Is it time to go backwards

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Needamaser said:
My second car was a1974 Escort 1300XL in bronze with a vinyl roof! Bought "racing"seat covers for it because I couldn't afford proper seats. Wanted a GT or E variant but couldn't afford that.
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My gear stick used to come off in my hand. A bit of PTFE tape and all was good for a while.
 
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Needamaser said:
My second car was a1974 Escort 1300XL in bronze with a vinyl roof! Bought "racing"seat covers for it because I couldn't afford proper seats. Wanted a GT or E variant but couldn't afford that.
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I would of loved a GT. I did paint my rear light panel Matt black like the GTs.
 
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Snowflake generation Hawk; they would still get their mummy to wipe their ar$e if they could!

That yellow Lotus is on Car & Classic for £19,995 so expect the reserve to be at that or the ad to be pulled at the last!

I hope to peak Alex's interest in them soon, he is anxting for a 66 Mustang coupe next but I think a super lightweight would be far more appropriate for him...
 
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philw696 said:
Ford Escort 1300E.
www.ebay.co.uk

1974 FORD ESCORT 1300e UNRESTORED TOTALLY ORIGINAL --- LOW MILES --- 2 OWNERS | eBay

An appreciating classic. The escort drives superbly and looks fantastic with the original paintwork etc. Starts and drives perfect, everything works as it should, doors open and close perfectly and do not drop!
www.ebay.co.uk
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An absolute little beauty but after my time Phil , as i had started working out in Iran by that time, my first un legal car was a ford 100E popular, after which i progressed to the 105E Anglia ( complete with rostyle wheels lol) all hacked round my mates farm or Ford Areodrome as i was under age , My mates would have aspired and drooled for one in that nick,
After the first year working in Tehran i bought my first proper legal car and then took my test in 1972 , my teenage want of an MGB GT 1967 british racing green with wire wheels was my dream fufilled , what a great summer that was , can still remember my insurance with Cloverleaf £187 an arm and a leg in those days , Following year at home on leave like a complete dick i swapped it for an Austin princess 1800cc so i could carry and ferry my mates about ....................what a complete dick i was as i blew the engine on a hack upto Cinderella's night club in Handscross a few weeks after.
 
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Fair play Loz for admitting to a Princess :)
In the early 80s and I was forever changing cars a good insurance broker was a must.
All done in a good old fashioned Ledger and pay cash weekly.
I enjoyed those days :)
 
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philw696 said:
Fair play Loz for admitting to a Princess :)
In the early 80s and I was forever changing cars a good insurance broker was a must.
All done in a good old fashioned Ledger and pay cash weekly.
I enjoyed those days :)
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Later on around 76 Norwich Union opened up there head office in Worthing and merged with London and Edinburgh , hence being one of the largest employers locally at the time , was surprising how many family and friends got there insurance direct from there at reduced staff rates ......me included lol ,

Yeah the Princess Phil .........what can i say other than that the land crab bit is totally true , but a good wagon with space for the lucky nights when i didnt want to ferry my mates , engine got swapped in the street as most did in those days with 3 scaffold poles and a pulley block , was a big old lump tho
 
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FIFTY said:
Car accessory shops priced themselves out of the industry with the rise of e-commerce. The Fast and the Furious came out in 2001 and as a near direct result the car accessory industry had a huge boom... Thankfully most of the fads it brought in have died.

Sure the advent of fuel injection has meant that people tend not to work on their cars anymore. Along with the increase of wealth and thus the growth of the fast fit industry and abundance of garages has meant that it is more convenient for people to get servicing done for them. Majority of us live a lifestyle of convenience... I suppose wrenching on your own car is down to it either being a hobby or necessity (i.e. can't afford to pay someone to do it which we might see a lot of in the next year or two)
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Think you've nailed what has changed
 
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Back in the nineties I was asked to take a look at a Porsche whose owner had taken it restoration ‘specialists’ who went bust with the car in their possession. The owner managed to retrieve it but none of the electrics worked and his gardener gave up trying to fathom it. Fed up with the whole affair, the owner decided to send the car to auction and declined an offer from a friend of mine to buy the car ‘as is’.

The car was a 356A but had a hybrid wiring harness; part original 356A, part from a later 356B, and with electrical items either missing or corroded. Porsche were not exactly enthusiastic about parts supply and with the auction date approaching the owner didn’t want to wait for parts to come from the USA, so I sourced the necessary bits - from a local scrappy; not Porsche of course, but sufficient to get everything working.

At auction it made around £12k on the hammer but he said they screwed him on everything from transport to cataloguing before they deducted his seller’s premium, and my friend’s offer had been significantly higher than the auction net. The car is currently SORN’d, although I saw it for sale a few years ago for around £35k.

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Phil H said:
Back in the nineties I was asked to take a look at a Porsche whose owner had taken it restoration ‘specialists’ who went bust with the car in their possession. The owner managed to retrieve it but none of the electrics worked and his gardener gave up trying to fathom it. Fed up with the whole affair, the owner decided to send the car to auction and declined an offer from a friend of mine to buy the car ‘as is’.

The car was a 356A but had a hybrid wiring harness; part original 356A, part from a later 356B, and with electrical items either missing or corroded. Porsche were not exactly enthusiastic about parts supply and with the auction date approaching the owner didn’t want to wait for parts to come from the USA, so I sourced the necessary bits - from a local scrappy; not Porsche of course, but sufficient to get everything working.

At auction it made around £12k on the hammer but he said they screwed him on everything from transport to cataloguing before they deducted his seller’s premium, and my friend’s offer had been significantly higher than the auction net. The car is currently SORN’d, although I saw it for sale a few years ago for around £35k.

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Loving the scimitar in the background , obviously a man of good taste
 
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I bought the Scim with 80k on the clock and laid it up with over 200k with the intention of doing a nut and bolt resto. When I priced it up a proper resto was going to be way over the final valuation so we bought the 3200 instead...….

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