dad had a landrover which got me into the wanting to fix and drive a car i surpose, (like the motorbike he has too)

but going out in a mans mk4 golf gti and how he drove it got me into the speed

he learnt to drive in a audi quattro, the short wheel base rally car things
so he can pedal pretty well

but i guess the stories he had about cars realy got me into it them.

 

i sat in the back of a minty mint s1 when i was 12 and decided there and then i will have one for myself

brought one 6 years later

 

the BTCC was a big part in getting me intrested..
insted of watching kids telly i was watching round 1 of the BTCC, found it a lot more intresting lol
also don't no if this is the same for any one else but going on the playstation also played a big part to be honest.. going on racing games

 

mine was a ford capri. wen i was younger my grandad had a 2.8 injection in black A666 HNE since that day i had to own one but not got one yet. the prices are to expensive

 

thanks for the big blue text.

 

i think its good,we can all see it easy now

joke

 

MK2 RS2000, 1978 it was, (15yrs old) been hooked on the blue oval ever since, I honestly can't remember all the fords I have had in the 30+ years since then but it is a lot and I mean a lot..

 

all my cousins fault, never had any money and all that, but what he had he poured it into an escort ghia, put an orion kit on ot and looked the tits.
he could never afford an rs turbo, but i loved it as a kid.
then my first car was a mk2 fiesta cause it was cheap, etc. etc. now back in a mk2 fiesta, only getting rid of that to move onto a cossie

 

my dad had a cortina estate when i was five or six, then 1 day he came home in a black xr3 and i loved that car, he then brought and rs1600i which i loved to, but i was hooked when his mate brought a brand new grey s2 and used to take me to football in it, i told my self that i would own 1 one day, ive had five now!!!

 

More than likely i would say "Matchbox" or similar from the age of being able to push them around my road in my bedroom when i was a sprog

 

the car i have now (escort cossie) use to c one every day on the way to school.
first time i sore it i wanted 1.

f your ferrari's lambo's etc dont do nothinkg for me.

 

My first car MK1 Golf gti, loved it.

My aunts 2WD Saph cossie got me into the ford RS range.

 

Northumbria Police`s Sapphire Cossie, was just gobsmacked at how mint they looked, when i was little I couldnt quite work out why they were better than normal sierras i just knew they were, then they got an Escort one which was even better, I just couldnt get my head round how awesome they looked, still love them to this day, funny thing though I loved the Escort more than the Sierra when I was little but now Ive had both i prefer the Sierra more, which is weird cause looks normally mean everything to me and the Escos is the better looking car.

 

granturismo 3 FTW

 

haha init, i was a pro at that game

 

For as long as I can remember i've been right into cars, as said previously it was football or cars and I chose cars as cant really stand football! Cant remember any perticular reason or car that got me hooked but one day when I was around 7 my pals dad came to our school in his brand new sapph cossie, I think that was when I realised what an RS ford was all about! Sadly that car got stolen about a week after he took us out in it never to be seen or heard of again!

My big cousin was probably partly to blame as he loved cars just as much as me, he had XR2s, xr3i's, rs turbos, GTE's, R5 turbos and a cossie, used to go down to his garage and 'help' lol

Another one of my mates years later had a series one, first time I went out in it EVERYBODY turned round to see this car, I knew then I wanted one, So I got one and still have it

 

i was 8 and 2 brothers up the road used to pinch the ol mans brand new 2.8 inj capri . ralph was 13 the other was about 16 i think. i never went out in it on the road but up n down their alleyway. Nutters . They never got caught as far as i know. I just recall the lovely note it had, my dad had a 1300 chevette lol.
When i moved nearer town in southend i fell in love with a certain couple of xr2 turbo,s and i was 11 when i recall seeing a saph for the 1st time. Went out in one at 16 and fell in love with the design and power delivery which is no different to today. The BLUE OVAL got me hooked end of!!!

 

Good to know I'm not the old 'wierdo' that doesn't care for 'supercars'
I'd have a mint RS500 or a saph over a ferarri anyday! Shame some people don't seem to understand me

 

ello Mr R have you seen the video of the 83 i think british grand prix on motorsport mad its the one where the other Mr R debuts the Xtrac escort and you see a mad Norwegian all over the place lol


the car that did it for me was a mk2 rs2000 when i was a proper little nipper,my dad had a mate with first a venitian red one then a signal yellow one and he parked it outside our house and i would touch it and look inside.
that was for about 5-6 years and i fookin knew i was hooked on Escort Rs's,i made me mum and dad get a black rs2000 custom and then i learnt to drive and i got one to so we both had a mk2 escort rs2000's.

so yeah i do like escorts

 

suzuki escudo with the stage 4 turbo, would beat anything...in a straight line lmao

 

I dont really know bout cars in general, as for the first 13years of my life I was a farm boy and anything with an engine i loved it and wanted something to do with it, Lorrys, Tractors and Cars.
As said Matchbox car proberly paid a huge part for me.
I loved fords for a very very long time, I can just remember my much older cuz who was in the army, and i can remeber going round his family home and him not long buy a Escort Rs Cosworth after they came out, and it sitting there on their drive but him not there so was all locked up, but it was just amazing, also so Mr Clarkson on old old TopGear.
Lil bit later in life a friends dad owning a S2 Rst, in bright red and it was just the best car ever to me, prob more to do with him as he was a fighter jet pilot which gave it even more wow factor.
Car modding when I bout 10 buying a copy of max power, back in the day and it being filled with Rsturbos, R5 turbos, Nova's, before for it became shit, also buying copys of FastFord bout the same age.
From a young age I would up set just bout anyone on a car journey I was on by naming just bout every I could see, I still have this geart talent, even when so drunk, Im being sick, as my ex told me after a heavy night out, staggering up the street and stopping to lean on just bout evry car on the street to staedy myslef while being sick but naming the car,model, enigne and anyother useless info in badly drunk my could remember. I'd problerly make a very good traffic copper, if i didn't much prefer to brake the speed limit and like certain herbs to much.

