Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2017 i Classic Ford

HISTORIC TAKEOVER Brand-new Classic Ford Tour for 2018! We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be heading to the medieval city of Laon in northern France for next year’s Classic Ford Tour — to take part in the Circuit Historique de Laon! The Laon Historique as it’s more commonly known, is the biggest and most popular classic car pilgrimage to Europe with over 300 cars from the UK attending every year. It’s a noncompetitive event dedicated to any type of vintage, classic or sports car, with the city hosting a parade of classic and vintage cars from all over Europe, with classic Fords right at the heart of it. Our regular tour organiser, Scenic Car Tours has put together a cracking weekend, which starts from Dover (other crossings are available) on…

BRIGHTON ROCKS New car meet for classics Live on the south coast of the UK? Good news then, if you’re a fan of Sunday car meets. Stanmer House near Brighton has announced a new monthly car meet open to all classic car and bike owners and enthusiasts.There will be car rides on offer in exchange for a small charity donation where you can hop in to one of the classic cars on display and be taken for a spin around the estate. There’s food on offer too, with 20 per cent off for those turning up in a classic, and at every meeting, the owners of the organisers’ favourite three cars will be offered dinner on them. The first car meet will take place on Sunday, October 8, and the…

PRODUCTS THE LATEST,GREATEST BITS FOR YOUR CLASSIC FORD STAINLESS 4-INTO-1 PINTO MANIFOLD £780 Burton Power Burton Power has recently become a dealer for Simpson Race Exhausts, and the first hand-made exhaust manifold available off the shelf is this stainless-steel 4-into-1 design suitable for Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts running well-tuned Pintos. Featuring equal-length primaries, it’s manufactured from 304 grade stainless steel with a wall thickness of 1.2 mm, and the joints are gas purged TIG welded. Contact: 020 8518 9127, www.burtonpower.com FIBREGLASS MK2 ESCORT DOORS £190 each Old Ford Auto Services OFAS’s range of well-made fibreglass panels for classic Fords continues to grow and grow. The latest out of the moulds are these two-door Mk2 Escort doors, complete with inner skins and ready to fit. OFAS can also supply…

MK2 TRANSIT In the club Known for unearthing rare Transits, Peter Lee struck (bronze) gold when he came across this Clubmobil prototype in need of a complete rebuild. Words Marc Stretton Photos Adrian Brannan Back in the early ’80s, with a massive rise in sales of Econoline day-vans in the States, Ford of Europe, (in association with German motorhome manufacturer, Hymer) built and sold a custom Transit van, based on the newly-released Mk2 version of its best-selling commercial. These were known as the Transit Clubmobil and featured huge and strangely-shaped side windows, a custom metallic paintjob, one-off Ronal alloys and a luxurious velour and shagpile interior with captain’s seats. Some 150 Clubmobils were made, and they were sold all over mainland Europe. Today only 25 are known to have survived,…

CLASSIC FORD COLLECTION GARAGELAND Your projects: Too many is not enough, at least when it comes to classic Fords, and with their DIY garage-cum-second home to house them all, Terry and Dan Baker have got it nailed — literally. Words Simon Woolley Photos Jon Hill Whoever came up with the proverb, An Englishman’s home is his castle, had clearly never met the typical Classic Ford reader. Substitute the word, garage for home and you’re somewhere closer to where the old Ford enthusiast’s leanings lie. And when it comes to spending quality time beavering away on their projects, we reckon the father-and-son pairing of Terry and Dan Baker are more committed then most — they cheerfully admit they probably spend more time in the garage than the house, especially at weekends.…

HERITAGE Escort Ghia Classic Fords restored: Paul Mullan’s home rebuild of his 1979 Escort 1.3 Ghia has been a 10 month-long labour of love. Here’s the full story. Words Mike Renaut Photos Alex Lawrence The reason Paul Mullan’s 1979 Escort 1.3 Ghia might look familiar to you is we’ve featured it in our last Readers’ Projects Special back in December 2015 — just not looking quite this nice. Paul first sent us pictures after beginning to strip it down, although back then it was Oyster Gold with matching vinyl roof. “I’d been looking for a suitable car for quite a while,” remembers Paul. “This one turned up in trader’s advert in Lincoln, so I took the truck up there and viewed it with open eyes. Ideally, I wanted an RS2000…

