Does anyone know of this car? long story why im obsessed with it but would like to know if its still going

cheers!

 

dunno where it is but says taxed till feb.

 

cheers pal, it was feb this year i was gonna buy it and had a 12 month ticket on it

 

I was the second owner of this car the first only registering it for 3 months so it was basically a new car when I got it. I remember it cost me Ł17,500.00 in 1988/9 I think?. I owned it for a couple of years an thrashed the s**T out of it had a lot of fun as the cossie was very a new breed then and no one new what it was.

 

well i was gonna be the 6th owner back in april, its been sold since to someone else

 

I hope it still on the road and it hasnt been scrapped.

 

touch wood, it was a fooking bargain, the bloke who was selling it didnt have a clue what it was worth as he swapped it for a 328i worth Ł3k, was resprayed and was a good job, rear arches replaced, had a Ł5k recipt from PJ motorsport for a rebuild inc 200 bottom end, group a gasket, new t34.48, Pj live map, new light blues, new discs and pads, new koni's and bayjoo springs, and shit loads more, i cant think of 1 mark the paint had, the interior was VERY good condition too apart from having a dodgy door handle, the centerconsole was loose and it needed wee bits doing, ran very well though, idled good and came on boost strong with no smoke, was only holding 1.5 bar but went very well! Id say it was worth Ł4500-5000 all day long if it had a decent setup and rs500 cooler, i was going to get it for Ł2960 too

 

Its not showing as insured on the insurance database..

 

i know ive checked a minute ago Im gonna see if its taxed,

EDIT im a bit thick, it had 10 months mot when i was going to buy it in april, so still has tax till feb

 

Might be off the road then and they just havent bothered cashing the tax in, a lot of people don't know you can claim it back, i let a old car i blew up sit on the drive with 4 months tax on it till it ran out good luck in finding her, keep an eye on ebay/autotrader/pistonheads etc

 

i always do pal, 1 day to find it and il be the first to buy it, if the price is right!

 

I was the 3rd owner bought it in 1991 for about 9k had it for about a year, had new head gaskit done by ford garage in Epsom. got a sapphire 2.0 ghia plus some cash for it . loved the the car do miss it was looking to buy a house at that time, needed a cheaper car.

 

DVLA say it's mot'd till June 2015 and taxed till Jan, so still on the road.

 

thanks rog glad its still on road

 

Its your lucky day! was searching ebay for cosworths. googled the reg and found this thread. Unfortunately its fucking 12 grand

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-Ford-...MAAOSw2gxY0912

 

Nice looking car. Like these models in the blue colour.

 

Glad its still on the road many fond memories still looks good wish i still had it now

 

1 was the 4th owner of this sapphire cossie .done a deal with a guy who worked in a tyre fitting garage in Sutton gave him some cash and a sapphire ghia owned it for about 2 years and sold it to Saxon garage Selhurst where I brought an RS Escort.the last time I see the cossie it smashed up at the back of their showroom one of their salesmen had taken it home and stuck it in someone's front garden wall.i was very upset to see that I loved that motor.

 

I was fella that brought it off you.you worked at a tyre fitting garage in Sutton.
Just seen it on eBay for 10 grand.

 

thanks paul I saw it on ebay it still looks good hope you were happy with the car im glad its still going would not have liked to see it smashed like you did at least its fixed up now

 

thanks paul glad its still on the road glad you were happy with it shame it got smashed when you sold it cheers from rich

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-Ford-...3D112356701256

 

Plus another 10k for a restoration it might be a better car thats been in an accident

 

Did an 8 hour round trip last night to go and buy this car, what a fucking lemon. It's been in at about 3 accidents in its life, both inner wings are mullered and it's had one up the back, boot corners are rotten, sills are rotten, arches are made of filler as is most of the rest of the car. We bid the fella what the thing brakes up for but he still seemed to think it was worth more than that. Wasn't impressed we had had our time wasted like that. The hunt continues for a good 2wd saph!

 

What a Shame Jim. To me in the eBay ad the car just doesn't look right to me.

 

If it looks rough in the pics then its a total dog.....

Sorry to hear your wasted about your wasted time Jim.

 

That would have been a massive money pit with no guarantee of it ever getting back to an immaculate car. Dont blame you for walking away from it, only fit for breaking IMO.

 

We bid him 6k on it, which is the easy cut up value, would have just used and abused it and then chopped it up when we've finished. It will never be a nice car

 

Shame that. Some poor sod will end up with it

 

Guys just remember no crystal blue or 2wd Cossie ever had a vented bonnet so if a crystal blue car has had a vented bonnet fitted it will have had to have had paint on the wings at some time or poor edge to edge paint matching.

My point in all this is if the cars had paint you be sure on it having plenty of other issues like why the fuck is the door trims off???? If they didn't mask them up they bent them taking them off and that tells you the type of job it had done.

 

Very rare to find a Cossie that hasn't had paint or a car of that age that hasn't and it's not too difficult to match colours if you've got a good paint supplier

 

True but if you look at the car properly the door bottoms look funny as does the rear arch, I've just found pics of this car on my old crystal blue collection post, bottom of page five if interested

 

Back up for sale on eBay. Same seller and it seems to have appreciated by +Ł1k

 

just looking at the pics it doesn't look like much lines up well.

 

Seen this car, the guy turned up to the garage in it, he turned up in 3 RS's in one day in fact, only had a quick look over it and yes it's lived a life but it's far from scrap, it's a 30 year old ford that hasn't been restored what do you expect, don't no the guy that well and no idea how it was described but unless it's been fully rebuilt never turn up expecting not to find rot, filler, bad paint etc