 

computers

 

Watching the General Lee evading the cops every week did it for me.

 

I was born in 1971, in that year (I think it was "L" reg) my dad bought a Mercedes Benz 280SEL with the 3.5 V8 engine upgrade, so my earliest of childhood memories include the electric windows, the fat tyres (for the time!) the shiny hubcaps, the 3 star "gun sight" motif on the front of the bonnet, and the speed (140 on the motorway) of these lovely cars.

 

Can't really say that there was one particular car from a young age, do have fond memories of a 1300E mk1 Escort my dad used to own, that was the first car i got to "drive" by sitting on his knee and steering it. Can't of been much more than 5 at the time. The next 9 years were consumed by the passion for anything that had 4 wheels, didn't matter too much what it was so long as it made the right noises. Then one day leafing through a car mag, i spotted it, it was the car that got the juices flowing (didn't take much for a 14yr old for the testosterone to flow) and i knew it would be the car i always promised myself. It was the 15" RS 7 spokes, the raven leather Recaro interior, the dark green exterior and those 2 sexy tail pipes sticking out of the back.......................... The Ford Capri 280!! Now that was one car that really set my pulse racing, the long sleek looks, the smooth lines subtley broken by the small boot spoiler, it was just automotive excellence to me! Probably explains why i have build number 251 out of 1038 sat in my garage undergoing a full restoration. Other than that, if it wears a Blue Oval, then i'm a fan of it, oh, but it has to be "Retro" to count, you can keep all your modern tat! lol

Just an observation, is it just me that finds it funny to read all the stories on this thread of guys being 7 or 8 and seeing a Cossie for the first time? Makes me feel really old.

Off topic: Reminds me of when i was at a car show recently, a line of Fords and 2 young lads walking along them admiring them when one turns to the other and says to his mate pointing at one of the cars "Now thats proper old skool!" What was he pointing at? A saph Cossie! What had they just walked past? A mk2 RS2000, a mk1 Mexico and a mk1 XR2! These lads didn't know what they were to appreciate them!

 

i got into cars thru my older mate getting a s2 rst then i got 1 at 17 and never looked bk.

 

Since the day I was born until now my dads always had ford RS's and he always took me to the rsoc shows. A lot of my pictures from growing up have me at shows standing next to cars or standing next to my dads old RS's, so it was only natural I'd get into RS's too. It's a thing that brings me and my dad really close. I think he was happier than I was when I got my first RS at 18

 

ac/dc and my dads rs1800 escort, rember driving to nans every sunday down country roads wiv ac/dc blastin out and the old escort screamin. lol

reason im hooked on rock/metal music and fords.

 

The Sunbeam Talbot was the car that sparked a lifetime interest in fast cars, it won the Alpine rally in 1954. I was 9 & was going to buy one when i was able to drive. Still love the picture below.
Interest in Modified cars started with a ride in a modified Mini Cooper in 1964, it felt so fast i was gob-smacked & had to have one, i bought one & the interest never died.

 

racing e type jag or any e type jag but really got hooked when i started driving lessons in my missus's 1.8 focus.. not the quickest by a long stretch of the imagination but just a good feelin

 

Uncle had a 400 kitted manta infact he's still got it in a barn somewhere ive got pics it's got a birds nest in the inner wing :-( - took me out in it when i was about 9 and that was me hooked on cars

 

The Mk3 Escort XR3 got me hooked.

 

Desert storm

 

mines has to be the first time i put my granada upside down with meand the wife in it i loved every second of it but she has never forgave me for it lol

 

Mine has to be the very first edition of max power? two mk2 escorts in the middle, think one was yellow and blue, with i think forrest arches, and the other white with the same kit, fell in love there and then.

 

Not fords to start with, when I was 4 or 5 we had a string of V8 MGB's and rover P6's. Something about the uneven sound of that rover V8. Got hooked on Ford's when a mates mum got a MK3 escort XR3i in white. Used to get taken to school in it and it all kicked off from there.

 

I loved cars from the age of 4.... my older cousin was gobsmacked by the amount of cars I could name at that age.... I always wanted an XR2 when I passed my test but somehow ended up with a 2.0S Capri.... I joined the Capri Club with it and did Capri Club Camp that year..... 1990 I think.

Had a bit of a breakdown at the end of 1990 and I couldn't bring myself to drive the Capri again, so opted for something at the opposite end of the scale and bought a 1976 850 Mini..... after joining the local mini clan and eventually breaking off with a couple of mates and forming our own less clicky group I spent a good few years thereafter trawling Britain with Hull MOC and Doncaster MOC. Will never forget those years they were the best.

 

Its hard for me to say cause ive always loved cars.I used to love the hot rods and custom cars more than the likes of cossies and RS turbos.I always said that i would have a hot rod one day.When i passed my test my very first car was a MK2 escort 3 dr which i bought for 50 quid but it was really rotton.Ive had fords evere since and its only been the past 6 years that ive really got into fords and the shows.

 

It was a mint white 3dr cossie that my dad owned back in 91/92- It was a great car that was used everyday and we went on holiday in it many times, great memorys
My dad had to sell up at at one point and bought a cheap german barge and a mk4 xr3i for me mum as she really wanted one- i have fond memorys of that car aswell as i was a bit older and remember sitting in the drivers seat thinking this is ace

 

i dont think there is one particular car that got me interested, but as long as I can remember I have been into cars, when I was about 4 years old, we drove to spain in my dads Granada 2.8 Ghia X, with me naming all the cars on the way, lol