Here there will be Sierras, and a bunch of other makes in a while. I'm not much of a photographer or regular storyteller, but I'll try to cover some of the basics.
Lets just start with a short list of the cars I had owned up until 2009

By zykotec at 2009-09-18
note: some of these cars were bought just to take parts from for my other cars, and some never exceeded project status.

ford fetish

100%

Uh can't see any ford
I like the Audi 100

LMFAO SHARRY.
Get some real pics up of the cop car

No Ford fetish at all, and yeah, the Audi was not quite as crappy as expected, could have used more power as it weighed 90 tons, and the door handles kept breaking...
(and mine had the 200 front end, and v8 taillights, so it didn't look quite as bad as stock either)
Sadly the cop car was scrapped in the end, and replaced by a really nice original one owner 2.3 GL with bad cooling...
Here's a pic or two as it was. 2.8 automatic from a Granada

And the nice blue GL that's now waiting for it's engine transplant.

last week i went to the fuelstation to bring my tyres up to pressure and in front of me was a original sierra xr4i ..
looked great !!
sadly those became pretty rare here and if you find one they are quite expensive

but it was cool too see one

why in th world did you sell those xr4i"s ?? if you love sierra's ??
you should have kept one and just put in your time and effort in that

They rusted to death
The first grey one had been crashed more or less violently 5 times during it's time, and could never have been properly straightened and welded+ 540.000 kilometers. The black one was allready rusted too much when I bought it, so it donated it's drivetrain instead.

luckily there is lots of sierras in finland
interesting cars you have had, some real classics in there too

The story of my first Sierra.

After getting my drivers license, my nice old Volvo 242 didn't pass it's EU-test because of rust. I didn't know enough about cars back then to fix it myself, so I thought I would get another cheap car to run while fixing it up. A friend of my gf had a son who was going to sell his car and move to Oslo after graduation, so we more or less made a deal that I would by it when school ended. A 1987 Ford Sierra 2.0L was going to be mine.
Now, we have some serious 3 cweeks of graduation partying in Norway, called 'russefeiring'. So in the beginning of may, the guy called me and asked if it was ok for me if the painted the car red and used it as a 'russebil' through may.
I was ok with that if I got it even cheaper. it was still a rustfree car in good mechanical condition. Well, after graduation parties for a month, it wasn't a good looking car anymore.....
So it was sanded down and given a repaint. Then a ducktail spoiler from a Alfa 33, and some wolfrace 13x6 slotmags



After driving it like this trough summer , fall and part of winter, it started having electric bugs, and kept stopping, because there was no power to the ignition. Which kinda made me kick in the whole driver side of the after It died on my the eleventeenth time.

SO as spring neared, it was time for another makeover and repaint.
Some new bodyparts were bought, and the whole car was sanded down again. New wheels were bought.


And it was repainted in lush metalflake purple and black, with a yellow pinstripe
(lowering was done in paintshopro though...)


Then, in the fall it was sold to make place for the IS coupe seen in the last photos.

Who did the re-paint? You want to ask for your money back