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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #45 on: May 22, 2010, 05:47:29 pm »
no post this morning so no postman  :fighting2:

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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #46 on: May 23, 2010, 11:59:10 am »
no post this morning so no postman  :fighting2:

Where's the Ban hammer..... :signLOL:
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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #47 on: May 26, 2010, 03:22:59 pm »
Well?

I got offered a turbo'd RS1600i years back, still kick myself for not buying that car. I prefer them.
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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #48 on: May 26, 2010, 04:00:15 pm »
frustratingly i have no news  :ashamed:

the postie did come today but blindly didnt spot the "postie please knock" on the door  :sad1:

i might have to sit outside tomorrow morning  :laugh:

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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #49 on: May 26, 2010, 06:11:10 pm »
Here's some Essex clutter (and a bit of VAG too) to whet your appetite.

Friend of a friend's garage in Germany we stopped in at over the weekend en-route to the Ring.



















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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #50 on: May 26, 2010, 06:14:55 pm »

Some class machinery there! :surprised:

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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #51 on: May 26, 2010, 07:03:12 pm »
wow!

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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #52 on: May 26, 2010, 07:07:30 pm »
Oh my!  :notworthy: :drool:

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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #53 on: May 26, 2010, 10:29:54 pm »
^^^^
Those Escorts are fugly - Always were and always shall be, but I like the Capri.


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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #54 on: May 26, 2010, 10:34:04 pm »
proper old school stuff  :notworthy:

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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #55 on: May 26, 2010, 10:34:26 pm »
Wow...If I'm right the Capri is a very rare RS2600...... :happy2:

Like rocking horse pooh on plastic roses.... :pomppomp:
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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #56 on: May 27, 2010, 09:32:36 am »
It is indeed an RS2600, the MKII is a genuine Zakspeed one too. MKI's are BDAs and the projects will be twin cammed and raced in the 300k this year. All get used on the Ring regularly.

I don't know about fugly, Robin, they're a bit too non-descript to be anything other than just plain. There wasn't much in the way of beauty in the 70's coming out of England unless it was a sports car, everything was drawn with a ruler!
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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #57 on: May 27, 2010, 10:14:52 am »

I don't know about fugly, Robin, they're a bit too non-descript to be anything other than just plain. There wasn't much in the way of beauty in the 70's coming out of England unless it was a sports car, everything was drawn with a ruler!

....That's right :happy2:. And being a driver in the 1970's I don't have fond memories of the automotive styling of the day, so I'm somewhat subjective in my view!

"Plain" is a good descriptor. 'Plain Jane' never did much for me.

I appreciate the modified race ones more though and have very fond memories of regularly seeing Jim Clark @ Silverstone in a Lotus Cortina dicing with Dan Gurney in a big 7-litre Ford Galaxy.. Or was that even earlier!?


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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #58 on: May 27, 2010, 10:24:30 am »
Ahh, the old Touring cars?? - UK vs the Yanks.

Minis, Escorts and Cortinas dicing with Mustangs, Camaros and Galaxies. I love the old footage of that era, wish I could have seen some.

You'd love the Gold Cup at Oulton, think Goodwood does circuit racing.
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Re: Been offered an RS
« Reply #59 on: May 27, 2010, 10:25:40 am »
I think they cover that era in the Goodwood Revival.