ANGLIA 100E SIX PISTOL Longtime four-pot fan, Stan Bowles has switched to six cylinder glory with his latest project, this sorted Anglia 100E. Words and Photos Jon Cass We’ve known the Bowles family for some years now and it’s fair to say, they love their old Fords. Along with a few good like-minded mates who share a similar interest, between them they can amass quite a collection. In fact, when the Bowles and co scramble their cars together — which they often do — it makes an impressive sight! A few years back, Stan Bowles built himself a Nordic Blue Mk2 Escort Estate, fitted a lairy Crossflow and slammed on ultra-wide banded steels. This was by no means the first of Stan’s Blue Oval-badged creations, far from it, but we…

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CF TECH Know this 2000E GEARBOXES The go-faster gearbox of choice for ’60s Fords, the close-ratio three-rail comes in many types. Here’s what you need to know. Words and Photos Jon Hill “IT’S ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ’BOXES TO BACK A KENT ENGINE” The 2000E, Bullet, three-rail, single rail... there are many ways to describe the classic ’60s four-speed Ford gearbox and to the uninitiated, it’s extremely confusing. Coupled with the fact there are plenty of configurations — depending on the ’box’s origins — there’s a fair amount of explanation needed. What we’re talking about though is probably one of the most famous gearboxes to back a Kent-based Ford engine — mostly because they came with a factory set of close ratios — the legendary 2000E. These classic gearboxes…

OUR CARS Mike’s Mk1 Fiesta Mike’s making up for lost time, with much progress going on inside and out of the constantly-evolving race car for the road. I’ve been really busy over the summer but somehow I have managed to find a little time to do some more bits on the Fiesta. I have definitely not lost the love for it, in fact I have been having more ideas and concepts crop up into my head that I would like to implement on the little car which is good and exciting, but obviously will have a knock-on effect on actually getting it up and running and back on the road. The interior has been coming together with the new custom seat covers from James at RawHide Upholstery now mounted to…

Round 6: VW ACTION, Santa Pod, September 1-3 Old Skool Ford Drag Challenge The action’s hotting up as the penultimate round of the 2017 season sees the Fords dodging the VWs at Santa Pod Raceway. Words Jo Peters Photos Kieran Jenkins The penultimate round of the 2017 season of the OSFDC took place at Santa Pod with the Old Skool Ford boys and girls being invited guests of the VW fraternity at VW Action weekend. With some very heavily modified bugs going head to head with the Fords, it was good to have Chris Todd back on the strip after a round out due to a gearbox break. With his Scooby-powered MK1 Fiesta it really was the battle of the flat-fours and helped by a new set of rubber Chris…

Project Hunter CLASSIC FORD PROJECTS YOU SHOULD BUY — AND MODIFY. Illustrations: Simon Coulson There aren’t many ‘60s Fords you can currently buy for under £1000, but then there aren’t many that come as a bare shell and boxes of bits, either... Still, it does give us carte blanche to turn this two-door Corsair into something rather special — once we’ve worked out what’s missing from the boxes of parts and given the sad-looking bodyshell our full attention with an angle grinder and a MiG welder. Body suitably restored back to Halewood-spec, we’ve called in the services of a craftsperson with an English wheel and had them hand-roll some wheelarches in steel, and fabricate a front chin spoiler, too. At the rear, we’ve cut down a (repro) RS3100 ducktail spoiler…

Welcome If you need a big dose of inspiration to kickstart (or even restart) your project, then this is the issue for you. A huge number of readers have revealed their 50 projects and it sure makes for an impressive line-up. From the variety of cars — and vans — to the level of work that’s going into them (large and small) it’s great to see. Plus Jon (left), who’s built more than his own fair share of classic Ford project cars over the years — both for himself and for magazines — has put together an eight-point plan to help ensure that your own Blue Oval project sees the road, show or even track in time for next year’s forthcoming show season. Spring 2018 might seem a lifetime away…

USE YOUR VOTE Choose your fave feature car of 2017! The end of the year is getting closer — it must be Classic Ford Of TheYear time! The nominees for 2017 have just been announced, and you can find out which 12 cars we’ve shortlisted this year on page 20 .The winner will be announced in our Classic Ford Awards special in the January 2018 issue of the magazine — in the shops on December 1, 2017. How to vote Turn to page 20 and cast your eyes over the 12 truly stunning nominees, select your favourite, then go to www.classicfordmag.co.uk and follow the links.…

