old pic of cib1615

[Tim]

found on here http://www.galiciaenralis.com/Ford.htm#

[Mex 1t]

ah john of mclaughlin fame !!!!!! the 1800 maestro

[graham John]

and BCG............

[Banishit]

still looks nicer like this

http://bbs.fzr1000exup.org.uk/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=7604&start=0

[ders]

stunning car

cheeRS Ders.

[rusty&dusty]

John saw the pictures when they were initially posted and was very impressed.

[Miniliteman]

Does anyone know how Old John is at the moment?
Last time I spoke to him he was into Ducatis ...

First time we met was Essex-show, Boreham 1993. And the man let me drive his 1800 (KCX192S) on the testtrack ... so he is probably the main reason that I spent most of my hard earned cash on BDA's.

Regards,

[Mex 1t]

leon, dave r i suppose is the only man that knows this ;-)

[rusty&dusty]

To fill in some of the gaps;

48 years of age.

Still undertaking recovery and collection work, amongst other things.

Currently rebuilding a BDA in his spare time for an RS1600 which is undergoing a ground up rebuild.

Many of you will also know Tom, John's father who bought BCG and subsequently showed it for a number of years.

Yes, Ducati is very prominent, an absolutley immaculate - as you would expect - 998R is the current bike, the previous 748R, bought new, accumulated nearly 20,000 miles in less than four years with various paint schemes along the way!

The picture of John at the wheel of CIB 1651 at the start of this thread was part of a feature article in Classic Ford, May 1998 edition

My own favourite was UTF.

Regards

[FOSSIE]

That car, CIB, and the Classic Ford feature of '98 was one of the main reasons why my dad and I got involved in Escorts. We saw the car shortly after the feature, and spoke to John - we were blown away by the car and it was really the inspiration for our first mk2. You wouldn't believe the number of times we flicked back through the magasine "just to see how John did it...." There was just something about the car - it wasn't the highest spec, nor the shiniest car at the show (John said he'd given up concours by then) but the build standard was amazing.

Useless little bit of info - but at the time, John was building the mk2 as a project with his son, Tom, who was 16. My dad's called, John too, and i (Tom) was also 16.... Irrelevant, but i thought pretty strange at the time! Specially when we were building very similar cars.

I wondered where the car had gone... Good to see it's still alive. When we spoke to John those years ago, it was for sale, and we said at the time to John, we'd give him his asking price no question (if only we'd had the money!)

I notice it's now got an alloy gp4 bib spoiler rather than the "mex" type one - did John change that?

Personally i prefered it plain red, but then i like plain cars Still, a cracking livery job.

cheers
Tom

[Miniliteman]

Hi,

I didn't meant to say "how old is John" but "how is he", he being Old John!
John also had the rare Motorsport rare spoiler on the car, is that still on?

Have some more pics of that car when JM just finished it.
Will email them to Banishit so he can post them on here, if that's ok B.?

Regards, Leon.

[Banishit]

no probs

[Banishit]

Here we go more piccies, cheers Leon for these

CIB when it had just been finished





KCX next to my own GP4 replica at Essex show Boreham 1993



UTF and BCG (Longleat RS Day)

[Tim]

very nice, any more of ur car brian

[Banishit]

no looks just like it did 7 months ago but dirtier LOL