One for the FORD fans 😀

[Lancs Lad]

Found these in an old workshop we clearing out.

Heated rear window sir?

 

[Gecko]

ffs - in Oz, the smallest engine you could get an escort was 1600
We didn't get the V6 (except in the Capri), so a local 250 Ci straight six was fitted to Cortina's

 

[toby]

When Ford introduced the Mk3 Fiesta in 1989ish, the 1.0 Valencia ohv engine was the base engine. A low-output engine to please insurance companies, its output was an asthmatic 38bhp. I bought a nearly new one at a bargain £2,300. OMG, it was dangerously slow. Driving from NE Scotland to Burnley, I thought the engine was about to seize. It was only a mild headwind/hill...
In 1971, my dad was working away a lot. The extra cash enabled my parents to buy a brand new house.
It was £3,600 and illustrates how costly a new Ford was in the Space Age.
Especially when cars used to dissolve in just a few years.
As an apprentice Datsun mechanic, late seventies, a new Datsun Cherry was about £3,000.
They were recalled for new rear suspension arms and a new front subframe: cars were failing on excessive corrosion on their first MOT.
Yet the average warranty cost was just £2/vehicle. Ultra reliable mechanically, a disaster in the bodyshell front.
I'm looking at a Yanmar diesel to add to my collection. A 1969 single cylinder 225cc gem. It will power my mobility scooter project: according to my calculations, it will do 247mpg and hit 28mph.
Have a great Sunday and thanks for posting the photos.

 

[toby]

I forgot about the 850cc ohv Fiesta for the German market. Another slug, many were delivered new with a reground crankshaft and undersize bearing shells. Apparently the first engines started knocking before the first major service. Driving school cars suffering the most. Why do folk lug their small cars in too high a gear...

 

[Brendan]

Funnily enough was just talking with a guy yesterday who is potentially selling two escort rs1600i's not too sure on condition though thet have been sat in a garage for a few years

 

[Stroppymonkey]

I forgot about the 850cc ohv Fiesta for the German market. Another slug, many were delivered new with a reground crankshaft and undersize bearing shells. Apparently the first engines started knocking before the first major service. Driving school cars suffering the most. Why do folk lug their small cars in too high a gear...

My first car was the MK1 1.1OHV? Very distinct rattle . Next one was a a MK2 with 1.0l and that would wind up quite well.
We still have a couple of fiestas running now. Wife drives a little eco boom ST (1l turbo petrol) and we have the 1.6D in the sport van. Similar fuel consumption to each other but the petrol is MUCH more fun to drive .

 

[V8Druid]

my first car was a Mk1 1500GT Cortina, that I rebuilt the engine in with a new set of Heppolites and shells .. went well ... mother used to borrow it to pop up the town for a shopping hit and I always cringed ... long stick box and she had an uncanny knack of pulling the stick out the top of the box, going for reverse ... lost count of the number of times I had to jump on me bike, go find her and put it back in

 

[charlie2]

my first car was a Mk1 1500GT Cortina, that I rebuilt the engine in with a new set of Heppolites and shells .. went well ... mother used to borrow it to pop up the town for a shopping hit and I always cringed ... long stick box and she had an uncanny knack of pulling the stick out the top of the box, going for reverse ... lost count of the number of times I had to jump on me bike, go find her and put it back in

my younger brother had a mk 1cortina gt he thrashed it everywhere. his had the short gearstick, i thought all the gt cortina's had the same, i had an anglia at the time with an overbored precrossflow engine twin 40s lumpy cam and bigger valves in the head. it was quick back in the day but forever needed something or other doing to it. i later had a mk2 lotus cortina the anglia would have pissed all over it in every way except comfort. really liked that era of ford cars very easy to work on and parts were easy to get. always wanted an escort twin cam but to costly for me

 

[Lancs Lad]

When Ford introduced the Mk3 Fiesta in 1989ish, the 1.0 Valencia ohv engine was the base engine. A low-output engine to please insurance companies, its output was an asthmatic 38bhp. I bought a nearly new one at a bargain £2,300. OMG, it was dangerously slow. Driving from NE Scotland to Burnley, I thought the engine was about to seize. It was only a mild headwind/hill...
In 1971, my dad was working away a lot. The extra cash enabled my parents to buy a brand new house.
It was £3,600 and illustrates how costly a new Ford was in the Space Age.
Especially when cars used to dissolve in just a few years.
As an apprentice Datsun mechanic, late seventies, a new Datsun Cherry was about £3,000.
They were recalled for new rear suspension arms and a new front subframe: cars were failing on excessive corrosion on their first MOT.
Yet the average warranty cost was just £2/vehicle. Ultra reliable mechanically, a disaster in the bodyshell front.
I'm looking at a Yanmar diesel to add to my collection. A 1969 single cylinder 225cc gem. It will power my mobility scooter project: according to my calculations, it will do 247mpg and hit 28mph.
Have a great Sunday and thanks for posting the photos.

Wish I'd kept more stuff. Loads of manuals from the 60s and 70s etc ....not a ford fan myself. Prefer stuff with more get up and go and hate ford dealers with an utter contempt

 

[pettsy]

Despite mostly only ever having vag group stuff, I must say there’s a few fast fords I’d love to own even if only for a summer. Maybe a saph cosworth of some description and an escort cosworth. Obviously prices are snowballing higher and higher, but if I had the space to store one and knew I could get out of it 6months later with no losses I’d find it hard not to buy one!

 

[V8Druid]

my younger brother had a mk 1cortina gt he thrashed it everywhere. his had the short gearstick, i thought all the gt cortina's had the same, i had an anglia at the time with an overbored precrossflow engine twin 40s lumpy cam and bigger valves in the head. it was quick back in the day but forever needed something or other doing to it. i later had a mk2 lotus cortina the anglia would have pissed all over it in every way except comfort. really liked that era of ford cars very easy to work on and parts were easy to get. always wanted an escort twin cam but to costly for me

believe it or not, mine was originally an auto, that someone'd grafted a manual box into --- had the gear position indicator in the dash in an arc above the steering column ... so must originally have been column change?