Back to the nineties! Sierra Sapphire

Haven’t done a thread for a long time but thought I’d start one for this.

I had been happily bombing around in my pinto powered 100E, but things changed four years ago when our son arrived. Sadly things didn’t go well; he was eleven weeks early and suffered circulatory collapse at five days old 😢. He is a fighter though and although his doctor describes him as ‘medically complex’ he’s a happy enough little chap who thinks any video I show him with racing or burnouts is hilarious, so in that respect he’s a chip off the old block 😂. Getting him and all his gear in the back of a two door Anglia is a squeeze though so I started to look for something a bit bigger. The answer turned out to be quite close to home;




This 1988 Sierra sapphire belonged to my brother and had come off the road in 2005 for some bits and bobs that had never happened. He’d bought it in 1997 I think and did most of the mods a young man would do at the time; lowered the suspension, soft line five spokes, Kenwood mask stereo and an exhaust tailpipe you could park a double decker in









And retained the standard 1.6 for insurance reasons of course!
Later on it gained a disc brake rear beam and full big brake set up from a twin cam I killed as well as swapping over the full interior with the later dashboard from the same car. He does love his sierras and had loads, including a nice original base model auto three door ( that he wouldn’t sell to me as he knew I’d modify it!) but couldn’t bear to part with his first one. It wasn’t until a year or so back he made the decision to sell and we agreed a deal. It was buried behind a mini, my Kadett coupe and and a load of household stuff at the back of a container, and it wasn’t until March this year that I finally dragged it out into the sunlight






Just in time for lockdown