Thread: Ford

well mazda is nearly a ford so this is as good a place to post as anywhere.
in ashburton at moment in caryard is a mazda B1600 ute for sale $7500
so what?? you say...
well both Dad and older brother owned them when I was starting primary school and Im turning 52 this year.....if that isnt holding its value for a motor vechile I dont know what is.

Originally Posted by scotty

hasnt been a good ford built since the 70s..... and none of those were built in england

Agree.

They're ok if you can put up with the oil leaks, electrical problem's, rust, build quality,

Having said that , I wouldn't mind a GT shaker if I has the money.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

well mazda is nearly a ford so this is as good a place to post as anywhere.
in ashburton at moment in caryard is a mazda B1600 ute for sale $7500
so what?? you say...
well both Dad and older brother owned them when I was starting primary school and Im turning 52 this year.....if that isnt holding its value for a motor vechile I dont know what is.

Mazda build quality is far superior to the Ford efforts. Once, we had a car with a rattle in the sill. We couldn't figure it out. Cutting open the sill revealed a glass coke bottle and lunch wrappers, straight from the ford factory in Wiri.

Hard case.

the sth africans got it right when they dropped a v8 in the capri (so technically not english built) guess i just lament the days of v8s, carberettors and plugs and points.. and only a handfull of wires to power the whole vehicle ....... at least you could work on them on the side of the road . on a side note we have 2 capri bodyshells at work frying to make one good one out of the 2...... both are pretty goosed (been used as race cars in a past life and also rotten as) the owner has a third which we are wondering is worth using

Originally Posted by Got-ya

Until a certain Nissan turned up and show them all who was boss.

The cosies were old technology by then, my first was an 87 red head, my second was a 92 green head 4x4. 250 Clio ks on the Desert and still hauling

Originally Posted by tac a1

Mazda build quality is far superior to the Ford efforts. Once, we had a car with a rattle in the sill. We couldn't figure it out. Cutting open the sill revealed a glass coke bottle and lunch wrappers, straight from the ford factory in Wiri.

Hard case.

Lucky it wasn’t a tuna sandwich

You could beat a Chrysler from the Petone plant, the girls ran a knock shop in the back of a truck at lunchtime, same on the night shift at Dunlop Upper Hutt, that time it was the ladies making the tubes, French chalk everywhere. As they say”Stick with Dunlop”

4 FORDS in our shed, wifeys '69 Mercury Cougar, XH XR8 ute, EF XR8 sedan and '87 XF Fairmont with a 400 & C6. Used to be a Holden bloke back in the younger days....til I saw the light.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

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in ashburton at moment in caryard is a mazda B1600 ute for sale $7500
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I waited in vain for you to add it had been gold plated or something. God know why you'd pay those $$$ for something that was pretty unexciting in its day.