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pappa
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Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« on: Aug 10th, 2007, 5:52pm » |
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Hi everyone!
I've been thinking of all the people who have participated
in discussions in this great website and have an idea.
How about organizing a Europe wide Scorpio meeting?
People from different countries could participate and
we could setup a meeting point somewhere in let's say
Germany. Form a big queue of Scorpios and drive to
a location in Europe.
I would love to go to the source, Cologne where many
great Fords were born. I'm sure there are people among
us who have connections and it should not be too difficult
to come up with a camping site around that area.
This could take place at some time next year or a year
after.
Just an idea - They've done something like this with
Mustangs in the USA, but they did it inside USA.
Should this event take place, I'm sure there would be
many people from different countries....
I volunteer to be in the arranging committee, but have
never arranged meetings like this, so a senior members
should take the lead, should this generate enough
interest.
From Finland, I'm sure I could easily come up with a colorful
bunch of Scorpionists. I think we should include Granny
owners into the list, because rest of the Europe knows it
as "The Scorpio."
How about it?
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #2 on: Aug 10th, 2007, 11:02pm » |
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Me too! £ & work permitting!
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #3 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 1:04am » |
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Cologne  ....what about meeting up at Dagenham, where the great V6 Essex was born....the original birthplace of the Granada/Consul/Capri engine 
Why Ford ever replaced the Essex engine with the Cologne is beyond me .....maybe it was cheaper to produce the 2.8 Cologne engine in Germany than it was to produce the 3.0 Essex engine in Dagenham 
What was the fastest ?...
....3.0 litre Capri, or 2.8i litre Capri ?....
We all know it was the 2.8i ........ but what if the 3.0 Essex had had the fuel injection option ?......  .......now that would have been awesome 
The MK2 Granny never sounded like this......
[IMG]http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i101/jonnycab/th_6a8ba344.jpg[/IM G]
Looks like German efficiency conquered over the almost American Essex V6  ......
Who were the real winners of WW2 ?
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #4 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 1:23am » |
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Why not Northampton?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosworth
I guess the idea IN MY head was to gather people from all over Europe. into a sort
of central location where everyone would have the same distance to travel (well, almost)
I will start organizing this during the winter if we can come up with enough interest.
So far there'st three of us interested if € / £ / NOK / work / car / wife / kids / mother in law /
climate change / etc... permitting.
It would be fun to gather all the scandinavian enthusiastics to Denmark and drive
to Germany from there. Then meet the people from U.K. somewhere along the way...
A weeks vacation in august / september 2008 ? September would be cool, I might
continue to Medoc to run a marathon at Marathon du Medoc.
Surely there would be plenty of spare parts along the way!
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #5 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 1:35am » |
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Sounds good to me, what about 'ex' Ford owners though?
I doubt the Capri would be on the road by that time 
Jonny, you're not the first to say the Essex was better than the Cologne, ours was great, I never really touched the Capri 2.8's though.
People said the Essex was wheezy, but that was probably the Ford carbs
It also literally weighed a ton.
Nice growl though, acceleration isn't everything and the V6 wasn't a slouch in those days
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #6 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 11:52am » |
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on Aug 12th, 2007, 1:35am, TiberiuS wrote:| Sounds good to me, what about 'ex' Ford owners though? |
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Traitors!
I don't have anything against that, but your Jag would
look out of place in the Scorpio Queue Then again we
need a fast pickup & delivery of spare parts, that could be
you then!
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #7 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 3:56pm » |
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I was talking about the Capri actually
You could make it a classic Ford day or something, mainly Scorpio but any classic Ford welcome...worth a thought
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #8 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 4:04pm » |
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A Ford Scorpio Europe wide meeting sounds fantastic to me. I hope until we decide on the date, at least one of my scorpios will run
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #9 on: Aug 12th, 2007, 9:16pm » |
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on Aug 10th, 2007, 5:52pm, pappa wrote:
How about organizing a Europe wide Scorpio meeting?
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I thought Billing included European owners, At least I think it does this year for those that want to go
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Re: Europe wide Scorpio owner meeting?
« Reply #10 on: Aug 13th, 2007, 5:42am » |
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on Aug 12th, 2007, 3:56pm, TiberiuS wrote:| I was talking about the Capri actually |
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Wow! Capri oh yes!
I had a Capri -70 half a lifetime ago. What a beauty it was.
Still have a photo of it somewhere...
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