The one that got away

[Jiffer]

Which old ford that you've owned and then got rid of do you miss the most, and still wish you had hidden away?  

Pics and Vids.

For me it was my pre airflow mk1 (Kermit), lack of space dictated it had to go, it was ugly to look at with patches of primer and bits dropped off but with a nicely warmed pinto on 48s and on the rare days when it behaved itself it was awesome and cooler the Robert Palmer in a fridge, 

 

 

[deltamal]

No pics, but it would be my 1957 Mk2 Zephyr, I got engaged and 'sensible' sold it and bought a more economical Morris 1100, well we learn by our mistakes, with the money spent on constant repairs it would have covered the extra petrol cost........

[smudger666]

My old escort...wish I still had this...


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[RWL81P]

that looks a bit of a beast!

[smudger666]

2 litre pinto with 2 bottle 3 stage nitrous. Ran high 11 second quarters. Sigh.....


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[preacherman]

Wish I had kept my low mileage escort twincam.then again my rs1800 in red was quite nice. Lol

[RWL81P]

On 11/28/2017 at 22:07, smudger666 said:

2 litre pinto with 2 bottle 3 stage nitrous. Ran high 11 second quarters. Sigh.....


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quick pinto then!

[iandq]

I had a blue pre aeroflow mk1 Cortina in the 80's 526fxt, bought it off ron harris, and sold it back to him later. I spent years trying to find it, all I knew was it's now red and 2 litre, and then one evening as if by magic I found a vid of it on youtube doing a run at north weald !. I've still got no idea who owns it but nice to see it again after all these years.

 

[ekjim]

Did the MK1 Escort used to be the Trevor Langfield  car , that ran a rover v8 with the headers sticking out the bonnet ? do you have any more pics and spec on the car when you ran it with the pinto ?

[smudger666]

No its not the same car. But our car did spend some time at Trevor's in the early 90s. And Trevor built and fitted the nitrous to our car free of charge as a sponsor deal.


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[ekjim]

That looks really good Smudger , was that at York ? That car would be right up here with OSFDC now , what back axle and trans did you use ?

[smudger666]

Yes all the above pics were at York... But the car was based in Bexleyheath Kent. The axle was an 8 inch ford. (Not 9 inch that a lot of drag cars use) with I think 4.9 cwp And various gearboxes including borg warner Sierra cosworth box.. T5 I think. Also tried a powerglide auto box..


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[ekjim]

Do you know where it is now ?

[smudger666]

Do you know where it is now ?

No...I have tried to find it without success!

After we sold it, it was on the cover of car conversion magazine in the mid 90s when they drag raced it head to head with rally cars and an f1 car... Which it won.

But nothing since then....


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