As above, when they wrer being assembled

 

here you go mate .

 

Cheers mate

 

Look at all those cossies

 

i bet they wish they had taken the odd front splitter home with them

 

there is a place called heaven after all then!!!

 

would love to go back in time and visit that factory!

 

but they are not rs500's

 

Wrong bumpers......

 

they will be though there waiting to go through the change

 

correct mate 3dr's in storage awaiting the change

 

awating the magic dust to be sprinkled.

 

Wish i could get the parts they remove, good pics by the way!!

 

the engines where sent back to cosworth for some mods then used in 2wd saffs, dont know what happened to the front bumpers and rear spoilers

 

guys some more for you ..

 

and more

 

reduces a man to tears

proud moment that

 

Very nice pictures

 

Makes me wanna go in the garage and polish my 500"s



But then again i am lazy so will just look at the piccs again and smile to myself

 

Paul pics or stfu go on you know you want to

 

Look at the crud that's already under the spoiler!

 

 

Thans for them excellent pics mr barber

 

LMAO! Only you!

I have some great pictures in a Cosworth book I have, I doubt they're much better than these, but that particular part of the book concerns the transformation process the 3drs went through to become RS500s, so there are shots of the workshops FULL of rows and rows of 3dr engines straight after they've been removed, then other shots with 30+ RS500 spec engines sitting waiting to be transplanted, it does nothing but make me want Back To The Future to be true, what I wouldn't give to be there when the RS500 was created

 

I thought I might as well post up the pics I have. They're all photo's taken on my phone from the pages of Graham Robson's book on Cosworth road cars...a pretty interesting read IMO

(I've just seen that the forum has "helpfully" re-sized every single one of the above pics. If you right-click each photo, go to properties, then highlight the image code and paste it into the address bar of a new window, you'll find that the captions are in focus and legible)













And an unrelated picture, but one of my favouries from the book. A Series 2 ERST used as a mule during development of the Escort Cosworth:

 

i wished that ford made that rs turbo cosworth above, looks sex on wheels.

 

Agreed, hardcore or what?

 

Amazing looking back at that!
And look at the shite modern man makes now, not a touch on that!