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Post by stevegbr on Dec 20, 2014 21:51:14 GMT
are you going to scan the pages so we can see, just leaving the room now while you swear.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 21:58:28 GMT
Haha. What are you loike?  |
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Post by Somersetdreamer on Dec 20, 2014 22:19:36 GMT
Funnily enough, still got the owners manual for TRX 110G.........LOL   I bet that is worth good money & will just keep rising even in that condition |
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Post by mikef on Dec 20, 2014 22:29:50 GMT
Hi All.
I was very interest in this post. I never realised that that a standard Escort could be worth that much.
I remember many years ago my friends mother had an 1100cc Escort. My friend had just passed his driving test and of course he borrowed her car.
His intention was to find out how fast it would go. I can remember that down a slight incline it would do 90MPH. Engine screaming.
I remembered it's registration number PHJ 53G. I have checked on the DVLA website and it's known to them. So maybe it is in someones garage somewhere or being restored.
All the best.
Mike.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 10:14:39 GMT
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Post by daz66 on Dec 23, 2014 12:21:02 GMT
XJB 727H was my first car, an escort like the one pictured only mine was two tone blue, after dad resprayed it. It had to holes in the corner of the wing on top, he plated them and then filled them with P38 and I spent ages rubbing the whole car down ready for respray. I remember it had the 1300 engine out of his works escort van after a rebuild. We towed it all over the countryside trying to start it, it was something really stupid like an unmade connection or something. We had the engine out everynight for over a week trying to find the knock it developed, it was one of the rings that had cracked when it was rebuilt D'oh!! I used to have to push it a lot to get it started as the dynamo didn't work too well and it was ages before an alternator was fitted!!! I drove it like it was stolen and still can't believe what I got away with in those days and the back seat saw a LOT of action back then  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 17:41:18 GMT
Talk about driving them like they were stolen..............a lot of them were. A college mate had a MK2 in the Early nineties - two door, solar gold with a brown vinyl roof....and yes quite rusty. But he loved it and would snub anything newer at the time (like my MK3). We used to visit scrap yards together around Berkshire and West London / Middlesex getting bits for our cars and when we used to spot a MK2 he had a quick knack for getting into the boot - flat blade screwdriver into the barrel, turn it clockwise about 45 degree and the boot was open.... I still laugh at that now. |
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Post by Fordy on Dec 23, 2014 17:53:58 GMT
 There you have a very young Fordy with his very first car, an Escort MK 1...oh how I loved that car |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 18:05:23 GMT
Hahah - love it.
Those flights on the wiper arms were all the rage, weren't they?
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Post by Fordy on Dec 23, 2014 18:13:08 GMT
They were a must have bit of kit Fungo, we were on our way to my brothers wedding, thats my mother by the car and my then girlfriend in the car... Great memories
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 18:26:18 GMT
Nice number - Cardiff reg as well.
Is she still around?
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Post by Fordy on Dec 23, 2014 18:30:53 GMT
No, I have tried to trace her with no luck, hardly surprising really as there was a considerable amount of rust back then,the offside wing would flap around if you went over 30!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2014 18:50:35 GMT
PMSL......
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