OAPs dailying classic ... (Escort mk3 content)

[cjhillman]

Hope this is interesting to people. Due to being a complete sado, sometime I google the Cars I own to look for old photos of them, mainly my Red Escort mk3. This photo always amuses me and I say to my misses this will be us in 40 years ...



Last night I thought i should see if its still on the road. Sure enough its Tax'd / Tested and after googling the numberplate found a couple more pics..




The last one from 2016.

How cool is it that this is still being used on the road and in the Flickr comments someone says they have owned it since 1988. Hopefully they still are around and using it now. This got me thinking...

I wonder how many Classics are still being used by the older generations as their daily Cars and not seen as a classic but, just their old Car/why would I bother buying a new one? There can't be many now and also, how cool it would be to find a Car like this with history. My one hasnt really got any.

Sometimes when my Dad borrows my Escort people ask him if he's selling it I get that a bit but I think its generally assumed they will get it for peanuts off him. having said that... I probably would ask the bloke above even though I own one.

[shin2chin]

In Northampton I've seen an elderly couple in a mk2 xr2 and an old gent in a mustard Chevette.

[OGDB]

May 3, 2020 19:39:54 GMT shin2chin said:

In Northampton I've seen an elderly couple in a mk2 xr2 and an old gent in a mustard Chevette.

Funnily enough there is an older chap just around the way from me who has a 1985 3 door fiesta. Still drives it to the corner shop quite regularly. He also has something on his driveway that I am unable to identify. Might have to post a photo on here in an identification attempt.

[rattlecan]

I see an old boy near me quite often in a burgundy mk1 Orion 1.3L, looks really nice too

[vader]

Older couple around here drive a very tired looking Jensen Interceptor!

[MkX]

There's an old-timer who lives a few doors from my parents, he's well into his 90s and I've known him for nearly 50 years. In all that time he's owned 2 cars; he had a Humber Super Snipe which he had fixed and welded year after year until it couldn't be fixed or welded any more and now he's still driving an Escort he's owned since the late 1990s. Pork pie hat, 20mph tops.

[stealthstylz]

An old boy round the corner from me has a Montego estate as a daily.

[granvia]

I used to regularly pass an old bloke doing 60 on the M61 in the slow lane in a cavalier turbo, it was a minter as well, wish I knew where it was now !!

[BenzBoy]

I love seeing old chaps driving retro cars as dailies that they've probably owned from new. Just the other day I saw an older fellow in a Ford Sierra 4x4 Ghia estate, well used but quite tidy from the outside. I almost went up to him and asked if it was for sale but I had my sensible hat on.

[paul99]

Did see an early (Y plate iirc) pale blue Mk3 Escort in Maidenhead a while back, and wondering if the elderly old dear driving it was the first owner. Also see a Mk2 Golf near me which looks to be tidy but unrestored, just a car to some.

[time]

There’s an old couple by me who drive round in an immaculate metallic blue Ford Executive, I see them quite often round Blacheath town centre and Sainsbury’s

[MkX]

[danny81]

Seen a mk2 Astra near mint used as a daily standard 5 door base model with faded paint but still looks solid. There's a old boy in next town with a Capri laser that I remember seeing for the last 20 years or so

[rattlecan]

Oh yeh, one I forgot about earlier, I only normally see it once a year at Drive it Day show at The Arboretum.
A guy turns up in a very well used DB5 in green. It has a huge dent on the drivers wing & is generally pretty disheveled. I’ve spoken to him a few times & it’s been his daily since the early 70’s when he bought it

[OGDB]

I don’t know how I forgot this one.

I was at my local tip last year in my Sierra when an old boy came in with a black, convertible 1967 mustang. Not the thing you see every day and caught everyone’s attention. Especially when he started unloading all sorts of junk from the boot. I mentioned something to him and he says he drives it as regularly as he could.

Then earlier this year I was up the tip again (on going house renovation, I don’t go there for fun) and as I was leaving the same old boy was pulling in, once again in his mustang. Very cool.

[OGDB]

May 4, 2020 6:32:34 GMT rattlecan said:

Oh yeh, one I forgot about earlier, I only normally see it once a year at Drive it Day show at The Arboretum.
A guy turns up in a very well used DB5 in green. It has a huge dent on the drivers wing & is generally pretty disheveled. I’ve spoken to him a few times & it’s been his daily since the early 70’s when he bought it

I think I’ve seen a photo of this online somewhere. He turned up to a small gathering, bumped the thing up a curb on some double yellows and left it looking abandoned. I remember thinking it looked very well used. There can’t be many of them used like this in the country anymore. Unfortunately.

[igor]

This sort of thing happens a bit here in New Zealand too.
At a show in 2014? I encountered a '60 Fairlane 500 sedan. Had a yarn to the driver as one does at these events and discovered he was indeed the first owner. The car had 300,000 miles on it and looked like it but everything worked and it had not long since received a clean sheet wof/mot.
In the early '70s mum's father worked on a farm owned by an elderly spinster. Her daily was a very tidy '39 Chevrolet sedan. No idea whether she'd bought it herself or it had been her father's or what the story was. Maybe it belonged to a boyfriend who went away to the war and never came back. We'll never know.

[OGDB]

They keep flooding back now.

I was at an event in May last year in Kingsbridge harbour in south Devon. There was two minis there, a Mk1 S and a Mk2 Cooper. The MK2 Cooper was made for only 2 years iirc and I have one, so my interest was instantly in the Mk2. The owner had a photocopy of his original bill of sale from back in 1968!

I have a photo on my old phone I will try to dig out. Drew quite a crowd.

[neilsdavies]

The one that springs to mind locally to me is the lady who I suspect is the mother/grandmother of a family in my street. See her fairly often in a mint J-plate mk2 Golf GTi 5-door. Red, big bumpers, BBS wheels and really tidy.

[igor]

Spied this EH Holden Special in the supermarket carpark in Kaitaia early last summer.



Big cushion on the driver's (bench) seat and elderly person's preferential parking certificate on the dashboard.