Why yours...?

[royster]

Probably a question that's been asked a million and one times, but I'll ask it again anyway.  

 

So who/ what got you into OSF's and why did you choose the one you have.? 

[HotRodMatt]

I was just looking for an old car to learn on and my mate offered me a running Mk1 Escort 2dr 1100 for £300 in 1999. Sorted the bad earth on the lights and instead of MoTing it decided to strip it to mod it. Come a long way since!!

[mk2 mike]

I used to work with Dave Walker ( of Emerald and car & car conversions mag fame) and at the time he ran a mk2 in the Vecta fast ford championship. I loved that car so naturally my first (and second, third and fourth) car was a mk2 escort (hoping to make a rep of the Emerald racer which I never did cos I was poor lol) so I guess I'm re-living the days when I was a teenager!

 

I bought my current one from eBay because it was unbelievably cheap compared to others at the time.

[SmokeEm]

^^^ Dave Walker - Legend!

[banarama]

was my 1st car  

[Danish]

So who/ what got you into OSF's and why did you choose the one you have.? 

 

I kn***ered my leg in an accident while trying to get my fitness up to join the Army. So I had an enforced change of lifestyle and decided restoring a classic car might be fun. I read an article in Practical Classics (in my sick bed) about the Mk3 Cortina, bought one on ebay and had a friend drive it home for me. 

[marky4]

My first 3 cars where escorts 2 mk1's and a mk2 mex so always wanted another.

I went looking to buy a mk1 RS or a mk2 mex but saw my RS for sale and just had to have it

[seaneylad]

They look cool, are fun to drive and my dad used to drive them years ago ... and just dont like modern cars.. comfort is over-rated

[Muzzman]

Cos I live in Essex innit

 

Actually, I wanted something that was fun to drive, had a bit of history. I also thought that seeing I am mechanically inept I wanted something simple to fix.

 

I also think the mk1 is a bloody cool looking car.

 

My other choice was going to be a Porsche 964, had a 993 and loved it but the Escort won in the end.

[dalmarshall]

1st car was a 4 door 1.3gl with RS alloys and a cherry bomb. It was all I could afford to do to it at the time and I could never afford to go to places like Burton for fancy bits lol!

2nd was a blue mk1 XR2

A guy in our street had a white mk1 mexico (when I was a young teen) with a hot X flow and he'd always do burnouts for us young us cheering him on. I always remembered that car and it's probably the reason I now have a white mex.

Anyway, about 5 or so years ago a yellow mk1 mex passed me on a dual carriageway and all the memories came flooding back so I gets home, gets on me pooter, finds OSF and gets a mk1.

The thing that's a little worrying though is back then.............they were just cars, not OLD cars!!!

[skeeter]

I wanted something as a contrast to a modern car, something that was different and a little bit quirky. Saw a couple of cars but chose mine because I liked the hump on the dash, nothing more than that!

 

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[texr2000]

For me it was probably different from allot of others being that I'm only 27, and I got my MK1 when I was 16. I don't really have memories of seeing them around as a kid, remember a few late mode Capri's about but thats about it.

 

A friends older brother brought a 2dr Mk1 Escort and converted it from a 1100 to a Green bubble Arched 1300GT to drive when he passed at 17 so I saw that about for around 18 months before I got mine. Another close friend's dad was into aircooled VW's and had a Splitty camper and a 1303S with 1600 engine Beetle and my mate was going to use the beetle as his first car.

 

I think i new I'd have something retro over a clio/fiesta/corsa like everyone else at school was looking at.

Even now though i find older cars more interesting than new ones, and i have been in the motor trade for 10 years, some of the tech thats come out over the last year and the power cars are getting i find interesting to a point but for driving i much prefer older stuff, this is partly why i love my Caterham as overs a nice mix of both.

 

Anyway back to what i was saying.....

Then I think it started when i brought a few Classic Ford Mags, and the car that finally got me to buy mine was a Harris xflow mk1 escort in white that was on the cover. Was owned by someone who had it as a first car, I'm pretty sure was one of the Harris's, and that was it i brought my car out the back of a classic ford mag a few months later.

 

Used my Mk1 looking basically as it dose now inside and out but with the 1300gt engine for 10 months as my daily drive, then decided to drop a 1600 in over the winter.....and since then been a bit of a project and never really been on the road since other than a few months here and there untill 2013. And thats a story in its self.....

 

 

[mikehunt]

I got a osf just so I could come on this site which is one of the friendliest sites for cars,

[chris-h]

I wasn't looking for another car but when one of my customers offered me the mk3 as payment for a job they needed doing I initially agreed purely to help them out and was going to sell it on to pay for the work, agreed to the deal before seeing the car as it was 8 miles away at her sons house, found out it was tax free and had heaps of work done to it before being laid up for 10 years and now keeping it. Even to the point I'm now digging my landscaped front garden up which has cost a few grand so I can build a garage then re-do the garden, it was my wife's idea too which was a bonus.She loves the car as much as me.

