On 16 Jun 2009 at 1:28pm GEORGE wrote:
ANY ESCORTS IN LEWES
On 16 Jun 2009 at 1:29pm FA wrote:
there's one up the road...mark 3, white.
On 16 Jun 2009 at 1:57pm g wrote:
wht is phone no
On 16 Jun 2009 at 2:19pm Mystic Mog wrote:
George. You need a new keyboard. Some of the letters are missing from your posts.
BTW FA would that be a mk3 with a 1.6 CVH? L, GL, Ghia or XR3, XR3i?
On 16 Jun 2009 at 2:46pm g wrote:
hi mystic i didnt get wht do u mean by last sentence
On 16 Jun 2009 at 4:09pm Mystic Mog wrote:
Well the mk3 Escort was the first of the front wheel drive Escorts from Ford Europe and this design was offered in a modified form on the US market. The mk3 featured many new items including the CVH engine initially for the 1.6 and latter the 1.4. The early mk3s used the Valencia engine for the 1.1 and 1.3. This engine was in fact a updated version of the UK Ford Kent engine. The trim levels mentioned in my earlier post were those found on the early models with the exception of the XR3i. This injection model came later as an improved version of the carb fed XR3.
G I hope this makes it clearer. Personally I have not see this white Escort in Lewes. There is an Escort owners club, perhaps they might have some members in the Lewes area.
On 16 Jun 2009 at 10:47pm Webbo wrote:
and the award for Post of the Day goes to....
...Mystic Mog!!
On 16 Jun 2009 at 10:51pm Rookie wrote:
I'm more of a Capri man myself
On 17 Jun 2009 at 7:47am Burning Bits wrote:
Rookie would that be a Cologne or Essex V6 in the Capri, the Pinto didn't really cut it for me
On 17 Jun 2009 at 2:04pm sashimi wrote:
Dear God! When Mystic Mog gets going on Fords it's difficult to stay awake. Anyone suffering from insomnia should read this column.
On 17 Jun 2009 at 2:27pm Mystic Mog wrote:
Each to their own. My specialist subject is cars. Some people, for example, have an encyclopediac knowledge of plants.
Sashimi my knowledge of BMC / BL is better. Perhaps a drink and I could discuss the trials and tribulations of the the development of the poor selling Austin 3 litre or perhaps the stillborn Rover P8
On 17 Jun 2009 at 4:39pm Rookie wrote:
Cologne 2.8 V6 of which I have 2 examples. I have had the 1300 ohv and 1600 ohc versions in the past but they were just toys.
On 17 Jun 2009 at 5:05pm Mystic Mog wrote:
Did you ever have a mk1 V4 2 litre?
I had a Scimitar GTE with the 3L Essex. Lovely
My father had a mk3 1.6L. Bit gutless but still fun.
Lets have more car banter to put Sashimi into a coma.
On 17 Jun 2009 at 5:27pm Ed Can Do wrote:
I love a good long chat about cars as much as anyone but Rovers? Really?
On 17 Jun 2009 at 9:27pm Mystic Mog wrote:
Nothing wrong with Rovers unless you are that ill-informed bigot Mr Clarkson.
On 18 Jun 2009 at 11:22am Ed Can Do wrote:
They made a couple of decent cars, it's just a shame that the vast majority of them one encounters on the roads these days are driven by elderly people whose driving test consisted of telling the guy with the flags in front to hurry up and knowing when the horses needed feeding, making them dangerously incapable of controlling a modern car. I've nearly been smashed into three times in the last couple of months by Rovers and each time it was a different OAP with zero road awareness and doing something retardedly dangerous (One pulled out in front of me as I was going round a roundabout, one pulled into the overtaking lane of the bypass at about 40 mph without looking and the third jumped a red light outside Boots). Probably just a string of unfortunate coincidences but whenever I see a Rover these days I give it a wide berth, even before I'm close enough to tell if the driver is elderly.
On 18 Jun 2009 at 1:23pm Mystic Mog wrote:
Always beware of cars with pillows or hats on the rear parcel shelf. Also give Honda Civics and Skoda Fabias a wide berth.
On 19 Jun 2009 at 10:31am Ed Can Do wrote:
Ha ha, now that's sound advice. Although thinking about it, our car currently has a hat on the rear parcel shelf! Might move that...