So. Is a '97 still too new??

[quickrack]

I have 3 old fords.

Newest is a '97 Escort Estate Lx Ghia.

Too new or not?

[Johnny Boy]

Does it have Chrome bumpers 😁🤭

[quickrack]

6 hours ago, Johnny Boy said:

Does it have Chrome bumpers 😁🤭

Not unless I buy chrome paint......😉

[Rally Pack 2000]

The only trophy I won this year for my MK2 is best 1990s car! Do I get booted now? 😁

[accord83]

7 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

The only trophy I won this year for my MK2 is best 1990s car! Do I get booted now? 😁

Yes James, just because it's you, we've been looking for a reason.😂🤣😂

[Rally Pack 2000]

56 minutes ago, accord83 said:

Yes James, just because it's you, we've been looking for a reason.😂🤣😂

Well i cant bore people with my ultra long posts anymore with only one hand so I thought you may let me stay!

[GrahamU]

19 hours ago, Johnny Boy said:

Does it have Chrome bumpers 😁🤭

I thought it was just metal bumpers  

 

But if a 97 is ok then my 95 can come along as well  

 

[Johnny Boy]

3 hours ago, GrahamU said:

I thought it was just metal bumpers  

 

But if a 97 is ok then my 95 can come along as well  

 

Yes, Metal bumpers, I was thinking of the posh ones 🤪

[quickrack]

It's 30 yrs old now....

[Rally Pack 2000]

10 hours ago, Johnny Boy said:

Yes, Metal bumpers, I was thinking of the posh ones 🤪

Get those magnets out boys and weed out those Mk2s with Carbon fibre and Fibreglass bumpers! We're watching you! 🤣

[accord83]

22 hours ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

Well i cant bore people with my ultra long posts anymore with only one hand so I thought you may let me stay!

Ah Bless! James you're like the old dog that we cannot bring ourselves to take into the back field, and dispatch. We'll let you stay, sleeping by the Aga dreaming of chasing rabbits and letting off the occasional room clearing fart!🤭

[Rally Pack 2000]

4 hours ago, accord83 said:

Ah Bless! James you're like the old dog that we cannot bring ourselves to take into the back field, and dispatch. We'll let you stay, sleeping by the Aga dreaming of chasing rabbits and letting off the occasional room clearing fart!🤭

You say that but its just cause you lost your shooters licence and had to hand the .22 in!! 😂

[quickrack]

Was looking decidedly sorry for itself so I've decided to do a tart up, repair etc on it.

I knew it had a little rust so a certain amount of poking, cutting, swearing at it, patching etc occured. Nothing pretty as I will need to search out a pair of outer sills first. This will do to get it tested though. 

[quickrack]

The estate needed the gearbox oil filled. I had a little insulated pipe for a gas cooker and it worked well to avoid the squeezing stuff in technique 🙄🙂

Then I replaced this stud that was spinning in the hub.

And polished the rust off the disc.

I was about to do the other side but my son has hurt his knee and we are in the Minor Injury Unit now. A good clean and a certain amount of sticking the headliner cloth back up, two better tyres and it's testing time.  

Edited August 16 by quickrack

[Johnny Boy]

Nice 😃

[Rally Pack 2000]

Big job. Are you sure its worth it?

[quickrack]

27 minutes ago, Rally Pack 2000 said:

Big job. Are you sure its worth it?

Yep.

Its a workhorse.

I can put rubbish or dirty stuff, tools and materials in it and not worry about it.

And its actually really low mileage and so far utterly reliable.

[quickrack]

So it's insured again.

And taxed.

Test was to be tomorrow but my son needs to see a surgeon, at the same time but 2 hrs away so test got pushed back.

First trip out to a local show was fun and fraught 🙄🙄🙂

First a wheel starting coming loose. A retighten sorted that.

But then at the turnoff for the Show, in heavy traffic, I stalled it. This is when I discovered the battery is no good. Yah!!🖕😲😄

Was pushed off the road. Borrowed some leads for a jump start and got into the Show. 

Forgot on leaving to give back the leads so I contacted the Club to get them to him.

All in all it was a fun day 

The car was not really ready to "show" but I wanted to get out of the house.

It's getting lowered, painted and reshod over the Autumn!

Cheers for reading it you made it this far.

[accord83]

Stick some sticky back plastic wood on the sides and recreate a modern take on the Cortina Mk1 woodie