liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 22/12/03 at 06:54 PM |
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Escort Mk 1- You beauty!!
After getting RC's book as a present, and thinking building a cheap(ish) sports car was a cool idea! I went in search of a donor.
(I must say before I continue that I had not been interested in cars before getting this book, being quite content pottering round in my pink(faded
red!!) astra.)
I happen to buy a copy of classic ford one day, call it research, and I absolutely fell in love with the mk1 escort. This is the most fantastic
looking car I have ever seen!
Needless to say my attitude towards butchering one for a locost has changed and now I am going to be using mcsorleys +422 along with a sierra donor
for my project.
I can't be the only person this has happened to, is there anyone else out there!!
[Edited on 22/12/03 by liam.mccaffrey]
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Simon
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| posted on 22/12/03 at 09:37 PM |
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Liam,
Admitting that you think the Mk1 Escort is the "mot fantastic looking car ever", shows that you weren't interested in cars
before
The Sierra donor I broke was actually a very solid car, and with a new motor, would've been fine.
Didn't stop me stripping it to a bare shall in two days
Which was of course, the best thing that could have happened to it
ATB
Simon
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 23/12/03 at 12:03 AM |
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Mk 1 escort
I didn't know that mk1 fancying was something that you had to "admit".
Its much better looking than a sierra, and a sierra isn't that bad!
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blueshift
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| posted on 23/12/03 at 02:08 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
I didn't know that mk1 fancying was something that you had to "admit".
Its much better looking than a sierra, and a sierra isn't that bad!
You're weird.
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ChrisW
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| posted on 23/12/03 at 08:08 AM |
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If it's any concellation I'm quite keen on the mk1 too (as long as it's a 3 door!)
Chris
My gaff my rules
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Peteff
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| posted on 23/12/03 at 10:16 AM |
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If it's any concellation I'm quite keen on the mk1 too (as long as it's a 3 door!)
2 or 4 door, they are a classic rally car drivers centre of attention. I preferred the mk1 to the mk2 shape and they are now too rare to be an obvious
choice for a donor car. Years ago I helped rebuild a 1600 sport which I believe is still on the road. A friends son is rebuilding a Mk2 Ghia 4 door at
the moment and it is looking very good.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Mark H
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| posted on 24/12/03 at 09:54 AM |
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What the....
quote:
Needless to say my attitude towards butchering one for a locost has changed and now I am going to be using mcsorleys +422 along with a sierra donor
for my project.
I think thats a perfectly good attitude. Keep the Mk1 as is!!
quote:
The Sierra donor I broke was actually a very solid car, and with a new motor, would've been fine.
what you tend to be forgetting, Sierra are like dog turds - one on every street corner, wheras Mk1's are rare and interesting.
All the best,
Mark
Mark Harrison and
Q986 KCP back from the dead...
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Simon
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| posted on 24/12/03 at 10:06 AM |
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Mark
I didn't want to do it, but it looks like you're going to make me admit, in public, that I quite like the Mk1 Escort.
So long as it's the Mexico/RS1800/2000.
Thanks and bunch and have a good Christmas
ATB
Simon
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 24/12/03 at 10:57 AM |
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escort mk1
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Mk1's are rare and interesting
I like that, I'm going to get one, right after I build the locost, or is that before I build the locost???????
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Hugh Paterson
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| posted on 24/12/03 at 05:24 PM |
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Mk1s used to be interesting, they are now rare, if u find a mexico thats not wobbling as it goes round corners you have somthing special, most of them
especially good Mk1s/Mexico's are like tiger droppings on Oxford street, rare as hell
Shug.
[Edited on 24/12/03 by Hugh Paterson]
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Gizmo
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| posted on 31/12/03 at 03:30 PM |
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MKI RS1800
Simon...these are extremely rare...as Ford never made any !!!
---john---
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 31/12/03 at 10:30 PM |
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remeber - the reality of the mk1 is that most were gutless 1100 or 1300 models making 50 - 60 hp.
interesting coke bottle shape tho. if they were made of the same stuff mk3 cortinas were, they will be iron oxide now
atb
steve
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 31/12/03 at 10:36 PM |
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I quite enjoyed cutting my Mk1 Escort up into little bits, quite satisifying. Rusty heap of shite
Ben
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200mph
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| posted on 1/1/04 at 11:46 AM |
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Have to agree!!
But you never buy a ford for the quality, right?
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johnston
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| posted on 2/1/04 at 07:51 PM |
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well i have to say i got a 4 dr mk 1 floor pan never nbeen welded only bad bits onn shell atre the wrong front panel a botched job on the strut tops
apart from that its as solid as it left ford
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 3/1/04 at 12:31 AM |
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just as many hate them as like them it seems, ah well thats life
one mans parrot is another mans pig!
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