September 1973 new ford prices

[Johnny Boy]

How much 😳

[BaileyMex]

Oh for a time machine hey 

[Xp197777]

I’ll have 10 Mexico’s and 10 rs1600s please 😆 I wish 

[Rally Pack 2000]

I turned down a Twincam for 700 quid once that was complete and road registered except it had a regular 1600 Kent engine replacing its Lotus engine. I figured it was worthless without that but now seeing the 1100L rusty shells people restore these days boy was that a wrong call. Getting a replacement Twincam engine would be the easy part to getting the rest of of a genuine car.

[Xp197777]

We’ve all done it mate the amount of mk1s and mk2s I used for banger racing and grass track and then scrapped was criminal 

[BaileyMex]

Lets not start on the parts that just got binned that you now have to re-mortgage for

 

[DT36]

Jumping forward 20 years is a magazine from 93 with the prices of some second hand cars inside.

I think I had either a XR3i or a Nova SR when I bought this magazine and had just sold my RS2000, as the missus had spun it twice and was carrying our daughter then. 

I also had an MOT failure 1300 MK2 Escort that I bought for about £50 at the same time, which I left on a car park in Bulford Camp when I got posted to Germany.  Annoyingly, I visit that camp monthly and go in the exact same workshop that I worked out of back then, but the car is not there now

 

 

Edited October 6, 2021 by dt36

[The Transplanter]

4 hours ago, dt36 said:

Jumping forward 20 years is a magazine from 93 with the prices of some second hand cars inside.

I think I had either a XR3i or a Nova SR when I bought this magazine and had just sold my RS2000, as the missus had spun it twice and was carrying our daughter then. 

I also had an MOT failure 1300 MK2 Escort that I bought for about £50 at the same time, which I left on a car park in Bulford Camp when I got posted to Germany.  Annoyingly, I visit that camp monthly and go in the exact same workshop that I worked out of back then, but the car is not there now

 

 

I bet the Escort you left behind was used as tank fodder. I bet there are parts of it scattered all over the Plains 😁

[DT36]

50 minutes ago, The Transplanter said:

I bet the Escort you left behind was used as tank fodder. I bet there are parts of it scattered all over the Plains 😁

Haha, you could well be right there.  We did use scrap cars for various demos. 

But, how dare they? My Escort FFS 😂

[PeteRS8084]

Back in the day I sold my LHD rs2000 mk2 in 1984 and bought the first xr3i on our camp in Germany.  £4400 duty free, oh happy days in BAOR LOL!

[Rally Pack 2000]

8 hours ago, The Transplanter said:

I bet the Escort you left behind was used as tank fodder. I bet there are parts of it scattered all over the Plains 😁

 

7 hours ago, dt36 said:

Haha, you could well be right there.  We did use scrap cars for various demos. 

But, how dare they? My Escort FFS 😂

No different to what the Rally boys did to them for decades! Scattered bits all over the countryside!

[Vista Estate]

Whilst I would like to turn back the clock and buy a P reg Mk2 for £290, I also remember the downsides.

Those front drum brakes got the heart pumping 😂😂 and could change the colour of your trousers😀😀