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Back in time I had 1300 escorts....what bhp would they have been...I would like to test drive another just for purpose of nostalgia if that's the right word....I can remember pressing the throttle pedal that hard my big toe nail wore through my socks.....oh that smell of undeseal where you had the floor pan replaced....running around with a puntured rad....didn't even had to worry about head gaskets.....knock on the door of a strangers house ask for a container of water to fill empty rad....stranger points to canal...filled rad up with duckweed green water ...on way no hassle...those were the days
Major upgrade putting a electric motor on to pump water to washer jets and dispose of the footpump you had to squash with your foot...if my memory is still intact they had a.chrome ring around footpump for the high beam and the owners manual actually told you how to drive the car

1.3 MK 1 Escort, a staggering 57bhp. The Mexico version: 85bhp.
Fond memories of welding strut top repair plates. Dead easy to work on: always fancied one to tinker with.

A mate at college did a bit of rallying: he went the whole hog with works arches, turreted rear shocks, 1.6 engine. I ported the head for him.

For the younger among us....

Mine was dark blue..reg number NEH 272k .2 door

Bing brings up 115,000 results.

First result is trying to sell an after market electronic ignition system so no need for a dwell angle.

The second result brings up "Dwell angle: 48-52 Deg"

Third result is your post John!

My first car was a 1998 1.8 Ghia X Escort. Whooping 115bhp I got rid of it after 6 months for a Rover 45 (worst mistake I made!!!). Lovely car, but it drank fuel something rotten, and after lending it to a mate for a week well the brakes were never the same again... Ford should bring the Escort back!

talkingcars wrote: wrote:

Bing brings up 115,000 results.

First result is trying to sell an after market electronic ignition system so no need for a dwell angle.

The second result brings up "Dwell angle: 48-52 Deg"

Third result is your post John!

38 to 40 degrees pre 1974, 1967 to 1974 the angle is 48 - 52. Mine was a 1972....

I now have to deliberately forget something to make room for new stuff. And where's the control-alt-delete gone?

this escort is still around, just done a check on it, no m o t but if it was scrapped it would not show up, cost you £10 to find out where it is through the dvla,

I've had a few escorts neh in blue was wrapped around a lamp post by the boy racer who bought it from me in 1984....these cars still appear because they were not regesterd has scrapped and the log book may still be floating around.....

There were too many around in the early 1980s to worry about saving one from the crusher.our local scrappy were full of them..and if you took a car to them...they didn't ask for the logbook....

Er what was the question???.....