Just stumbled across this pic. lol
I was 20 and just wanted a cossie soo bad, this one came up cheap and as a local car i thought it would be a good purchase.
The seller was a mechanic so I also thought it would be in good working order.

How wrong you can be when your young and nieve with 3k burning a whole in your pocket.

 

apart from bumper and wing mirrors it dont look too bad.

it could have been worse - it could have been a saxo

 

my series1 what a pile of shit, same again was 18 and had the money and wanted 1 ended up buying a shed that looked nice. O and my 3 door that turned out to be a 1984 shell wich was then reshelled using a genuine cssie shell and the old numbers put into it (or so i was told after i had sold it).

 

It was a polished turd.
smokey engine and turbo (rad cable tied in,breather plumbed in wrong and sump bolts finger tight)
shagged gearbox and diff
buckeled cracked wheels with unsafe ilegal tyres
paint job was terrible and not in door shuts or under the bonnet(bumpers cable tied on)
rooted leather
warped brakes with one sized caliper
and tonnes of electrical issues


oh and neons

other than that , she was sweet.

 

I take it all back in that case - what a pile of shit cry:

 

not a great pic but my montego turbo,went like fook for about ten mins

 

I was clueless and wow'd by the cossie badge.


Not much changes

 

We soooo need more pics of that! Looks cool as fuck! Has it got a fuck off Pro Alloy cooler on the front there?

Loader, I've never seen that pic of your Blue one, that looks like Matchams Raceway to me mate!

 

deffo the sierra I have in my unit now, I guy at work sold me it last week, He had owned it from 3 months old and told me it was in good condition(I had never seen it), when he delivered it the day the mot run out I found myself with a very very tired looking 170k mile sierra 1.8lx,
fixed the oil leak (the oil pressure switch) and removed the tea tray that was tied underneath to stop the oil dripping on his drive!!!pmsl
anyway it passed it's mot yesterday with a couple of advisories (which I will fix) then it will be up for sale for 150 quid to get shot!!!
must be a cheap car for someone with 12 months ticket on it lol
strangely when I drove it to the mot station it actually drives ok how I don't know!!!!

steve

 

never seen a one of tho's before. looks cool all blured like its travelin at mark 1 lol

 

bought a rotten to fuck S2 RST with the mentality of restoring it.....l failed, sold it 2 months after buying it.

 

None really as im not stupid

I knew exactly what i was buying and what it could/cant do, so no regrets really

 

sort of pointless postin then matey

 

My old Rover 620ti and my old Scooby.

NEVER AGAIN!

Montego Turbo's are awesome!

Looks like a Pace cooler to me - well, it has Pace sprayed on it

 

my disco2 it's a twot of a thing ace pump shat it's self abs sencers fooked up and now the head gaskets are fooked. none of wich are a problem in the uk but here in oz it's a pain in the arse so when i fix the fooker it's going

 

just like your reply to mine then

 

i was 19 young and stupid lol!!

 

lol TWAT!

 

Mine has to be my turbo technics xr2 when i was 18/19, what a pile of shite. Blew the engine within a week of owning it, was way to hastie when i bought that, but you live and learn.

 

Nearly bought a Mini with the Metro turbo engine...

Spoke to the guy (a Brunel graduate and then FORD MECHANIC, what a fuckin joke) he told me the shell was spotless, it started on the button and boosted fine blah blah.

Get there he was trying to spray wd40 on the alternator belt to keep it quiet, since tightening it didn't cross his pigshit mind. Wires were literally glowing round the fusebox they were all totally the wrong ratings. It was rotten in the boot, had a cheap dtm kit on there that was trashed on the NSF which he forgot to mention before I'd set off 2 hours earlier

Went for a drive severly pissed off, only to see him messing with the choke and bleed valve constantly just to keep it running let alone boosting. It was a total shitbox and the one bit he actually seemed proud of the 'Cossie Intercooler' was just a knackered Fiesta Turbo one a scrappy had done well to get a tenner for. Useless little tosser he was

 

lol.. I've had way too many shitters, including a mini-based fishpond that was dragged out of a hedge... but I digress...
The one car I really regret buying was a Fiesta mk2 1.4s.

I painted myself into a corner by catching a train to southampton then a taxi to some farm in the middle of nowhere.
I almost had to buy it just so I could get home.
Drove home with no tax, test, etc..etc.. and thick black smoke billowing out the pipe all the way home.

