Pictures of old or rare vehicles

[beeRS]

This one, I’m lucky enough to say I still own .

 

[slim_boy_fat]

This one, I’m lucky enough to say I still own .

A chap in the village has an immaculate one in black. Not seen it out of its garage for ages but he's getting pretty infirm so may not be using it, he has another car for day-to-day use.

 

[Bobupndown]

We all should have squirreled mk2 Escorts away years ago. You could have built a garage just to keep them in and still be quids in with todays prices.
My mum had 2 of them, both 2 doors, a '76 1.1 and '78a 1.3, (first car I ever drove was the 1.3). Wish we still had them.

 

[Migmac]

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My Escort from around the same time

My friend had the more door version of your one, same colour too.

 

[atomant48]

We all should have squirreled mk2 Escorts away years ago. You could have built a garage just to keep them in and still be quids in with todays prices.
My mum had 2 of them, both 2 doors, a '76 1.1 and '78a 1.3, (first car I ever drove was the 1.3). Wish we still had them.

I guess if we’d all done that they’d not be worth anything. Still Iove seeing one out on the road though.

 

[minimutly]

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My mate’s Escort. Pictured around 1990.

Those Harriers rusted from the inside out, did it survive?

 

[addjunkie]

Those Harriers rusted from the inside out, did it survive?

I had a similar vintage mexico…78 on an S. it didnt survive, the roofs arnt very strong when you bounce them off a dry stonewall! Was a lovely thing! Lucky the wall was there or it may have barrel rooled.

 

[beeRS]

Those Harriers rusted from the inside out, did it survive?

Im sure he sold it for £750 without an MOT. Yes - it looked good, but hid a lot of rust.

 

[ukracer]

We all should have squirreled mk2 Escorts away years ago. You could have built a garage just to keep them in and still be quids in with todays prices.
My mum had 2 of them, both 2 doors, a '76 1.1 and '78a 1.3, (first car I ever drove was the 1.3). Wish we still had them.

We didn't have the money to build a garage .

 

[Scruffywelder]

Eddy was always talking about the work he was doing on it, sad he never got it rebuilt, quite a machine. He always had a few interesting cars that he worked on and drove: a Panhard PL17 was a favourite of mine and an early mk1 Range Rover V8 he had from new til his death.

My parents had a PL17 Tigre when they first moved up to D&G in the 70's. Eventually sold it in the late 80's as a bit of a basket case to a guy over in the Scottish Borders.

 

[blackolive (Ste)]

Can’t remember whether Id posted them. Had the orange one for seven years and got bored of looking at it, so sold it at the right time for a massive profit.

Made an 800 mile round trip to buy the white one. Havent done a lot with it except polishing it. Hopefully with the garage and drive rearranged it will get out more this year

 

[Rannsachair]

My parents had a PL17 Tigre when they first moved up to D&G in the 70's. Eventually sold it in the late 80's as a bit of a basket case to a guy over in the Scottish Borders.

Interesting car's, if I did nor recall Eddies light blue one, I would likely never of heard of them, he ran it for many years.

 

[eddie49]

I've had five Panhards. My first was a rare 1963 PL17 Tigre Convertible, bought for £32:10 shillings as a student in Newcastle in 1969. Unfortunately it was stolen from a lock-up garage in 1992. I still have a 1965 24BT.

 

[Bobupndown]

Can’t remember whether Id posted them. Had the orange one for seven years and got bored of looking at it, so sold it at the right time for a massive profit.

Made an 800 mile round trip to buy the white one. Havent done a lot with it except polishing it. Hopefully with the garage and drive rearranged it will get out more this year

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How could you get bored looking at that The Mk3 onwards Escorts just don't do it for me.

 

[truckdoctor]

Rover p5b

 

[minimutly]

Can’t remember whether Id posted them. Had the orange one for seven years and got bored of looking at it, so sold it at the right time for a massive profit.

Made an 800 mile round trip to buy the white one. Havent done a lot with it except polishing it. Hopefully with the garage and drive rearranged it will get out more this year

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Used to share a lift with one of those (by one of those?). Driven most enthusiastically, four up down the lanes past where @sako243 lives. My abiding memory is of zero suspension travel, loads of grunt, holding my breath occasionally, and the tick tick tick sound of the boost control solenoid.
To get where we used to meet for the shared lift (The Pantyblaidd public hous carpark, in case someone might know it), there was a short straight stretch we all shared. Well one dark early morning the RS Turbo pulled out in front, a bit ahead of my 1400 tweaked mini. Cold engine or not he was fair game. A mile later we stopped at the pub carpark, driver reckoned we were over the ton, mini won. One thing he said as well - the mini was making one hell of a racket...
Maniflow lcb and middle box with RC40 back box - both straight through of course. Need to get one of the minis back on the road.

 

[outofthefire]

We all should have squirreled mk2 Escorts away years ago. You could have built a garage just to keep them in and still be quids in with todays prices.
My mum had 2 of them, both 2 doors, a '76 1.1 and '78a 1.3, (first car I ever drove was the 1.3). Wish we still had them.

This always makes me wonder if there's a modern car or bike this principal should be applied to. Something affordable like the escorts were back in the day.

 

[atomant48]

This always makes me wonder if there's a modern car or bike this principal should be applied to. Something affordable like the escorts were back in the day.

I thought about it for the MGTF when they were a dime a dozen a few years back. But i lost my free storage so it was a non starter :-(

 

[Anguz]

The electronics of modern stuff will be the death of them before they become classics

 

[Dozzer]

Say hello to Phill, he's from Auz
They only built them for 2 years with this engine, it has a Leyland 4.4l V8 and Factory aircon!!
This years project, body off, Galv chassis, Rebuild engine and fit upgraded r380 box and uprated transfer case.