REUPLOAD DUE TO PICTURE PROBLEMS
Greetings, so this is my "hello, im new to the forum and this is my great wreckeage of a car I bought to play with" post/thread.
I bought the escort in may 2019 and while doing reasearch to plan the project I fell in love with the forum support on pretty much everything about the car, so now, 9 months later , I decided to share what Im doing with it. Mostly because I want to make myself something like a diary on the work progress and also to ask for help when im at some dead point and dont know what to do. Also, with time I was able to track down lots of history of the car including manny pictures of it being raced , which is hella exciting, so ill post about that too, but for this thread to be in cronological order I have to start at the start.
So here's a little bit about the car
Im located in europe and was seeking a car to build up (pretty much since childhood years). It had to be from the 80's or older, rwd, fun to work on, no need for power but light (!!); that was what I wanted. So one day at work my friend tells me about this add on our local-used-cars-online site about a yellow ford that had a smashed roof, manny missmached-colour pannels, a welded in roll cage (!) and was appereantly complete. Never before have I considered an mk1/mk2 escort since there are none around where im from and mostly because they are way too expensive for an almost-still-a-teenager, so I was looking at starlets, 86', kadett's, mantas, NSU prinz...but this one was really cheap; it honestly seemed susspicious but anyway.I went to take a look with my dad (who thought we were really just taking a look...hes reaction when he realised I had money for it on me was worth just about the same haha). I knew straight away that I was taking it with me;
the place we just entered was pretty shocking (positively, duhh), and when I asked the seller if I can check the car for rust with a screwdriver he laughed, but wasnt bothered at all; It was solid. The car was pretty much a bare shell with no front or fenders attached and I could see almost 100% of the places that usually hide rusty surpirses. We talked a deal, the price stayed but he threw in some extra parts like capri front struts and brakes...and also told me where I could find a perfect roof with all the needed pillars on it to fit directly on the car.
Also; when I was checking the car my dad and he fell in a chat and he got a picture of our thinking and a good first impression. He told us he wasnt sure of selling the car anymore because people with no knowledge or just wrong ideas came to take a look at it and he got bummed out I guess. Luckilly my dad and I are handymen and one can spot another, which convinced him that we were no tyre kicking quitters and would go on to really drive the car regularly.
After that he told us that he got the car from an Austrian guy who rolled it over on a rally stage. He came to him, brought the naked crashed shell and left with another one. The seller had manny escorts in the past so that explained how he could sell the car as "all parts included" while being from 5 different ones. For me though this was exactly what I have been dreaming off.
So, heres the add pictures and what I came to when I went for "just a look".
I like to documment alot of what I do so ill be posting stuff here regullarly, so follow if you like and if you have any advice, they are greatlly apreciated!
Cheers
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