This my mk2 build/restoration, its a 1979 1600 sport.

When i got her she ran and had been mot'ed and taxed the year before but had been off the road for a year so the previous owner could work on her.


And this is how she was when i got her.


i don't really have a set direction with this, there are things i need to do like some welding underneath and properly paint her, and there are things i wanna do like strengthen the strut tops and put the gussets in, and im sure there are many more bits i will find as i go along. however i don't mind if it takes me a long time i know i could just patch the welding underneath and get her through an mot and put her on the road but i want to build her properly from the ground up. this is my first real project i have undertaken myself, i have worked on quite a few restorations at work over the summers. (I am a second year Motorsport Engineering student)


Unfortunately at this point in time my uni house doesn't have a garage but when i take it home for summer and next year, it will. so at the moment is double cover with tarp and a massive plastic sheet.





So having got the car to uni first port of call was to strip the interior out.





This was all fairly easy and didn't show up any nasty surprises the floor seamed all rather solid, the main gripes were nasty work done my the previous owner that would need redoing or neatening.

And then the resent shit weather came along and put a hold to everything, in the short periods where it wasn't raining in bristol a few small things were done, there were mainly taking the rubber front splitter, bumper, grill and the front wings off.



again this didn't show up any nasty surprises, the wing having been replaced before were fine and would just need sanding back and repainting, the inner wings were spot on from what can bee seen, the only niggling thing that i would like to replace if i can just for cosmetic purposes mostly are the front panel because the lower sections have rotted away a little and the inner wing channels because they have been bend all out of shape and look pretty messy.


And that's how it was left for a another week of stupidly cold and wet weather. until today when the sun decided to come out again for a while and the temperature went above 3 degrees. so this afternoon the headlights, front indicators, rear bumper, strut brace rear lights, boot spoiler and rear loom were all removed, and then work began removing all the old primer from the inside of the car, to put a new layer of etch primer on. ready for hopefully the car to be repainted late in the summer.




already i am starting to run out of space to put stuff in the house. but that's all for now, i will keep updating every time i get something done.

a link to my photobucket that has a load more photos on.
http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/sq.../MKII%20Escort