Just spotted this while digging through auto trader.

4,400 miles from new! Sure looks mint! Wonder if it will sell at that price?


http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/www...00729291652970

 

People are valueing RS Turbos way to high recently imo

 

Depends - cheaper to buy that than rebuilding another one to that spec with new bits (even if you can find them)

 

Is it really? It does look a nice car and probably one of in not THE best one available. I certainly wouldnt want to spend £11k on an RST, although im sure some will, just like we'd pay double for a mint escos.

 

if that where a s1 i bet that would be gone by now

id say that was worth it if your after the mintest s2 ever or 1 of

 

Half that and maybe

 

Likewise with escort cosworths

 

fair play that looks like one mint rst but 11k
as much as i love me rst's i wouldn't pay that

 

Nah they have always been ridiculous money lol

 

there was a lad on here called michael g that done a s1 resto & he banged it on ebay & it sold for 10k +

 

lol yep nah ithink they came down to good money couple of years ago.....now some are just daft.....

 

I agree. I wouldn't pay that for a S2, but then the equivilent Escort Cosworth would be £25k. And I wouldn't pay that for one of those either.

 

Mr S1

exactly

 

its one of those youd buy it and never use it youd be shitting yourself incase some one hit it

 

Cool find, im sure someone will buy it for that money, wouldnt do myself, but can understand why someone might just for the novelty value of its time capsule like appearance.

 

yep,some deffo got the money to spend on it..

 

i wouldnt ever pay that..thats ridicously priced

 

do peeps think tis realy over valued, the fact is its all OEM its like going into a ford showroom and saying can i have a new 1990 rst the only shame is as soon as you start to drive it and put a few miles on it its value will vastley go down, at the end of the day it comes down to what some one will pay..

andy

 

you mean its like saying, "can i have a new 1990 rst, with 17 year old bushes that no doubt all need replacing as they have corroded" etc etc

 

Personally, I think it's a smashing looking little car.


But I can think of a few things I'd rather spand 11 grand on


And as chip said, it's an ornament. All the belts, bushes etc will be perished after being parked for 17 years. So, it would handle as well as all the other RSTs I suppose

 

4400 miles
I couldnt leave a car parked up for that long!
Would make a great show car but i dont think it will get driven again!

 

I wonder what the insurance agreed valuation would be on it?

I cant imagine for a minute that any insurance company would agree with any buyers of this car that its worth 11k???

I bet it wouldnt last 5 minutes on the road before ejecting all its vital fluids out through failing hoses/seals etc etc.

As much as i like S2's (i'm on my second) any more than 5k for one is madness...

 

looks like the one this garage was selling

www.daysofgrace.net

 

As regards perished bushes/hoses/seals etc, that all depends on how well its been stored. If it been stored properly then they should be fine. Saying that, id still want to change the cambelt for piece of mind.

 

This car was at the Central RS Show this year and is as new as it would've been in 1991. The condition it was bought in and most likely stored shows its been really really looked after. So i doubt it very much the bushes/alternator etc are gone....

I spoke to the chap and he was saying its been valued by the RSOC iirc. To the right person its worth that all day long personally i wouldnt pay that much

 

 

If that was mine i wouldnt have changed the exhaust

 

its the same car its now in belfast, the seller of this car was on the rsoc site the other day & said the std exhaust comes with the car. his also put the red " escort rs turbo" decal back on.

 

it is mint, i bought mine for £4000 on 62,000 miles everything original, had been sitting in a garage for 10 years, i didnt have it more than 2 days, and had to get a new fuel metering unit, as the petrol had turned like jelly.... cost me a good £300 to get it fixed, ok its not a big sum to pay for a car in such good condition like this black one featured, but after spending £11000 annoy ya a bit wouldnt it