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(Message started by: cosworth21 on Oct 22nd, 2006, 2:37am)
Title: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cosworth21 on Oct 22nd, 2006, 2:37am
I have just bought an R reg scorpio ghia x 2.9 cossie and i'm 21. I was just wondering if there are any members of a similar age or if there are any members near me. I'm in south wales nr cardiff...
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cossieguy on Oct 22nd, 2006, 8:18am
Tend to find the Scorpio has plenty of room for my zimmer frame, shopping and can still fit my pension in the glove box ;D Only joking i'm 34, glad to see that the younger generation appreciate Scorps, what do your mates think? It's a whole lot of car for a 21 year old, when i was 21 i was driving a Talbot Samba (A reg) 1 litre, slight difference :-[
Welcome to the site, keep posting/looking and you'll be amazed just how much some of these wonderful people know about these cars.
Guy.
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by Baz on Oct 22nd, 2006, 8:24am
I'm 42 so twice your age...God I feel old.... At your age I bought a 2.9 Granada Scorpio 4x4 in Raven black metallic! So I guess I had a Scorpio at 21 too!
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by Spannerdemon on Oct 22nd, 2006, 8:33am
Good on you.  You've got more car for your money than all your mates put together.

The Scorpio's are FABULOUS, and with every conceivable extra, who could wish for anything more.

Best drive on the road, and spot on with today's styles.

Enjoy........and Welcome    :D
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by Highlander on Oct 22nd, 2006, 10:01am
Hello and welcome :)

I think someone was on last week who was only 17? but dont know if it was a 24v they had.
Hows your insurance for it?
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by TiberiuS on Oct 22nd, 2006, 8:44pm
Hello mate and welcome aboard :D

I've just turned a humble 22, bought my beloved Scorpio when I was 19. Nice car to have at my age, it looks quiet, expensive and the plod don't take a blind bit of notice of me wherever or whenever I go.

1996 State blue Ultima 2.3 auto, 12 spokes and raven velour...a lot of car for silly money. Leather trim is nice but the velour wears well for it's age, I'm not complaining :).

You are a lucky devil with a Cossie, my insurance is still in the high hundreds for the 2.3. I'm still lusting over an older Jag to work on at weekends. Despite the power it's 'an old man's car' too; like with the Scorp, not the sort of motor the average chav would chuck around backstreets ;).

My cousin calls these type of cars 'sleepers', nice to have some power tucked away quietly for when the yobs do harrass, big smiles even in the 2.3...

Regards, Bruce.
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by Spannerdemon on Oct 23rd, 2006, 9:55am

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My cousin calls these type of cars 'sleepers', nice to have some power tucked away quietly for when the yobs do harrass


I like that !!  ;D   ;D
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 23rd, 2006, 10:56am
I live in Cardiff but I'm no where near 21 any more ;D (40)
Where abouts do you live exactly ???
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by Dave on Oct 23rd, 2006, 12:07pm
Age 19 when 1996 24v saloon bought for £750  :) Thats 2 years ago next week. Time flies  ::)

Needed that spending again though  ;D
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by mazzy_j on Oct 23rd, 2006, 1:36pm
I had been the youngest at one point, now a month into being 20 (bye bye the good ole teen years  :'() i may be the 2nd youngest now, possibly the youngest 24v owner (had it since i was 19) and most definately probably the youngest derv owner  ;D

As everyone says you get a lot of fast moving three peice suit equiped metal for your money  ;D My 200 quid (plus £45 for a new VSS) 170k  mile old cossie would always leave my mates £7grand zetec-s as a disappearing dot in the rear view mirror whenever he tried to race :D

Insurance for the derv (when i was 19) stood me at £1200tpft (no thanks to the old dear that pulled out in front of me  >:(), the cossie would be £895tpft (yes, 300 cheaper than the derv) but i insure it on a 2 weekly basis as and when i need it, which is about £8 a week. Its £10 a week when i insure myself of my g/f's g reg mini thou!!

I maybe young but i love the scorp and wouldn't swap it for a chav mobile of any description!! or any crappy plastic ridden new car come to think of it.

