Just a reminder that For The Love Of Cars tonight (8 p.m., Channel 4) features the restoration of a Series 1 which has been "neglected for more than 40 years". Hopefully of interest to one or two here.

Thanks have it on series link, looking forward to the Stag. FL2 SD4 Metropolis Auto Santorini Black / ivory completely stock.

It's true that light travels faster than sound, some people look quite intelligent until you hear them speak.


Stop global winging.

Last weeks mk1 Mexico beautiful. Al C

sounds awesome, thanks for the info

Re the Mexico, they made it sound fabulous and the best thing since sliced bread.
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Can anybody confirm my memory that there was also a twin cam Escort which might have been badged as Lotus and secondly that converter called Jeff Uren sold a version of Escort badged as 'savage' which had the 3 litre v6 engine shorhorned in. He also did a similar conversion on the Cortina.
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Kind regards from Fred
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1958 & 1959 Austin J40 Pedal Cars under restoration (I make many J40 parts)
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2009 Meriva

Spot on Fred

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C148983

There was definitely a twin cam one.

I restored a mk1 a few years ago.

Started off like this:


And ended up like this:

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My mis spent youth was spent owning and driving around in a succession of Lotus cars. my first was an A frame Mk1Cortina with aluminium bonnet,boot and doors with 'airflow' dash. It cost me £300 The water pumps were a nightmare,as the head had to come off to replace them, till a conversion came on the market. A pair of 45 dellortos with meshed trumpets gave them a great induction roar. A pair of Cibie headlights on the front and air horns and it was all set for the traffic light races against the Cooper 1275S boys.

pab wrote:

Just a reminder that For The Love Of Cars tonight (8 p.m., Channel 4) features the restoration of a Series 1

I thought that as well. Ignorant git! Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

Thought it was just me, never liked him. FL2 SD4 Metropolis Auto Santorini Black / ivory completely stock.

It's true that light travels faster than sound, some people look quite intelligent until you hear them speak.


Stop global winging.

I think he was just staying in character. He IS an "actor"!  10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

I can't say he really bothered me, but the programme was supposed to be about the car, not him! Far too much Glenister, far too little on the restoration. Here's the original wreck - here's a bit of chassis welding - here's a bit of upholstery - here's the finished result. It could have been so much better - even 5's Classic Car Rescue gives us more than that!

^^^ What he said.

It could have been worse - Clarkson could have done it

Bob 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

i watched the Mexico one, lovely car for its day, but i agree with Pab

I wanted to see more of the processes used, not just we have to keep with the original spec and a bit of it and the end result with him giving it a bit of juice round a industrial estate

bit more hands on, would have been better