Thanks Mr Nightmare

I wondered how this thread had reached three pages!

To be honest supercover is very well informed, but exactly what is the point of telling us? We already know most of it...especially Nightmares - if he thought that Cortinas were perfect then why does he never leave one untouched? ;D

good call rmad ;D he still hasn't told us what he drives
now can we put this one to bed before he spits his dummy out again

A "Classic Mustang" is just a glorified sports Falcon. If you've driven an Aussie or American Falcon or Fairlane of similar vintage, you'll find they're near identical in most if not all aspects. The Mustang was never a fantastic car, yet it sold in great numbers, as did the Escorts and Cortinas of their day, they're well remembered and that's what makes them "Classic".

It seems you dislike your local market more than anything, of course there were other cars that were perhaps more deserving than their competitors of the day, but it all comes down to marketing and popularity. I fail to see what having a dig at peoples aesthetic choices of today would do to stop any of these trivial injustices you seem to be endaevouring to correct.

It seems you know a little about a few cars here and there but your specifics are a bit lacking, perhaps if you hung about here and read and enjoyed the variety of what's about and what's appreciated, you'd learn a bit more. A simple one to point out would be that, the 510 wasn't replaced by the B210, oddly enough the B210 replaced the B110 and the 510 was replaced by the 610.

Again, let me re-iterate, of course there were cars better than other cars of the same period, there had to be, there's manufacturers all over the globe attempting to compete for the same market. Trying to make people aware of this or unaware of other's, is a waste of time, enjoy what you enjoy and ignore the rest.

To answer your questions;

I've got nothing special as a car BUT I have the horn for this:


God knows why, but................

Troll? No, just a smartarse! Classic cars? In the last 10-15 years, two Cooper S Minis (the real one, not that ghastly BMW turd), a Mark 2 3.4 Jaguar, what is reckoned to be the oldest BL Princess (built in 9.74, six months before launch - it was a prototype), a 2 litre Ghia Crapi.

Old cars, new cars, whatever. But I've never been one to put on rose trint specs and see something for what it wasn't. Yes the Mustang was based on a Falcon chassis in the same way the Capri was a collection of Mark 2 Cortina and Escort bits. As for mags I only buy Classic and Sportscar - 'Crassic Fraud' doesn't view its audience to be sufficiently broad minded to have an interest in any Ford that was built outside the UK which is absolutely insane. Have you seen how wicked a US Pinto can look with the early slim bumpers and chromed slots? Do you know that a 23m Taunus Coupe looks like?

As for the Sierra - too many Cosworths have been horribly mutilated. Are there any bog standard three doors left? I regularly see a Y plate 16L complete with the dustbin lid wheeltrims in very good condition with a fossil at the controls, probably had it from new. That to me is as interesting as a Cosworth - does that make me a sad deviant?

No, that's makes you one of us.

ps. I think most of us know about Taunii (surely, that must be the plural of Taunus!) and Pintos (the car, not just the engine). This certainly is not a Classic Ford forum.

Don't underestimate the knowledge of the members on here either:
retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1164446063

Do you know what? I have a feeling that if you stick around you might just like it here! ;D

What like the Humber Septic? Whoops, there I go again:D

Sorry, it's gotta be a four lamp Imperial or Super Snipe to get me moist...........

Please don't tell me Humbers make you moist, thats just wrong!
As for the Taunus 23m, i had a Dinky toy of one as a kid, wasn't a coupe though.

Its a mk2 Sceptre, your right about the dash although it nearly put me off buying it, too modern looking for me, i prefer the basicness of the Super Minx.

You were close, my mk5 is a crystal green Ghia but isn't an S pack car. The second owner fitted them when the car was just 2 years old. The car was a 2.0ltr Ghia but now has a 24 valve 2.9 V6 up front and a set of poly bushes and an LPG kit. The brakes are being improved at the moment and the springs and shocks will be decided upon when the car is back on the road so I can get some idea as to what it needs.

If all continues to go to plan then it should cost me about £1200 tops including purchase price of the car for what is now a very individual car (to the general public) with decent handling, lots of style and almost 200bhp being fed to the rear wheels! There's not much can touch that for the money.

I'm not against everything you've been saying though. There is a lot of other makes out there that have been in Fords shadow for no reason what so ever.