4LEX
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You might like this Slime. One of the most infamous cars of the 90's and linked to a series of robberies with those involved giving Police the slip!
Ford Escort RS1600i.
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You might like this Slime. One of the most infamous cars of the 90's and linked to a series of robberies with those involved giving Police the slip!
Slime
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Look at it, just look at it!
How can a piece of metal look this beautiful?
1955 300SL with 101,000 miles on it.
Auction ends in 2 or 3 hours time, surely it'll be north of £1M.
How can a piece of metal look this beautiful?
1955 300SL with 101,000 miles on it.
Auction ends in 2 or 3 hours time, surely it'll be north of £1M.
Bunkermagnet
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An absolute piece of motoring gorgeousness.
Something the modern plastic jelly mould will never come close to.
Personally I think most Merc's are beautiful up to around the very late 70's/early 80's.
Tashyboy
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Back to the original post. Went round to a pal of mines on Friday. He showed me the identical car to this. He paid £40k. He mentioned he was taking for the MOT yesterday. As it happened I saw him returning it to his garage. It is drop dead gorgeous when it’s on the road.
Slime
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Sold, for £1,105,000.
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Worlds gone mad with some of the prices people are paying for Old Ford’s.
Slime
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One was sold at a Goodwood auction a while back, it fetched just under £600,000 including fees.
https://www.goodwood.com/grr/road/n...a-cosworth-rs500-just-sold-for-nearly-600000/
KenL
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Why not, they are classics.
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Granted something like an RS 500 has racing pedigree. But some cars that at going for tens of thousands weren’t great when they were new.
KenL
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Such as?
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MK 2 Mexico.
RS1600
Sapphire Cosworths
In my opinion of course. You are quite welcome to your own
4LEX
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Nostalgia is why.
Sapphire Cosworth's were always good, especially the 4x4.
Sapphire Cosworth's were always good, especially the 4x4.
Tashyboy
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A pal of mine once had one and struggled to sell it back in the day.
cliveb
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Maybe that was because back then Cossies were nicked so often that they were virtually uninsurable.
Tashyboy
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I think some of our unscrupulous society loved those cars.
Springveldt
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Seeing this thread makes me wish I still had one of my first cars. It was a Ford Orion Ghia with an Escort RS Turbo engine in, fake bonnet air vents, in pearlescent white paint that had a purple tinge through it depending on the light angle. Also had purple lights running along the sills on both sides that I could turn on and off with a switch in the car. Totally unreliable but was great fun to drive. Think I might have some photo's of it laying around somewhere.
GreiginFife
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You didn’t live in Fife at the time did you?
KenL
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Sounds great apart for those lights.
Springveldt
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No, sunny Coatbridge. It was a proper boy racer car until I hit a cat and wrecked the front bumper but couldn’t afford to get the whole car re-sprayed in pearlescent white and had to settle for basic white instead.You didn’t live in Fife at the time did you?
A lad I knew had his own garage and told me the pearlescent was going to cost £600 to do or he could do it in basic white for £200. 19 year old me chose the cheaper option.
GreiginFife
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Ah. There was a guy in the village I grew up in had an almost identical Orion. RS engine and bodykit, pearl paint and UV tubes under it.No, sunny Coatbridge. It was a proper boy racer car until I hit a cat and wrecked the front bumper but couldn’t afford to get the whole car re-sprayed in pearlescent white and had to settle for basic white instead.
Had the best sound system ever though with a pair of Sapphire subs in the boot and an Alpine/Clarion system for everything else.
Then one day he, and the car, just disappeared from the village. Haven’t ever seen or heard from him since.
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