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    princess diana's black rs turbo

    has anybody got any pics of it please........

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    yes got a few i will try and dig them out


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    cheers nick most appreciated m8

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    got just one mate

    cosworth management on its way

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    cheers m8 ive found some too now.....





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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    were is that now then

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    mr windsor on the rs owners club owns it .

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    she had the only one in black i believe, it was also disguised with a 5 slat xr3i front grill originally, although as your recent pic shows it now has a 3 slat grill fitted. useless info but, thought id get my first post on here!

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    cool bit of history!

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    think it looks nice in black!

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    HERES A PIC I FOUND ON THE NET



    towing eye cover missing! (or he's taken it off before it goes missing!)

    also has xr3i bumper end caps

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    didnt ford also repaint it white when she returned it in a attempt to disguise it when it was sold on?

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    it is nice in it.wonder why the end caps are not painted .cant make my mind up to paint mine black ,kawasaki green or orange

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Go Black Jay Will look lovely all polished up

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    look at this thread thou sharon .see what you think

    http://www.turbosport.co.uk/showthre...15#post1176315

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    i think red suits Series ones.

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Orange is the one mate, maybe the new Ford ST colour????

    The only way is sideways!!!

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    got this feeling its going black .it does look so nice especially with no stickers and with 500 rims .

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    i was pretty sure there were two , one a gift for Diana and the other was for the director of ford GB ,
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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    do u know were you got your info from as it would be nice to find another real 1

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Yea i always thought there were two of them, i read somewhere about di's being the only one with the proper colour code for black on the tag....all the others were painted up from white, thats the other black one, the datpost ones and the blue one for the tv prog

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    mine gone from white to blue then black .well nearly black very soon

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Didn't know about Di's one, but there was definately another black S1 built for some Fleet Street paper chap who had only ever bought black RS's since the 70's

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    di likes a bit of black just look at dido
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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    the black s1 that princess di (RIP) drove was never registered in her name it stayed under fords name, it was the only genuine black car it even had schwarz (black) on the colour coded chassis plate,every other s1 contrary to popular belief says white on the chassis plates,there is a grey one in existance that was bought brand new then sent back to the factory for a strip and total repaint,
    when diana had finished with the series1 it went back to fords had a number plate change, then it ended up as a prize on capital radio for a competition, i believe a woman won it then sold it on to its present owner, think its still only showing approx 25000 miles or there abouts,



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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Princess Di's was the only series 1 sprayed black directly onto the shell in the factory, as Baz says, it has the word Schwarz on the colour code panel, similar to black Mk2 RS2000s the option was there for other colours for an extra cost, where white cars were stripped down & then resprayed in the factory. Hers was also fitted with an XR3i grille so it wouldn't stand out, later replaced with the RS one. When she owned it it had different plates to the ones that are on it now (C515DYT)

    There were a number of others that were resprayed to order created by already assembled white series 1s.

    There were 4 or 5 other black ones produced, one of which used to reside in Torbay which was sold on ebay last year in a hell of a state to what it used to be! (Was at one time a show car)

    There was a blue one produced for the TV series "Cats Eyes".

    There was a grey one which was driven back to the factory straight away & changed.

    There were a few red ones produced as well as the Datapost circuit cars & one road version which was a standard road car mocked up in the Datapost livery for shows & promotional work. The road car was also up for sale last year & one of the circuit cars is owned by a mate of mine in Cornwall.

    There was also a yellow one produced for the oval circuit

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by bizbaz69 View Post
    then it ended up as a prize on capital radio for a competition
    It was Kiss FM Baz.

    escortmad79 You have pm.

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    There is a black series one for sale on e-bay at the moment
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...0082&rd=1&rd=1
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    If you cant see your face in it,You havnt polished it enough!

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    The ebay one has been on a couple of times over the last month or so. Not sold each time.

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    No and it didnt sell this time either
    If you cant see your face in it,You havnt polished it enough!

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    There were 4 or 5 other black ones produced, one of which used to reside in Torbay which was sold on ebay last year in a hell of a state to what it used to be! (Was at one time a show car)

    I remember seeing this one as i used to live in Plymouth, it had RS1600i seats in

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    I used to work in the factory where the body coloured parts were painted for all fords.

    When I worked there I was painting mk5/6 escort parts, mk3 fiesta parts and used to do a lot of cosworth parts in primer for unipart (as they were no longer in production when I worked there.

    I used to speak to the old boys that had worked there forever and asked them about what colours they did on the series one RS's.

    I was told by all that worked there then that they made several black and several red cars and even one in pink !! but have never heard anymore of that car.

    The bodykits were painted in the red or black from new, never white ones re-painted.

    Just to let you know, we used to use a lot of filler on brand new parts !! The moulds were not that great.

    We used to also paint Jaguar and Land Rover parts also.

    I once forgot to change paint lines on the gun and painted about 200 Land Rover wheel arch extension Ford Diamond White !! Instead of the Land Rover white. Whoops! No one ever noticed, and the cars got sold like that.

    When I worked there about ten years ago now, they still had the moulds for the series one kit, but wouldn't make anymore. They have recently (in the last few years) moved premises, and I don't know what happended to the moulds, they probably got scrapped.

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    heres a link to the s1 data base, loads of odd coulors & handy to look for 1 of your old rs's.

    http://s35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...atabase_2005/?

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Cheers for the info.

    Quote Originally Posted by push rod View Post
    I was told by all that worked there then that they made several black and several red cars and even one in pink !! but have never heard anymore of that car.
    Maybe they were winding you up on the pink one??

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    [QUOTE=BIGJAY;1158972]cheers m8 ive found some too now.....




    this is not lady dianas car her plate was c462fhk and is now in possesion of mark bailey https://www.pistonheads.com/features...llection/23965

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    Re: princess diana's black rs turbo

    Quote Originally Posted by LUKE261 View Post
    she had the only one in black i believe, it was also disguised with a 5 slat xr3i front grill originally, although as your recent pic shows it now has a 3 slat grill fitted. useless info but, thought id get my first post on here!
    lady dianas was 5 bar grill and plate number c462fhk https://www.pistonheads.com/features...llection/23965 mark bailey is current owner

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