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Want to hear a joke about a “Pyramid” scheme? Well forward this joke on 15 x times……..

The Mini thing holds true! My first car was a 1964 Mini Minor. I remember reversing out one night and thought that the lights seemed dimmer than usual on both dipped and main beam, BUT on the Driver’s side the ground seemed very brightly lit. When I got out to look, I found the headlight had fallen ...

Hmm……

Just been looking at the Stats for this game which Man Utd won 5-0.,Gate is given as just over 3000. A great attendance (but broadly similar to some of the fixtures the Rec used to see for the old PL2 games prior to the pandemic). The capacity of the ground is over 5000, so it may have been a sell ...

Just been looking at the Stats for this game which Man Utd won 5-0.,Gate is given as just over 3000. A great attendance (but broadly similar to some of the fixtures the Rec used to see for the old PL2 games prior to the pandemic). The capacity of the ground is over 5000, so it may have been a sell o...

Getting back to the original subject of the 1979 Escort, here is a really good example still on the road the same colour as the one I had except this is a 1980 registered car which must had an upgrade by then as it has check cloth seats while our ones (the company fleet) had PVC seats (maybe that w...

The Rover 75 came too late in the day for Rover, although I am still convinced that BMW only ever wanted the company to get their hands on the iconic “Mini” name and they made real no effort beyond that and ran the company down in a way that would not let it survive when they got rid of it. I never ...

Shows a lot of how the automotive world has come on. No ABS, Aircon, electric window, airbags etc. the comment about a light rear end was true of many Ford’s (and other cars of the time) and cornering in the wet in my old Cortina would often lead to a breakaway. Another car, looks wise, that would s...

It was Miami “Blur” with a black vinyl roof!

That’s quite a late Mark 2 and facelifted. The Mark 3 appeared in 1981. I worked in the NHS for 4 x years after I left Ford and we had a brand new Mark 3 Escort GL in 1981 at our hospital. I was seldom allowed to drive it, and usually used the other car which was a Mini Clubman Estate! Actually more...

Remember going down the A3 one afternoon just down by the Surrey/Hampshire boundary (can’t remember which car I was in) but a Capri 2.8 Ghia x was coming up fast and as they overtook there was a Granada 2.8 Ghia X directly behind it and both were doing about 100 MPH. It was as the Granada came alon...

My first car Mk1 Cortina Also drove 2,3,4, and 5 Plus many many other old bangers Passed my driving test in it ..2nd time Think the test centre was by the shots football ground Failed first time in Farnborough Technically the Mark 5 Cortina was a Mark 4 facelift. It was also interesting in the Mark...

Remember going down the A3 one afternoon just down by the Surrey/Hampshire boundary (can’t remember which car I was in) but a Capri 2.8 Ghia x was coming up fast and as they overtook there was a Granada 2.8 Ghia X directly behind it and both were doing about 100 MPH. It was as the Granada came along...

Did like my escort, but then realised that there was only one ford to have which was a Capri. Now I loved that car. My late Brother had a Mark 1 Capri, but got rid of it quickly and got a Mark 3 2000 GT Cortina which he thought was a far better car. I ultimately bought this from him for £1000 in ea...

My first car was a mark 1 Escort. Dog dirt brown, with the extra pedal to get water onto windscreen :lol: Only lasted a year until at mot time found out it had a hole in the floor, and the seatbelt wasn’t actually secured to anything solid! Then got another rust bucket, a Lancia Beta. That was a lo...