Did anyone else see this programme last night:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/for-the-love-of-cars

Next week's is about early Land Rovers.

I thought tonight's (about Mk1 Escorts) was rather good.

 

yep, we'll good, escort mexico is a dream car imo

 

Saw it,
And yes I was lucky enough to experience a Mexico in the day

Albeit as a passenger and at brakeneck speed round our country lanes. I'd left it too late to make it to the station in reality but sisters boyfriend said jump in, only a 3 mile trip down our country lanes I should think but it can't have taken more than minute and a half. It was lucky nobody was coming the other way, and he only semi lost back end on one 90 degree corner..

 

I've just looked at the prices of early Escorts (and Land Rovers) on Pistonheads. Good God!

 

Looks a promising series, They started off with a bang in showing a great iconic car. My nan had one and every time without fail she left our driveway in a shower of gravel, sideways

 

But Philip Glenister FFS?

What's his qualification? He was In a programme where he owned a classic car?

 

I think he suits it quite well as a 'face' for the series. He obviously is passionate about cars or 'motors' and I doubt they needed anything else. The other guy is the experience behind the restoring

 

Took a lot for him to smile, I think he was trying to remain in character

 

Great show, i loved it!....Brought back many memories from when i was a teenager...

 

There has been a lot of $hite shows of this type, but this one seems well conceived. Really enjoyed it and I have it on record on the old pvr. Looking forward to the Land Rover next.

 

Exactly, he's presenting the show at the end of the day and I think he did it well.
Looks like a promising series.

 

He is the presenter.The experts build the cars.
I thought he was very good.He had a good approach & knew how to talk to people on their level & let them explain the details.Also he has a good sense of humour.

If he was a 'car nerd' I think it would be less appealing to a wider audience.
If it gets more people involved in car related activities then all well & good.

A lot of people are put off by so called specialist interest groups & see them as the realm of the super nerds.Hence some of the problems that new members have on here.

 

Would you rather someone like Mike Brewer presented it, that would get the viewing figures up

 

Nah........someone with car knowledge. Plato?

Glenister is a two bit, one part actor.

 

The mexico made a nice price at auction just over £23k.

 

Earlier you mentioned qualifications, what has Plato got regards car restoration?

 

Totally agree, he was an utter embarrassment. Much like that Idross Elba character was in that last attempt to bring someone with little genuine car knowledge onto a car programme.

 

It's on Pistonheads
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifie...co-mk1/2096598
Very nice

 

MK2 Mexico anyone?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escor...#ht_2873wt_986
Beautiful

 

I'd love to own that but for 18k it would result in the Mrs removing a valuable part of my anatomy with a kitchen knife
I prefer the Mk2 to the 1.

 

It was a great program, good to get something original on Cars - Top Gear is just the same ole the same ole .....

 

I sort of understand the appeal of a MK1/2 Escort but they are so expensive for what is a bog basic, not very powerful, Cart sprung car.

85 BHP standard, the Mexico wasnt all that special, the RS 2000 wasnt either really, I drove a MK2 RS 2000 when looking for a car back in the late eighties and it was very average.

 

Yep I saw it and thought it was very poor, not enough time spent on showing the renovation of the car and to much time spent on the cockney idiot galavanting round the country and talking bol10x.

 

yep, i wanted to see more of the renovation too

 

The car pictured in the link is not the car on the programme, or if it is it isnt what it looked like at the end of the programme, it started off with th steel rims, and the thin pinstripes on somd of the panels but ended up without the vinyl roof, with the thicker mexico stripe and a set of revolution cross spokes.

The mk1 is probably my all time favorite car, years ago my mate had a modena green one that I helped with a little bit on the bodywork side. It was registered as an avo mexico but he wasnt convinced it was geniune.

My father in law did have a geniune example in daytona yellow, he bought it brand new with a weeks wages!
He lent it to his mum to go shopping in, but she wondered what the fuss was about and why it was so slow, although she drove it with the handbrake still on.

When I was at college about 20 years ago, some kid in my class bought a mk1 mexico for his first car. He had it a week and sideswipped a telegraph pole. Tw@.

 

And I thought Phillip Glenister did a good job presenting the show, but you've got to wonder at the researchers who seemed to make out that the Mexico is the mk1 escort to have, with no mention of the rs1600, twin cam or lotus escort.

 

Theres a word you don't hear much and one of my favourites

 

Even better when it's spelled correctly

 

ban him

 

MK1 Escorts have some kind of massive halo round them and seem to be worshipped like exotics, I remember driving a few and, as standard they were ok at best, I had a MK 1600 GT Capri with the same engine, it had a little bit of grunt but they still took 11/12 seconds to get to sixty, the Escorts werent significantly faster and there was that copper rattling on about being able to easily keep pace with 3.0 GT Capris, er, no it wouldnt, either the Capri was broken or the driver was, there was 50 odd bhp difference. The Mexico isnt significantly faster than a Toyota Aygo.

I see young lads posting pictures of Escort Mexicos as being their dream car, I think they may come as a bit of a shock if they got to drive one. I think people get confused between a Mexico and the YB engined, four linked monsters that bear no relation to how they left the factory.

Someone should relase a body kit that transforms something cheaper, but capable into a MK1 lookalike, it can only be that lovely shape and the fact they were quick for the day, ok and a little bit fun as really there is loads of better stuff for twenty grand.