Southend beach

[Ray]

Another great day at Southend beach, we had 15 1300E’s attend this little show 

 

 

[BaileyMex]

15!! Blimey, good turnout!

[Rally Pack 2000]

I haven't seen a beige or light metallic green one before! Im guessing purple is the most popular colour then?

There seemed plenty of people swirling about.

[Ray]

1 hour ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

I haven't seen a beige or light metallic green one before! Im guessing purple is the most popular colour then?

There seemed plenty of people swirling about.

gets very busy down there, the beige is sahara beige, and that particular one is quite famous, and the metallic green one is onyx green

purple velvet was the launch colour, then followed by amber gold and venetian gold, and the series one was only made in those 3 colours, purple being the most popular, and only around 5000 series one were made, production started in dec 72 for a 1st march 73 launch, but ceased production in October 73, to make way for the series 2, at that point it was available in most of the colours, but the 2 golds were dropped, and series 2 was also the later body shell

[YellowTaxi]

what a lovely collection of 1300E's.

Interestingly mostly two door.

Does anybody know the ratio of two to four doors cars produced?

I thought the four door was the most common.

[Ray]

the first 5000 1300E,s termed series 1s were all 2 door, and the series 2 ran for 6 months in 2 door before the 4 door 1300E was available, no hard figures written down, but they say in s2 there were 4000 4 door and 2000 2 door, most 4 door went to the place in the sky, making them scarce now

[YellowTaxi]

Interesting.

Thanks Ray.