What was your first Ford?
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:48 PM
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From: Wednesbury
What was your first Ford?
Mine was a Y plate Xr3i then F plate xr3i then onto me 2 Escort RS turbos.
What was your first ford?
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:50 PM
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From: Surrey
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:52 PM
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From: Super Barnsley
Sierra 2.0 Glsi on an E reg, i was only 19 and span it in the rain within 6weeks on the M1 slip road, thats what you get after 2 yrs of driving a Cavalier before it
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:52 PM
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My first ford was a Fiesta xr2i (the worst car ford have ever made) and remember the insurance on these at the time being horendous due to the fact they were so easy to nick!! Then sold that and got an Mk 6 rs2000, and then a 4x4 smokestone saph
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:56 PM
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From: not far away
y reg xr3i
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:58 PM
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From: Avoiding idiots - or trying to....
An 'X' plated Mk1 Fiesta in 1990
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:58 PM
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From: Cornwall... Aarrhh me hearties!
gold mk2 4 dr escort with black vinyl roof.
then a selection of mk3 scorts. with a mk1 v4 capri borrowed for a few months inbetween.
Oct 1, 2006 | 09:59 PM
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From: Glasgow
G reg Orion Ghia
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:05 PM
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From: Wirral
d reg Yellow escort, loved every min of it
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:10 PM
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From: Liverpool
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:11 PM
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From: Somerset
A rotton Mk3 XR3, only had it a few days.
Then Cortinas, x4
And now Sierras, 3x XR4is, 1x 2wd saph and 1x 4x4 saph
Steve.
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From: Leicestershire
on the right, the almighty P-100
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:34 PM
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From: GLASGOW
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:35 PM
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From: North Korea
A-reg 1.6pinto Mk1 Sierra shitbox
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:37 PM
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From: Co Durham
Fiesta 1.1
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:42 PM
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From: birmingham
My first ford was an Escort Mk1 1300 gt
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:43 PM
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From: stockton on tees
A 1982 fiesta 1.3 ghia got it the day I passed my test in may 1989
then 2 orion ghia I's
then an RS Turbo which my dad still owns
steve
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:43 PM
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From: Sussex
My good old Fiesta 1.3 in my sig
Edit: Still mine btw
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:44 PM
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From: Essex
'78 Mk1 1.1 Fiesta L, stuffed that so got a '77 Mk1 Fiesta 1.1 S, mate stuffed that, got a '71 Mini Cooper S mk3 and then an RS2000 mk2, '83 XR3i, '84 XR3i cab px'ed that for me '90 RST etc...
Oct 1, 2006 | 10:55 PM
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From: coventry
mine was a 1.3 escort just made it look like a 3i but turbod it after 6 months lol
then when i was 18 i built this with a turbo lump,my 2nd fav car sleeper wise
then my 1st cosy at 21after 6 months moved into sleepers again with a cosy xr4x4 and stuck with sleepers ever since
Oct 1, 2006 | 11:02 PM
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From: Stoke-on-Trent
Mine was a 'G Reg' Sierra Ghia.
And i loved it !!!
Oct 1, 2006 | 11:06 PM
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From: luton
d reg mk2 1.1 ghia x fiesta, got it for nothing, span it after 3 days and kept on going for another 6 months before discovering it was rotten lol
Oct 2, 2006 | 12:10 AM
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From: oxFORDshire
my first ford... D reg rosso red escort rs turbo.
sorry bout the rubbish pic!
Oct 2, 2006 | 12:18 AM
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Mine was a stolen-recovered RS500 in moonstone
Oct 2, 2006 | 12:28 AM
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From: London Baby!
this:
o yeah... 1660 on a massive weber, xr3i system and brakes, used to fooking fly!
Oct 2, 2006 | 01:07 AM
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From: Bedfordshire
1968 Ford Anglia
Oct 2, 2006 | 01:18 AM
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From: Combe
Oct 2, 2006 | 01:43 AM
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From: im on to you
xr3 i went through 4 gearbox's in 6 months then wrote it off
lost it on a corner in the end, and it went end over end 4 time's
Oct 2, 2006 | 04:20 AM
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From: Newton Aycliffe County Durham
mk1 xr2, which failed its mot 6 months later becasue it was rotten, sold to a mate who had mk1 1.1 fiesta for parts.
Oct 2, 2006 | 05:19 AM
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From: Racing the clouds home
Oct 2, 2006 | 05:36 AM
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From: Melbourne, Australia
My first to drive was my mum's 1.1 Popular Plus on an H plate
My first to own was a G reg XR3i in red.
Oct 2, 2006 | 05:44 AM
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From: Stoke on Trent
Oct 2, 2006 | 05:57 AM
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From: Northants
mine was a 1.6 Sierra f reg
great first car when ur 18
Oct 2, 2006 | 07:03 AM
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From: Dewsbury, The parts were they don't abduct their own children!
Mine was a H reg Black, Fiesta RS Turbo
And I've still got it 5 years on!!
Oct 2, 2006 | 07:09 AM
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From: wolverhampton/ australia
mine is a saph cossie
Oct 2, 2006 | 07:19 AM
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From: Essex
Mine was a B reg mk3 1.3 Escort
Brian
Oct 2, 2006 | 07:21 AM
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From: derby the pride of the midlands D.C.F.C
F reg black XR2
Oct 2, 2006 | 07:24 AM
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From: somwhere in wow
Oct 2, 2006 | 08:55 AM
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From: Milton Keynes
Y reg Mk3 Escort 1.1
Got it when I was 16, was mint condition, horrible colour, and then a copper wrote it off outside my house