COMING UP Inside the December 2017 issue of Classic Ford magazine In the Northern Hemisphere at least, this is the time of year when we disappear into sheds, lockups and garages for the next few months, grinder in hand, plan in head and a willing victim in the shape of our classic Ford in front of us, ready to have whatever bodywork or mechanical malady sorted that we’ve been putting off all summer. To help you undertake these jobs, the December issue is a dedicated Restoration Special with expert tips and advice to help you restore your Ford, whether you’re a beginner or an old hand. The December 2017 issue arrives on the newsstands from Friday, November 3.Why not subscribe to make sure you don’t miss out? Check out our…

FRONTEND 5 minutes with Mick Wood Old Ford Autos’ Mick is surrounded by projects, but he can’t get enough of them. How did you get into cars? When I was still at school, my uncle and cousin used to drag race Minis and I used to go with them, so naturally, I got hooked! Those were the pre-Santa Pod days when we mainly raced at Blackbushe Airport. We travelled around quite a lot — Snetterton, even Silverstone once where they used the long straight. And your first Ford? My first car was a Riley Kestrel which I drove that into the side of a coach, so I needed another car. My mate had a 107E so I bought that. It was in good condition, in Imperial Maroon and grey and…

SALVAGE SQUAD BUILDING A GARAGE HOMEBUILT HERO STYLE “When we first saw this place, we hardly looked at the house,”Terry admits,“we were more interested in the amount of room available to expand the garage.”Terry and Dan moved in eight years ago, and immediately started making plans to extend the single garage that the bungalow came with.“I’d had enough of working out of crappy single lock-ups and wanted somewhere Dan and I could work comfortably and have a laugh.Almost all of the framework for the extension was pulled out of skips — I got the idea from watching a programme on TV. It will comfortably house five cars now — seven at a squeeze — and we’re pretty well-equipped to do most jobs. Everything is either recycled or bought cheap —…

CFTECH Know this Your Next Project Car It’s a great time to start a new project — here’s our eight-point guide to help you get on the right track. Words Jon Hill What to buy Buy the best car you can, even if it means spending more money because it’ll be cheaper and quicker in the long run. A classic Ford with specialist kits available for it can be very cost-effective because the hard work’s been done. Thanks to people like Milton, an Anglia for example is dead easy using mostly bolt-on kits — spending money hurts but it can be the cheapest way! Buying an unfinished car’s a good one, but you have to know what you’re buying and be sure it’s not a rot box. Ideally something that’s…

EVENT REPORT DUCHY SHOW DUCHY CAPRI & CLASSIC FORD CLUB SHOW The Cornish classics dodge the rain for a sizzling summer gathering near Newquay. Words and Photos Rick Davy It could be said that Cornwall gets somewhat overlooked when I comes to car shows, but then the Duchy Capri & Classic Ford Club dismiss that. They might be a matter of miles from Lands End, but they have a hell of collection of sweet Fords down this way. The club’s annual show at Holywell Bay near Newquay is just too good to miss. Given the fact that the Cornish skies are pretty much always blue and full of Simpsons clouds, it has to be a must. With a fine selection of classic Fords on offer, Cornwall really does have it…

YOUR CARS CAR OF THE MONTH THE BEST OF WHAT'S DROPPED IN OUR INBOX THIS MONTH Brodie Merrick From: Australia Car: Mk1 Escort “I thought I’d send through a few photos of my Mk1 Escort four-door, which me and my dad have done a full restoration on. It’s running a fully-rebuilt 1600 Crossflow bored 40 thou’, Holbay 120 cam, lightened flywheel, ported and polished head with ARP head bolts, twin 40 Dell’Orto carbs, four-into-one manifold, Holley Mighty Might electric fuel pump, GAZ coil-overs, adjustable strut tops, reset leaf springs, 6x13 four-spokes and a full retrim.” David Percival From: UK Car: Mk2 Escort “Here’s my homebuilt Mk2 more-door,” says David. “It runs a 1300 Crossflow on a twin-choke Weber carb, Ashley exhaust system, adjustable front RS struts and brakes, and sits…

EXPERT CLINIC TROUBLE WITH YOUR FORD? SEND IN YOUR QUERY AND WE'LL SORT IT OUT “LAG IS A TURBO’S BIGGEST ENEMY AND YOU’LL NEVER BE ABLE TO TOTALLY REMOVE IT UNLESS YOU USE AN ANTI-LAG SYSTEM” Which ratio? Q I am fitting a tuned 2-litre Pinto and Type-9 five-speed ’box into a Mk1 Escort. What diff ratio should I use? I want to keep the English axle and fit it with an LSD. The car will be used mainly for road use but will do both track and closed-road events. Paul Hanson Email A Either a 3.77:1 or 3.9:1 ratio crownwheel and pinion would be ideal, though if you’re planning competition use, the 3.9 would be a better choice, as it’ll make the car a little quicker off the line.…

