mahoosive 30 miles max . Really looking forward to the challenge and driving her again, just hope I can get sorted in time.

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I thought it was Nick Jagger lol

Lol ... cheers .... I was quite a looker back in the 80's lol

 

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Lol ... cheers .... I was quite a looker back in the 80's lol

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And now your a STAR!!..........from the OSF attending Santa pod for your efforts. Cheers JO.
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Photo taken on December 21, 1980 of me and my RS2000 out the front of my home. It was the first day on my full drivers licence.

My father funded the purchase of the brand new RS on the condition I was never to work on motor cars. It was the first car in the family.

I still own the RS (genuine 40,000km) however my father has long passed away.

I still live at the same address and still have the RS t-shirt.

The car has been stored since 1990.

Sometime soon I hope to have the RS running so I can drive it home and take another photo in exactly the same spot.

 

 

 

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^^^^ That is a cool story, and another photo in the same spot would be really cool^^^^

 

Great that you kept the car, I bought my Capri when I was 21, around about 1992 and I still have it.

I would imagine like myself, you will never sell the car now, not unless desperate anyhow.

 

I will keep a look out for the second picture...

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Thank you Stephen and Vista,

 

Guess life has kept me very busy in all that time and the RS has had no priority.

I am working on the car a few hours every day.

Plan is to fire it up in the next month or two.

The master plan is to take exactly the same photo with exactly the same camera, with my same friend taking the photo on December 21, 2017.

 

PeterM.

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Wow, love that snap of the ausie RS2000.

Is it me or has it got perspex covers over the lights?

Seen that before on Ausie RS's was it factory or just a popular mod at the time?

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On 10/11/2016 at 12:18, PeterMEscort said:

Guess life has kept me very busy in all that time and the RS has had no priority.

I am working on the car a few hours every day. Plan is to fire it up in the next month or two.

The master plan is to take exactly the same photo with exactly the same camera, with my same friend taking the photo on December 21, 2017.

I guess that never happened! OP not been around since 2018 - Shame!

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