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Jonnycab
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Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« on: Jul 8th, 2007, 11:57pm » |
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Look what I did today....a pair of Scorp rear speakers in my MK1 Granny....what do you think ? 
I think they look really neat & alot better looking than any after market speakers 
Any other ideas for Scorp parts in a MK1 ?
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #1 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 8:15am » |
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really nice looking they dont look out of place at all. 
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #2 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 6:23pm » |
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Very smart that. Very impressed. 
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Matt
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #3 on: Jul 9th, 2007, 6:28pm » |
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24v cosworth ... 
power steering?
leather seats
the list could go on a while lol
does look nice and tidy though, do the pumis interior scorps have the black speakers to? would look better if they were the pumis colour imo
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Jonnycab
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #4 on: Jul 10th, 2007, 2:24am » |
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Matt, it already has power steering......."what ?"  .....I hear you say..... Yes P/S did exist in 1977
Although the reservoir is a little crude though.....looks like a saucepan (no handle), with a metal lid held on with a wing nut
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #5 on: Jul 10th, 2007, 9:39am » |
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Jonny,
That looks realy good mate.
Just how I like it, no great big speakers hanging off the doors or amplifiers and things clogging up the boot 
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #6 on: Jul 12th, 2007, 6:23pm » |
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Jonny - what's that other grill in the centre of the parcel shelf ? Is that the original speaker that Ford placed into the back of the Granny in those days ?
I remember my Mk1 Escort 1.3L having just the one speaker placed exactly where that grill is - god alone knows why Ford decided to place it there when every other car I remember from that period had the sole speaker under the front shelf. With it being quite a noisy car anyway, any motorway speed required volume 10 before you could hear it.
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #7 on: Jul 13th, 2007, 12:03am » |
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Yep, that's the original speaker (still in there).....in those days the Ghia model still only came with a mono radio
There's also a front speaker mounted under the dash....so driver & front seat passenger could listen to the Bay City Rollers in glorious mono as well
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #8 on: Jul 13th, 2007, 3:30am » |
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A Scorp rear window brake light might look good in there as well....hmmm.....back down to the breakers
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #9 on: Jul 13th, 2007, 10:21am » |
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My '73 2.0lt Granny had no power streering although it was geared down and wasn't that heavy even at parking speeds. Took 4 turns lock to lock though.
Loved that car, a rust free body but at only 77K miles, the engine was completely broken.
I was gonna say a typical Dagenham Dustbin, but ( I think ) all Granadas and Consuls were German made.
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #10 on: Jul 13th, 2007, 6:54pm » |
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on Jul 13th, 2007, 12:03am, jonnycab wrote:Yep, that's the original speaker (still in there).....in those days the Ghia model still only came with a mono radio
There's also a front speaker mounted under the dash....so driver & front seat passenger could listen to the Bay City Rollers in glorious mono as well |
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So Ford had the audacity to actually put 2 speakers in but not a stereo radio?? Disgusting!! And it was the flagship Ford!! What decade was this - the '70's ??
That would be a hell of a stereo note though if you had the sound alternating front to rear. At motorway speeds, the sound would momentarily disappear from half the car, then re-appear.
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #11 on: Jul 13th, 2007, 7:05pm » |
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Don't forget, back in the 70's a radio was an optional extra in many cars - standard mono radio was only for the top of the range model ! Even then most were still manual tune and push-button was extra ! Lucky to have even one speaker if you ask me - luxury !Tell the kids of today stories like that and they won't believe you...
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #12 on: Jul 14th, 2007, 6:16am » |
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on Jul 13th, 2007, 7:05pm, Scorpio_Mike wrote:| Don't forget, back in the 70's a radio was an optional extra in many cars |
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And ten or so years earlier then that a heater would be an optional extra too, just shows how lucky we are....
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #13 on: Jul 14th, 2007, 9:47pm » |
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on Jul 14th, 2007, 6:16am, petehull wrote:
And ten or so years earlier then that a heater would be an optional extra too, just shows how lucky we are....
Pete
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Does anybody else remember having to manually squeeze something to squirt water at the windscreen 
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #14 on: Jul 14th, 2007, 9:51pm » |
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on Jul 14th, 2007, 9:47pm, pistonbroke wrote:
Does anybody else remember having to manually squeeze something to squirt water at the windscreen
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Yes ! My very first car, an old 1973 Sunbeam Rapier fastback my father gave me when I was 16 ( it was his - head gasket had gone and he couldn't be bothered to get it fixed ). It had a 'push to squirt' thing which was also the wiper switch - I soon converted it to electric pump operated by using a wiper motor switch from a laster Hillman Hunter.
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #15 on: Jul 14th, 2007, 11:52pm » |
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When I was a kid, my aunt had a base model 1982 Fiesta Popular...950cc, beige PVC interior, one of the few Fiestas and Sierras made in 'Rio Brown' (the colour they discontinued a year later, apparently after people dubbed it nuts*  )
One of the last cars to have a foot operated windscreen wash, also had one of the old style metal number plates with the plastic letters stuck on, no radio, no fog lights and no rear seatbelts...
,,,but I thought it was really chic back then, sounded almost like a 2 stroke but had loads of character
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #16 on: Jul 15th, 2007, 12:31am » |
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Regarding rear seat belts...
The seat belts that can be seen running over the rear seats aren't standard.
Some MK1's had rear seat belts (mine didn't), but they were the slack kind which were top-bolted to the rear pillars.
Mine has the rear pillar screw holes for those seat belts, but I decided to fit brand new after market inertia belts at £40.00 each (came with thick plates for mounting behind rear seat)....they seemed like a safer option for the littl'uns baby seat
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #17 on: Jul 15th, 2007, 12:41am » |
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Jonny, is that an auto?
How do you find the 3 speed trans on the road?
Nice motah, I love the old skool Fords
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #18 on: Jul 15th, 2007, 12:44am » |
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Yup, it's Auto....& as for the three speed trans....not ecomonical over 70mph....no overdrive, so revs keep going up ......still got plenty of guts though
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Re: Scorp bits in a MK1 Granny
« Reply #19 on: Jul 15th, 2007, 12:56am » |
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LOL
Asking because I'm being nagged about getting the Capri hauled out of the garage, was thinking how it'd compare to the Scorp as a driver, with the Ford C3 and the old 4 pot Pinto lump in there
I remember it used to do 20-22 to the gallon in town, used to rev to 3200rpm with the auto choke on cold mornings and the autobox survived being emptied twice at the roundabout on the A406 at Barking in rush hour..I was seriously thinking a couple of years back about dropping an Essex into it, our Venetian Red 3.0 Ghia was great.
But I have a lot of fond memories of it, cuts too deep to think about letting it go. I know I should but I remember the day back in April 1990 (I was all of 6 years old at the time ) when I went with my old man to pick it up from a place called 'Priory Cars' on the Barking Road...
It's been around for so long and means so much in sentimental ways that I can't let it go but I know I should..
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