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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Outstanding! This car should be at the Classic Ford unveiling!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    do you have any Pictures under side off the car after Paint job?

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by Bare Morten View Post
    do you have any Pictures under side off the car after Paint job?
    I just looked back, knew there were some somewhere. Post number 158, on page 2.

    This really is a truly stunning build.... Excellent work, I could only really dream of doing work like this......
    Last edited by rallyrob; 14-02-2014 at 08:57.

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Thanks Rob. Really appreciate the comments. But it's page 4 not 2. CheeRS.

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Fantastic build, very informative you are truly talented with a great eye for detail..... Really looking forward to the next instalment. Well done !

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by davemk1 View Post
    Thanks Rob. Really appreciate the comments. But it's page 4 not 2. CheeRS.
    Ok Dave it's a pleasure.

    Don't know whether it's browser issue my end then, my page numbers have always been arse about face as it' definitely page 2 my end.

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    Fantastic build, very informative you are truly talented with a great eye for detail..... Really looking forward to the next instalment. Well done !

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    anything New on this one?

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Not much to report at this time.
    Has had a good 360 degree dose of dinitrol in all the seams and box sections.
    Made some plastic wheel arch liners to stop the crud from flying up and just gathering parts now for assembly. Got to get my finger out as I've promised my daughter I'd take her to her school prom on July 2nd dressed as the stig! Who needs a limo!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    locking forward to se the progress

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    What colour is that paint? It looks great.

    Cheers

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by mikesmif View Post
    What colour is that paint? It looks great.

    Cheers

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    Blue lol!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    and it's looking awesome


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    MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Awesome Dave. Post up the prom night pictures when complete
    Screaming 1300 mexico rep

    http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c139/gsijoe/untitled-21.jpg

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    cool

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    i love this car!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Have there been anymore updates on this build? Stunning, Awsome stance. Just as I'm hoping ours will be one day!!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by davemk1 View Post
    Got to get my finger out as I've promised my daughter I'd take her to her school prom on July 2nd dressed as the stig! Who needs a limo!
    Should be done by now

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Yes I was hoping that would be the case
    Was hoping to make a start on ours last year, Then things went tits up towards the end of the year. So 2015 will be the start of our MK1s new life

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Hello chaps.
    Well my daughter decided she wasn't going to the school prom so I stopped rushing to get it finished.
    If I'm honest I don't think I would of made it anyway!!!
    Got just about everything I need to complete it just need to get my finger out and bolt it all on.
    Just really busy with work and toddler commitments.
    All good things eh!
    Got a few updated pics to load up but need to fire up pc for that.
    Cheers

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    A great car always enjoyed reading this thread and the colour is just spot on, it will look perfect when done so no point in rushing it and spoiling it now
    When I grow up I will have a MK1 Escort

    I must be all growed up now then and paying for it!

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    I'm glad that I bumped this back up now......... Looking forward to the updated pics. Cracking job on the car Dave

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by davemk1 View Post
    Hello chaps.
    Well my daughter decided she wasn't going to the school prom so I stopped rushing to get it finished.
    If I'm honest I don't think I would of made it anyway!!!
    Got just about everything I need to complete it just need to get my finger out and bolt it all on.
    Just really busy with work and toddler commitments.
    All good things eh!
    Got a few updated pics to load up but need to fire up pc for that.
    Cheers
    WOW !!! --- Dave , that's looking absolutely awesome , I haven't seen it since I came to the workshop to weld those wishbones ages ago . What's missing apart from glass and interior now , engine/gearbox ? Since seeing you I've gone bonkers and bought myself an 1972 Alfa 2lt GTV -- GTAm replica but with standard bhp . Rob

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul_G View Post
    here you go, the before pics



    Looks identical to how my 1300XL used to look.

    Excellent work on the restoration.

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Damn, that's one hell of a transformation! Congrats on getting in with purchasing before the prices of mk1 went crazy, too!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    awesome work. are there anymore photos to come? have you got any of the arches being spotwelded on? and did you blend them in yourself?
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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by Paul_G View Post
    and it's looking awesome


    looking great, i know that colour, its dave roberts blue

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    great read/great car/great build/great welding/its just great all credit whoever is doing this

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Thanks guys. As for purchasing, I was just in the right place at the right time. Pure luck I guess.
    Sorry but no pics of the actual spot welding on the arches. I fitted them on the inside of the quarters (like gartrac do it) with an inch overlap and ran two rows of welds about an inch apart all the way round.
    Yes I did all the filler and prep work but priming and painting were done by a body shop. As for colour I don't know what Dave Roberts blue is? I will let on but keeping it under me hat for now!!!
    If it's nice out tomorrow I will put a couple of more pics up but not really much more to show at the moment.

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Some more pics for y'all.
    Notice anything different about the bumpers?







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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Soooo shiny... Nice looking car!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by davemk1 View Post
    Some more pics for y'all.
    Notice anything different about the bumpers?
    No bolts! Lovely touch! How did you do that...?

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Quote Originally Posted by davemk1 View Post
    Some more pics for y'all.
    Notice anything different about the bumpers?
    Quote Originally Posted by muckerbarry View Post
    No bolts! Lovely touch! How did you do that...?
    Tacked some nuts to the back of them, maybe, to form captive nuts?
    So you bolt them on from the back rather than right through them.
    Last edited by rallyrob; 06-04-2015 at 18:52.

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Pretty much correct Rob! I welded the front irons directly to the bumpers and welded an m8 studding connector nut to the sides.
    Same with the back.
    But you all missed that the bumpers fit tighter to the body.
    The back one has had an inch cut out and joined back together. And I shaped them to fit the body lines.
    Been watching too much overhaulin!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    that looks fantastic m8.!!!!
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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    great build this, car looks amazing

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    All caught up from the start of this excellent build

    The colour really pops out now you've got it in the sun

    Out for a drive on a sunny spring day reminds me why I got this car

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Your car just looks stunning Dave , that colour really does the MK1 body shape favours !!!

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    The colour in the pics looks a lot lighter than it really is!
    It's more like the shot of it in front of the garage.

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    Re: MK1 Escort Restoration Project home built by Dave

    Great car well done

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