I took the Fabia vRS into the local garage for its MOT this morning and got chatting to the owner. It seems he bought himself a classic Ford Cortina about a month ago and after chatting a bit about classic cars and Fords in particular he invited me into the garage to have a look. It is in fantastic condition; apparently the previous owner never took it out in the rain and it shows, with no rust whatsoever. It has a Zetec 2-litre conversion and is now running on throttle bodies and is running approx. 160bhp. As well as the engine conversion it has had suspension and brake upgrades whilst keeping the bits you can see as original as possible. I love it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have a friend with a Mk1 in the same spec as that, lovely old cars, but I'll stick with my old Mk1 1360 Escort, it might be slower on paper, but it's nimbler.

9 minutes ago, P6bJOHN said:

I have a friend with a Mk1 in the same spec as that, lovely old cars, but I'll stick with my old Mk1 1360 Escort, it might be slower on paper, but it's nimbler.

 

He did say that it was a bit of a handful!

1 hour ago, tweenster said:

 

He did say that it was a bit of a handful!

 

Steer with the throttle....