jonnyturbo

i remember when i was about 13ish i saw a bright red 90spec rst and it was absolutely stunning, and i also remeber sitting in school dreaming about owning an escort cabriolet, thought they were so cool. ive owned 4 now lol, used to help my dad working on cars, nothing ever that special, but we had a mk2 xr2 for a while and i loved it.
when i was 15-16ish i became more interested in motorbikes and was spending my free time out on my motocrossers, and was more interested in going for my bike license but two of my mates who are brothers had two very nice fords at the time and i suppose are responsible for my love of the blue oval. one had a red mk3 xr3i with a s1 kit, tinted windows and tsw stealths and the other had a mk2 orion ghia which he spent loads on, had it rover amaranth purple, tsw blades, illusion bumpers, rs kit, turbo engine, low as hell.
i ended up owning both of these cars, i know the mods sound tacky now but this was about 7 years ago.
ever since then i swear by fords, i love them and ive owned nearly every sporty model apart from cosworths cos i cant afford them,yet

Anonymous

Never liked cars at all, was only ever into motorbikes, then i started going around a lot with a mate of mine in his mini and decided that cars could be fun too.

Never been into fords especially, just always like Series 1 and Cossies.

RichardPON

Had an Escort, and was into the whole car stereo scene ina big way.

Then got a ride in Mike R's saff back in 1999, and the rest is history.

Mike C

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going to the local Ford showroom every day from the age of 3 started it

altho my 4th word was lamborghini

RSKim

I got it drilled into me that I was to own a esccos my my dad from being 10 year old pmsl!!

First ford was a Mk2 XR2 and i fookin loved it, and the esccos is on the list for one of my next cars

petermintrst

my parents used to have a mk2 xr2 and i loved the sound it made, and the styling. After that they reverted to vw Gtis. They were great cars but to me didnt have the character of the xr2. I have just got an S2 as i am just able to afford insurance now.

jonnyturbo

i wish i could afford an esc cos that is the one car i really want, nevermind your poncey ferrarris or porches

Daviet

my auld man had a garage and was brought up crawling on a garage floor i think used to go to bike or car events with him all the time.
bought my first ford at 16 a banger of an rs2000 still great fun and got me hooked on fords had xr2's for years after that

petermintrst

could u not afford a sapp though. same power ish. and i think look just as good in a different way

Anonymous

Well at least its a nice attainable goal to have mate.

AlexD bought one for 9K and its a minter, Jap place took it in part ex and didnt know what it was worth!

Thats a figure im sure most people could save up eventually whatever their circumstances

andre_k

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first ford was a mk4 escort, 1.3 bonus

got me hooked on em since, now i have all the xr's bar the sierras, have a s2 and a xr2 atm, and getting a saph next...

a 3-door cossie has always been my realistic aim in the car world, escos dont really have the same appeal to me...

after the 3-door itll be onto the skylines i reckon...

rsnissan

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My old man always used to mess about with cars................and my mum had a mk2 rs2000 when i was 6 and i loved it......................saw the rs500's when i was about 9 and that was it really!

Never really liked Fords either really but i'll always make time for a 3dr/500 or a Mk2 escort

jonnyturbo

yeah, one day i will own one, i promised myself that

Anonymous

I cant decide on that either, keep preferring escos's one week and then back to 3 doors the week after.

Luckily, cause i painted my 3 door yellow, i dont have the option to sell it for sensible money to get an escos anyway, so its an easy choice to stick with it

jonnyturbo

chip, read the feature on your car, it is truely stunning mate.

jr

My dad only ever had fords when i was growing up, and spent 99% if my time in the garage

had a couple of 3.0 capris, a XR3I and a tunned Fiesta 1.6S, so allwyas liked the olderfords (and will have a capri one day)

as ive got my cars ive now got well into the vaux seen, but they may change

andre_k

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at the rate im going mate, im struggeling to save up 300 for a chip letalone for a cossie

in a year year ill have paid off my s2 loan, and ill loan 5k...

whether i get a saph or give it all + my s2 to jamsport, we'll see...

GARETH T

well i want a ferarri, so i guess ill swap you

mattbibs

always into cars - not really fords. then my mate bought a S2. one quick lap round the fen and that was it - in love with turbo'd cars forever!

and never liked 3dr's at all until i started going to the derby meets! have them to blame when the day comes of buying one and putting myself in debt for as long as i own it!!

Physio

Just always wanted an unreliable rot box


On a serious note, my brothers had fords when i was a kid & i just grew up with them & owned loads since.

Anonymous

Thanks

The feature certainly is stunning.

In real life the car is far more average, its just that Mike is a legend behind the lens!

