Hello Old Skool Ford, from Old Skool Trev

[OldSkoolTrev]

Hi everyone,

 

Just thought it was about time I joined what people tell me is the best Old School Ford forum, so from an Old School Trev a very big hello.  I'm a serial restorer and kit-car builder starting with a V6 engined Dutton Malaga when I was 20 in 1977, yes I'm THAT old, and since then I've restored 8 cars and built 7 kit-cars, 3 won National concours awards.  I have the disease really bad.

 

Joined the forum because I realised in 2014 that having had lots of things since, my heart really lies reliving the 1968 Twincam experience I had when they were just cheap old unreliable cars.  'Why did you buy that Trev?'  mates asked, but unlike todays digital safety net boringness they were, and are, very analogue and full of feedback and smiles.  Oh, then there's the noise of twin 40s at 7,000 rpm as well.

 

I've got 2 things right now that will split opinions.  I have a March 1974 AVO RS2000Mk1 that I'm going to restore in 2018 to be a "really good un".  It's a nice place to start, it has World Cup suspension and a factory LSD that still works, and I'll be asking you lot who the right person is to restore the shell.  It's been a rally car before so it has sills with skids and lots of reinforcement that shouldn't be there.  I'll start a topic to get your views on who's best, so one for the purists.

 

And just to divide opinion I've got one that the purists will hate.  I have a South African CS VIN plate  December 1967 V6 Superspeed replica.   I love it because it'll never be anything except what I would have done by reading Hot Car and Custom Car articles in the 1970s.  It'll never be concours, it's just a "loud in every way" hotrod, bloody wonderful.  No pussy footing around in this one, just use the 160bhp and huge torque, and the LSD, to go sideways everywhere, and wake the neighbours.

 

Pleased to be here, I have a couple of other things 'on the go' but they are not Fords so aren't for here, but that's why I can't start the RS resto until 2018.

 

If you're ever in Leicester let me know, trevor.Chesterton@gmail.com.  I make great tea, terminally bad coffee, tell awful jokes and I have a habit of handing spanners out to visitors.

 

All the best

 

Trev

[SmokeEm]

Welcome fella

[colr6]

Welcome to the forum Trev, from another one who's really that old and still stupid. Well everyone on here thinks so but all in good fun.

[Vista]

Welcome to OSF, we like modified and original so you should get no haters on here.

[aardvark101]

Love the Superspeed, and in the best colours as well 

[khanlad]

Welcome to osf, I'm liking both

[John escort mk1V6]

Hi Trev , welcome , what kind of V6 have you got in the yellow one ?

[OldSkoolTrev]

It's an Essex 3.1 just like I might have done in the 70s.  Sounds awesome, single silencer twin 3" outlets, wakes the dead.

[John escort mk1V6]

Oke , yes the essex got alot of torque , i did ones have a capri mk2 3 ltr ghia with an old and high miles engine that has run on LPG but did make nice donuts.

[OldSkoolTrev]

The whole car was rebuilt in 2014, Kent cam, 38DGAS, fancy headers, Salisbury LSD, Bilsteins, T5 box.  It's like driving a very new old tamed idiot.  Love it.  I'm adding Hi-spec 4 pots because the M16s are really not up to it, and some adjustable rear shocks to make the rear really light for those sideways moments.

[John escort mk1V6]

I believe you when you say its fun to drive it , i did find mine mk1V6 2,8i heavy at the front in the beginning but after some upgrades at the suspention i am used to it.

[Rally Pack 2000]

 

Joined the forum because I realised in 2014 that having had lots of things since, my heart really lies reliving the 1968 Twincam experience I had when they were just cheap old unreliable cars.

 

Twincams old and unreliable? I dont believe it for a second!!

[aardvark101]

What do you mean, twincam heads are porous, i've seen straight through that

[Rally Pack 2000]

What do you mean, twincam heads are porous, i've seen straight through that

 

Thats just a vicious rumour spread by the BDA boys. Oil will take the path of least resistance and has long since leaked out of every orifice, gasket and seal before it can find its way through the head.