My past Fords

[whooligan]

I'm in the process of trying to document all the old Fords from my past into a blog. I'll post a link here when it's finished but I thought I'd share a few of the 30+ I've owned over the last 31 years.

My first love is Capris but I've owned both Escorts and Cortinas, vans, track cars, low mileage granny spec to bodged V8 projects.,,I have owned just about every thing from the RWD ford stable that was available in Australia from about 69-82 and a few later ones.

Now I'm living back in the UK, I'm reducing my fleet (which was upto 8 cars at one stage) to 2 classics and a daily. Here a few of them....starting with one I only owned for a few months.

This mk1 Escort will be known to the Australian members. Built by a group of guys from the RSOC in Victoria, I bought it as a shell with hopes of housing a hot pinto I just happened to have lying around.

Unfortunately, running a small business (as I did at the time) involves paying taxes to the government (apparently) so when my tax bill came up this particular year this poor Escort drew the short straw.

The car was sold back to an RSOC member who did return it to the track but sadly the car was involved in a terminal accident. Fortunately a roll cage I sourced for the car was employed and the driver walked away shaken but not stirred.

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Another Escort which I owned twice before moving on yet again was an RS2000. Appently it was owned at one stage by a V8 super car driver. He apparently moved it on to concentrate on a BDA mk1 Escort project.

i bought it off ebay from another Escort guru in Melbourne....again, this was to house my infamous pinto engine that I'll find a home for one day.

It was partially restored, painted but showing signs of underlying issues. The floor on the drivers side was bashed to such an extent that you couldn't depress the clutch fully. I marginal improved that but that's about all I did. 

It had it Scheel (roll top) seats but it looked like a dog had eaten them. The head was also missing from the engine.

i moved it on to a friend who did do some improvements, namely painted the nosecone back to black (I never really understood the monotone look it had previously). I couldn't refuse buying it back it was so cheap but I was just about done with the RS2000 bug (thankfully as it was about to get very expensive) so I gave the car to my mechanic who was looking for one at the time.

Another one that I probably shouldn't have parted with but I was hankering for a panel van and needs must.

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And speaking of panel vans....after owning dozens of rough ones in the past I was in the mood for another one when bored sitting in a night class I bid and won this van on ebay. Phone apps are not good things for people with my condition.

The van looked very neat from the photos but was 2 and a half hours drive away. Not having the time to look at it before bidding, I broke my own cardinal rule and bought it without looking at it. 

Thankfully, the gamble turned out right and I picked up a very solid van for a bargain price and the seller even organised a cheap tow down to Melbourne from country Victoria. 

I went onto spend a bit of money to get it RW then sold it to my mate Ryan who had it for a year or so. I did get to drive it which was nice but not being a massive fan of the Kent engine I'm sure it would have come out if I had kept it. I remember it was a matching number car (rare in Australia) so I wasn't fussed about moving that on as I had already bought a better 2.0 van at the time that I still own, today.

 

Edited February 22, 2020 by whooligan
add pic.

[notenoughtime]

Look forward the to the rest 👍

[whooligan]

I've added a few more to the blog.

https://pintopunteruk.blogspot.com/

Some will make you cry.

Turning into a mammoth task.  - Looks like there will be around 35 cars to get to.

 

[eeb43]

think ive got 35 project cars now!!

[whooligan]

Another addition to my past Fords blog - V8 Perana replica. This one will be spread over a few posts as I did quite a lot of work to this project over the years.

 

https://pintopunteruk.blogspot.com/2020/03/perana-v8-capri.html