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Which cosworth was it?...
Was it a test drive, a ride in a mates, a childhood memory?

What got you hooked?...

rickyg226

When i was 13 as soon as i got in it i new i wanted one have had 5 since and now looking for my next one :-D

orionmojo

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My dad had a saff in 1992. You couldn't insure them so they were in a grey area in the market. Not cheap but not as expensive as they should've been. I was 6 and it used to make my stomach turn when he booted it and I couldn't lift my head forward from the seat. I loved that feeling of being pinned back in the seat. Can't beat that memory

matthewpickup

7 years ogo in my brothers sapphire cosworth 2wd going side ways round roundabouts and spining the wheels in 4th lol beast and my other brothers 3dr cosworth he had

studabear

Have to say mine was pushing a 2wd saph up a dual carriageway with my s1 back in the day

Ellie

12years ago, my fella (use that term loosely) at the time bought a moonstone saph, I think it was a 2wd and i drove it.
Cant remember much, except coming out of Chester one night and he told me to drop it to 3rd and boot it!! I did, but backed off rather quickly as it was a 30mph road!
Im not sure if I'd even passed my test yet, think I probably had, but only just if I had. I know I fell in love with mr2s before I'd passed, and I learnt to drive in a mk 3 xr3i cabby that had the mk4 front end. Also practiced my driving in another xr3i cabby, mk 4 xr3i, mk5 xr3i, a s2 RS turbo, xr2i, a probe and a few other standard fords.
(I was insured to drive them under the fellas traders policy, apparently. I believed that at the time)

DANNY - PH400

Never been in any kind of cosworth, I love them but

botters

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1986 at the tender age of 3 being picked up by my 17 year old cousin in the brand new 3 door that his dad bought him for passing his test!!!! i knew right there and then that one day i would own one lol

car.crash

I remember my dad pointing out a sierra cosy on the Isle of Wight around 15 year ago and it always stuck as a badass car watching it burst off down the back roads.
I've sat in a escort once and that's as close as I've come.
Proper cossie virgin.

P_is_for_Paul

My dad bought an escos when I was about 14. We went down to Preston to see it and we met the guy at a petrol station before following him to his house, but he asked me if I wanted to sit in the passenger seat on the road back. Massive grin. Could seriously not wait till the week after when we went back to collect it. Brilliant trip home.

First time driving one was my dads second escos, imperial blue small turbo. He gave me a cheeky wee shot the day he got it, then I waited till he was drunk one night and jokingly asked him if I could take it a spin. To my surprise he said "aye but don't tell your mum" Think I raced everything that was going that night! Even a Suzuki swift looking over at the lights Oh to be young and stupid!!!!!

He bought a Mk1 FRS after that, he bought it with 2000 miles on it, sold it with 5000, I did 2000 of them

Been quite lucky my dads into his RS's! I've been watching him and he's been keeping his eye on Mk2 FRS's, so fingers crossed!!

Cossie Sean

and the local gangster had a noveau K plate saff she ended up dying right next to after he was shot

earlyest memory being taken to his boxing club in that a few years before he was shot.


i owned one at 18...........!
worked on a few of my bosses mates when i was 17, drove one, bought his flint grey 2wd saff G278 YOO a few weeks after my 18th birthday

XRT_si

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Got taken out in a Stage 3 Escos when I was 17 or so. Remember being fascinated by the standard boost gauge going off the scale.

Then my mate bought a Stage 3 RWD Saff and I had one a few years later.

Glenn_

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My first ever experiance was when i was 16 i worked for rapid fit for a few months and the owner of the ford dealership had an escort cossie. Then i can always remember seeing a smart woman putting petrol on a magenta saff at a fuel station and thought it was cool that a woman was driving the saff.

cossie4i+

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When my Dad got his 3dr new in 1986 or 87, i can still remember the reg D212KKR

Steve

YOREVOL

i remember reading a road test of the 3door when it came out. the pics were so captivating.
then i bought a sapph 2wd in '98. fast but fragile. had it for 2 years, 1year of that it was parked up broken.

sidewaysdave

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A good friend of mines dad bought him a flint grey 2wd saf when he was 23 (about 12 years ago) to stop him riding motor bikes we went every where in it and raced everything from evos to m3s! It was the first cossie I had driven and done my first dough nut! I've had 2 since them and will be looking for another this summer

Fil

My dad working at Fords, tho he never had one, several of his work friends, had various saffs and ecorts as company cars!

Tho what got me hooked...

was chatting to some random bloke ( a mates, mate ) early hours of the morning after walking past him whilst parked up in a car park, after a night out, left, went on our way, then he pulled up, offering a lift home,


The random bloke was smit


knew I'd get a saff one day, but needed a place with a garage 1st, 10 and abit years later, i now have a moonstone 4x4 too

bigdel

1990. Test driving what was to become my 3dr.
Came off a roundabout and gave it some beans, only to have to stand on the anchors the next second as we'd caught up with a little Fiat 126 so quickly I almost rear-ended it!
the deal was done shortly after, £15k was exchanged and it's still with me now.
Remember picking it up from the dealer a few days later and driving through town feeling on top of the world

Gazzonator

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I've always wanted a Cossie ever since the touring car days! Loved watching them!

My first taste of driving a Cossie was when I worked at a Ford dealer. We had a ST Escort come in for some work. The workshop controller knew I loved RS's and Cossies so he let me work on it!

I had to road test it after so got it out on the road and it was so fucking slow, I couldn't believe it! I was so unimpressed with it! It did look the part though!

