After decieding to buy a cossie how long did it take you to find the ONE??

 

knew the owner of my car for over two years before i bought it.
it took a week of disscussion b4 he agreed to sell it too me then another week on price....
buying a cossie is pot luck, if i was going to but another i would find one with good body but fcuked engine, buy it for buttons and spend the rest on a pukka rebuild. thats the only way to get some piece of mind.....

 

I wasnt even lloking for mine but it was at such a good price I couldnt say no

and as per Rapidcossie, the only reason I bought it was that the body is great and the bottom end is fucked so plenty of scope for improving, even if it is stage 3 already

 

It took me about a year & half to find the right imperial blue esc cos then i kept her for 5 years

 

well i looked for a few weeks, gave uo and was gonna buy a escort gti as a runabout and see about saving for another car

thast weekend a post on here was about a guy with his cossie hes been trying to sell ect and then rs nuts said he was gonna sell his but he cant post it as a sale item and so i pmed him, he ahd the rl7's i like, t34 greens ect and so a deal was done

 

i only bought both of mine as i saw em and knew i had to have em

 

Looked at 6 or 7 before i bought the one i have now. Travelled miles looking then i found one on me door step,


Dave

 

Finding an imperial blue escos is not easy!!

 

still looking for mine - got 3 in mind at the moment - 2 localish, one is overseas (well, the IOW does need a ferry )

 

Mate, back then it wasnt & in the end i had to go all the way up London for it

 

Just be patient and you will find the right one mate

 

oh and when i was looking for a cossie i was looking for a flint grey/black cossie and MUST!!! have a leather trim, not worried about power but can not be white might take a moonstone if mint but deffo not white


i got a 350+bhp white cossie with no leather


i know what i want and theres no changing my mind

 

I see a car for sale and just have to buy it

I'm a sucker for that!

 

Phil, pop round to mine tomorrow & i'll show you my evo & rst

 

spent 5 months and went 5 shows looking at 3drs, finally found one
in back of rallye news

travelled from cardiff to essex twice to look at it before i got it.

glad i didnt rush in though cos i found a minter

 

did a lot of looking through top marques Rallye news etc,rang up about one 3 1/2 hours away,drove up there and saw it was so original with only 21,000 miles that I knew it was the one,the guy had a hydraulic lift in his massive garage and let me look all over and under it before I decided
never looked back-its a corker!
Mat

 

what about the yellow mondeo , not selling that then

 

I got someelse to do the searching (a mate!) then bought it off him about a year later!

 

Ginge you cooont dont encourage Tiffany

Oh & it was citrine

 

chill aint ya ever heard of mellow yellow

 

PMSL @ mellow yellow

 

When i bought my first escort it was around the 14th one i looked at so i was being pretty fussy, travelled a fair distance to see them all aswell

Second escort came up local when i didnt expect it, went to look at it on the off chance as didnt really like malard at the time, when i got there he had just killed the turbo and some of it ended up in the engine.
alot of hagueling later and i got myself a car that was pretty straight andi didnt care what colour it was at that price.... even if i did have to change engines etc

 

1st cossie i bought was off a mate off here, & this one i bought straight away

 

i wanted an imperial blue standard 1 so i could do all the mods myself cos i had no idea how these things were put together being a vw nut.looked at so many .had a day off work to look at 1 5hrs away .standard 12k miles as new top top money .wasnt totally convinced and went for a think found a ford garage and asked the mechanics if their was any for sale.one said there is a 12k imperial blue one for sale but 2yrs ago it was in here after an arguement with the armco on the motorway it was touch and go if it was gonna be written off.they replaced the full side and some.obviously the car i was looking at.told the guy but he refused to admit it.rang a week later it had sold.anyway bad mistake shouldve gone for 1 already modded

 

3 days after deciding to buy one ...i got mine thanks to help form artie and contacts..

 

Mine came and found me!!
I knew the car but never thought it was up for sale.
I had been to look at a cossie a couple of days before with a mechanic mate - but it was a piece of shit
My mate was talking to the postman (who owned a mint black saph) about the car we'd looked at, how it was crap compared to his and it turned out the posite's car was for sale so he brought it round to show me!
Mechanics verdict "If you dont fookin buy it - I WILL!!!"

 

ive seen a few i want already! typical!

i bet there is nothing out there for me when ive actually got the cash waiting!!

 

I want even looking for a Cossie when i found mine!

I was out looking at and test driving RX7s when i accidently came across it at a performance garage "somewhere" (honest to god i cant remember where, somewhere in west mids, i was driving all over the shop all day on test drives etc), took it out, seemed quite cheap, loved it, bought it

 

A good 6 weeks or so. Looked at 3 was supposed to be 4. For some reason its normally the buyer who pisses sellers off but in my case it was the other way round.

1st one - wrong age car, guy advertised it as an 89 but was a 90
2nd one - knackered and hadnt been started for 3 months which I wasnt told until I had spent 180quid on a return ticket to Newcastle and half the day travelling up there!
3rd one - didnt show up at the meet up and didnt call either until I rang him
4th one - spot on and is the one in my siggy

Not all buyers mess people around and not all sellers are inncent. Exceptions to every rule

 

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3 days Spen! Took me around a month to find that sapphy, must of looked at around 10 of them before buying. My escort took around 2 weeks to find, though i was originally looking for a standard imperial / auralis blue small turbo.
Ended up with an imperial blue small turbo converted to large turbo spec with 18's/ low comp and antilag. Steve

 

i know where there is one coming up for sale in about 6 weeks in the swindon area
imperial blue, rondells,leather,twin lights,electric s/roof,konis, new ford gearbox,new clutch,all new tyres,1994 on an L big turbo stage 3 greens 61,000 miles all mot's.
can i charge a finders fee if i tell you who is selling it

 

my mate is looking for one just like that. pm me if things dont work out!

 

would it come with one night's free B&B and evening meal??

 

Best advice is look at loads, even if not for sale, so you get a good gauge of what u can expect.. I spent the first part of the show season looking at what was about, they will generally be the better examples too, so gives you a good idea of what to realistically expect to find. Mine wasn't exactly for sale, but I put the idea in the guy's head, so he wasn't desperate to sell, got a nice one as a result with no hidden skeletons

 

Charge away, i want to go see it!!

 

doh call in and see us some time and we might stretch to a bacon butty

 

ring paul on 07970208912

 

this ones forsale over here isle of wight i've never looked round the car so know nothing about it
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1994 FORD ESCORT 2.0 Standard 3dr Hatchback
VEHICLE IN VGC,RECENTLY SERVICED.HAS 5 MONTHS TAX & 7 MONTHS MOT.ITS IMPERIAL BLUE. CD PLAYER,TRACKER AND ALARM (CLIFFORD CAT 1),PS,EW,SR. 86000 miles. £13995.
Tel: 07811 511279
Distance: 3 miles

mark

 

Yea i saw that yesterday, high mileage tho.

NIL7090 have you told him you have given me his number??

 

I spent about 4 months looking around the net in mags etc

But bought the 1st cossy i went to look at