That Ford Fiesta in Ambleside

Teesste

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Has finally gone.. almost as much a part of the Lakeland furniture as Helvellyn and the house on the bridge!

I’m sure someone on here has a picture of it as their profile pic?

A sad day!
 

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It was always parked up near the house on the bridge on a gravel driveway that you would always walk past if you parked in the big car park at the top of town
 
I used to deliberately walk round that way just to see it. Hope it's being rescued rather than scrapped, but it has been looking bad for a while.

Mine was red and is still taxed and tested and alive somehow somewhere. If it's in good nick it will be worth about £18k I reckon.
 
I too had the same model Fiesta, A reg 1983 in dark blue, from new. What frustratingly comes to mind was the distributor always needing the points reset, it was a weekly chore and a pain.

#UTB
 
I read on Facebook that the owner is terminally ill sadly so has chosen to sell it. Hopefully means someone will restore it back to former glories
 
This thread should be copied to usa and others to explain the quintessential spirit of England...😊
It's not drawbridges...d*ck van dyke **** er née accents...and jellied eels...
It's the fact that we are such a small island a 1983 fiesta is famous for not moving in the lakes...
Love it.... I am going to celebrate the spirt of England today in a small but nonetheless significant way
It's the small things that count as I tell the Mrs most days.
 
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