Lee Ivatt

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Hi was driving home from chelmsford in my mallard girl at 5 yesterday. just turning of to springfield to get fuel, and saw a really clean white cossie go buy. anyones on here. looked real nice.

whites defo my 2nd fav colour after black.

rsnissan

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dunno whos that is but seen blue one with WRC kit round borham BP think it might have been the time attack one

focus 4x4

was it standard and on an N plate?

Lee Ivatt

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duno, i was litterally just on slip road and happened to look over and saw it. was watching the car in front rather than trying to read a plate, sorry

im sure they must have seen me, as i was slowing and indicating as they passed tho

Jobbo

Must have been me Fella!! Out for her yearly 39 miles lol didn't see you though, shame would have been nice to see another cos on the road, love Mallard too, my old BT was mallard, Sweeeeeeeeet!! a couple of pics for ya.......

White



And my old Mallard BT

Bullett

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jobbo,didnt know you were an essex boy.love your car its so clean. i take it she's not out much?doing any shows?

Lee Ivatt

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as said i didnt see the plate but it was megga clean, so more than likley you mate

yeh shame i just missed u. i often see saffs out and get the nod/wave/thumbs up. but never a escos. only when im driving one of my other cars and the cos owner things im a erratic psyco waving for no "apparant" reason

heres a pic of mine

Jobbo

Hi Bullett, yes mate Essex boy born and bred!! thanks for the comments, and no unfortunately she doesn't get out much, had a mega busy year last year and she covered a massive 39 miles between M.O.T's :-( but hopefully gonna do as many shows as possible this year!! woo hoo!! can't wait!! Lovin your car Fella looks awesome in the pics I have seen, is it Ebony/Golss Black?

Jobbo

Hopefully see you about if your in Chelmsford often Fella, will deffo give you a wave if i see you, car looks lush, gotta love Mallard looks awesome in the sun!!

Bullett

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how long you had her mate?i to am born and bred essex.southend for 13 years then the rest in colchester. have you had other rs's? you may have seen my other cars about if you have been round here that long.

cheers for the comment on the car.i love her to bits.just trying to get used to her handling compared to the saff

rsnissan

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didnt know there were that many cossies round chelmsford

Lee Ivatt

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well dont think any of us are from chelmsford tho?

im inbetween braintree and colchester. born n breed also.

theres a red escos also, i often see it at sainsburys, colchester filling up fuel.?

ROB7656

plenty of cossies round this way. my bro just sold a white standard n plate to a lad in witham and he uses it daily up the a12.

Lee Ivatt

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is there anywhere cossies meet up this way north essex?

ive been to the rsoc meet at rovers tye colchester a few time when i had the S1, but to be honest, unless your in with the circle or jump on the table and announce who u are then its not much advantage.

Havnt been down to southend for years, i dare say the lads down there now wouldnt even know what an rst was these days?

My mates into his vdubs, and they meet once a month in a multistory carpark. its all legit, not like a bunch of knobs doing burn outs in mattalan carpark.

tis a nice small group, where the emphasis is purley checking out eachothers cars.

dont think theres anything around for fords like that?

stevecossy

Hey lee take it ya fixed the prob with the car, what was it in the end ?

ROB7656

plenty of rs turbos and rs cars in general up southend mate last time i went and there is a ford auto jumble/show at the battlesbridge antique center this sunday i belive.

Lee Ivatt

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Well it was the head gasket. The fan circuit was so corroded, it cant have worked for at least 3-4 years. the engine obviously ran hot a few times and poped the gasket. Also the thermostat was dead.

it began the 5th day i had it, i left it running for 15 mins when i went to my mums to show the my new toy, and the rad blew a hole.

turns out pistons 3 and 4 were blowing into the cooling system/ pressurising the tank and rad.

anyway my mate is a ford technitian, and grew up on yb's in his apprentiship, so knew the engines well.

we had the head skimmed and pressure tested for 2 days. as he was scared it may have a crack. but after an xray as well, all turned out fine.

