Got me an Avenger

Ford4000

Always had a soft spot for em, wanted a 2 door but funds didnt allow !!!



Even found this on youtube from her previous life :rofl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG0PE3KyshQ

Anyone on here have an Avenger, have an interest in Rootes cars etc i would like to make a few contacts, ive always had fords so know v little about them and as to where to get parts etc !!!

alastair

Someone else likes it!

Best of luck with it.

Ford4000

alastair wrote: »

Someone else likes it!

Best of luck with it.

Pip got a boot in the hole for that !!!!!
She was away tourin about wit me in it all day, vinyl seats easy wip clean too ha ha

S Line

Well ware

Is that sea/coast in the background of the first image ??

If so I would ask Santa for a few litres of Waxoil for crimbo

Keep it going for another 40 years

It’s on a J plate, 1970/71. Jeasus I would have nearly considered what the Germans call a ‘yongtimer’ but its 40 years old !!! I remember them going around the 80’s – it’s me that’s getting auld too !!!!

Ford4000

S Line wrote: »

Well ware

Is that sea/coast in the background of the first image ??

If so I would ask Santa for a few litres of Waxoil for crimbo

Keep it going for another 40 years

It’s on a J plate, 1970/71. Jeasus I would have nearly considered what the Germans call a ‘yongtimer’ but its 40 years old !!! I remember them going around the 80’s – it’s me that’s getting auld too !!!!

Yes its 1970, 13yrs older than myself, always remember my mates (there neighbours a bit older than me) havin one in the early 90s and always liked them after that, somethin cool about the inline speedo !!

carchaeologist

Nice original Avenger there, well wear sir!

corktina

It's odd. Way back when , we had Avengers as Company Cars and I was the first one to get a four-door. All the other guys were as green as green can be. Now , you'd have prefered a two-door but they fetch a premium price!

Mine was a dark blue 1300 LS with a black vinyl roof and grey vinyl interior. Really swish, only it drove like pants. Span it on the M4 slip road near Slough and went down a 20 foot ditch. It didn't improve it at all. (nearly hit a mk4 Cortina estate that had previously gone in at the same spot (diesel on the road, or thats what I told the Cops...actually Friday Night and rushing to get home and had the hammer down coming off the roundabout)

Stained Class

My uncle had one of these back in the day.

A '76 2 door.

Funnily enough, it's reg was LIC 76.

Wonder if it's still about?

Ford4000

corktina wrote: »

It's odd. Way back when , we had Avengers as Company Cars and I was the first one to get a four-door. All the other guys were as green as green can be. Now , you'd have prefered a two-door but they fetch a premium price!

Mine was a dark blue 1300 LS with a black vinyl roof and grey vinyl interior. Really swish, only it drove like pants. Span it on the M4 slip road near Slough and went down a 20 foot ditch. It didn't improve it at all. (nearly hit a mk4 Cortina estate that had previously gone in at the same spot (diesel on the road, or thats what I told the Cops...actually Friday Night and rushing to get home and had the hammer down coming off the roundabout)

Corky Avenger much nicer on a bumpy road my old cortina was like a boat in comparison!!!!!!

tayto lover

My first car was an Avenger back in 1977. Brilliant car on bends until the last one I tried to take at speed.

jimmyw

Jayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyseeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz!! didnt see one of them for a long time.We used to have about 4 of them back in the eighties.Its on these cars that I learned about mechanics and electrics and a love of cars in general.That dog is very bold;) Tut! Tut!.She looks mint, very nice. how much did you pay?

Similar one on DD

http://cars.donedeal.co.uk/for-sale/vintagecars/2712969

Tigger

i have an original manual for one of those somewhere
yours if you want it
pm me

unkel

Well wear!

corktina wrote: »

It's odd. Way back when , we had Avengers as Company Cars and I was the first one to get a four-door. All the other guys were as green as green can be. Now , you'd have prefered a two-door but they fetch a premium price!

2 doors always looks a much cleaner design on any car, except maybe a large executive saloon

It stands the test of time much better in the looks department, that's why they're much more desirable and therefore also costly!

101sean

Nice to see one, my father had 1300 Avenger estates as company cars in the 70s. We did at least three trips to Ireland in them, think he switched to a Cortina in 79. Main memory as a kid is getting burnt legs on scorching hot vinyl seats!

Certainly don't ever recall seeing any at shows in the UK, it was a pleasure to come across examples here.

Blue850

I've no price listing for a 70 but in 71 an Avenger 1300 was £999, the 1500 £1104

Hermy

They're very similar in shape to the Escort - any connection?

Stained Class

Hermy wrote: »

They're very similar in shape to the Escort - any connection?

Don't think so. GM's Kadett/Viva was a pretty similar type/size of car too. Again unrelated.

That was just the way medium sized cars were in those days, before the whole Hatchback/FWD thing took off.

Ford4000

Hermy wrote: »

They're very similar in shape to the Escort - any connection?

Well they are and they arent, they have more of a coke bottle tail more like a Cortina
Very different set up under the bonnet too

But in overall generall appearance mid size cars of that era are very similar Viva Kadett Marina etc

Hermy

Now that you mention it I can see the Opel/ Vauxhall connection at the front end.
I just always had a Mk II Escort in mind.

MercMad

Yeah great cars, very rugged and a nice sounding engine, which responded well to tuning !

My uncle always had them as company cars and of course the Gardai had plenty of them !

bijapos

The Garda one is available as a model from Vanguards (very apt), seems its based on a Mallow district car.

bjak

Cops in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary had 445 NZC a blue Avenger as a marked squad car in the late 1970's. Saw it in Dublin in the early 1980's with its garda markings and blue roof light removed. It had acquired a black vinyl roof but had 2 aerials that suggest it was still in Garda service. Did it survive?

mb1725

Those tail lights do it for me! Good luck with it, nice, unusual classic!

Ford4000

Ah there is something about the tail lights alright, super retro and quite unique!!!!