Rare cars you dont see anymore,

[karl1989]

Xr3 ?

[procta]

Xr3 ?

saw one of those a month ago, also a cabby about 2 months ago, both maybe the only escorts of that era left in sunderland now!

[THE_Liam]

I would have said 190's before I bought one, but now I'm surprised how many you see about, I see at least 1 or 2 a week, not bad for a car that went out of production over 2 decades ago and never sold in huge numbers because you could have a Sierra XR4x4 2.9 or Cavalier SRI 130 for less than the price of a poverty spec 1.8 manual with steelies and keep fit windows

[Seb_Ryan]

I seen a merc 230 on a very old k plate ( black background and silver writing) late 60s/early 70s?

[procta]

I would have said 190's before I bought one, but now I'm surprised how many you see about, I see at least 1 or 2 a week, not bad for a car that went out of production over 2 decades ago and never sold in huge numbers because you could have a Sierra XR4x4 2.9 or Cavalier SRI 130 for less than the price of a poverty spec 1.8 manual with steelies and keep fit windows

not many of your shape merc kicking about up here now, only saw one, used to see a quite few.

[THE_Liam]

There's a bloke on the 190 forum who works round the corner from me, I pass his signal red 1.8 every day. There's often a 2.3-16 parked in a drive near my local, and I often pass a rough looking white diesel on the way to Asda. When I'm in Cornwall I see loads!

[Piggy]

Sat in Chippy yesterday having lunch, few usual nice cars pass, porsches mega common, always at least a ferrari, yesterday it was a 355.
Then my wife goes, "whats THAT!?"
By the time I look up I only see the back of it.

I had to admit I had never seen one before....so I googled it...




I had never seen a 037 road version before and the back end properly confused me! I assumed a lancia of some sort so a quick lancia 037 road version google and i got those pics and its that!

[Jimmy306uk]

Hope someone on here got it

[procta]

I have seen a lotus elan kicking about the doors, I think that's the only one I have ever seen! its on the same year as my rover metro ( H plate 1990)

[procta]

was out walking the dog about an hour ago, and I saw a Vaux hall nova pass me! that was the 1st hatch back one since 2011!

[Toms306]

Was followed by a J reg CRX earlier, not seen one of them for a while!

[karl1989]

There a crx sat in my friends garage gathering dust

[Piggy]

Had to take a pic....

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So much want. Thing was/is immaculate.

[Jimmy306uk]

Mates 2 litre turbo s1 escort he built

[procta]

Mates 2 litre turbo s1 escort he built

very, very tasty!

[Jimmy306uk]

Aye, it was on the fastford front cover not long back

[Piggy]

Not such a fan of the s1. Whats with the wheels too??

Im more of a classic spec ford fan. That S2 was just so cool on RS wheels

[Jimmy306uk]

Can't complain at the 350bhp coming through the wheels though :p would be awesome if he converted it to rwd, but I guess he has his mk1 escort as his drift slag :p

[Piggy]

350bhp is too much imho. Sure its fun though

[Jimmy306uk]

Think he's gone through 3 gearboxes already haha

[Piggy]

Exactly. And how many sets of tyres!?
Plus when could you ever use 100% throttle in 3rd or 4th in the UK legally!? Or 100% throttle in 1st or 2nd without torque steering into a hedge!?

[Jimmy306uk]

It's more of his show car tbh :p, he's got his 1.3 escort to hoon about in. He was at work today, just put some 13 inch mini lites on looks awesome

[Piggy]

Cool!!!
Love the 1.3!!! Bet thats a hoot to hoon round in!

Not a fan of "show cars". I like cars at shows that show off what a car is for not what huge amounts of money can do!

[procta]

Aye, it was on the fastford front cover not long back

that looks the part! are the plates for show? as I think you cannot run a car with black and sliver plates unless its pre 1980.

I will tell you a story on how I got into street sleepers, It involves a mk3 escort, The car was featured twice I think in fast ford some time ago.
Anyway, when I was out with my mate, we were at a 25th birthday party down town.
The local boyracers used to cruise around town. You used to see some right clips going about lol. the max power image, big bore and badass ICE.
Anyway we were in a pub that had the front row seats of every shed that came around.
We laughed at took the piss out every single car, my mate then spots a Mk3 escort popular model. He said Andy here's a piece of history, and I saw a Mk3 escort that came from the past, as it was that clean! Decked on steelies with the bit ford black centres, Proper escort popular spec. Looked proper retro cool, We took the piss out of that, saying fuckin hell man, your 20 years plus out of date man with that! He had four people in, all had base ball caps on. Which made us take the piss out of it more.
Anyway a couple of days later, I spoke to my warehouse manager, who was a ford nut about the car, we saw that sunday night.
I described to him what the car spec looked like, I said it was in good nick etc, had four lads in it with base ball caps on.
He said was it a light blue by any chance? I said yeah it was, looked like a basic old school mk3 escort tbh,
He said, Andy what ever you and philly do, don't f*cking try it on with it at the lights! I said what's the crac with it like? He said, Andy its a 450 bhp cosworth 4x4! I said f*cking hell!! He said andy, wenny ( that was the owner of the car at the time) must have been out boy racer and chav baiting.
I told my mate about it later on, He said lets not that the piss out of that again!
I learned a valuable lesson, Not to take the piss out of anything old school, and to give it a load of respect, as you don't know if its tooled up!
Plus it gave me the idea of building mine!
here is the video of the said car,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LZ5N9EhbpM
and a link to it, as how I saw it back in 2007?
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic...eeper+here!

[Jimmy306uk]

I'm pretty sure last time I saw it he was rocking the black plates, don't think many police are upto date with it tbh haha, probably just think 'another old escort' ooo yeah I do love a sleeper escort, used to be on eBay that was a 1.6 turbo was decked on banded steelies but looked really good, think it only went for about 500quid. Only thing that gave it away was the mahoosive intercooler hanging out the front bumper haha

[Poodle]

Followed a B1 passat around for a while yesterday afternoon, had to google that when i got home lol.

[procta]

Followed a B1 passat around for a while yesterday afternoon, had to google that when i got home lol.

that's one thing I don't really see, old passats and old audis, but when you look up the most scrapped car in the scrappage scheme, its all been vag.

[procta]

saw a nova GTE and a Rover SD1, just now! looks like the old school motors are be coming popular again!

[DavidA]

Saw a white Dimma Renault 5 today...

[Piggy]

Spotted one of these today:



Alpina E3 3.0s

My jaw was dropped for a while. It was mint. A bute