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[gnasher16 31,602]

23 minutes ago, Greyman said:

That was my biggest gripe with the opening thread, struggled to get past the words rs2000 and cabriolet used in the same sentence, back in the day RS stood for rally sport, after the mk2 you were lucky to get up the shop without them rusting away and disintegrating let alone around a rally course, still get goose bumps watching this bloke, real car and real driving skills, 

 

Absolutely beautiful to watch that was.....brilliant driver in a car that handles like Lionel Messi !

Must admit i was pissing myself laughing watching it as i was having visions of me and my pal Micky Dawson when we was teenagers me screaming at him to hurry up and him wellying it foot to the floor round corners.....fair play though he was some getaway driver 

[gnasher16 31,602]

12 minutes ago, Waz said:

The mk2 is my dream car, as a teenager in the mid 80s a few older lads had them. And also a bit more affordable was the harrier. Ive got a spare barn..

I had a few mate,a mk2 nosecone job i had in the late 80's is still on the road near me i see it from time to time it last changed hands for 40k odd !

 

[Greyman 32,319]

If you had a mex or rs back in the day you were always going to escape, when the police were driving the 1.1popular version and there big gun was a 3litre Granada, I can remember in times when I never had anything naughty in the car I would actually stop during a chase to let them catch up again just so you could loose them again, had a bit of a shock when I got collared in the Norfolk broads back in the 80,s and the police came out in a fleet of 3.0S capris,

[Waz 4,293]

10 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:

I had a few mate,a mk2 nosecone job i had in the late 80's is still on the road near me i see it from time to time it last changed hands for 40k odd !

 

Thats 4 x the price I paid for my 1st house (only 18 years ago).

[Greyman 32,319]

24 minutes ago, Waz said:

Thats 4 x the price I paid for my 1st house (only 18 years ago).

If only we new, they would have all been locked in a garage and sold off to keep me in luxury one at a time throughout the course of my life, price this little lot up, I owned a mk1 cortina15 GT  mk2 Corina 16E mk3 cortina 20GT  and mk3 2000 E a mexico  mk1 ,a 16 MK2 super sport,  two triumph PI,s a dolomite sprint and two  vittesses one soft top and one hard all before the age of 20 probably cost less than £500 for all of them still have this little pearler tucked away for the future , immaculate 900 aero turbo Saab with a full leather bound service book , last car I owned for the pleasure of driving as opposed to mpg and reliability

[TOMO 29,175]

49 minutes ago, Greyman said:

If you had a mex or rs back in the day you were always going to escape, when the police were driving the 1.1popular version and there big gun was a 3litre Granada, I can remember in times when I never had anything naughty in the car I would actually stop during a chase to let them catch up again just so you could loose them again, had a bit of a shock when I got collared in the Norfolk broads back in the 80,s and the police came out in a fleet of 3.0S capris,

up our way back in the 80's just near j29 m1 the cops had this sooped up jag ...4 point something....f**k all out ran that...it was a beast

[gnasher16 31,602]

39 minutes ago, Greyman said:

If only we new, they would have all been locked in a garage and sold off to keep me in luxury one at a time throughout the course of my life, price this little lot up, I owned a mk1 cortina15 GT  mk2 Corina 16E mk3 cortina 20GT  and mk3 2000 E a mexico  mk1 ,a 16 MK2 super sport,  two triumph PI,s a dolomite sprint and two  vittesses one soft top and one hard all before the age of 20 probably cost less than £500 for all of them still have this little pearler tucked away for the future , immaculate 900 aero turbo Saab with a full leather bound service book , last car I owned for the pleasure of driving as opposed to mpg and reliability

 

Great days for young lads they was literally anyone could pick up a spanner and have their car in bits that 1600 ohv engine in the Escorts i could have them in bits and back together like a Meccano set i thought id moved into the big league when i had my first twin 40's ohc engine  we would strip them down on a Sunday aftenoon with all this nonsense mechanical talk about how to get an extra 2 bhp from our cars,stripping the interior out and your bird looks at you and says " so where am i sposed to sit "......." well you'll have to go on a diet then you fat c**t i need to take another 0.1 sec off my 0 - 60 time " .......funny days.

Now what have we got.....on the rare occasion i open my bonnet i havent got the foggiest idea what im looking at !

[WILF 50,999]

Hark at all you flash b*****ds, My first car was a D series tipper with no power steering ! Lol 

0-60 in about 4 miles ! 

[nothernlite 18,260]

Reminds me of baw 

[fireman 11,455]

2 hours ago, WILF said:

Hark at all you flash b*****ds, My first car was a D series tipper with no power steering ! Lol 

0-60 in about 4 miles ! 

Mine was a old pre redg Bedford J type,a old market traders van with split windscreen and roller shutter door at the back, a guzzling 214 ,6 pot petrol lump in it and anything over 40 mph then the streering had a total mind of it's own..Had a 1963 Leyland Atlantian double decker bus and that didn't have power steering and you'd have to stand up in your seat to get it round most fecking corners ,mind you on a long down hill run with the wind behind you you'd get it bouncing off the speedo and that went to 60 .