Its a nice car, but its not as good as it looks in print im afraid, when i pick up the magazine i think "wish i had one like that"

AlexD

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I thought the same, i could never afrod one, but sometimes you get lucky

I have always been into cars, i started drving when i was six !!

My father was a fleet manager, so i used to go to work with
him in my summer hols, and help in the workshops with the
mechanics,then once i could drive, i used to "test" every car
he was given to see if they would be any good as a fleet car....

I have always wanted a cossie from the age on 9, I was out
with my dad and my Bro and a Black 3dr Cossie over took us !!,
That was it, i HAD TO HAVE ONE !!!! ....

But went thru the usual XR3i's,XR2's,RST, then bought the Sapph Six
years agao, and now the Escos....

Al................

jonnyturbo

i love the colour, so different and not to everybodys tastes i imagine the purists would look disgusted at shows, but then its been reshelled and its your car, so you can do what you like

andre_k

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my s2 looks spangley in pics, but in real life you see the imperfections....

i mean look how a nicely set up photoshoot can make the bad points invisible, re: galbally's in the grudge match.

as AJ said, they are unreliable rot-boxes, but thers something about an 80's ford that melts the heart so to speak

Robin

my dad and uncle have always been into cars, when my mum and dad were going out he had a mini with a really loud exhaust and she could here him a mile off so she new when to walk out the front door, my mum and g/f joke about history repeating its self as my misses can hear me at the bottom of her road. our family has always owned fords untill recently, my uncle used to quite a succesfully banker in the late 80s early 90s and had a 3.0ltr Capri, a s2 and a frst all brand new and in gleaming red. what really got me hooked was when the escoz was first launched and we were picking my mums fiesta up from our local ford dealership after a service and they had one in the showroom and the dealer let me sit init.

benporter

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Always loved cossies,when the escort came out i had to have one.
The first car i ever owned was my escos

jonnyturbo

its quite funny how many people are into cars because their dads were.

xr_craig

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Always grew up around cars really. Mainly fords.

But the car that mainly did it for me was my uncles orange mk2 2k

petermintrst

parents have the biggest influence on children. What dads like must be the best

Anonymous

Same reason i was into bikes, my dad used to be into bikes and race them etc, and so it rubbed off on me.

andre_k

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my dad has 6 bmw's (only 1 works...... )

only ford he ownes is a transit...

mind you, i am very partial to alot of BMW's, the 2002 (there is a 1502 opposite me), and i love the late 80's m3...

cant beat the 80's in tearms of the caracter that cars have... IMO the 90's was disasterous for fast ''working mans'' cars thanks to insurance premiums being ridiculous. i must admit, the new astra vxr, golf GTi, esp the focus st are nice... i do like the mody st220, but i doubt id buy one...



there is loads of cars i like, but when it comes to parting with my hard earned, itll most of the time be on a ford

AlexD

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Its very true that, a few of my mates are into football cos there dad's
were, personally i cannot see it they just drive cars
because they have too.... BUT..............

They say to me "lets have ago in yer cossie" so i take em out and within
two mins they understand why i love em

I must be the "shiiiiittttteeeeeeeeeeee " that's fast ....

lol............

Al........

AGAR-COSWORTH

Good topic jonny

I don't think i ever "got" into cars - i think i was born into cars. since i was old enough to be out in a pram i was apparently pointing them out, no surprise that my first word was car then.

I think I must have got interested in fords when i was 4 or 5 - my dad had had 3 Escorts (a 1.3 L carb Mk3, 1.6i Mk3 Ghia (loved that car) Mk5 1.4 L ) by the time i was that age, along with my uncle who'd had an XR3, two xr3i's and various rs mexicos and rs2000's which i never even saw. I was always out wathcing my dad work on the cars whenever they needed fixed. What really got me into Fords was the Escort Cosworth - i remember my dad used to get sent officail "Ford Magazines" quarterly, and one of the issues in 1992 covered the car and had a poster with it - that was on my wall for years.

Up until 2000 Fords were my passion but i had nothing to go on, no decent net access back then and no magazines that i could find - until i found a few local petrol stations selling fastford and more reciently performance ford.

Sexy-RS

My dad worked for ford as a RS specialist at erith KT's then Dartford From the day he left school untill they day they got brought out by peugeot a few years back He used to do all the chip conversions for collins down south, back in the day

He was always bringing home customer cars to work on privatly, was riding in cossies in nappys Then as i got older I used to love him taking me out for a spin scaring the shit out of me and I still used to scream faster Always said when I grow up im gonna have an RS

RST-Steve

My Dad had a Series 1 RST for 11 years, which was pretty much the whole time i was growing up, so always wanted an RST for myself!!! lol