hello every one im a new member but i have been browsing passion ford for a while now and it seems to be alot more friendly than most others. my name is jon and im a mechanic living in eastbourne and i am very dedicated to fords. now about my cars. i have three fords and two are being built atm. my daily drive is a 16v xr2i and my show car im building is a fiesta rst but enough about them ill do posts for them later. this post is about my 2wd saph cossie which comes with a little story, il keep it short i promise

my best maste terry bought this saph as his 1st cossie. when he bought it he was told by the administrator of another forum (the owner at the time) that even though it has sat in a barn for a year promised that it was ok so terry had it picked up. when he got it he found it was just abit worse than what he was told, we got it going and i mot'd it and it failed on shitloads of things (3 full pages), we done all these bits and got it on the road which lasted about 4 months because it was such a poor condition things just kept going wrong so he decided to break it before he lost too much money. he removed and sold most bits but got bored of breaking it when there was still alot of it left (including the personal number plate), so one day he asked me if i could help him scrap it so naturally i said i would buy it off him and he said if i could move it i could have it. it then when staight down to our new unit.
i plan to build it back to more or less standard ready for future modding, its a horrid purple colour atm but that will change to the 4x4 metallic magenta so if anyone knows the paint code that would be great. its not the original colour but its just awsome!! the progress will be a little slow as im a mechic on shite wages and im also building the frst and maintaining the xr2i. so heres some pics of how i got it














looking sorry aint she but have faith she will bark again

work has started and i have striped her completely and assessed condition and found inner and outer sills have some rot and are also full of expanding foam (i guess it was some brainiac's great idea to prevent rot but obviously didnt work) so ive had to cut open the sills and remove it all, the nearside front wig is rot and very poorly fitted (no sign of any pevious damge to shell) it had dodgy enternal fuel lines and a big hole made in the tunnel for them to go through and also it had a gash gear shifter lock bolted to the tunnel hence the two patches. when i was removing the front anti roll bar the captive nuts snaped off inside the rails so i had to cut into the rail to weld some new nuts in. once i had done one side i realised i could get to them through the floor vents!!! stupid boy!!. i have been doin the metal work for a little while now but dont have pics of that yet but will get them uploaded but heres some pics of the car striped and work started.

































i hope you can see the potential coz i defiantly can. this this the first cossie ive built so any advise (like the 4x4 magenta paint code) or parts for sale then i would love to hear from you. i will get the new pics up next weekend as this is the only time i get to work on her. thank you for your time. jon