Cossiemainful

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It was a test drive. I had no clue it was tuned The seller told me this later. He said only drive it, it is all standard. After the test drive he told me grinning that's tuned to around 350 HP. I was hooked there and then.

STeve

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ever since my very first fair fair I attended in the early 90s, drove up in my capri thinking whats all the fuss about so parks up in this field with all the others from john hills CCI as it used to be back then, then in rolls the cossie boys in their couple of year old saphs then I was on a mission to get one, until that point I was into V8s as my 2nd home was santa pod, had a 2wd & 4wd in my time and simply moved on after that

B16 Will

I'd never been in a cossie, but fancied one. It was the ultimate car after all !!
In 2004 I px'd my golf vr6 againsed my 2wd, I remember only doing 1500 miles or so in 6 months, but I had 2 pairs of rear tyres in that time !! Was an 89' stage 3 2wd in white. Bet it's rotted away by now, as it wasn't the tidiest.

cossiestu

Back in the early 90's, when the insurance was mega bucks, my dad had a 2wd saff, think he only paid 5grand for it, not bad for a 2 year old car! He then got his Escos, was going to buy his saff, but ended up going for a 4x4 saff.

timotei1980

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Mine was in an RS500.
I remember going on the motorway, he put his foot down and i through this is pretty quick but not super quick. Then the turbo kicked in.

mk22door

That's it for me too!

Always loved watching them with my Grandad, they just looked so awesome to a 9 year old!

My old man had lots of Sierra's - no Cosworths - but it's just been set in my head since the late eighties.....

...Still aint got a real one

scoooby slayer

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it was an old mates car when i first met him, it was a white stage 3 saph on greens and a t34 26 psi and 140 mph down some back roads at the time i had never been in anything like it i was instantly hooked on cossies and when it came up for sale i bought it, was a very nice car mint aswell with only 56k on the clock that was around 2001.
heres the exact car



if i hadnt been introduced to an r32 gtr id probably still be driving cossies now.

RichieST

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My first cossie experience was when I was a lad, I rode my bike down to the local shop, there was a black 3 door parked outside with the engine running. His tape player was on full blast then it just started playing this horrible squealing like the tape was stretching or something. Owner came legging it out of the shop to turn it off LOL

Maxwell

First escos visual exp: the "driven by you" advert. Nearly 20yrs ago. FUUUCK!!!

First escos practical exp: Went a drive in one that belonged to a mate of a mate, and i remember he took off so hard that i physically couldnt lean ever so slightly in the seat to get a decent position to put my seatbelt on!! Lol. That was nearly 12yrs ago!!!

First sierra visual exp: Seen the Police getting out of one and at the time my dad had a 1.6lx hatch sierra and i remember asking him why the police sierra had "a tail". And he told me it was because it was a "cosworth". Thats when i first learned the existance of cosworth. From then every sapphire i seen was a "cosworth" - i was literally about 6-7yrs old. Bless!!

First sierra practical exp: about 8years ago picking one up for a body shop with a friend and him taking a detour up a back road home and started doing donuts!!

cossie891

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I never really liked the 3 door tbh I was into my RS Turbos then one day I got up and fell in love with them go figure so bought one blind (oh dear) never driven it or anything when it got here my first drive was stage 1 in the wet with 21psi oops it was scary as fook lol but didn't last long

Loved every second of it been hooked ever since

stboy

Had a few coming through work but never worked on them or drove them. Then got the chance to service an Escort Cosworth and i was grinning ear to ear. It was lue and standard with 18inch 6 spoke Rondall alloys and looked the bollocks! Took it out to test and was so disappointed in the lack of power. But the looks i was getting from other drivers made up for it! Would love to drive a decent spec one. Look the aggressive look of the Escorts and 3 doors.

bigdel

Amen to that! Got quoted £3.5k a year for a 30 year old with a clean licence in 1991
Couldn't afford that, and couldn't give it away either. The car sat in my mum's garage until 1995, only getting started up a couple of times a year.
Took it out in 95 when the insurance was a bit more reasonable and I had a bit more cash to spare, rebuilt the engine and away we went. Now on classic car insurance at £150 a year

BRAMMER

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I first went in a sapphire in 1998 I think it was a mate was looking to buy and I went along on the test drive and the first time it accelerated I loved it, always loved 3dr's and always knew I'd have one

rs_traynor

mine was when i was at primary school where i won a comp and got to go out in tayside police new 4x4 sapphire cosworth still remember it till this day... got a pic but not to sure where it is...

ajamesc

Going out in rods as I was good mates with his son the car had 400 bhp and I was about 19 with a cav Sri 130 that I thought was really fast lol

dean richardson

In my mates stage 3 saff mucking about in the woods at dalby Forrest and ended up at the start of a rally stage haha was quite funny

CrOwSoN15

Still a Cosworth virgin me! Although I've got a ride sorted in Jimbo's when that's finshed!

cossiejay

my dad,s 3 door which he got in 1990 and I still have it

opposite lock

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I was 9 seeing a brand new e plate saph cruise by me loving it , then at work experience in 94 i got taken out in one . We had a cavalier 1.6 the cossie was pure bliss and had to have one .

Smit

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Still remember that! Happy to have set ya ball rolling

costina

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Not a real cossie but a 4i i got from a guy at work everything was cossie except the front brakes the rear was bigger lol. Paid £1500 for it drove it home less than a mile rang a mate up went for a blast at all of 17psi for about 10 mins then stuck it in the garage and ripped the engine out for my cortina that was 1999. I then got myself a saff for my 30th birthday.