Your projects: It’s taken longer than he’d care to admit, but Dean Trigwell’s dream of owning a Pro Street, stretched Pop is finally coming to fruition.
We all build projects for different reasons — and getting the car on the road for some is top priority, which means compromises have to be made. For others it’s the building and getting everything spot-on’s that’s the total enjoyment. Then there’s those that love their cars, but for one reason or another are forced to farm things out yet are totally involved — a sort of mixture of the two where the enthusiasm never dies, coupled with the love of seeing stuff steadily but expertly progress.
Dean Trigwell’s 100E really was started a long time ago and bought when 100Es were two-a-penny. That however, is not how this project started — originally intended to be a simple Pinto-powered build, the origins of this project are deep in the era when Pro Street was in full swing, although Dean’s passion for a V8-powered Pop has never gone away!
And when it comes to 100Es, there’s none more into them than Mick Wood and Chris Evans at Old Ford Auto Services (OFAS) although it’s Mick’s handiwork you mainly see before you. It’s well known the pair love ’em and have several examples as their own projects. This one though’s got a trick or two going on — a 302 Ford small block for starters while that front is nowhere near standard length — you could say in many ways it’s a long stretch, but now the sentence is coming to an end…
Why Pro Street?
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 2017 من Classic Ford.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 2017 من Classic Ford.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
RE:CREATION
Your projects: Pushed aside in the BTCC history books by the Cosworth and RS500, the 1985 championship-winning Merkur XR4Ti started the ball rolling for the Sierra’s success, and Alan Strachen is building a tribute to remind everyone why.
THE JUMP
It’s been 12 years in the making, but now Ashley Farazmand’s incredible Mk2 Harrier has raised the Escort show car game a level — or three.
Pop Rocks
The 100E was a humble and sensible thing when it launched back in the 1950s. But Rich Lakey’s radically-reworked 1959 example catapults the Pop into the 21st century — its 380 bhp turbo power ensuring that it rocks on every measurable scale…
OUT OF THIS WORLD
With outlandish wings and 460 bhp, 1.4-litre engines, the amazing Zakspeed Capris looked, sounded and drove like nothing else on earth.
FIESTA FINESSED
Aiden Powell always knew what his first car was going to be, and now this Mk1 Finesse is just the way he wants it.
Old Skool Ford Drag Challenge
Seeing out the race season in style, Round 6 saw some impressive Fords hit the strip. But who was crowned overall 2019 champion?
IT TAKES TWO
Reader’s restoration: How do you make a once-rotten Cortina GXL even better? Give it to two Ford fans to restore then refine, that’s how.
ESCORT 1300L
Original classic Fords: We all dream of finding an untouched, one-owner classic Ford, but for Allan Binns it’s a regular reality, with this Mk1 being his finest find yet— and now he’s made it even better.
BRITISH HISTORIC RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
The final 2019 round, the Trackrod Stages, wasn’t without its dramas.
1945-2019 Russell Brookes
Double British Rally champion Russell Brookes, famous for driving his Andrews Heat For Hire Escorts, has passed away at the age of 74.
