Escort Mk3 X reg', about £1800 many, many years ago

Second car was a G reg' S2

 

my first car was a Sierra 1.8LX Hatch.. cost me nothing coz my grandpa wanted to get me off motorbikes

had a few other cars, bikes etc and now....

Well i'm back to a Sierra 1.8LX Hatch (well was, )

 

was 1994 and i had a xr3 (non inj) s1 alloys 3i interior, elec windows etc cost me 800 quid tpft and only paid 500 quid for it

 

My mum gave me and my sister a 1.0 N reg Citroen AX which I used for about 6 months, but then I bought my own car:



Cost me £5k at the time

 

1991 Sapphire 2.0 GLSi - bought this for £800 and insured for £1200 back in 1999.

one of the 2 cars i should NEVER of sold..

 

I did this to mine, only car you can lowered in 30seconds

 

I had a 1.6 Fiesta Diesel, from my dad's company. Only did 98 mph but did 400 miles to £20 quid , and i never paid had to pay for fuel ..

Al.....

 

ESCORT MK 1 MEXICO In le-mans green with black stripes...best £75.00 I ever spent....Wish I still Had it!!

 

mine was a c reg xr2 and i paid £500 for it in 1997 it was mint too

 

completely restored morris minor woody traveller with a 1340 a series running on twin 1 1/34" su's, driftking

 

1957 Ford E93A COST £65 sold for £60 then bought a 1958 Ford 100E FOR £195 it was 5 years old.
Rod

 

fook me, a puddle jumper

mine was a mk1 cortina 4door in metalflake blue, had a gt dash, 3.0 v6, mk1 capri 3.0 box,lowered, sport rims(if you remember mk2 escorts when they were new, you'll know what rims i am talking about), reg FYM ***C, i bought it with a slaughtered clutch for £100, remember my dad going booloo when i brought it home, he said i would kill myself and how was i going to get insured on it, paid £300 insurance (which was almost a months wages) and proceeded to terrify everyone that got in it(including myself)
I even remember the blokes name who did the conversion ' Guy Imray'

It handled like a bar of soap, but, the birds loved it
It even made the cossie look economical


Pugo

 

A 1982 X reg fiesta 1.3 ghia in metalic blue, kept snapping valve springs when trying to do the magic ton!!
steve

 

See sig! 1.1 MK3.5 DAMM 5 Dr tho! got it for free Insurance £1600

Now got the 2i £600 and £1K to insure

 

H reg Nova GTE which cost £3000

 

Mk1 Escort 1300GT. had bubble arches, bucket seats and minilites. cost me £1265.

spent a few quid on it, but sold it a year later for £2650. this was 1 year back

 

A rather fetching Champagne Gold, 5 door, Mk3 Escort Ghia.

I added big Ring spot lamps and changed the Ford badges for those horrid green things from Halfords. Couldn't afford alloys so spray painted the hub caps black

 

F221 ACW a rosso red MK4 XR3i cabriolet that i bought for £1400 when i was 18 cost me 2k to insure the fucker as well!

 

First car was a mk2 escort, navy, oay 489w. But never drove it
So i guess my proper first car was a mk3 escort, light blue, 1.6 xr lookalike aut 685y. Cost £600 in '94 and insurance was £740 (i was 17).

 

gold 4 door mk2 escort GL... buckets, lowered, cherry bomb, cibies... 1.3 crossflow brown vinyl roof!!

cost me £560 to buy and 332 to insure in 1991

 

I had a Brown mk1 as well... Brown and Gold Sandpiper II special Edition.... 1.1 POWER

 

The first car I ever bought was a mk2 XR2 in 1993, a rosso red 1988 E plater! Paid £3000 and rememeber it cost me £530 to insure which was a lot of coin 11 years ago!!! Prior to this I used to use my folks cars as was too poor as a student to afford my own car! lol (Pikey student days were the best though for being care free and drunken )

 

my first car was a 1.6 vaxhall cav it lasted only 1 week a blew up cost me 200 quid 9 years ago first and last vaxhall i will ever have
then a good old 1.1 festa mk 1

 

i had a 1.0 metro on a D-plate... paid fook all for it - thanks mum.... soon left the tyre tread behind in empty car parks

 

mine was a pug 205 diesel with 1.9 alloys,full 1.9 gti interior,white extreior.was mint cost me 1700 quid and never let me down for 2 and a half years,unlike my
frst which i have now which likes to play up every now and then

 

Mine was a B-reg Escort 1300L back in '96 and I remember feeling like a hero sliding it around in the wet at 10 mph on 155 tyres that were basically slicks !

 

erst and it was £3400.
got it when i was nnnnnnineteen!

 

First car was a H plate Black 5 GT Turbo , stupidly I bought it because I thought even though it was Turbod it only had a 1400cc engine and therefore would be too bad on the insurance as a first car .................................... Oh how WRONG I was

Sold it 2 weeks later and bought a Nova GSI

 

Mk1 fiesta 1.1l FLN 756T in red paint that had all crazed , went to look at the car in the dark , it wouldnt start and i still ended up buying it , cost me £900 back in 87, that was my first fiesta of about 10 or so that i have owned

 

my first car was a ford escort mk4 1.3 bonus
it was only a 4speed but i put a 5 speed box in it,
god i loved that car
had so many good times in that car.
now ive got my frst and a corsa

 

mine was a vreg sand piper fiesta mk1 in brown over beige paid £60 for it

 

Mk II Feista 1.4 Sport for £500.00 in 1994 - was full of rot and i wrote it off two weeks later by reversing it into a mondeo.

I reshelled it into a mint 'sleeper' 950 bonus shell which i bought for £200 - sold that a few years later for £600 and after 40k miles

 

Mine was a 1990 Red Reno5 Turbo slammed on 15inch Borbets, standard engine wise barring the badboy 4" zorst.

Paid 3200quid for it in 1998, before id even passed ma test

 

mark one golfgti, 7 years old 28000 miles paid £2750 for it...still got it 15 years later

 

Vauxhall nova sri , was 17 and paid £1450 for it loved it though then i saw my senses a year and a half later and bought FRST

 

In 1996

X reg VW Polo, in a lovely shade of faded red with luxurious brown/tan chessboard interior

Got given it by a grandparent when they gave up driving.


Lasted 8 months before i drove it into the ground

 

Red Escort XR3i at 18. Paid 1100pounds for the car and 1500pounds for the insurance! Fun Days!

 

D reg Fiat Uno (5dr) 1100 in white - cost me £500

Cracking lil car tho

 

Me and my brother both went for vw beetles ,got them for about £1500 each in standard form and done this to them back in 1988.
This is my one,sold it in 96 and got the turbo.It was a 1966 model.



This was my brothers,he sold it in 95 and bought a cossie.His was a 1969 model.