alan barrett Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Just watched this from earlier on this evening, brought back so many happy memories of my first cars. Wish I still had my old fast Fords, started off with a 1300 sport mk1 Escort then had a 1600 mk2. Finally when I got divorced I treated myself to a mk2 RS 2000. Oh happy times. Think next week it's an old Land Rover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Good program I'm only 32 so not my time but I do love the mk1 escort . My dad owned a new one but he is 63 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev56 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Another decent program, wow 2 in one night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Was he bit of a plum? I cant decide. Great prog though, i was never really into dagenham dustbins but escorts just looked right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 Felt it was all a bit watered down - made everything look like it was rather easy to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazza9t9 Posted April 20, 2014 Report Share Posted April 20, 2014 I've got this recorded can't wait to watch it even more so after reading the above comments Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cant hit rabbits 123 Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Overall I enjoyed it, and those presenting it. Although we thought it made restoration look far too easy. To do it in 8 weeks is an incredible feat, to compress it into just a few minutes doesn't do it justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Bring on the Allegro Vanden Plas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washerboy Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Hillman avenger deluxe saloon. My mum's first car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I know how that copper felt. I had a Marina, and mine wasn't even a TC. What a pile of *@#&ing ****. There's a pristine MK1 Escort estate I often see round here and someone else has a MKII Cortina. Those cars bring back memories. They smell like cars used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krugerandsmith Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I know how that copper felt. I had a Marina, and mine wasn't even a TC. What a pile of *@#&ing ****. There's a pristine MK1 Escort estate I often see round here and someone else has a MKII Cortina. Those cars bring back memories. They smell like cars used to. What was wrong with the Marina other than ..... Gearbox main shaft spacer ring breaking making it impossible to select gears and countless water leaks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdubya Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Hillman avenger deluxe saloon. My mum's first car that was my wife's 1st car, what a heap of do do it was. KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazzab Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 Great programme. Seen the Harris boys drag racing countless times. Its invredible what they out of a normally aspirated Pinto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLondon Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I had a vauxhall victor oh the memories Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan barrett Posted April 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I agree that doing all that work on the body would be pretty hord in your lock up garage at home would be a time consuming task. In that chaps workshop with that roll over jig made it easy ,and if he's doing it full time for the telly I don't think 8 weeks is by any means impossible. As for working on the mechanics in those old Fords, I fitted an engine out of a 1600 Capri in the mk1, I thought it was a straight swop, it turned out not to be, in the end I could get the engine out in about an hour. They were so easy just a few bolts and a couple of cables. These days I'm just about able to do the oil and water under the bonnet everything else under there is a mystery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymo Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 It's Wheeler Dealers but with more focus the the Cars History Still enjoyed it and it brought back memories of myself and bestie mate going to Norwich car auctions to get him a car. Went with the intention of bidding on something or other having checked a few out in the Cattle Market yard. Next thing I know he is sticking his hand up for this MK1 with white weller wheels, jacked up yellow thing complete with orange roof and a massive whip aerial. Was a laugh drivin the thing back to my folks- then trawling the breakers for spares..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet1747 Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I fixed my mates 1600, mexico and rs from scratch they were the dogs bits, my first car was a Datsun 120 y sky blue I loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 What was wrong with the Marina other than ..... Gearbox main shaft spacer ring breaking making it impossible to select gears and countless water leaks? Erm.. where to start. Well, there's rust, rotten electrics, ill-fitting panels, easy-peel paint, rust, a lousy leaf-sprung chassis that handled like a three-legged donkey in a sand-pit, rattling, wheezing, smokey oil-burning engines, rust, light units that filled up with water, trim and door handles that fell off, rust, leaking boots and leaking footwells, rust, dashboards and centre consuls that came away in your hands, beige vinyl roofs, disintegrating winders and windows that dropped into the door skin and heaters that stopped working. Oh yes, and rust. Other than that.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twistedsanity Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I had a marina, it did awesome wheelspins in reverse gear but I can't think of anything else complimentary to say about it ........... I did see a Harris escort destroy a Ferrari owners ego at Santa pod years back to the point that he didn't return , kept driving through the farm and dissapeared :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I've got this recorded can't wait to watch it even more so after reading the above comments Same here from what I seen of the tralers for it should be good vewing tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 (edited) Great programme. Seen the Harris boys drag racing countless times. Its invredible what they out of a normally aspirated Pinto. Those 2ltr pinto engines are amazing things had one in my 1986 caprie all we did was put electronic ignision and a 3ltr carb and that thing was so fast in a lighter escort it must have been amazing. Mind you it did drink the petrol. Edited April 21, 2014 by four-wheel-drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 my baby when i was into fords Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegazbo Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I had a couple of mk1 and 2 escorts but the best Dagenham dustbin I had was MFM 37D a mk1 Cortina with a formula ford blueprint racing engine in it, it ate Toyota supra 3 litre turbo's for breakfast. Oh the memory's, how did I keep my license? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I use a garage for my servicing who build racing cortina's for a team:) He says their faster than a Subaru on the track but are limited by the regs on tyres . I've seen them bare metal to fully built up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted April 21, 2014 Report Share Posted April 21, 2014 I fixed my mates 1600, mexico and rs from scratch they were the dogs bits, my first car was a Datsun 120 y sky blue I loved itDid you deliver curry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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