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Hello All,

It has been noticed and brought to the FFOC attention that a number of 'What is my car worth' type threads are on the increase in the General Chat section.

The FFOC would like to advise you that there are many factors that affect the value of Ford Focus models e.g normal depreciation, age, mileage and overall condition of the car, and this makes it very difficult for our members and other users to advise on the saleable value of your car.

Given the above the FFOC from this date forward (9 February 2013) would prefer not to have such posts placed on the forum and would advise that these type of post will now be removed without warning.

However, in order to assist you here are the most commonly used websites that could be of help to you when attempting to value your standard or modified car as a saleable commodity.

Glass's guide: http://www.glass.co....ons/Find-a-car/

Parker's car guide: http://www.parkers.c...rs/prices/used/

Finally, thank you for your attention and co-operation.

Regards

FFOC SMT

Thanks to Yorkshire Pudding for pointing this out, I thought I would put it here for people to see what to do.

Basically if you are going to post spoiler information, like what happens in a film, or game etc then please use the following code so only people who want to know without watching/playing etc can choose to view it. That way people can still talk about the topic without having the end or something spoilt.

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I used to dabble in a spot of landscape photography but kind of fell out of the hobby.

Here are some of my favourites,

Some of the shots I took at RIAT last weekend

Ladies and gents,

Just an idea, if you are purchasing more than 1 ticket, I.e. for additional passengers. Ask for more than 1 car pass, it shouldn't cost any extra. This way the club stand should be slightly bigger as last year it was very tight to fit everyone in.

As I said, maybe just an idea. What are your thoughts?

Hi All,

Please note that Ford Fair 2018 will take place at Silverstone on Sunday 5 August 2018.

Regards

FFOC SMT

This was pure luck!
Saw the storm coming so parked up, grabbed my GoPro.
Taken in Shotgate, Wickford, Essex. Lightning was over Rayleigh.

Its the day after the first big storm of autumn/winter 2013 and we got nothing here in Merseyside but i decided to venture out to the dunes at formby point as the wind gets up even on a calm day, got some great shots.







this is particulary my fave didnt even see the bloke when i took it first time, a lone figure staunchly forging on despite the wind and sand

As one of the Central Scotland co-ords one of the things we done was create calling cards as shown below we gave them out to our members to pop on any focus they saw we also have our Ffoc central Scotland FB page as well and  my self and scott bell are at car cruises every other week trying to get new members as well as having regularly monthly meets maebe other regions should adop this as well to try and get their own region up n running

Since the old photography hobby thread had grown to a respectable 50 pages heavily laden with cracking photographs taken by us all, it is time to hive it off and start part 2!

(are 1 available here:  http://www.ffoc.co.u... ... c&t=156131  )

The original remains as a sticky in the members area for now, as it was being frequently spammed in here & difficult to moderate due to its size.

Off you go, post your own (clean) photographic efforts & enjoy!

Mike11, on 26 February 2018 - 07:33 PM, said:

I had the same idea & was planning on doing this.
Just make sure the extra pass has a car reg that is a Ford & either belongs to you or you have permission to use it.

Here you are then.  Like I said, I have recently gone back to collecting smaller models but this time concentrating on London Transport buses.  I have tried to get something from various eras up to the Routemaster.



From left to right.   First is a Leyland TD1, then a Guy Arab 2 utility bus, next is a AEC STL and on the end is a Leyland STD.




On the left is a Leyland RTL, in the middle is a RML Routemaster and on the right is a RMF Routemaster.

My favourite in this particular collection is this RT, limited run of 2400 from Corgi in 1;50 scale.




I have some others but I got those years ago so they are in the loft sadly.

No idea why I've not looked through this thread before, will need to read the whole lot when I get chance.
Got back from a holiday in Whinfell Center Parcs, these are some of the photo's we took. Obviously we had a variety of holiday snaps but also went for some arty shots. Not had the camera long, bought it for our honeymoon in July so still learning.
All photos are done hand held (need to get a tripod) on a Panasonic TZ40.







Tricky to get by hand at full zoom.














These were a pain to spot and get photos of without blur...managed to get shots of three different ones over the holiday though

a couple snaps from my walk in richmond park (quite a lot of quality loss from size compression)