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hotrod4
14-Jan-07, 21:40
Browsing the escort power forums and found this lovely car with a prized plate all us caithness folk will love!!!!!
if only all caithness cars were like this!!! LOL
Enjoy this awesome car.

http://www.escortpower.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6435
danc1ngwitch
14-Jan-07, 21:43
yep its a beauty,
George Brims
15-Jan-07, 03:24
Doll it all you want, it will still be a Ford Escort.
Lolabelle
15-Jan-07, 04:42
Doll it all you want, it will still be a Ford Escort.
Nothing wrong with that George! Still a slick looking car. Even a VW looks good when it is done up. :cool:
golach
15-Jan-07, 11:14
Browsing the escort power forums and found this lovely car with a prized plate all us caithness folk will love!!!!!
if only all caithness cars were like this!!! LOL
Enjoy this awesome car.

http://www.escortpower.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6435

Hotrod. I notice a lot of vintage cars have the old Caithness "SK" registration, especially the ones used as props on tv dramas, I wonder why? And some older buses also.
the charlatans
15-Jan-07, 11:38
2 things Hotrod4.

1 that car is very very shiney, scarily so! what it needs is some muddy dog paw prints all over it to make it looked a bit more lived in!!!! :lol:

and the other point, did anyone else notice that the escortpower forum uses the same kind of forum/layout as the .Org? i kept expecting to see Gleeber or Piglet replying!
dozerboy
15-Jan-07, 13:29
I don't like Escorts, but it does look good.

anybody who pays good money for cherished numbers have more money than sense, and that includes commercial operators!
XR2
15-Jan-07, 13:48
Yip nice car that and has been magazine featured in the past too.
Hibeechick
15-Jan-07, 14:30
I don't like Escorts, but it does look good.

anybody who pays good money for cherished numbers have more money than sense, and that includes commercial operators!

Theyre not all expensive though. Mine was very reasonable!
Billy Boy
15-Jan-07, 17:50
they scrimped a bit on the bonnet,you would think they could of put a metal one on instead of a flimsy plastic one :Razz
At Lassagie
15-Jan-07, 22:38
Hotrod. I notice a lot of vintage cars have the old Caithness "SK" registration, especially the ones used as props on tv dramas, I wonder why? And some older buses also.


I wis once towld by an owld ferming friend that hid wis only fermers whit could afford cars, tractors and eh lek when they first came oot an that efter they hed bought them they kept them weel wrapped up in sacking and straw and under cover cos they were towld that eh scorrie scoot and sea winds wid strip eh paint offa them. I remember as a bairn passin some owld garage in Mey I think id wis and there bein an owld green morris, immaculate an clean wi no many miles on hid. Wonder if hids still ere?....i'll bet ye thats how theres so many owld SK numbers in eh film buisness tho, southerners comin up on holiday or location scouts checkin out eh countrside an seein them in owld sheds an garages an buyin them off eh owlder folk for a pittance
sids
15-Jan-07, 23:29
Hotrod. I notice a lot of vintage cars have the old Caithness "SK" registration, especially the ones used as props on tv dramas, I wonder why? And some older buses also.

No Caithness connection: They're "age related" plates, issued to re-registered old vehicles. Caitness registrations only reached ASK *** before the B suffix came in in 1964 (ASK1B). That left plenty unused *SK *** sort of unused numbers for DVLA to issue as age related. Other age related plates look Scottish or Welsh. My 1957 bike got LFF 968 in 1992: FF was Flintshire.
Orger
16-Jan-07, 00:17
oh the good old "Fixed Or Repaired Daily" cars...
golach
16-Jan-07, 00:31
No Caithness connection: They're "age related" plates, issued to re-registered old vehicles. Caitness registrations only reached ASK *** before the B suffix came in in 1964 (ASK1B). That left plenty unused *SK *** sort of unused numbers for DVLA to issue as age related. Other age related plates look Scottish or Welsh. My 1957 bike got LFF 968 in 1992: FF was Flintshire.
Many Thanks Sids, I have been pondering this for some time, now I know
hotrod4
17-Jan-07, 11:18
Sorry sids but i have to disagree as my Escort was bought from new from Dunnets and ends in RSK along the same line as that escort so it is still VERY Possibly a Caithness registered plate as the SK is at the end.You are right about the SK details at the beginning of the Reg but that cars SK is at the end same as mine!!!!!
XR2
17-Jan-07, 13:41
It probably was a cherished number plate as the DVLA started holding back certain 'desirable' numbers when they were issuing new number plates. Plates with single figure numbers and some double numbers were kept back for them to sell on.

I think they guy has put that plate on in relation to the RS2000 being termed as an RS2k.
sids
17-Jan-07, 23:34
Sorry sids but i have to disagree as my Escort was bought from new from Dunnets and ends in RSK along the same line as that escort so it is still VERY Possibly a Caithness registered plate as the SK is at the end.You are right about the SK details at the beginning of the Reg but that cars SK is at the end same as mine!!!!!

Thanks, HR4. You're right about the Escort in the 1st post and SK at the end of numbers. I was just talking about the vintage car reference in the post I answered.
rs 2k
17-Jan-07, 23:44
It probably was a cherished number plate as the DVLA started holding back certain 'desirable' numbers when they were issuing new number plates. Plates with single figure numbers and some double numbers were kept back for them to sell on.

I think they guy has put that plate on in relation to the RS2000 being termed as an RS2k.

i think your right there:D