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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/ZcqDAv5utAY

Must be worth a bob or two.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Enjoyed that! 

Yes they didn't discuss the cost. I wonder.... ?   

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Enjoyed that! 

Yes they didn't discuss the cost. I wonder.... ?   

A fifty year old white Escort.....I'll offer Gordon £1000. He'll bite my hand off.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Enjoyed that! 

Yes they didn't discuss the cost. I wonder.... ?   

A fifty year old white Escort.....I'll offer Gordon £1000. He'll bite my hand off.

He probably paid ten grand for it with the hole in the floor!     

[Rangie]

Bought a new Escort Mexico in August 1973 £1030 on the road after the px allowance on my 3.3 Vauxhall Velox, was a pretty nice car back then, swapped it a few years later for a Granada Ghia 3.0

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Enjoyed that! 

Yes they didn't discuss the cost. I wonder.... ?   

A fifty year old white Escort.....I'll offer Gordon £1000. He'll bite my hand off.

GM reckons it puts out about 240 BHP which is plenty for a car that weighs only 900 KG.

It would be fun to drive.

He probably paid ten grand for it with the hole in the floor!     

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Bought a new Escort Mexico in August 1973 £1030 on the road after the px allowance on my 3.3 Vauxhall Velox, was a pretty nice car back then, swapped it a few years later for a Granada Ghia 3.0

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1509742

You're well shot of it. They are worth SFA these days...

[Rangie]

Bought a new Escort Mexico in August 1973 £1030 on the road after the px allowance on my 3.3 Vauxhall Velox, was a pretty nice car back then, swapped it a few years later for a Granada Ghia 3.0

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1509742

You're well shot of it. They are worth SFA these days...

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Incredible how prices have gone, but I wouldn't be tempted at that price to relive my youth..😄

[ronnyd]

Don't think that my poor old bones could stand up to a 'classic' car ride these days. 

[BazaJT]

Last car my dad owned before he passed away in 1977 was a "N" reg Mk1 four door 1300XL. I still think the Mk1 was the best looking of all Escorts.

[Nick W]

Don't think that my poor old bones could stand up to a 'classic' car ride these days. 

Even a 'sporting' Escort rides better than a modern BMW or Audi just about anything. My lowered and stiffened 2.8i Capri rode better than the nearly new mk1 Focus my mother had at the same time.


100bhp in an Escort is good fun, and provides enough real performance to surprise a lot of drivers in newer cars. The small size makes them better on country roads too.

[Andy B]

I passed my test in a MKI Escort  YTC 144L (I can remember that, but have to go outside & look at my cars for their registration  )

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Don't think that my poor old bones could stand up to a 'classic' car ride these days. 

Even a 'sporting' Escort rides better than a modern BMW or Audi just about anything. My lowered and stiffened 2.8i Capri rode better than the nearly new mk1 Focus my mother had at the same time.


100bhp in an Escort is good fun, and provides enough real performance to surprise a lot of drivers in newer cars. The small size makes them better on country roads too.

Something to do with smaller wheels fitted with proper old-fashioned balloon tyres perhaps.

Modern wheels are much bigger and covered by an elastic band stretched over the circumference of the wheel, rather than a tyre.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I passed my test in a MKI Escort  YTC 144L (I can remember that, but have to go outside & look at my cars for their registration  )

Registered between 1st August 1972 and 31st July 1973.

[Andy B]

I passed my test in a MKI Escort  YTC 144L (I can remember that, but have to go outside & look at my cars for their registration  )

Registered between 1st August 1972 and 31st July 1973.

which made the car 6 or 7 years old when I drove it