dovboy

Folllowing the post "What got you into cossies" (which i cant find due to the shit search function).

Here are some pics of the (one time local legend!) Peugeot 309 4x4 Cosworth!

Took weeks to get hold of these 12 year old photos, enjoy!!

gurnE

For me it was a combination of my mate Alex having one and walking past a 3 door that was for sale for two weeks

Worst decision I ever made

NEIL A

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Holy shit Dov thats a blast from the past, i can JUST remember that from when i first started going down Kirkcaldy with my mates. Stunning car do you know where it is now? It even had quip before quip was cool

MAD EVO 4

Bullett

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what a cool car.we had a dimma 205 with a 4x4 cossie in round here dunno ewhere that went that was about the same time as the one in your area.

my mates series one got me interested in rs's when he brought it new.i was about 10.then i got my series 2 when i could insure one,had two of them but always wanted the big boys cossie. there now and no regrets.

GazzaG

i got intofords through my dad

and it went from there

AndyBrew

When I was doing me printing course in 1986 the print ink rep had a black 3 door which completely astonished me at the time and have always been a cossie fan since then.

Rod-Tarry

Was driving along in my TT Peugeot all 180bhp blazing & I turned to my son & said, I want to build something fast. His reply was, you need a Cossie dad. Id never considered a Ford. Those fatal words were uttered 11 years ago now.
Rod

Bullett

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ThePH
and you havent looked back since. glad you got into them mate or maybe we wouldnt have the types of cars breaking records and proving what can be done

good to see you back even if only every now and then fella.

carlo

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Watching andrew gallacher at knockhill ....in his first saph & then the black escort & wanted one

B16ROB

the first day i ever saw one i was around 11 years old and saw this moonstone saffy shooting up the road you could here the dump valve, external wastegate it was lush and and he had a really deep bass sound system in it everyone loved it on the estate they would always surround it

thats when i have always wanted one and it really got me into cars

still yet to own own one though lol but after project mondeo and project mk6 escy track car is finished

Rob M666SCC

A freind of mine owned that 309 for a while a few years back - quite a weapon

Jonzy

Old man had a few from new

AlexD

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lol..... Were you nto only saying the other day hmmm i really want another cossie

Its only a matter of time m8

xr2i-carl

just being young and seeing them hooon about pmsl

Daveysaff

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next door neighbour bought an RS1600i when I was 5, progressed from there really! And if my insurance pays out for the focus I crashed yesterday, I'm gonna buy my first cossie!

Rippers

Glad you said that I thought Stuart had one very simular didnt what to say incase I was wrong

There was a red dimma kitted 205 4x4 cossie with silver check stickers around my way for a while aswell I think it made cover on Max Flower years back




As for what got me in to Cossies was prob my Dad who had RS1600i/S2/2wdSaph from new as a kid.. then I guess hanging around people like Keith Brooks and his mate Richard when I had my Fiesta Turbo

Rhys

i like that....

Rocco

Driving your old Escos

gurnE

Go away devil man

R5FORD

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dad and both uncles had them...so obviously i was going to be into them... dad used 2 strip wrecked ones and rebuild them

AJC

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i bought the series 1 as i wanted something different,
it all went from there, now i have my 5th RS, only bought the series 1, 2 1/2 years ago

but.... all my mates drives RS'

actually counted what there is between us and here goes

4 saph cos,
2 3doors
4 es cos
1 series 1
3 series 2's
1 fez turbo

mental

RichardPON

Mike R took me for a spin in his saff.

Shocked the shit out of me how quick cars could be. I sold my Escort and bought one a couple of weeks later.

Ian M500COS

In 1993 I took my Renault GTA V6 Turbo to Turbosystems to have it chipped. After having numerous problems Tony Mannock said "this isnt a proper car", come with me and I'll show you a proper car and proceeded to take me out in a customers 3-Door cossie - running 330bhp .

Compared then to my plastic french frog, it was like a rocket ship. Felt so fast at the time!

I went and sold my GTA and bought a Moonstone 3-door the following week!

Smit

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Ask Pete (gooey)

One fateful Norfolk meet then 2 years later ŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁŁ down the drain apmsl

Fookin car is still cursed! Ask Busby....

dovboy

it was a guy called mike goff that built it,he then sold it to his younger brother who then sold it down south.

they do like to build things tho,they had an ex u.s flatbed pickup oval racer with a 4.0 lexus engine,a genuine 205 t16,ralle golf,dodge pickup with the viper engine.

anyone know how the car looks now? some pics to show him would be sweet!!

smitsturbo

i used to get given fast ford magazine since the age of 5 or so from a guy accros the road what had an xr3 then i used to go round to his for the magz until yesterday when he told me that i should start buying my own

half true

gwynny

That car is in south wales now, I think a chap on here has it.

dovboy

who??????????

charlie luciano

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Always influenced by the blue oval as a young kid, tv shows such as, the professionals, the sweeny, also all the boy racers on my estate had rs 2000's or mk 1 escort mexico's,

first cossie i laid eys on when i was 15 years old was in arglye road ealing west london, moonstone 3 door looked the bollox, thought to myself must own one of these one day

for me personally, first car that brought super car power to the massis

been hooked on them ever since


Luciano

3i_gaz

i always loved escort cossies, but being taken out in a very high power saph made me love them even more!!!

it sounds daft, but even down to just working on them gives me a buzz, a high power extremely quick car that you can do the vast majority of jobs on yourself. Helped a friend get his ready for the ring earlier this year and even though i wasn't going to see it, it was just good to know that the car you've just worked on for nights to get ready is going to be abused in germany, lol

Theres just a massive buzz around cossies that no other car has, not evo's or scooby's. its strange

Nash

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Watching touring cars in the late 80's got me hooked.

Didn't help going to Norfolk group RSOC meets with best mates for almost a year. The finishing touch came when i was doing a track day earlier this year in the itr, i moved over to let a white saph past came along side squatted spat a flame and fooked off. Came off and said fook this that looks loads more fun and bought one 2 months later.

col cos1

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watching spender as a kid got me after the cosworth....+ive got that 309 in a mag from about ten years ago,think it was cars and cars conversion

dovboy

watching the touring cars is a gimmi,,it has to be something else!!

i still watch my dvd's with the british,euro and bathurst of the 500's,,i dont think there is any better racing now or since imo.

rapidcossie

i have never seen that 309 until now, but heard all about it....


about 10 years ago when the rover 220 tomcats came out my mate got one..

used to waste all the cossies at strathy etc etc..

only thing that ever bet him was a 309

dovboy

i know it was in fast car,,can you scan the pages?

rapidcossie

what got me into cossies...

One of my mates(Escorton8@s) got an escort and i loved it....then his wee bro a stage one 3 door...we all though it was rapid...

i got my stage one saf not long after...

can remember wneh i got it htinking a stage 3 one would be mental...

Paulo P

Touring cars, I used to love watching the cossies in the british touring cars when I was a kid It's taken me nearly 20 years to buy one though I was always worried about it getting stolen if I bought one but I bit the bullet a couple of months ago and bought one.

dovboy

even back then it had 300-350bhp,quite enough power to see off most cars back then,,as i said in the other thread "18 years old in my mk1 astra gte 3 of my mates in the car we spotted mike a bit ahead so as every 18 yo punk worth his salt would do i tried to race him(not to beat him mind but to see how fast it would leave me)came of a roundabout at speed ,got along side him and at that he promptly floored it ,spun all four wheels in second i think and fucked off into the distance spitting flames as he went
thats when i said"thats the kinda power i want"

rapidcossie

who built it?