Ok, so most on here have a treasured Ford (or three), probably an old one, possibly worth more than a new Mondeo.

So who drives a car that, by rights, should be wrapped in cotton-wool and only out for shows and the like, on a daily basis? Any pseudo track cars, twin-turbos, fully detailed, hand-built etc. to the works car park?

Back in my youth I would take my show Pop, 3.0 Essex and chromed Jag rear, through central London to my office in the East End once or twice a week just for the fun of it. Likewise my wife would take Candy Scarlet Consul Capri to Holborn (we're talking early 80's).

Always a worry that some fool would slam into us in the morning rush but seemed good to use them rather than only out on dry and sunny Sundays.

So what's your story?

 

In the mid 1980's I used this to go to work and college when the weather was nice



Blown Rover with Jag axle

 

saph cosworth is my only car, I walk to work but the car does end up getting driven off road around a lot of fishing lakes with big potholes

I also have access to my house mates xr3i cabby for car part runs when mine is f****d

 

Last of the v8 interceptors

 

love love love

Where is it now I wonder?

 

i used my old 3 door cossie as a daily for 3 years

 

Mark i love your car. I love the sight of Super charged V8s.


I used to use my saff daily up until about 2 years ago.

 

When I had my Porsche 912 about 10 years ago, I used to drive it to work everyday in the summer rain or shine. Before that car I had a mk2 cortina 1600GT that was my daily.

 

Yup that blower on the v8 looks sweet

Ran a smiley face transit with a stage 1 yb in for work around ten years ago,had 17" alloys quad headlamps and a few other mods when I got it,put it back to standard (rusty old wheels with dohnuts on etc) didn't bother sorting any rusty panels so was a bit of a sleeper

Said years ago i would swap my sportvan I have now for it, proper fun..

 

Daz that van sounds like fun. Do you have any pics of it.

 

It was a bit a giggle matey.i do have some,I'll route them out

Somewhere have a video of an unsuspected Audi getting it's arse handed to it by the old nail (was on a private road of obviously. ..)

 

Back in the 80s we had 2 daily drivers, a mk 2 Lotus Cortina with the big valve engine and a Mk 2 1600e Uren Savage. Both superb cars, wish I still had them now the way prices have risen!!!

 

Mark V8, Very nice car and it had an Isle of Wight number plate !

 

Sounds like a proper laugh that my mate Is wanting to build one soon

 

The guy that originally built it came from the Isle of Wight, in the end I swapped it back to the guy I bought it from for this



He then stripped the Classic Consul for the engine as he was building a hot rod kit car of some sort. Pretty sure he then sold it on with a stock Rover V8...

 

Mark V8. Another very nice car , it gives a mk2 Cortina a whole new look with the roof chop and the unusual looking wheels. Another Rover V8 engine ? Do you still have this car? It must have gone well with the V8, my Cortina Savage was fast with just a V6 Essex engine!

 

This was prob my wildest daily.
2.5 v6,around 170bhp,did the shopping in it,track days,back road blasts,gave it death everywhere.
Held its own against imprezas,600cc bikes on the road and it did a 13.4 sec 1/4 mile.
Sold it to a guy who used it daily for a few years till it rotted away,it's still around but in bits,rotten and no engine.

 

Mark V8 that yellow cortina looks mint.

Lee were these V6s not heavy and did they not make the car nose heavy.

 

Sold it a long, long time ago mate.

It was an original Uren Savage and someone decided to roof chop it and stick a 5 litre mustang engine in it ! along with 8 inch axle and 4 speed manual box.

 

Blimey, that must have been very fast!!

 

I used to use my moonstone 3dr 400bhp everyday for several years including track days and shopping trips lol

 

Yeah....you must have rattled a few teeth at the time.

Some great stories here BUT no-one seems to have any current day stories, everything seems to be back in the past. Surely we have a nutter on here with some crazy daily wheels?

 

That is awesome. If I had the time and money I'd love to build a sleeper like that

 

I used my saph cos for the first year of ownership as it was our only car untill we got given a pug 306 for free when the missus grandad passed away so then the Cossie became a second car. Then we had a kid so had to get a sensible Nissan note as a daily :-(

 

There is a guy a mate knows who uses a tatty rs500 as a daily apparently. I have seen it but it was in summer so not sure if he uses it all year round.

Chris

 

Nothing extreme here, but when the weathers nice I use the saff for work and shopping trips, its cheeper too