MkII Escort. Cars of Memory (Ford Escort in general)

Name: DrRobert

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Product:	Ford Escort in general
Date:	29.11.03 (144 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap, Plenty of spares available, Fun to drive when they worked.

Disadvantages: Rust, Unreliable

This review is part of the Cars & Motorbikes of Memory challenge where members are asked to write about cars/motor bikes which bring back memories. ** dooyoo say they will hurry through any item requests. If they are flagged "Motors" they will see they go through as quickly as possible. They do ask that they not be "In General" but a specific make/model of vehicle. Any which have consumer information will be eligible for crowns.


My first ever car was an old MkII Escort estate that I got from an uncle for the princely sum of £50.

To say it was a heap of shit would be doing a disservice to many useful compost heaps and bags of manure the world over.

My first Escort was a sort of brown colour, which have called gold when it came out of the factory. By the time it came into my possession it was simply a sort of faded yellowy brown with rusty bits thrown in for good measure.

I was only 17, and I was just delighted to have any car at all, the fact it was a hopeless wreck mattered not a jot to me. I had visions of myself driving around all night with a car full of young girls, lots of beer and loud music. The fact that it had no radio or cassette player and I could barely afford beer wasn't a worry. I just nicked my toddler sister's Fisher Price portable tape recorder, and young girls had their own money, didn't they?

The car only lasted me about two or three months and in that time I went through two driveshafts, two bootlids or rear door things, about three or four alternators and several batteries and tyres. The only good thing about this was when I got money back from the road tax after I dumped the bloody thing, sixty quid I think was.

The problems didn't put me off Escorts, though. I loved driving the old rear wheel drive Escorts. I saw myself as some kind rally driver or something and I would take every opportunity I could to get on some dirt roads for a bit of 'rall
y driving'. Perhaps that's why my Escorts always needed driveshafts.

In total I think I had four or five MkI and II Escorts, I pined for an RS1800 but that was never to be.

p.s. I do not condone drinking and driving. I was young and bored and stupid.

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