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    MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    looking for a 2 door, MK2 Escort shell for a rally car. Will consider everything, LHD etc..

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    New repro shells are available - could save a shed load of repairs before modifying for intended use!

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Is there any feedback on the quality. Motorsport Tools are selling them on eBay but there's a lot of disclaimers that make me wonder if they're not up to much?

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post
    Is there any feedback on the quality. Motorsport Tools are selling them on eBay but there's a lot of disclaimers that make me wonder if they're not up to much?
    theres a long long thread on this, but, how good is a rusty 50 year old shell which has been patched up within an inch of its life?

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post
    Is there any feedback on the quality. Motorsport Tools are selling them on eBay but there's a lot of disclaimers that make me wonder if they're not up to much?
    I think a lot of people were / are expecting an immaculate new Ford shell pressed with Ford dies and accept all the Ford parts without issues. They are not and as far as i'm aware they've never been sold as such - they are a reproduction, primarily for rallying to try and avoid what Graham eluded to - using a tatty / very 2nd hand shell!

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post
    looking for a 2 door, MK2 Escort shell for a rally car. Will consider everything, LHD etc..

    Cheers
    What's your aim, to re shell a current Rally car or to build one from scratch? Motorsport Tool are doing fully prepped GP4 Chinkie shells too.

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    This is one of the new shells after prep:
    https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F273312662997

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    I've bought 6 or 7 cars over the last 10 years from Europe and £7k will get you something very nice over there. I've read the post about the Chinese shells and they sound too hit and miss for £7k, at £4-5k I'd maybe consider one. Motorsport Tools had a road rally spec shell for sale a couple of months back for £16K!!

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    I'm fancying building a road rally car from scratch but in my opinion £16k for a prepped shell is for people with more money than sense.

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    http://www.historicrallysport.co.uk/...listair-ginley

    This was built using one of my cars from Sweden. That whole car cost £1750 plus £1500 shipping .

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post
    I'm fancying building a road rally car from scratch but in my opinion £16k for a prepped shell is for people with more money than sense.
    Is it really? Shell 7k + parts (suspenders, links, glazing) say 2k + Reasonable paint from bare shell 2k = 11k. Now this is a business so a) has to pay someone to do this and make a profit and with 5k left there might be £1500 profit in it ie. less than 10%. If the shell comes wholesale the profit might be 15% - not much for a business! Doing it DIY - price up your time / labour and see how it compares?

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by katana View Post
    Is it really? Shell 7k + parts (suspenders, links, glazing) say 2k + Reasonable paint from bare shell 2k = 11k. Now this is a business so a) has to pay someone to do this and make a profit and with 5k left there might be £1500 profit in it ie. less than 10%. If the shell comes wholesale the profit might be 15% - not much for a business! Doing it DIY - price up your time / labour and see how it compares?
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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Here's the spec, remember you've got prep and paint on top ..

    https://www.motorsport-tools.com/bra...in-primer.html

    Someone who's never done one before is going to have a lot of thinking time but once you've done a couple and got the templates/jigs it's a piece of cake. They're using a bolt in cage, no big tubs etc..

    There's 100 hours max in that shell which is giving a man 2.5 weeks full time, at £25 hour that's £2.5K. We've got to the stage that we're paying people the hourly rate needed to pay a £500k mortgage instead what the job's worth.

    Look at this one

    https://www.motorsport-tools.com/new...ted-shell.html

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post

    once you've done a couple and got the templates it's a piece of cake.
    I’ve done a couple, and it’s not a piece of cake.

    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post

    There's 100 hours max in that shell which is giving a man 2.5 weeks full time, at £25 hour that's £2.5K. We've got to the stage that we're paying people the hourly rate needed to pay a £500k mortgage instead what the job's worth.
    No offense meant to you at all, but you’re dreaming, there is no way you could do a full grp 4 shell to a high standard in 100 hours.
    Its a highly skilled job, requiring years of training, plus the cost to setup and maintain a workshop, you’ve taken none of that into account.

    BUT.... if you're doing grp4 conversions for £2500, put my name on the list for one!

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    Quote Originally Posted by muckerbarry View Post
    I’ve done a couple, and it’s not a piece of cake.
    If you've only done two then it won't be but if your day job is shell prep it's bread and butter. The lads that know what they're doing will tell you that remedial work to the shell is harder than the prep work which is why they all want mint donors. Remember the £16k shell is unpainted, un-arched, un-tubbed and bolt-in cage.

    Quote Originally Posted by muckerbarry View Post
    No offense meant to you at all, but you’re dreaming, there is no way you could do a full grp 4 shell to a high standard in 100 hours.
    Its a highly skilled job, requiring years of training, plus the cost to setup and maintain a workshop, you’ve taken none of that into account.

    BUT.... if you're doing grp4 conversions for £2500, put my name on the list for one!
    No offence taken or meant, we can agree to disagree and what I will concede is there's less people with the skills to do the job but I can't agree that it's highly skilled job, hard job maybe if you're scared of hard work. It sounds like you believe these companies who claim there's 250 hours in a shell, that's over six weeks full time!

    I know you can't find lads to do it for £2500 and that's partly because you're on here telling everyone what a tough job it :P Joking aside, it's not too many years ago that you could get a shell done for that but it's about supply and demand and there's less people who like getting their hands dirty these days and then there's the tough part which is finding someone who' actually good at their job.
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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    I may part with this little Gem for the right offer


    8k miles from new All original panels , never welded & does not need any!!!!

