memories

[tezzer]

just like the one i used to have, hind sight is a wonderful thing, :doh

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[Deleted account DD]

I remember a rainy night 1985/86 ish travellng with a mate to wakefield of all places to look at one of those.

At the time it wasnt a classic in fact i seem to recall they were in the not wanted almost banger group.

He didnt buy it because the bloke wanted to much.

Maybe he knew something we didnt back then :naughty:naughty:naughty

 

[tezzer]

i had mine in 1974 and bought it from the mechanic i was serving my apprenticeship with, £325 i paid had it 6 months and sold it on for £310, i couldn't sell it at the time, :doh, the trouble is i had 7 mk2 lotus's and didn't learn my lesson, i didn't keep one,

 

[rustic]

I'm keeping my Mav.... just hoping.

16 years so far, so when does it become a classic then...:nenau

 

[zippy656]

I'm keeping my Mav.... just hoping.

16 years so far, so when does it become a classic then...:nenau

normaly JUST after you sell it!

 

[tezzer]

you can get classic insurance with some companies after 15 years, but it's normally 20-25 years, but the mav will have fallen a part by then lol

 

[paulp]

Oh dear

i have made the same mistake

ihad and sold for peanuts

a 2 door 1300cc OHC pinto sierra - no misprint a 1300 pinto OHC

evens fords could not provide a head gasket

paulp

 

[Deleted account DD]

i have made the same mistake

ihad and sold for peanuts

a 2 door 1300cc OHC pinto sierra - no misprint a 1300 pinto OHC

evens fords could not provide a head gasket

paulp

were they the ones that were out in the very early range ? the body shape was very cossie style only with pram wheels and non tinted glass etc??? I seem to recall someone i worked with had one in white on an A plate though tbh i cant recall if it was a maybe 1600 but i do think it was a 1300. I do know it had a job overtaking a mates 1300 cavalier. You could walk faster than the cav

 

[jace]

mate had 1.3 capri lol!

 

[briggie]

mate had a 3.1 capri brooklands , bluddie heck did that thing move

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

i used to 'know' a girl with a 1.3 Capri, the one with the little boot not a hatch. She drove me all the way to Paignton in it (some of it with only one hand on the wheel :augie) then she said 'which way do i go now?' I answered 'straight over the lights.' Big mistake - i had assumed she would wait until they were on green! The Capri and some shocked lads fiesta super sport were no more, and i almost went through the window screen -happy days.

 

[paulp]

1.3

"were they the ones that were out in the very early range ? the body shape was very cossie style only with pram wheels and non tinted glass etc??? I seem to recall someone i worked with had one in white on an A plate though tbh i cant recall if it was a maybe 1600 but i do think it was a 1300. I do know it had a job overtaking a mates 1300 cavalier. You could walk faster than the cav"

mate that was the one. absolutely gutless

it was over head cam or commonly called a pinto engine not the overhead valve or crossflow

paulp

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

yep the 2 door sierra got deleted very quickly, perhaps to allow a gap before it
reappeared as the cosworth and whale tail.

at time there were kits in fast car and the like to upgrade it.

odd as the xr4i had a different 2 door shell to start with, almost a 4 door by
number of pillars, but without back doors. saw such an xr4i in tenby last
summer had to drool, a reg or may be b reg, impressed still on road as most
hot hatches of that age have long since been wrapped round trees etc.

ah those 1.3s, followed on from cortina 1.3 i guess, think father in law had
a mk2 1.3 tina, even tried towing with it!

 

[tezzer]

yep the 2 door sierra got deleted very quickly, perhaps to allow a gap before it
reappeared as the cosworth and whale tail.

wasn't it the sapphire that came out then as well?? and then the sapphire cosworth 2wd then the 4wd,

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

think sierras came out on y reg,

2 doors gone by a reg, may be b at push.


cosworth 2 door from summer 86 so late c and early d,
as remeber seeing billboards on a summer hol on south coast.

dont thik sapphires came out til about f.

taken over for sports as stronger sheels.

 

[Adz]

just like the one i used to have, hind sight is a wonderful thing, :doh

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