Matt
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by Matt on Oct 23rd, 2006, 6:56pm
im 20, got a 98' cossie ultima :D, im in brum
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cosworth21 on Oct 25th, 2006, 3:58am
i love the scorpio. i bought it on an r plate for £350 off an old guy. my mates say "oh, here comes Grandad in his Scorpio" but they arent laughing when i leave them behind at the lights! What a car!!!!! Insurance not too bad (21, no no claims bonus) £649.75 a year for a 2.9 cossie... cant fault it.  oh, and im from Talbot Green nr Llantrisant. think thats about everyone answered. lol.
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 25th, 2006, 9:14am
I will keep an eye out for you, I pass there daily when i'm working, Normally in the saloon.
My brother lives in Pencoed so you may see me in the estate too ;)
http://usera.imagecave.com/RichardMS/Scorpio2/Two.jpg
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by LiverpaulH on Oct 25th, 2006, 9:20am
I like the two tone rich!!
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 25th, 2006, 9:23am
;D Replaced the bumper about ten months ago and not got around to spraying it yet ::)
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cosworth21 on Oct 25th, 2006, 11:42am
yea, i'll keep an eye out 4 ya, i drive buses in the pencoed area sometimes an im always around talbot green way. i love that modded bumper on your estate. looks great! :D
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 25th, 2006, 1:00pm
Where is you're bus depot based ???, I work opposite First in Brynmenyn.
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cosworth21 on Oct 26th, 2006, 5:04am
my depot is Stagecoach in porth in the rhondda valley. i sometimes drive the 244 pontypridd to bridgend bus or the 172 aberdare to porthcawl. other than that, im usually in cardiff. oh, that reminds me, saw an N reg black ultima in cardiff on manor way 2 days ago during cardiff rush hour. also, bad news today bout my cossie. took it for MOT and it failed :'(. needs £460 of work and havent got the cash right now so i wont have it back til well into next week. what am i gonna do on the weekend now without my cossie to play with?????? >:(
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 26th, 2006, 8:17am
What did the car fail on ???
I drive class 2 HGV a 15'9" double decker, I do Bridgend to Abergavenny then to Merthyr, back to plant in Bridgend to unload, then to Bristol and back to plant again. We've probably passed each other no end of times ;D
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 26th, 2006, 8:24am
Forgot to mention, Also keep an eye out for my Dad, He drives a 2.0 saloon, P reg petrol blue and lives in Radyr so you may see him around that end of Manor Way/A470 etc ;)
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by conoflex on Oct 26th, 2006, 10:48am
Brynmenyn !!, just down the road from me then.
Have to keep my eye out for you.
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by taliban on Oct 26th, 2006, 3:38pm
oh gawd, theres more of us bus drivers.....
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 26th, 2006, 5:26pm

on 10/26/06 at 10:48:56, conoflex wrote:
Brynmenyn !!, just down the road from me then.
Have to keep my eye out for you.

Where abouts ?, WHY ?, I will look out for you, See quite a few Scops down that way.
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cosworth21 on Oct 26th, 2006, 8:06pm
the car failed on emissions, front suspension ball joint, handbrake and a brake pipe. :-[. i do a lot of mileage in south wales so i'll look out 4 the lot of you. lol
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by aTo on Oct 26th, 2006, 11:06pm
Hello guys
I'm nearly 20 and got a 2.3lt ghia saloon and I don't live in Uk
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cosworth21 on Oct 27th, 2006, 4:19am
cool. where u from exactly then??
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by aTo on Oct 27th, 2006, 7:59am
Here in Turkey, there were 132 scorpios on the road ( I don't know exact number) and I got one. sounds very special....
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by conoflex on Oct 27th, 2006, 10:35am

on 10/26/06 at 17:26:12, RichardMS wrote:
Where abouts ?, WHY ?, I will look out for you, See quite a few Scops down that way.


I'm in Bettws last place God built before his shovel broke, pass thro Brynmenyn all the time, i drive red 98 R reg cosworth ultima estate.

Andy
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by r33per on Oct 27th, 2006, 4:46pm
I'm 24 with 1 years no claims, 3 points and business class 1: £660ish. Thats in Peterhead, NE Scotland.

I think that I'm the youngest Scorpio driver in Aberdeenshire. Does that count?
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 27th, 2006, 6:54pm

on 10/27/06 at 10:35:05, conoflex wrote:
I'm in Bettws last place God built before his shovel broke, pass thro Brynmenyn all the time, i drive red 98 R reg cosworth ultima estate.

Andy

I think I saw you a couple of months back, I was on the way back to work in the wagon so you wouldn't have noticed. If I see you again i'll flash, my lights that is ;D
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by cosworth21 on Oct 28th, 2006, 3:46am

on 10/27/06 at 07:59:20, aTo wrote:
Here in Turkey, there were 132 scorpios on the road ( I don't know exact number) and I got one. sounds very special....


wow, from Turkey? i love Turkey, go on hols there all the time. never seen a scorp there tho......
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by aTo on Oct 28th, 2006, 2:53pm
next time you come here I will show you one :D .. I see scorps once a month or so which makes mine very special   8) indeed people buy mercedes or a bmw which has better second hand rate eventhough they are 4 times more expensive than scorp. And people don't know this car...  
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by merseyscorp on Oct 30th, 2006, 8:12pm
A former bus driver of 5 years, still in the industry at 23 years of age. Just bought a 1998, 2.3ghia model with 100,000 on the clock& good history. It'd been parked up for 5months, no mot or tax. Put it in Fords for full service, passed MOT 1st time. What a dream. costs less to insure than my old 53 reg Corsa and thats with a Liverpool postcode!!! Laughed at me when I enquired over a 2.9 though!!!
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by fat_kalim on Oct 31st, 2006, 1:19pm
might be me!!!
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Oct 31st, 2006, 1:56pm
:o At 17 I expect you are ;)
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by camaro on Nov 8th, 2006, 10:45pm
im 24 and just bought a N reg cossie ultima and live is Caldicot, south wales.
Title: Re: youngest scorpio owner???
Post by RichardMS on Nov 8th, 2006, 10:55pm
I'll keep a look out for you too ;)
Sent you a pm 8)


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