What a lovely journey! Such a shame it will cost £12.50 to do it again in future. At least your Fiesta has survived and escaped ULEZ to live a better life in Cambridge.
I love this video! I really enjoy piecing together a car's history when I buy it. This makes me want to take some of my cars back to their former homes!
@5:37 three small Fords in a row, red white and blue! Very appropriate for an ex- Ford dealer. Cars really had come on a long way in the last 10 or so years. Compared to your Mk.1 this feels much more modern and thoroughly competent even in today's traffic. Very likeable indeed, it even looks happy!
I'm not entirely sure that the end of freedom of transport in London is something to be celebrated ... Great video, though. Great to bring the Fiesta back to where it all began!
Sounded like Cotton Eye Joe to me, would have been around 95 I think, the year I first went to a nightclub!! Great idea to do a pilgrimage video, I'm going to do the same with my cars 😁
My cheap aunt & uncle had exactly this car & colour when I was a teenager. Everything they bought was budget, value, economy, super saver or words to that effect. They were the sort of people who never ate out & if circumstances forced them to spend it was always at a bare minimum. When they retired they sold their house & lived in a static caravan & day trips consisted of riding the bus on a loop using their free bus passes. I will always associate this car with them & those type of people & wonder what you live life for if it is at such a subsistence level? That said I enjoyed the video & pilgrimage & it highlights the ridiculous nature of ULEZ that the Alpina BMW is probably compliant whilst your humble little Fiesta Popular isn’t!
Thank you for your comment. I wonder if that generation which had people like that is now slowly disappearing. I definitely knew people just as you describe!
Thoroughly enjoyed this! Felt like I was on the journey with you and was so intrigued to hear your findings at each stop! I remember my friend’s mum bought one of these - G plated (probably around the same time as yours was purchased - hot off the press!) in bright metallic blue. It seemed such a departure from the mk2 and those wraparound rear lights were fascinating and so futuristic as an 8 year old! Great video! 😊
Aww I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thank you. The bright metallic blue is a lovely colour, and you’re right the mk3 was so much more advanced than the mk1/2. The mk3 feels pretty modern to use even today
Time you were at Dagenham in August was more than likely during the 3 week summer shutdown. It's still quite a big site engine plant amongst others still there. I believe the heritage centre has moved to Daventry. Great vid!
The dealership my XR4x4 was picked up from January 1992 is sadly not there anymore. It was Youngs Motors Wisbech. The dealer I worked at between 1999~2002 in Liverpool is still there but it changed from Skyway Ford to Blake’s/J Blake & Co and finally Peoples.
Great video. I love researching my cars. I have just bought an Australian assembled, from CKD, 1966 Humber Super Snipe series Va. I Will be trying to establish its history. I have a feeling (can’t prove it, yet) it belonged to a Sydney based undertaker and was used, along with another saloon and a hearse, into the early 1990’s.
I started out with a mk3 Fiesta! A 1.1 Popular Plus, 4 gears and a manual choke. Mine was black, 1991 on an H plate. I paid £1000 for her back in January 2001. I upgraded to a P reg Astra nearly 2 years later. I checked and she must of given up the ghost in 2007. Seeing inside your car brought back some wonderful memories.
What an interesting journey and car history. The car looks and sounds in excellent condition especially for a car nearly 35 years old. Really pleased that you have extended their life of Ford Mk3 which would have certainly been crushed for a crap as it’s non ULEZ compliant. Interestingly I had a few driving lessons with this car in the late 1990s but my driving instructor switched to the Nissan Micra. Keep up the excellent work on channel 😊
Cool vid that little car still scoots along lovely , I have a feeling in my water I might actually buy myself a mk3 fiesta there Brilliant I remember having a new 11Lx back in the day wish I still had it …party on dude lol 👍
Cracking vid, wish i had done the same with a Nova i sold last year.... but was a 600+ mile round trip! May do at somepoint in my mk2 Golf GTis although the one from Guildford will need to wait another 5 years lol love your fiesta, very early Mk3, a true survivor ❤️🙂
A highly enjoyable video. I fondly remember garages with ramps that take you to the upper level for storage of new cars, etc. I still must extract my G-reg Fiesta S from storage in preparation for its 40th birthday... in 2029! Unfortunately the garage I purchased my then new car from is now a block of retirement apartments.
Interestingly the plates for your Astra and Fiesta indicate they're both from original supplying dealers in the same manor! They're both "London" area cars.
