After being a member of this forum for a while and now starting another rebuild on the Escort I thought I better contribute.
So a quick recap, Here is the Mk1 when I first bought it. Std 1300L shell with a type 49 kit. All that was needed was inner and outer sills, rear arches and tubs, The front wings came with the car and just needed welding on.
This was the result of the first resto.
I was built as a production class sprint car so was running Bilsteins coilies on the front and leaf springs on the rear with tramp bars, panard rod and a plate slipper. The engine was an ex stock car all steel 1300 crossflow that made 120Bhp at the fly.
I competed in the ASWMC sprint championship an came first in class for that year.
Some of you may remember it from one of Trigs earliest trackdays. It had been upgraded to a Zetec by this point.
It then became a general motorsport car taking part in more sprints, Trackdays, Drift days, 12car's and even made it to the Nurburg Ring twice.
After all this abuse its in a sorry state. The bottom end started knocking at an event so I decided to take it off the road and get it back to its former glory.
That was 2 years ago now. Its just been sat in the garage being used as a shelf.
Its been way to long so I have started work over the Xmas break and made some good progress. The car is now stripped and on a roll over jig.
Let the fab work commence!!!!
The rear end is going to be turreted so the rear firewall is going to have to go.
One of the incidents I had when it was on the road was I may have accidentally caught a concrete post with the rear 1/4.
I managed to get hold of another one so the one on the car needs to come off. I never thought I would be doing this to it!!!
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