OUR CARS Ade’s Mk2 Granada With the autobox not liking long, hot trips, Ade checks the cooling system in for some fettling What’s been done this month: Transmission cooler installed, radiator modified and rebuilt Next on the to-do list: Head back across the Channel Thanks: Stevie and Ross at East End Radiators 0141 5545281 MJ Racing 01698 259737 Recently myself, Simon and the Granada embarked on the Classic Ford Tour to Germany. The cooling system wasn’t particularly happy with the continental temperatures though, and an incontinent gearbox even had to be replaced mid-trip thanks to the awesome crew on the trip! Back in Glasgow I got to work of diagnosing the problem. Looking at the design of the gearbox cooling showed me that the oil was being routed into a…

Round 6: Harry Flatters Rally, July 30 BRITISH HISTORIC RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP The Epynt military ranges were the setting for this year’s Harry Flatters rally, with Escorts out on top. Words Paul Lawrence Photos MarkWrittle Photographic Jason Pritchard and Phil Clarke took an important victory in round six of the 2017 Mintex MSA British Historic Rally Championship, the Harry Flatters Rally on Epynt. The result gives Pritchard and Clarke a shot at a third title if they can take maximum points from the remaining three rounds. Championship leaders Nick Elliott and Dave Price were edged back to fourth on the asphalt event by Rob Smith/Alun Cook and Neil Williams/Sion Jones after a tremendous four-way battle of Mk2 Escorts. The Brecon Motor Club (www.breconmotorclub.co.uk) rally ran slickly all day and the serious…

your projects: pop 100e THE LONG STRETCH Your projects: It’s taken longer than he’d care to admit, but Dean Trigwell’s dream of owning a Pro Street, stretched Pop is finally coming to fruition. Words and Photos Jon Hill Name: DeanTrigwell Age: 56 Job: Retired Location: Bracknell Name: MickWood Job: Co-runs Old Ford Auto Services Car: 1962 100E Popular Start condition: Standard car Condition now:Tail end of dummy build Time taken so far: Started in a galaxy far, far away Estimated time of completion: 2018 We all build projects for different reasons — and getting the car on the road for some is top priority, which means compromises have to be made. For others it’s the building and getting everything spot-on’s that’s the total enjoyment. Then there’s those that love their…

THE BIG PICTURE GARDEN OF EDEN When do you consider your obsession with classic Fords out of control? When they start to take over the garden, perhaps? Anglia addict, John Court will happily arrange his various 105E projects as garden ornaments when the mood takes him. “They all normally live in various garages and sheds,” he admits “but I quite often need to move some around so they all end up in garden — I actually have another Anglia that’s out of shot. My wife is very understanding and after 33 years of marriage is used to my addiction to old Fords!”…

Where to go in November Footman James Classic Vehicle Restoration Show When: Saturday and Sunday, November 4-5 Where: Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet BA4 6QN, UK What’s going on: With its usual excellent array of club stands and displays, the Footman James Classic Vehicle Restoration Show’s 17th running looks set to be a superb weekend. Expect to feast your eyes on superbly-restored machines, a selection of fascinating projects and also head home with all manner of parts, pieces and tools as traders, autojumblers and professional restorers make the halls of the Bath & West their home for the weekend. The Sunday of the show also sees the ever-popular Charterhouse Auction with lots to suit all budgets and tastes. Tickets are £8 per day in advance (£10 on the gate)…

2017 VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE classic Ford CAR OF THE YEAR We’ve seen some great feature cars in 2017, now it’s up to you to select your favourite! A. Mk3 Capri Owner: Danny Cleghorn Featured: September 2017 That simple Mineral Blue exterior hides a sorted ST170 engine on throttle bodies. A proper homebuilt car that oozes understated power and class. B. Cortina GT Owner: Jerry Peters Featured: March 2017 Overpowered and over there... Jerry’s Mk1 could only have been built in the USA, with Ford V8 power, Mustang suspension and a fuel cell hidden in a wooden trunk in the boot. C. Sierra XR4x4 Builder: Daniel Hallam Featured: December 2016 Owned by Daniel’s Dad, Pete, it was down to Daniel to spend an intense 9 months bringing this XR4x4 back…

