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New Ford Escort Mk 2 for sale shortly.

60K sounds like a lot, but if you found a cooking escort in a barn, would you be able to build it for much less?
 
My dad was (and still is) a complete car nut, and went through various iconic cars in the 1970s, buying second hand, trading them on etc.

I'm going to guess it was around 1977/78 that he sold his Ferrari Dino 246, and bought an Escort RS of some description. It was white with blue stripes, and being a 6/7 year old at the time, the only bit I remember was it had those little fin bits on the wipers to hold them on the windscreen :)

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60K sounds like a lot, but if you found a cooking escort in a barn, would you be able to build it for much less?
Yes. I know a chap who built a Lancia Stratos kit with a Ferrari engine, final costs were about £30-35k. He did a bit of it himself but got specialists in for the complicated stuff.
 
it sounds quite different to what i normally expect with a V8

Have a read up on the engine Rich. Very clever motor. 2 x yamaha bike blocks running on a common crank case giving massive power from the original 2.4 capacity.

He also did a V6 utilizing 2x 3 cylinder Yam blocks which I believe were used in snowmobiles.

Both engines could be NA or supercharged.
 
Probably on my own here; but never got these, they just don't and never have done it for me...

Maybe you needed to be a 70s kid, I'm an 80s kid really (born 79); so more like a Fiat Strada than a Ford Escort haha :D
 
I don't think it's an age thing really, having been a recent member of the fast ford club I was surprised at the age of the owners, mainly in their 20's and 30's, probably outnumbering the 40,50 + year olds by a long way.

The likes of MG and Triumph do attract the more mature enthusiast though but classic Ford followers start off very young.
 
I don't think it's an age thing really, having been a recent member of the fast ford club I was surprised at the age of the owners, mainly in their 20's and 30's, probably outnumbering the 40,50 + year olds by a long way.

The likes of MG and Triumph do attract the more mature enthusiast though but classic Ford followers start off very young.

That's because you're at a certain age before you've got to the bottom of all the rust :D
 
After one TR6 I bought I'd agree........if I'd have kept it I'd have been 92 before the all the red stuff had gone :D

Yup.. My pal had one; it was a lovely car. He'd spent where he needed to and got the head sorted to allow for unleaded etc...

I got in the passenger side when he came round to show it off and put my feet through the floor pan haha :D Should have seen his face! That was a fair bit of welding; he sold it after that... Money pit!
 
Probably on my own here; but never got these, they just don't and never have done it for me...

Maybe you needed to be a 70s kid, I'm an 80s kid really (born 79); so more like a Fiat Strada than a Ford Escort haha :D
I know what you mean. I was into cheap classic cars from the age of about 10 in 1980. Spitfires, X19s, Lancias, MGBs, TR6 and 7s all appealed. At this time the only new car that appealed was the Golf GTi. Which you can now get from 10-15 grand. The RS2000 was just a bit a shit in comparison by 1980 and so you can get one now from about 20-75 grand wtf? Drummer in our band had a yellow Mexico and a sleaveless denim jacket with patches on the back. I still associate these Escorts with pondlife for some reason.
 
. I still associate these Escorts with pondlife for some reason.
Because back in the day they were a Barry Boy motor car, along with the Capri. Then in the 80s it was the XR3i, Subarus attracted the same crowd a few years later and were the favourite "Council Estate Express" of their time. As they become scarcer and the ones that survive are better looked after they become less chavvy and more collected.

I'm not sure what the current equivalent is. Scruffy Audi A3s and recent-ish model Golfs, maybe.
 
Because back in the day they were a Barry Boy motor car, along with the Capri. Then in the 80s it was the XR3i, Subarus attracted the same crowd a few years later and were the favourite "Council Estate Express" of their time. As they become scarcer and the ones that survive are better looked after they become less chavvy and more collected.

I'm not sure what the current equivalent is. Scruffy Audi A3s and recent-ish model Golfs, maybe.
The XR3i broadened the appeal, Yuppies and women bought them. My mum had the first one in black. It was good.
 


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