Came across this picture of my street 'workshop'. This was 1979 so I was 20 and all three cars are mine. The blue MkII 1600 was sold but kept the wheels for the one under the plastic sheet which had a 3.0 V6. I went on to complete it in diamond white with Capri 3.0 rear axle and 4-speed box. I remember how please I was when I found that a Granada rad fitted as most V6 Cortina's relied on the original rad and electric fans.

The Rover 12 was purchased as an investment. It turned around quicker than expected; paid £400 and sold it two months later for £600.

Later that year I bought my Pop. It was an unfinished project so the hard work was done but, as it often the case, you end up re-doing much of it. I also got access to a lock-up so I could work in the dry...at the end of a 100yd extension lead. My mum would switch the electric off and on to signal my supper was ready.

Oh the joys of youth.......post your pics from way-back-when.....

 

I was 1 then


What a change though , you couldn't leave that there like that now !!

 

I was 5 then, I don't remember seeing ford pops. Cool pic, where in the country is it?

 

But hey look how tidy it was no litter,cut grass.

Nice.

 

Stoke Newington, North London. I lived the from 64 to 84. It looks much the same now apart from parking restrictions everywhere. I got away with murder when I think back. Angle-grinder going full-pelt for hours, arc welding, numerous paint jobs. And then the wheel-spins to check the engine's running ok.

Once I bought a scrap Cortina 1600E, took off all the bits I needed and cut up the shell into chunks small enough to chuck into any skip I happened to be passing. Couldn't see I was doing anything wrong at the time, neighbours must have loved me.

 

For what it's worth, here's my Pop...plus the '69 351 Mustang I bought as a daily driver. But at 8 mpg I didn't want to go too far.

 

Being ancient I was 34 at that time & had owned a Pop in 1962 it was a 57 model in green replaced it with a then modern 100E in 1963. Then the Mini Cooper arrived & my world changed forever starting me off on the Petrolhead road. Love that Rover the guy next door had one it was a posh car in the 50's. Did it have freewheel.

 

> Did it have freewheel.?

Yes it did. But I had no idea what that meant.

It was very much of the time (48 I think) with musty leather, solid wood and the like. But mechanically it was very primitive (compared to a Cortina) and I wasn't brave enough to gut it and fit a Rover V8 and suitable suspension and brakes.

Here's another of my collection from those days...an A70 Hereford. I bought it as you see it and my brother towed it home with his 2 litre Mk1 Escort. I came with a shed full of original NOS Austin parts, chrome trim etc. It was a runner and we would drive it up and down the little road with it's 3-speed column change. But it wasn't a car for a 20yr old so, as with the Rover, sold it on.



You can see the rear of the Hereford behind my finished V6 MkII.

To this day I don't know where I found the time, money and energy to be juggling so many cars at once (plus full-time job in London with BT - still with them after 38 years) and tolerant girl friends.

 

Them pics are quality.

I love the ford pop. I was born in march 1979.

 

One day Glenn, twenty years from now, you will be posting pics of the Sapphie you used to have..................

 

reminds me very much of my youth these pics Stan, good on you for putting them up , the mk2 cortina was the only car I had back in the 80s to this day I still regret selling , one day I will get another

 

Used to have? Na he aint getting rid of that ever.

 

He will still be wearing the same boxer shorts aswell as owning the saph lol

 

Hopefully my saff isnt going anywhere.

 

Pmsl at you two.

 

14 me in 1979 lo