A while ago (say ten years) I got the oppertunity to be co-driver in a Fiesta RS Turbo, since that day I always wanted one. Luckily I stumbled accross one while searching a new engine for my Ka. The guy owning it had started stripping it to get it restored but had not been working on it for almost a year and was willing to sell it to me for very little.

This is what it looked like before the guy started stripping it:




And how it looked like when I picked it up:




I had a few RS2000 rims laying around so fitted them to see how it would look like:




Just started to strip it even further to see how much work would be involved in restoring it and it looked quite good at first but when I removed the moist carpet (should have known) there was almost no floor left. Well everything can be fixed judging by a few projects I have seen on here.

Only needed a couple of new doors, boothlit and rearlights but ended up with a whole 1.1 fiesta donor car which is in mint condition (at least for a 16 year old Ford ):




After stripping a bit it gave me good hope for the future:






Ofcourse there is a bit of rust on it but thats nothing to worry about:






So in the end this will be a nice original looking Fiesta RS Turbo with a few minor adjustments to suit my personal taste:

 

Brian

 

good luck

 

Today a friend of mine came over to try out his new toy

This is what we started with






Some of the used products




Who mentioned black as the best color to polish?


A bit to much drinks last night? Lovely to see the differance


Thanks to the weather we also did the water test


Once more the differance

 

this one got sold so all time and money will go into the Ka Zetec Ultimate

a sad moment to see this one go

 

looks good keep the good work up looks a very tidy shell

 

The donor car was indeed a very tidy shell that why I was planning on using most of it.

someone else has to do that now because both got sold...

Will be replaced by a MK2 Zetec XR2

 

dont sell mate carry on with it looking good

 

sorry got sold already

 

this is the car it will be replaced by:

 

that is nice. How much did you sell the car for? did you sell them both together

 

It got sold for a very good price

The buyer has the option to take the donor car aswell. I think he has e very good deal if he takes both

I'm very happy with the new car which needs a bit of work but most of it is cosmetic