The weird and wonderfull interesting things and storys about fords
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COZFARTHER you know your stuff.
Virtually all of this thread can be found in two books by Jeremy Walton and Graham Robson
Reading can be good fun if you read interesting stuff
07-01-2009, 11:58 AM
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which books?
i think i've got both already
07-01-2009, 12:28 PM
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simon weston, ford saloon car championship in around 89 in a saph, the cars were pretty much group N spec..
You sure
07-01-2009, 07:46 PM
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and so did war veteran whats his name who was on the sir galerhad who got blown up
He also made a grill, he was that proud he put his face on it
07-01-2009, 07:59 PM
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i think the first mk1 fiestas had a little foot pump on the floor for the washer jets.
Yeh, give it a good stamp and you can fire 2 cars behind, or some cunt walking behind you at Asda
07-01-2009, 08:35 PM
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07-01-2009, 09:22 PM
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Now now thats a bit nasty.
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i think the first mk1 fiestas had a little foot pump on the floor for the washer jets.
i had one with that,, was a old R reg, one of the first mk1 fiestas.. in yellow..
07-01-2009, 10:00 PM
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Sweet mate.What a mad design.
07-01-2009, 10:42 PM
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Virtually all of this thread can be found in two books by Jeremy Walton and Graham Robson
Reading can be good fun if you read interesting stuff
Which books are these??
07-01-2009, 10:51 PM
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You sure
yup dan deffo sure!
also that car in the pic looks like dave pinkneys car..
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I got told that it was ghia that done the styling on the escort cosworth?
anyone else heard that?
08-01-2009, 12:29 PM
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Which books are these??
Anyone?
08-01-2009, 12:48 PM
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Anyone?
I think this is one of them I own
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Escort-Mk-I-...423773&sr=8-12
There are several Graham Robson ones, the one I have is i think just called "The RS Escorts"
08-01-2009, 02:08 PM
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The KA was supossed to be turbocharged, but that idea got dropped late into the dev which is why they still have thus cutout under the bonnet.
Cosworth had four KA T dev cars that just went missing one day.
Its great having Cosworth nextdoor.
Should of seen the Spyker dev car. It was nuts.
09-01-2009, 10:44 AM
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suppose the ka turbos got broken for parts!
09-01-2009, 12:46 PM
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why is there a mazda exact same as the mk4 fiesta,
09-01-2009, 01:56 PM
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IIRC can you buy Fords in Brazil, or somewhere similar with VW engines?
09-01-2009, 03:02 PM
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I got told that it was ghia that done the styling on the escort cosworth?
anyone else heard that?
I always thought it was karmann
09-01-2009, 03:58 PM
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aren't karmnann ghia the same compnay?
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that was a type of beetle
09-01-2009, 04:19 PM
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Hendy Ford was the first Uk Ford dealer
wrong call matey
henry ford opened up a factory producing model t's in old trafford manchester, the dealer that henry appointed was h+j quicks old trafford, sadly they have gone in the last few years cos of fookin ford motor company buying big ford main dealer distributers and they called it evans fookin halshaw
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why is there a mazda exact same as the mk4 fiesta,
Ford owns a share in Mazda, so shared a production line
09-01-2009, 07:38 PM
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heres another old chesnut about ford and gt40's, henry ford wanted to win le mans, so he offered to buy ferrari of enzo,anyway enzo did the dirty on henry so henry said fook him i'll build my own car and beat him at his own game which he did
Nearly. He didn't really build his own car - he modified an existing Lola GT car.
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Lola was one of the top chassis suppliers in
sports car racing in the 1960s. After his small front-engined sports cars and various single-seaters, Broadley designed a Lola coupe fitted with the Ford V8 engine. Ford took a keen interest in this and paid Broadley to put the company on hold for two years and merge his ideas with
Roy Lunn 's work, giving rise to the
Ford GT40 .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Cars
This is the model after the Lola GT, the T70
As driven by John Surtees on a Lola Anniversary drive on the streets of Huntingdon.
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Evans halshaw what coonts they are.
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is that it i was expecting untold pages
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10-01-2009, 09:39 AM
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The mk 1 lotus cortina has the car battery in the boot where as the normal mk 1 cortinas have it in the engine bay.
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In 1916, 55% of all cars were Ford Model T's.
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ford sold more aston martins than mondeo st220's in 2003
jeremy clarkson told us that on top gear
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thnk i read somewhere that the new x type jag's were more or a less a st220 having the same floor pan, engine, switches etc
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ford sold more aston martins than mondeo st220's in 2003
jeremy clarkson told us that on top gear
I remember that, more db9 astons sold that mondeo st220 making the mondeo a rarer car than the db9!
10-01-2009, 07:19 PM
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thnk i read somewhere that the new x type jag's were more or a less a st220 having the same floor pan, engine, switches etc
Yeh your right ther mate the suspesion is all the same.
10-01-2009, 08:13 PM
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sorry guys the yellow escort cossie was a evo model that ford and mountune built and not the v6 24v one.had a look through my old books and took a small pic of the page with it on it
the one with the v6 engine is that picture on the right with the 24v lump in it as thats a mk 5 escort slam panel
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A red mk2 escort RS1800.Im sure there was 2 made in red put 1 of them has been scrapped.
yep you are right,there was 2......now this is the only red RS1800 left,other one got written off really badly
I know the guy who owns this,really nice chap
13-01-2009, 07:41 PM
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You could tell if a mk 1 fiesta xr2 was original and not a fake cause the xr2 had a lump in the rear panel below the bumper for the spare wheel.
13-01-2009, 07:42 PM
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Im sure the first S2 escort turbos came with xr3i seats and the recaros were an optional extra.
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The first 3dr cosworth in norway got stolen a few hours after it was bought
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1 had a mk2 A reg fiesta pop that didnt have a brake servo.
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