THAMES 307E Van Wilder Buying a ’60s van with a sick engine gave Dave and Barry Nail just the excuse they needed to go for some more power courtesy of a fruity Crossflow. Words Marc Stretton Photos Darren Woolway For many years Dave Nail was part of the Ford scene around south London, having started off his driving career in a Mk1 Zodiac in 1965. More Z-cars followed and in the fuel-short ’70s he downsized to 100Es and Anglias — some standard, some modded, with plenty of 1500GT engines swapped in the place of sidevalves and small Pre-Crossflows. Cortinas, a Corsair and Capris of the 3.0S and 2.8i variety were followed by a Sierra, before Dave drifted away from Fords for a while. It would take a trip to Cuba…

WHAT'S ON Photo Jeannot Boesen OCTOBER Run WhatYer Brung October 7 Santa Pod Raceway, Podington NN29 7XA, UK www.rwyb.co.uk Saturday Night Special October 14 Santa Pod Raceway, Podington NN29 7XA, UK www.rwyb.co.uk Run WhatYer Brung October 22 Santa Pod Raceway, Podington NN29 7XA, UK www.rwyb.co.uk NewarkAutojumble October 22 Newark and Notts Showground, Winthorpe, Newark NG24 2NY, UK www.newarkautojumble.co.uk Run WhatYer Brung October 29 Santa Pod Raceway, Podington NN29 7XA, UK www.rwyb.co.uk NOVEMBER Classic Ford December 2017 on sale November 3 http://shop.kelsey.co.uk Footman James Classic Vehicle Restoration Show November 4-5 Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet BA4 6QN, UK 01507 529529 , www.carsandevents.com The National Restoration Show November 5 Stoneleigh Park, Coventry CVS 2LZ, UK www.restoration-show.co.uk Drift WhatYer Brung November 8 Santa Pod Raceway, Podington NN29 7XA, UK www.dwyb.co.uk Lancaster Insurance…

CF TECH How to Install 100E disc brakes Want to swap the front drum brakes for discs on your Pop or Prefect, but retain the standard struts? Here’s what to do. Words and Photos Jon Hill 100Es can make great classic Fords — witness the hundreds of them being built right now — but there’s always been a problem: if you want serious power then you’ve got to dive in deep, simply because the non-107E models need the bulkhead moving back and crucially, disc brake struts fitted. That last fact means you need to change the whole front suspension, and to one with a normal Ford PCD, too. Although, that’s not too much of a drama because kits are available to virtually bolt it on — surprisingly through the same…

QUERY OF THE MONTH SEAT MATERIAL Q I’m restoring a Mk2 1600 Sport, just like the one I owned in South Africa in the early 1980s. While I am trying to keep it as original as possible I’m not above making small improvements to improve safety, reliability and comfort. Have you ever done an article on seats? The ones in my car are tired and uncomfortable. Any suggestions? Also, do you know if the original chocolate and orange houndstooth fabric is still available? John McAloon Email A We’ve not really done an article on using alternative seats, so perhaps it’s time we did. What is quite common is to use a later, full back refiner such as a Recaro and have it retrimmed in the original design fabric so it’s…

MOTORSPORT UNSTAGED Davie Wood’s finally built the Group 4-style Escort he always wanted. Just don’t ask him if he’s going to rally it... Words Marc Stretton Photos Adrian Brannan “I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE LOOK OF RALLY CARS, SO IT WAS TIME TO BUILD THE ESCORT I’D DREAMT OF” For some people rallying is a passion. It’s in their blood, and thousands of Pounds are spent each year building, preparing and racing historic cars around the world. Davie Wood from Midlothian isn’t one of them. Others have such an appetite for the sport they spend hundreds each season and countless hours in cold forests and lanes waiting for those few seconds of adrenaline as their heroes flash past. Davie isn’t one of them either. And past watching “a bit of rallying…

CF BUYER buyer’s guide: mk2 sierra BUYER’S GUIDE SIERRA MK2 The facelifted Sierra is a good-value and practical classic Ford. Here’s what to look for. Words ChristianTilbury Photos Darren Woolway “CUSTOMERS COULD CHOOSE FROM 18 DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE FACELIFTED SIERRA WITH TRIM OPTIONS FROM BASIC TO THE FLAGSHIP GHIA” “REPLACED BY THE MONDEO, THE SIERRA BOWED OUT IN 1993 WHEN IT WAS STILL ONE OF THE UK’S BEST-SELLING CARS” While it was no way as radical as the original Sierra, the Mk2 version raised more than a few eyebrows on its February 1987 debut. This time round though, it was for all the right reasons. The Mk2 might not have looked overly different to its predecessor, but the changes made a big difference to its desirability to both…