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[barney]

I actually had a mate called Tony Salerno who had a lime green one.
It was only a 1300 but he dressed it up with black vinyl roof etc.
Fluffy dice, the lot.
He genuinely couldn’t understand why we took the pee.
He loved it.
You could hear him before you could see him with the stereo blasting out.
8 track of course.

[Manoverboard]

[Onelife]

Btw…I also owned a ford Capri … black and gold which turned into a smokey grey overnight…. a mate of mine did some welding on it and went straight through the fuel line… anyone got a tissue .

Smokey Grey is real cool, man ... Delboy lime green is surely more your colour

Delboys wasn’t a patch on mine…I’ll see if I can dig out a picture

[Mervyn and Trish]

Of course indiscriminate Stop and Search is wrong. But let's remember the history. Theresa May as Home Secretary clamped down on it because of concerns similar to those voiced today. There followed a surge in knife and violent crime. Hence Sajid Javid and Pritti Patel allowed its reintroduction as a law enforcement tequnique.. There have been high profile cases where it has been badly applied. But there have been thousands of arrests following stop and searches including hundreds involving firearms offences. Every stop now has to be written up and justified. There are rogue police officers like the one who killed the suspect in the US . But let's not hamper law enforcement which protects all, including black communities, on the altar of political correctness and a few bad examples.

[towny44]

Btw…I also owned a ford Capri … black and gold which turned into a smokey grey overnight…. a mate of mine did some welding on it and went straight through the fuel line… anyone got a tissue .

Smokey Grey is real cool, man ... Delboy lime green is surely more your colour

Delboys wasn’t a patch on mine…I’ll see if I can dig out a picture

I had 2 Capris, a Mk1 2.0l in metallic Gold with a tan leather roof, and a Mk2 1.6 in metallic bottle green. Loved them both great fun to drive, especially the TC carb 2 litre, which had phenomenal overtaking speed, well it seemed that way to me after my 1.8l Marina, but not really very good family cars with such a small boot.

[Stephen]

Yes, the Capri was lovely motor. Driven a few in my yoof (no not stolen) but never owned one. The 3.0 Ghia was my favourites.

[Onelife]

Well I’ve had a look for the photo but can’t find it….not surprising as my wife spent two weeks recently remounting all our photo’s and chucking out the ones of less significance to her ….to be fair I don’t think she knew I owned a Capri as I was no more than 18/19 at the time.

Of what I can remember it was an automatic... and contrary to what I said earlier it was ‘brown’ and gold with a raised air inlet no the bonnet, black vinyl roof.

[Mervyn and Trish]

A friend of a friend had a very souped up 3 litre Capri. Made the normal one seem like an Anglia 100E. Sadly he'd done the engine but not touched the suspension or the brakes. One day on the way home from a race meeting at Brands Hatch (spectating not driving) he'd clearly got his adrenaline going and he lost it on a corner and went straight through a hedge, flew over a tree stump (if the tree had still been there that would have been his final trip) and landed in a field. He survived. The car didn't.

[barney]

My biggest regret was chopping in my mk 2 cortina 1600e for for an Audi.
It was dark blue with a walnut (fake) dash.
I immediately regretted the decision, even though it needed a bit of work.
The Audi, while a good car, was quite soulless in comparison.

[Kendhni]

The good old Ford Crapi - had one for a short period, all the bits that didn't fall off due to vibration or rust or come off in your hands during normal usage went to the scrap yard.

[Kendhni]

My biggest regret was chopping in my mk 2 cortina 1600e for for an Audi.
It was dark blue with a walnut (fake) dash.
I immediately regretted the decision, even though it needed a bit of work.
The Audi, while a good car, was quite soulless in comparison.

I learned something about Audi's last year. I accidentally went into the side of one (totally my fault). At first I thought I had hit the brakes just in time and avoided the collision but unfortunately no. I ended up with a small crack and scoring on my front bumper (and a bit of trim had been dislodged and needed pushing back into place), whereas her drivers side door had a bumper shaped dent in it. I ran it through my insurance.

The interesting bit was a few months later when I started being hassled by a solicitor. Apparently the Audi driver (who I last saw running into the town because the accident had delayed her) was suffering from serious trauma, including personal injury, sleepless nights, distress and had found some ambulance chaser to sue me. Every time they sent me something I simply passed it onto the insurance company (I don't waste time talking to solicitors when I don't have to), but the letters got more and more threatening. Eventually the solicitor phoned me and told me if I did not respond I would be summonsed to court and blah de blah boring legal threats. I told the solicitor that the claim was frivolous, and she knew it, and that if she did not stop sending threatening letters to me, when she knew she should be talking to my insurance company, then I would sue her for distress and hassling me. That was the last I heard of her (sadly my insurance company paid out).

So given that my car had a minor crack and paintwork damage to the bumper and, as I said, at first I thought I had avoided any impact and had zero injuries, aches and pains .... but her wonderful German contraption folded like a piece of tissue paper and had so little protection that she suffered serious injuries, major distress etc. etc. - it has meant that Audis are well and truly off my shopping list.

