Have had, Anglia 123E Mk2 Escort 1600 Sport Avenger Tiger Mk1 3 door Cosworth Sapphire Cosworth Mk2 Cortina Savage Mk2 Escort RS2000, sold a couple of years back.
You won't find me complaining about modern ECU's & electrics we've got her purring though .......my mates long term Shaguar resto
Fantastic engine and they feel so slow until you look at the speedo. Effortless handling for such a big car!!! [emoji3]
It is a fantastic engine, bit of a missfire on one pot but the other 11! are on song :Woot:, the electro mechanical dash, walnut interior and switchgear are really cool, the chrome toggle joysticks for moving the mirrors are little works of art, it's most definitely a "Classic Car" but funny thing is it doesn't seem that long ago to me this "Modern GT" was released :Oldman:
I had 9 real Minis of various state, engine size and tune (Coopers and others, one of which was 1340cc) on the road at some stage, plus 3 in offroad set-up..........and then I learned my lesson. Somewhere between owning the Minis, a MkI Spitfire crept in....A green one....I knew I should never have bought a green car..... Also an Alfa Romeo 2600 Bertone Sprint.........typical Italian car. Sunbeam Rapier (the early shape) in gold.....a blind pig. Daimler 2.8 something or other. MGB....white, nice. MGC..........worse than a blind pig........more like a blind elephant. Triumph TR4 and TR4A............Brilliant cars, the 4 was best. A white 1600E with Rostyles. A couple of Beetles for the hell of it. A Mk1 with a 1600E engine, huge flared arches and really wide boots. A Mk1 resembling a Lotus Cortina with a heavily breathed on Holbay engine with crossflow head, Lotus crank and rods, twin 45DCOE Webers, very low supsension. MkII RS200 with the sporty pack stuff............brilliant car. Various others including Company cars...........nothing outstanding. Sierra 4X4.........great fun. MR2 MkI..........forever sideways in the wet............basically a motorcycle with a roof. Mazda 323 Hatchback 1800 GTi. Mazda M6.........had two of them..... Nissan 200SX Turbo.................probably the best car out of the modern ones. Now stuck with a Hyandry Coupe..........looks nice, decent spec.........but I just don't like it........ .....come to think of it, I don't like many modern cars.
My my I've had a few off of your list!! 323 4x4 turbo ex works with a 2ltr turbo that was amazing. 200sx s13 with a list of mods as long as your arm then some. 330rwhp on low boost. Made 453 on high boost but ran out of time to finish the mapping. It would have gone more. Blew the gearbox so swapped the engine into the black Capri. It made just over 460 on high boost and I bottled it at 190 at bruntingthorpe with more left. 820kilos of pure fun that Capri. Had a twin engined lancia delta integrate built by Howard burnage. That was running 400+ on each engine. If I had a choice on which I wish I had kept I couldn't decide if it was the Capri or the lancia. Just noticed you have a coupe. We've currently got a rose red TSiii
It just clicked, classic car ownership is a friendly club. The classic world don't give a flying rats arse, if ya got a classic, bring it along. I miss that. Have a bike,, but, I'm going back to cars.
I'm just a petrolhead! If someone wants to talk cars and bikes I will talk all day and night. The fact I can build engines and fabricate pretty much anything is just my hobby. It's nothing to do with it being car or bike. Just the fact it's what means a lot to me. So don't jump ship just talk to the right people [emoji6]
Fast bikes, yep, lonely wolf. Bike commute is great. Classic car, a social event. I don't get that with bikes over here. Given the choice on a Ducati Forum, I'd pick the old car. Loved it, I appreciate the bikes, but a simple V8 and a shitty rack, happy.
Up until now I've never been able to afford anything new. It's always been buy something and fix it. Sold all my classics to buy my pani as I wanted something new for myself. Had some very interesting toys for little money when bought at the right time. The Capri took me 11 years to get how I wanted it.
True classic bike people also "don't give a flying rat's arse" and will talk to anyone about anything...
Yeh, not sure what it is, maybe classic owners are usually older and don't need to try and impress. They seem to be quite chilled and Yeh, a friendly bunch.
I'm not even 40 yet but most classic owners have to find parts and we all know the best way of finding those rare parts. Where are the people who still understand the saying it's not what you know but who you know. But knowing yourself always helps [emoji6]