new standard rad, fan switch, cometic group a head gasket, bolts, rocker gasket, thermostat. now it runs sweet as a nut. all the engines my mate has ever built up feel so bullet proof, he really knows his stuff.

the car is still hunting slightly when warm, iscv is working fine so i have this down to tps switch or it may just be it needs a good tune up. but im getting there. i also want to get a new lambada/hego sensor. just to be happy.

its good to finally drive it, as it costs me Ł200 a month insurance and tax just sitting there.

oh yeh, i went there a few years back, lots of mk1+2 parts and cortina bits mostly. hum i may pay a visit if i have time.

thing is with south end, you just do laps with all the 17 year olds in their saxos, and if you move on to basildon later, unless you parked up eating a mcd's or racing illegally on the business estate with scoobies then theres no point.

was thinking something smaller like the rsoc local size. but somwhere neutral, where the emphasis in on the car, not in a pub drinking beer. ie like my mates carpark gang.

think the biggest problem it the thuggery immage fords have. i bought my escos cos ive always dremt of one, i love the look and the pedigree of it, i didnt buy it to do burnouts and got 120mph down the dual carrigeway!

Mr S1

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If it was Mallard Green then it would have been Maria, surely ?

stevecossy

Nice one mate glad ya can now enjoy it in the good weather.

Lee Ivatt

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lol, tho i have to say in certain light my mallard does look petrol blue, even purple sometimes


well i guess so, thinking of selling it in a month or two. it has always been my dream car, and im so happy that i managed to get hold of one.

my fatherin law says "its better to traver than to arrive", and i think maby he has a point.

im more of a restorer than a driver, in fact all my cars ive spent about 2-3 years restoring then when theyre done i get bored and sell them
mostly cos theyre too clean to drive

the cossie is so nice, but im still left with that hunger to get the grinder and welder out and build something.

Jobbo

I've had the White one about 2 years, the Mallard one I had for about 3 years, before that I had a minty mint RS2000 2wd in Petrol Blue, and before that I had an Ebony Black S2 which I loved!!! but I've also had a host of other Escorts including 2 XR3i's and 2 GTi's.

There are a few of us gonna try to go to the next Kent Meet at Brands, it would be good to see some of the Essex Cossie's there if anyone fancies it!!

It's a really cool venue and if the weather's good it'll be spot on!!

focus 4x4

This another essex escort cosworth - witham i believe, very clean tidy standard ish car.

ROB7656

that is my birds brothers old car now owned by a lad called matt and is still in witham. it used to have a private plate MOV3 IT.it is a very good cos and took him a long time to find one this genuine its the 3rd one he owned so he knew what to look for

cheers

ROB7656

i saw a mint mallard escos on the a12 on friday about half 5 beetween hatfield peveral and chelmsford.

Lee Ivatt

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that was me going to ingatestone
what car was you in? i got a few waves from various cars n vans
a pic of her and my mate (you know hes thinking he wishes it was his)

ROB7656

was in a pt cruiser on the oposite side of of the road stuck in traffic.your car looked the bollox mate.{pardon my french}

Bullett

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lee,the essex rsoc meet at the halfway house tonight on the a127 at brentwood.it maybe a pub but the car park is big and its always full.theres a good amount of peeople there just for the cars rather than the beer
i rarely bother with the colchester meet.its dead and sometimes cliquey

Lee Ivatt

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thanks, yeh i remember saying to the mrs, look at the muppets over there im glad were going this way!

did you see my wife, she looks sexier in the car for some reason.

i would mate but ive left my car with my best mate in reyleigh for the week to have a little play with. (oh em if your reading this your welcome to take her tonight, you can represent me and dont drive it like i did coming back from canvey, its not cool, and i want it back in one piece)

"i rarely bother with the colchester meet.its dead and sometimes cliquey"

yeh dito


Also driving to reyleigh on sunday, i passed a black 4x4 saff doing a steady 50mph just after witham. looked real clean. anyone on here?
i passed quite quickly me thinks?