This poor widdle Audi driving snowflake even phoned me one night to hurl abuse at me complaining how much her insurance had gone up. I feigned some empathy and told her all about the silver lining in that my insurance had (surprisingly) actually gone down ... she didn't take this good news well and told me her boyfriend would be paying me a visit, I said 'That's nice' and asked if he would be taking me out to dinner ... given the increased volume and frequency of abuse I got the impression that dinner was off the table (maybe she was the jealous type)

[Mervyn and Trish]

My biggest regret was chopping in my mk 2 cortina 1600e for for an Audi.
It was dark blue with a walnut (fake) dash.
I immediately regretted the decision, even though it needed a bit of work.
The Audi, while a good car, was quite soulless in comparison.

We had a Mk IV 2 litre Ghia. Similar amounts of "wood" work.

[Manoverboard]

Picture a yellow 2.0 Cortina being started by one of the passengers using his little boy's peddle car key

[Onelife]

Nice one Ken …perhaps she’ll think twice about putting in fictious claims in the future

[Mervyn and Trish]

Picture a yellow 2.0 Cortina being started by one of the passengers using his little boy's peddle car key

It was green actually. And being a Ford of that era you could probably start it with a rusty blunt nail.

[barney]

Picture a yellow 2.0 Cortina being started by one of the passengers using his little boy's peddle car key

It was green actually. And being a Ford of that era you could probably start it with a rusty blunt nail.

Talking of that, I recall when I worked in London and at the end of a demanding shift, I accidentally got into the wrong red Fiesta.
I gained access with no problem but became aware it wasn’t my motor when it would not start.
I looked around and quickly realised it wasn’t my car.

[Onelife]

Picture a yellow 2.0 Cortina being started by one of the passengers using his little boy's peddle car key

It was green actually. And being a Ford of that era you could probably start it with a rusty blunt nail.

Talking of that, I recall when I worked in London and at the end of a demanding shift, I accidentally got into the wrong red Fiesta.
I gained access with no problem but became aware it wasn’t my motor when it would not start.
I looked around and quickly realised it wasn’t my car.

I do the same with multi story car parks…I can never remember where I’ve left the dam thing

[towny44]

It was green actually. And being a Ford of that era you could probably start it with a rusty blunt nail.

Talking of that, I recall when I worked in London and at the end of a demanding shift, I accidentally got into the wrong red Fiesta.
I gained access with no problem but became aware it wasn’t my motor when it would not start.
I looked around and quickly realised it wasn’t my car.

I do the same with multi story car parks…I can never remember where I’ve left the dam thing

But nowadays you can blip the key to see which car lights up.

[Onelife]

Talking of that, I recall when I worked in London and at the end of a demanding shift, I accidentally got into the wrong red Fiesta.
I gained access with no problem but became aware it wasn’t my motor when it would not start.
I looked around and quickly realised it wasn’t my car.

I do the same with multi story car parks…I can never remember where I’ve left the dam thing

But nowadays you can blip the key to see which car lights up.

No good if you are on the wrong level or in the wrong car park

[Ranchi]

Haha. Ford key FT139 was famous in our school. It could open almost any Ford of the day.
My similar experience in a multi storey involved swearing that the b****y lock was frozen when a bloke asked what I was doing trying to get into a brown car. As soon as I said it I noticed that the stuff on the back seat was not mine. I was one floor up from my identical car. The multi storey car park design had lifts that opened on the ramps between floors. I had taken the lift to the correct level but had walked down half a floor rather than up. The bloke realised I had made an honest mistake and saw the funny side.

[CaroleF]

John had a Cortina Mk 2 when I first met him and then when we were married a 3 litre Ford Capri. I found driving the Capri quite difficult in that it had a very long bonnet and I'm fairly short and couldn't easily see where the bonnet ended! I only ever had one experience of being stopped by the police. It was when John and I were going out and I lived about 4 miles away from him. I had a Volkswagen Beetle. One night, probably about 11pm I was driving home on my own and was stopped by a police car, only one policeman in it as far as I could see. I rolled down my window and the young policeman asked me if I knew what the speed limit on the road was - it was part of the A27 near Fareham. I said I thought it was 30mph which was why I was keeping to the 30 limit. He said no it was 40mph and he stopped me because he thought I was driving too slowly for the road! I thanked him for putting me right. He then said was I on my way home to Mum - I lived on my own. I said yes that was right and she'd have a cup of cocoa waiting for me. He then bade me goodnight and went back to his car! That would have been about 1977.

Carole

[Stephen]

Yes I had a MK2 Cortina as well. That saw some action I can tell you

[Onelife]

Yes I had a MK2 Cortina as well. That saw some action I can tell you

I didn’t think the front passenger seat reclined on the MK2 Cortina?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Yes I had a MK2 Cortina as well. That saw some action I can tell you

I didn’t think the front passenger seat reclined on the MK2 Cortina?

He had a roof rack....

[Stephen]

Yes I had a MK2 Cortina as well. That saw some action I can tell you

I didn’t think the front passenger seat reclined on the MK2 Cortina?

Who said anything about the front seat