Nice article

[slowprop]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

It's a weird phenomenon often referred to as the "Blue Oval Tax", for some reason if the badge on the car is in the shape of a blue oval, the price seems to go through the roof for no other reason than it's a Ford. Totally opposite to the original ethos of a Ford! meant to be affordable for everyone! Oddly i was trawling ebay last night looking at some old Fords, £12k for a Cortina anyone? A similar age/condition Vauxhall Cavalier Mk1 was up for considerably less, having owned both i'd go for the Cavalier any day over a Ford.

As for your £7k 9xx, i wonder too what you'd get for your money! A bit like a 740 Turbo estate that as recently the subject of a thread on here and a deposit was paid by a member - on arrival it wouldn't start, when it did it ran rough, bits of trim hanging off, vacuum hoses and similar blanked off with woodscrews and other problems, nowhere near a £2k car which is what it was listed for on ebay!

I had a mark 1 Cavalier. Bought it for £450. Ran it for a couple of years and spent virtually nothing on it. Sold it for £250 I seem to recall. Cheap, reliable motoring which served me very well as a young lad with my first foot on the property ladder.

[Laird Scooby]

I seem to remember seeing that one on ebay (or similar) about a year or so back, in need of new sills and other remedial work. Something about it looks wrong, can't put my finger on it but weren't all the roof bars Anthracite? Didn't all 940s have Anthracite bumpers at that age?

[ThorV70]

eBay one, crazy price, your car much more realistic!

[slowprop]

Originally Posted by ThorV70

eBay one, crazy price, your car much more realistic!

Yeah it does look a tad optimistic.