Indeed. I’m hoping for a trip to Chislehurst to visit the Astra’s supplying dealer at some point. I’ve two more London cars too: mk1 Fiesta and blue Volvo 345 are both on GH area plates.
Another great video Sion! Your so lucky to have found that fiesta with all its history. She looks smart and purrs like a dream. Your 90s tapes were cool, im sure I have a few similar tapes somewhere, although nothing to play them on now! I would have been 5 when that car was made, God I feel old 😊 but nice we remember them on the roads! Will keep looking out for more fiesta mk3 updates.
@@MorselsAndMotors I passed in 2001 and had a 1.1LX in tormaline green, it had a beige and black interior which was unusual, i didnt choose it but loved it, must look out the photos and share a couple. Very happy times, I bought mine with 42k on the clock and sold it only a couple of years later with 89k! Did a lot of miles in 2001/2002, listening to my mix tapes! Good Times. I'd love to buy one back some day, take care
Lovely video. My Auntie had a mk 3 Fiesta 1.1lx 5 dr in radiant red bought new in 1989 . It was replaced in 2001 when the head gasket went with a Peugeot 206 which she still has 😊 The Ford was arguably a better car . Although the current Peugeot has power steering and air conditioning 👍😀
Nice video. 😎 The Fiesta certainly looks spartan inside with it`s exposed metal C pillars. I remember the Popular having a list price of £5,199 at launch. Former neighbours of mine owned an identical 3 door red Fiesta to this from around 1989. They were a middle aged couple with a teenage son. It was their first car. Couldn`t remember if it was a Popular or Popular Plus. They kept it for a long time having traded it in for a blue Peugeot 206. Coincidentally the older chap who lived next door to them upgraded his red 1986/87 Ford Escort L to an F or G reg Fiesta 5 door. Again unsure if it was a Popular or Pop Plus ( I was 11 years old when the mark 3 was launched). Before the Escort he had a red mark 3 Cortina. Both Fiestas would have likely been sold by either Busseys or Spruce Howlett in Norfolk.
Thank you! The Fiesta does feel a bit spartan, but somehow you forgive that when using it as it’s just so capable. It’s lovely to read stories like this about cars people remember 🥰
Such a great video Sion I would love to do this with mine maybe one day I will make it to Wolfsburg to see the Vw plant. I did take my Vauxhall Astra which I used to have back to the factory gates at Ellesmere Port where it was built and had some photos it’s such a great feeling isn’t it and must have been special memories to make to see where the car spent it’s life and brought its history to life Sad to see the supplying dealer had gone and still feel sad Dagenham has gone how it has longbridge up the road from us still has a massive blow since it went Keep up the hard work on the great videos! Daniel
Thank you Daniel. I’ve been to Wolfsburg: it’s well worth a visit. My Astra was made in Germany, so I’d have a chunky journey to take that back to the factory….
That was fun, I will have to see if I can ever make it down to Norwich where my 205 was first sold, it's still a Peugeot dealer although under a different name. Are you still hoping to come up to Hays Garden World at Ambleside for the Brochure shoot pictures pictures
Was the bonus for an h plate above or below the popular in range? Mine had no rear wiper or lighter socket but did have the door cards with fabric at the top and a parcel shelf. Other than that it looks just like my old one.
Great video. I've recently acquire a very similar vehicle, June 1989 popular also in red. I plan to visit it's original dealership which is luckily just around the corner. I just wanted ask how hard was it to source the wing mirror blank and hub/wheel nut covers?
@@MorselsAndMotors thanks for you kind message. It's nowhere near as tidy as yours! Cheers for you advice too. I've ordered some Transit caps. Also found a mirror cover in Italy. Debating whether its worth the £50+ including shipping though! Keep up the great work
I’m pretty sure I decoded my VIN and it’s marked as built at Ford of England. It also says Ford Motor Company Ltd on it, not Ford Espana SA which it would do on Valencia cars
@@MorselsAndMotors The cars were parked out underneath part of now what is inside pets at home. www.google.com/maps/@51.3357996,-0.2619904,3a,75y,142.09h,85.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5lqR_yPNRycpiGQKe3-Ppg!2e0!5s20151101T000000!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
Out of interest, would that car have actually had the cassette player when it was new, or was that an optional extra? Also, how many miles was that trip? 🙂
The radio was an extra fitted later. There would have only been a cubbyhole there originally where the radio could be! I think it was probably 140 miles or so
The whole aim of ulez, to get older cars off the road and replace them with crappy electric ones. I fear that eventually the clean air zones will spread out and more cars will be forced off the road.
