Furious Fleet Update -
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:35 pm
When I previously departed these shores I was rocking a 2004 Mondeo ST220 and a 1984 Mk2 Granada. Although I don't for one minute regret buying the Granada I never really clicked with it, it was slow, thirsty, wallowy, temperamental, needed jump starting and the tyres blowing up every time I got it out - It just never really made me want to bother driving it. However I needed a tow car and at the time that was it, the ST220 ccouldn't have a tow bar because for whatever reason Ford never homologated it for towing, so I thought y'know what, i'll just get rid of both. The Granada sold to a guy in the lake district and I fucked the ST220 off to WBAC for an insultingly low amount, but It needed money spending on it and I didn't have time for tyre kickers.
I already had its replacement which is the 2015 Mondeo below, not a lot to report on this really, It just is what it is. It does everything brilliantly, its a 180bhp diesel with just about every toy you can think of, I bought it on 16k miles and its just ticked over to 30k - I never really have to touch it other than put fuel in so there isn't going to be a lot to write about here, and I doubt its of much interest to anyone but here it is
So I thought well that's good, I now have one car to do everything I need....fleet reduction, very sensible..
But then one night toward the end of lockdown #1, after a slightly drunken conversation over a BBQ at a friends house, the subject of track days came up and I thought hey, what about if I got a track car...why wouldn't I do that?
This conversation fairly rapidly transitioned into searching ebay and pretty soon I was having this delivered from a great seller who lived locally. I paid £2300 which, at the time, was by far the cheapest 197 in the land and actually, its pretty bloody nice! So this is the car I mainly spend my time tinkering around with and the one i'll likely write most about here. I've had it a year almost to the day and never actually been on a track yet - but hey you can't rush these things...
I already had its replacement which is the 2015 Mondeo below, not a lot to report on this really, It just is what it is. It does everything brilliantly, its a 180bhp diesel with just about every toy you can think of, I bought it on 16k miles and its just ticked over to 30k - I never really have to touch it other than put fuel in so there isn't going to be a lot to write about here, and I doubt its of much interest to anyone but here it is
So I thought well that's good, I now have one car to do everything I need....fleet reduction, very sensible..
But then one night toward the end of lockdown #1, after a slightly drunken conversation over a BBQ at a friends house, the subject of track days came up and I thought hey, what about if I got a track car...why wouldn't I do that?
This conversation fairly rapidly transitioned into searching ebay and pretty soon I was having this delivered from a great seller who lived locally. I paid £2300 which, at the time, was by far the cheapest 197 in the land and actually, its pretty bloody nice! So this is the car I mainly spend my time tinkering around with and the one i'll likely write most about here. I've had it a year almost to the day and never actually been on a track yet - but hey you can't rush these things...