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3 hours ago, BaileyMex said:

I may be wrong,  but when I was selling brand new Fords back in 94/95 I don't recall there being an 'Si' Ghia.... its just a Ghia, and a gold one at that 🤦🏻‍♂️

I had a Ghia Si in metallic maroon, lovely car it was. Till some fluffy bunny fancied the back end as a parking spot.

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I didn't even recognize the car as an Escort. Its not a model I am familiar with, the grill and front just don't look like other Escorts I have seen of the period in photos. 1.8L Engines in them as well? Is that unique to the Si model or something? Tell me more, what are they like, how did they go?

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4 hours ago, colr6 said:

I had a Ghia Si in metallic maroon, lovely car it was. Till some fluffy bunny fancied the back end as a parking spot.

Blimey don't remember that one, remember the last of thr XR3i's, Ghia's and then the Si, but not a Ghia Si. Fair play.

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10 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

I didn't even recognize the car as an Escort. Its not a model I am familiar with, the grill and front just don't look like other Escorts I have seen of the period in photos. 1.8L Engines in them as well? Is that unique to the Si model or something? Tell me more, what are they like, how did they go?

It's a mkV Escort Facelift from 1994, the 1,8i is a Zetec lump, they were available with the 3 outputs listed  below. I think this one is the lowest output of the three available. How did they drive? No idea, never been in one but the prefacelift mkV's were slated for their handling.

  • 1.8 L EFi (1796 cc) Zetec 105 PS (77 kW; 104 bhp)
  • 1.8 L EFi (1796 cc) Zetec 115 PS (85 kW; 113 bhp)
  • 1.8 L EFi (1796 cc) Zetec 130 PS (96 kW; 128 bhp)

 

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Mine was a 1.6 version, lovely interior. Wasn’t a racing car but went well. Comfortable. Same engine as xri found a pic of the colour mine was. I must admit the car did exactly what it was supposed to do in an accident, only passenger door could be opened after and the wife suffered no whiplash which I can put down to seat and headrest design. Crumple zones worked well in this case.

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23 hours ago, katana said:

May be a crap / non enthusiast car but find another one in that condition with low mileage and bulletproof history!

Like it or loathe it - rarity is available at a premium!

I really like it, its much nicer then the rebadged Mazda 323s we had here instead.

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Not worth that money but it is nice, I always liked the look of the MKV facelift I had a diesel one that served me well for a while.  There used to be loads of them about but I don't recall seeing one in gold before I'm guessing it may have been a premium colour only available on high spec models, the same goes for the light coloured interior which looks really nice it's more upmarket than the dark grey/black interior my MKV had.

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6 hours ago, In The Pit said:

Not worth that money but it is nice, I always liked the look of the MKV facelift I had a diesel one that served me well for a while.  There used to be loads of them about but I don't recall seeing one in gold before I'm guessing it may have been a premium colour only available on high spec models, the same goes for the light coloured interior which looks really nice it's more upmarket than the dark grey/black interior my MKV had.

I see they've dropped the price by £2,000 already

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When we are buried in over complex computers with wheels that cannot be fixed by ourselves at home, monitor and log every movement we make and automatically direct debit our bank accounts for infringements the car just dobbed you in on to overlord governments then later setting arbitrary age limits where we must use autonomous vehicles only, I bet many a freedom nostalgic individuals will wish they had bought that and what a small price to it was pay compared to that which will be lost.

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On 20/03/2022 at 05:16, Rally Pack 2000 said:

When we are buried in over complex computers with wheels that cannot be fixed by ourselves at home, monitor and log every movement we make and automatically direct debit our bank accounts for infringements the car just dobbed you in on to overlord governments then later setting arbitrary age limits where we must use autonomous vehicles only, I bet many a freedom nostalgic individuals will wish they had bought that and what a small price to it was pay compared to that which will be lost.

Do you listen to Rush by any chance?

 

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24 minutes ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

LOL no. I cant actually understand the words to find out what the song was about either!

My uncle has a country place

No one knows about

He says it used to be a farm

Before the "Motor Law"

And on Sundays I elude the eyes

And hop the turbine freight

To far outside the wire

Where my white-haired uncle waits

 

Jump to the ground

As the turbo slows to cross the borderline

Run like the wind

As excitement shivers up and down my spine

Down in his barn

My uncle preserved for me an old machine

For 50 odd years

To keep it as new has been his dearest dream

 

I strip away the old debris

That hides a shining car

A brilliant red Barchetta

From a better vanished time

We fire up the willing engine

Responding with a roar

Tires spitting gravel

I commit my weekly crime

 

Wind in my hair

Shifting and drifting

Mechanical music

Adrenaline surge

 

Well-weathered leather

Hot metal and oil

The scented country air

Sunlight on chrome

The blur of the landscape

Every nerve aware

 

Suddenly ahead of me

Across the mountainside

A gleaming alloy air car

Shoots towards me, two lanes wide

I spin around with shrieking tires

To run the deadly race

Go screaming through the valley

As another joins the chase

 

Drive like the wind

Straining the limits of machine and man

Laughing out loud with fear and hope

I've got a desperate plan

At the one-lane bridge

I leave the giants stranded at the riverside

Race back to the farm

To dream with my uncle at the fireside

 

 

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Wow I never had a funny Uncle let alone one that leaves me a classic Red Barchetta in the barn. Personally though if by that time they have gleaming alloy air cars hovering around searching for me in my old classic I think I would stay hidden on the farm down in the barn under the junk with the red car!

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1 hour ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

Wow I never had a funny Uncle let alone one that leaves me a classic Red Barchetta in the barn. Personally though if by that time they have gleaming alloy air cars hovering around searching for me in my old classic I think I would stay hidden on the farm down in the barn under the junk with the red car!

One wonders if it's where they got the idea fir this scene from. The little shit would never have lived to see the Enterprise Bridge if that  had been my Corvette!

 

 

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On 23/03/2022 at 04:08, Vista said:

One wonders if it's where they got the idea fir this scene from. The little shit would never have lived to see the Enterprise Bridge if that  had been my Corvette!

 

 

Ah yes I know that scene well. He deserved to go over the cliff instead of the car. I know Kirk could be reckless in order to do what was right or being a hero to save people (or the world for that matter) but to be willfully destructive doesn't fit with his persona. I don't think the writers ever watched the original series.

Trivia - The guy on the hover police bike was filmed showing his face as a regular human but afterwards they covered it with computer special effects to give him a robot face to give the impression the future was more filled with cyborgs in a totalitarian utopia. (Did I just reveal my hand as a Star Trek nerd?)

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