ianmacc Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Just found a few of these on eBay. Resin kits of the ubiquitous ford Mondeo. Ideal for those modelling c2000 layouts as not available from the main manufacturers. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Facelifted Mk.1 which ran from 1996-2000. Should be possible to backdate it to the original version 1992-6 as the bulk of it was the same. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2020 I've looked for it in vain on e-bay. Can you give a link or item number please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Harvey Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Mondeo-Mk2-1-76-OO-scale-Resin-Kit-Sierra-Cortina-lot-1/114424996016?hash=item1aa442e0b0:g:K1kAAOSwa4NfW555 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 3 hours ago, PhilJ W said: I've looked for it in vain on e-bay. Can you give a link or item number please? Hi Phil. I wasn’t sure how to get an eBay link from the mobile application but thanks to the guy below who did so. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2020 There's six available, all listed separately, I've bid on one of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fodenway Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Apparently the kits don't include road wheels...... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2020 That shouldn't be a problem for me. I have a shoebox full of battered Cararama and Oxford cars picked up at swap meets for pennies so I should be able to find some suitable wheels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 40 minutes ago, fodenway said: Apparently the kits don't include road wheels...... I wonder if it would fit a Minic Motorways chassis! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted September 25, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 25, 2020 I doubt it, Minic Motorway cars were way overscale, it might fit one of these though. https://www.asiatees.com/display?Miscellaneous-All-Parts-Hop-Ups-Upgrades&brand=Miscellaneous&model=All&id=175701&pid=1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nova Scotian Posted September 26, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 26, 2020 (edited) Needs to be white, "Aspen" spec, steel wheels with most of the hubcaps fallen off, a 1.8D badge on the back, and it must be permanently attached to the bumper of the car infront by a too-short braking distance. If there's anyway you can get a middle-management sales type in a crumpled suit folded into the front of the kit talking on a large Erikson mobile that'd be perfect. Edited September 26, 2020 by Nova Scotian 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 10 hours ago, fodenway said: Apparently the kits don't include road wheels...... Supplied with bricks instead? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 Something spooky just crossed my mind. When I first made my HB Vauxhall Viva kit in 1986 it was a 20 year old car (and this model Mondeo would be 10 years into the future). Now this kit is a model of a 24 year old car. Those 34 years just flew by. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fodenway Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 I often get that feeling. Back in the early seventies when I bought my first car (a 1958 Borgward Isabella Combi), most cars of ten years old or more were probably one MOT away from the breakers yard, and certainly looked very different from the new models of that era. My friends' son has a twelve year old VW Jetta, and it looks little different to every other car on the road. Is it just me?! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BernardTPM Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 If you look at some of the pictures in the Manchester Archives, their planning department ones in particular, you see ordinary cars in the street that are four or five years old with very obvious rust marks starting to show. Modern ones tend to look pretty good at 10 years old unless they've been pranged. Also integrated plastic body coloured bumpers and generally aerodynamic shapes have been pretty much standard for the last 30 years. The latter wasn't that important in the '50s and '60s in general and bumpers were usually chromed in the '50s and '60s, black coming into style during the '70s. 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
divibandit Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) On 26/09/2020 at 01:06, Nova Scotian said: Needs to be white, "Aspen" spec, steel wheels with most of the hubcaps fallen off, a 1.8D badge on the back, and it must be permanently attached to the bumper of the car infront by a too-short braking distance. If there's anyway you can get a middle-management sales type in a crumpled suit folded into the front of the kit talking on a large Erikson mobile that'd be perfect. No, sorry, needs to be a Verona hatchback in Juice Green Metallic, latterly with grey primed bumpers. When I told the missus what colour it was she said I'm not driving a lime green car! Steve Edited September 29, 2020 by divibandit extra detail in text 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted October 3, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 3, 2020 Mine arrived this morning, the casting is a bit crude but should be able to be fettled. Now to find some suitable wheels, any suggestions? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
friscopete Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 (edited) I have a 2002 golf that still looks pretty good .Apart from an easy fixable whack on a rear arch following a fight with a rather tight fitting multi story after possibly a Jack too many after an exuberant blues jam session .The main problem it has is the air con compressor has packed up which due to a summer lock down didnt really matter in the end .We like it for our two furry Lhasas .If it passes its MOT reasonably next tome it will be a keeper.Seems OK at present .When I bought it a few yeas ago most people thought I had bought a new car .I like it as its a though a 1.6 auto it goes well and handles nicely and with plenty of umph or at least enough for me . I have been looking at Honda jazz or Civics.I dont do a lot of millage now mainly as my daughter always visits us loaded with kids, dogs ,bunnies etc not forgetting the new hamster and I am super bored with the A11 after decades of going to London and tracks on an almost weekly basis. Edited October 3, 2020 by friscopete Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fodenway Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 On 26/09/2020 at 18:58, fodenway said: I often get that feeling. Back in the early seventies when I bought my first car (a 1958 Borgward Isabella Combi), most cars of ten years old or more were probably one MOT away from the breakers yard, and certainly looked very different from the new models of that era. My friends' son has a twelve year old VW Jetta, and it looks little different to every other car on the road. Is it just me?! Update - he no longer has the Jetta. After clipping a lamp post he hit a dry-stone wall head on and demolished it, spun round and flattened another section of the same wall with the back of the car forty feet further along the road and came to rest on a grass verge facing back the way he'd just come. Fortunately he wasn't injured, but the car has gone to the scrapyard. At least it will be obvious why it's in there, unlike most of the others, neither crashed, rusty or old - just uneconomical to diagnose and repair faulty electronic componentry. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmacc Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 Did you manage to progress the build? Interested to see it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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