 

iv had bad luck with near enough all my fords!!

the best s2 rs turbo i have owned


then

 

A spunky rs turbo van .... engine was alright but i dont think it was all the guy said it was, body work werent too bad ... it did go some for a van though lol
then got another s2 rs turbo that went like stink but felt like it was going to fall apart every 10mins!!

 

Oh yeh had a 3door that i thought was the nuts until it started to smoke & knock & god knows!!

And then the mrs bought an escort cosworth on her 19birthday!!
that i broke! prop shaft went ... straight through bottom end .... gearbox ect ect! ended up spendin £2,000 on that to be able to sell it

 

A truck I shouldn't have owned. Only reasone why I bought it cause I was towing all sorts of stuff with my dads 1ton truck so I decided it was time to get my own heavy hauler.



Guess what as soon as I bought it I never pulled a thing with it. It was nice had dual leather power bucket seats, both seat where heated, Climate control, LOTS of room. It was loaded like a Benz.

 

The metros,a volvo I bought for 2 quid at auction

 

dont no why but i had a renault fuego was a horror story

 

Probably my cossie, the car is fine but i think i got one to early and should have got an rs turbo first. Hopefully i will get a good deal on an RST for it then regret it then buy another cossie

 

1.8 derv this story is 100% true and if you dont believe me i'll take a photo of 2/3 boxes outside in my garden lol.

after 2 weeks of buying the van the diff went noisy and i lost fifth gear,
Fitted a second hand box from scrappy that had lost 5th gear (but didnt know til i fitted it,
Took that box back out got my money back. Bought a 2nd box from ebay that then worked for 3 months then diff went noisy lost 5th gear. Bought 1 more box from wales 2nd hand, that lasted 5 hours noisy diff 5th gear. I decided to drive it using 4 gears.
Drove it for a couple of months then the cambelt snapped. Lol.

 

worse car i ever owned was an ax gt ,had it less than 24hours

 

For me it was a cossie but not the cars fault but mine, i knew fook all about cars really and loved the sapph, (went out in my mates dads when i was 10/11 it was a brand new sapph with 4 miles on the clock, he was a director at ford)

So always wanted one

Bought one of PJ Motorsport for a good price in the 90s £2.5K i think as no one wanted them, cost me £2K to insure it.
The car was grat but i didnt know about serviceing e.t.c, it was standard and it done 70K with me at the wheel and it never even had an oil changed in the 70K i did in it, it broke down once, and it was spark plugs, AA man put some in and it went again, i just kept topping oil up in it once every 2 months and a bit of water.

How bads that

 

turbo technics xr3i (series 1 rs turbo replica) was a shed, rusty, dodgy numbers.. went really well though.

Can't say my dad was too impressed with me spending my entire years university bursary from my employers on the insurance either

 

never seen one!? i don't have any good pics of it unfortunately but here is the motobuild one and another of mine on knockhill......









i must have better pics,i will go look....

 

Is that my CRX behind you at the hairpin Davie?

 

oh no it looks like an Astra, sorry

 

haha can beat that!
i bought a old escort van of a mate of a mate for £100, was driving it home (no tax, insurance or mot ) the box decided 2 blow its self 2 pices on the dual carageway just out of crawley. stoped it on the hardsholder got in my mates car (who was following) and left the fucking thing there!

think that has 2 be a record could have only owned it 20 min's

 

i had a d reg polo estate lol was so crap didnt even have a radio or wiring for one

 

bought a shed of a fiesta rs turbo looked nice when i bought it but didnt look over it properly ,had loads of paperwork and was 176bhp.when i got it on the road found out it had a major overheating problem,was tottally rotten shell and gearbox was knackered.i know for next time what to look out for

 

Funny enough, a Maestro LOL Was Red and ROTTON! Bought it to trash and we did. Went halfs with a mates, £25 each I drove it all day and night until it died...

Clutch went, Starter motor, Window got popped, Got pissed in, Shat in,
Bonnet damaged, Drivers side damaged from a slight accident....

Reason, Why we shouldn't of had it, It caused us trouble with tax when we scrapped it, But we got it sorted.

No pictures

 

Thats not all of the story though is it radders?

Like reversing it into a tree leaving the blokes house when you bought it.

Then ringing Danny at silly O'Clock because you had crashed it into a ditch 'Danny come and get is we are stuck in a ditch...................... oh fuck theres water coming in!!!!'.

Then smashing the car up for no reason and people thinking you were doing it to some random car so they called the police.

Think that covers alot of it mate.