Plus you just can't beat old skool Fords !!!!!

[royster]

Thanks guys and girls, It's nice getting some background about the reasons why people got there cars and stuff. 

 

I will have one day, but with and silly mortgage and two almost teenage kids I very rarely get money to spend on myself LOL. 

 

I know where i'll be coming when I want to get the right car hopefully in the next few years too.

 

It was my dad that got me into Ford's after his first one was a Mk2 Coritna 1.3, and then over the years he had Ford Taurnus as he was in the Armed Forces and brought whilst living in Germany, 3 Mk3 Capri's and a Mk5 Escort before getting into much more modern stuff. I've personally had a Mk4 Cortina 1.6 auto as my first classic ford and then modern stuff with a couple of basic Fiesta's, a Mk6 Escort RS2000 and now my Fiesta ST. LOL (but don't tell Mk2Jo I mentioned the modern cars.... LOL) 

[Vista]

It was by default for me really. My first car was a mk1 2 door in 1986 but I couldn't drive (legally) then so it was just for me to tinker with in the garage. Later I had a couple of 2.8i capris as daily drivers in the early / mid nineties but wanted to restore a bonafide classic car.......which initially was intended to be a Triumph, preferably a TR6. And then I realised I couldn't afford to buy one of those let alone restore it......but a mk1 3.0 capri was in budget. The rest is history.

[mexicansteve]

My parents bought the MK2 Capri just under a year after I was born, trading in their MK3 Cortina. It's always been there, my brothers, sister and myself all had our first drive in it after passing our driving tests. So when it had been laid up for 13 years and my Dad asked if I wanted it I couldn't get it working fast enough.

Now it's both my daily and a money pit! But I won't ever get rid of it, it's become a family heirloom which will eventually go to one of my daughters.

[SmokeEm]

I got into old fords in 83 when I was 13. My sister's boyfriend had a matt black 105e with a fruity pre x-flo and lotus steels. I loved it and was a regular at the Chelsea cruise. Hot Rods are my 1st love but I don't have the skills or finances to build a 32 Ford as yet so an old Cortina is my weekend ride at present because its reliable and affordable. I will get me a V8 32 5 window coupe one day.. (With inheritance cash )

[deltamal]

Mine was free! Father in Law bought it brand new, when he died it was left to me to sell, kept instead and played with it!

[cyrix]

I started off with a Mk1 Capri at 17 - a guy used to come into the country pub over the road from my house fairly regularly in the summer, jokingly asked if he would sell it and ended up buying it. I did a bit of work on it and sold it back to him about 8/9 years ago. No idea why it appealed to me really, it just did.

 

 

I ended up with my Mk3 Cortina 2dr as I can't really afford something 1960/70's American and the Mk3 is about as close to a Muscle Car in terms of body styling as we got in the UK.

[Mk2Jo]

and then modern stuff with a couple of basic Fiesta's, a Mk6 Escort RS2000 and now my Fiesta ST. LOL (but don't tell Mk2Jo I mentioned the modern cars.... LOL) 

 

I am the all seeing eye Roy

[thrashermax]

My Dad always had old Fords... he bought a mk1 1300GT Escort when I was 3 until I was 10... I'm on my fifth mark 1 now, such a lovely looking and driving car... love it to bits.

[luckyjim]

As a schoolkid in the mid seventies I used to see a mk1 capri cruising Aveley high street,it was owned by a young bloke who was a bit of a lad,he was a handsome,hard,flash ,cool ladies man and his capri was baddass! it was jacked up with wolfrace wheels and metalflake paint with electric windows and a red foglamp underneath lighting up the axle.IT WAS AWESOME!. me and my mates wanted to be him so bad!! then I would go home and watch 'the sweeney' on tv full of fast fords chasing down those slow ungainly mk2 jags(lol).growing up so close to fords Dagenham and the avo plant there were always loads of nice old fords knocking about with Essex jack the lads driving them and it was inevitable that us lads would be influenced.i bought a mk1 capri  in 1978  and have loved old fords ever since.

[quickrack]

Walked out of the local sweetie shop one day as a kid and a black RS2000 was idling at the path. He took off and left a nice set of 11's. been a fan since

[aardvark101]

"(stands) Cough,Hello my name is Paul and i am a Fordaholic"

 

0. HillmanMinx  (Gateway car )

1. Vauxall Victor 1.8 became 2.3

2, Cortina mk1,  stripped out

3, Mustang 11

4. Mk 1 Escort, stripped out

5. Mk2 Escort Ghia, stripped out

6. Mk5 Cortina

7. Mk5 Cortina 2.3

6, Mk1 Sierra

6a Transit for work Mk2

7. Rover 213 auto, WTF

8. Sierra cvh (smoooooook)

9. Mondeo (er indoors motor)

9a Another Transit

10.Sierra 4x4 later Coz V6

11 Mondeo

12 yet another Transit

13, Bloody fast Anglia 105e