    All underseal removed









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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post
    If you've only done two then it won't be but if your day job is shell prep it's bread and butter. The lads that know what they're doing will tell you that remedial work to the shell is harder than the prep work which is why they all want mint donors. Remember the £16k shell is unpainted, un-arched, un-tubbed and bolt-in cage.



    No offence taken or meant, we can agree to disagree and what I will concede is there's less people with the skills to do the job but I can't agree that it's highly skilled job, hard job maybe if you're scared of hard work. It sounds like you believe these companies who claim there's 250 hours in a shell, that's over six weeks full time!

    I know you can't find lads to do it for £2500 and that's partly because you're on here telling everyone what a tough job it :P Joking aside, it's not too many years ago that you could get a shell done for that but it's about supply and demand and there's less people who like getting their hands dirty these days and then there's the tough part which is finding someone who' actually good at their job.
    Allways good to see the goverment gets a good 20% whack out of everyones hard work for doing bugger all
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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Is it RHD or LHD?

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    Quote Originally Posted by alancdavis View Post
    Allways good to see the goverment gets a good 20% whack out of everyones hard work for doing bugger all
    It does P*ss you off when you have been paying 40% over the years !

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    Quote Originally Posted by 365 View Post
    Is it RHD or LHD?
    This one is LHD & Auto tunnel as well Perfect to gp4







    Last edited by Yanmarman; 01-07-2018 at 17:42.

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    I built mine some a rotten shell, all the front end is new panels and a lot of work welding and repairing other parts, took months of. It’s and weekends,

    If you think the cost of a grp4 shell is to much, why not buy a standard shell (new) and modify it your self,

    I’m self employed and time is money, if I was to build another I think I would buy a new prept shell and go from there, just rember all the little bits add up to a lot when building a car.

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    That shell is mint �� is it for sale ?

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    Hi
    Yes it's a real gem of a shell , Sale wise sensible offers invited ,

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    How much do you need for it?
    You can pm me

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by Yanmarman View Post
    It does P*ss you off when you have been paying 40% over the years !
    I looked at buying a car from Jersey and was quoted 15% inport duty and 20% VAT to bring it into UK....Robbing buggers
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    How much do you need for it?
    You can pm me

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    Is it RHD or LHD?
    Replied to your pm

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    But you still haven’t told me how much you want of it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mk2 13sport View Post
    But you still haven’t told me how much you want of it?

    As stated in my first initial post No 16 & No 23 on this thread I would let it go for the right offer

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    The new shells are junk. Only really any good for building into a rally car, the panels from China are weird, the roofs have the C pillar at an odd angle, totally different to an real Escort. The Chinese panels don’t fit real Escorts and magnum panels don’t fit the Chinese shells. Check out Car Cave online, they are importing really nice cars from SA at reasonable prices

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    Quote Originally Posted by Erikmex View Post
    The new shells are junk. Only really any good for building into a rally car, the panels from China are weird, the roofs have the C pillar at an odd angle, totally different to an real Escort. The Chinese panels don’t fit real Escorts and magnum panels don’t fit the Chinese shells. Check out Car Cave online, they are importing really nice cars from SA at reasonable prices
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    Deposit now taken ,

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    Sold, Now with its new owner a member on here ,

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

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    HonkyWhiteTrash your inbox is full & can't reply
    Ok thanks. Have cleared it now.

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    I have an rs2000 with v5 proper job not a ringer etc. Would make a good grp4 shell or a lovely road car depending on your budget

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by Erikmex View Post
    The new shells are junk. Only really any good for building into a rally car, the panels from China are weird, the roofs have the C pillar at an odd angle, totally different to an real Escort. The Chinese panels don’t fit real Escorts and magnum panels don’t fit the Chinese shells. Check out Car Cave online, they are importing really nice cars from SA at reasonable prices
    Wow, that's a bold statement. I'm not disagreeing but have you seen one up close? I havent and have been tempted to buy one as a basis for a resto project - most of the SA imports i've been to see are poorly disguised shit boxes.

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Yes. The complete shells are rough, Fine for a grp4 build where you would chop most of it up but I wouldn’t pay £7k for one, not when you can pick up a good complete SA car for that. I also know that the Chinese panels these cars are built from do not fit genuine shells, I saw a roof panel being trial fitted and the c pillar was nowhere close, it was approx 3deg out. I know someone who has some very clean rot free SA cars from 3-£11k

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    Re: MK2 Escort Bodyshell

    Quote Originally Posted by Erikmex View Post
    Yes. The complete shells are rough, Fine for a grp4 build where you would chop most of it up but I wouldn’t pay £7k for one, not when you can pick up a good complete SA car for that. I also know that the Chinese panels these cars are built from do not fit genuine shells, I saw a roof panel being trial fitted and the c pillar was nowhere close, it was approx 3deg out. I know someone who has some very clean rot free SA cars from 3-£11k
    Thanks, is that the guy at car cave? I spoke to him about some of his cars - they seem expensive compared to the likes of MSC but wrong end of the country from me - i worry about an old car at 10k that might need lots of work vs a new shell at 7k...but if the new shells are that bad then maybe it's fair

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    Yes Car Cave, his cars are all very well described, his 10k cars need no work and are very solid, anythign requiring welding is much cheaper, when you think of the cost of a £7k shell, by the time you've painted it and sorted all the poor panel fit issues, you'll be at £10k anyway, and thats without any registration docs etc, a genuine mint 1600 sport for £10k vs a poor Chinese bare shell that needs work is a no brainer for me.

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