When I bought my first saff the owner had the page from the Autotrader from when he was looking for 1 and you can see the prices bear in mind the cossies must have been 3ish years old and there is a G reg escort cab up for £5200

and see the RS2000 signal yellow £1175ono




gonna upload the other side of the page shortly.

 

Dan if only we had a time machine LOL

Paul

 

if only mate

I'd have all of them and the MK1's and 2's might have been better than property

 

Some more for those interested

 

I remember back in the day when it was a big event to see a Sapphire Cos on the road or parked-up, as an Escort owner I was in total awe of them.

They have aged well and IMO are now an icon of the 90's.

 

Without a doubt an icon

I find it funny that 3 years old they are the cheaper than they are now and then the mk2 rs2000 price cheaper than a mk1 XR2 and a nova SR

and all the Reno 5 prices

 

Jesus titty fkn christ thats ridiculous. I want a time machine

 

Very intresting to see what the prices where back then. A few XR2's on there aswell.

 

insurance was a big reason for the price, in my saff history from '93 there a renewal quote for £9250 with a £5000 excess for a middle aged fella

i know a local main dealer who sold a good low miles RS500 in the early 90's for just under £3000 no one could insure it, even a lot of trader policys stated 'no cosworths'

 

everybodys thinking that

 

I know it was the insurance killer my older brothers used to drive around in Hilman Imps and 1300e's when these were about

fuel prices will do the same this time

 

How much were they brand new??

thats quite a drop in price for what are young cars,

Somethings never change tho, rs turbo for £2495

 

I know at the time you could just about give cossies away because of the insurance, the fact they were all used in ram raids and the recession!

Must have been 93/94 not 91 as per topic title? [There's a 1993 Primera on the second page]

 

fucking hell Paddy your not supposed to be looking for a cars on the page

it was a trot down memory lane when new adverts used to come out on a thursday

 

Or on a wednesday afternoon if you knew the right people

 

wish i could pick an MK2 RS2000 for that price LOL

 

yep as said before where is the time machine

 

and I bet you did too

 

Shall i ring one of the numbers up & ask about the Cosworth you are selling

 

i remember one of the managers SWOPPING hes t34 on greys cossie for a f reg escort cabrio with a STANDARD ERST engine conversion !!! and he thought he got a bargain of the month

he then bought a 4wd saph for 11k back in 98 as the insurance seemed to had got sorted

2wd cossies used to be worth fuck all and 4x4's where SOOO much more back then too

 

lol....Would like to see the expressions on there faces.

 

I was gonna say, whats the chances of that RS2000 still being for sale, surely he'd be taking offers on it by now

Very interesting to see, I remember when I was younger 2door mk1 escorts selling in the local paper for £350 etc... Couldnt get rid of them back then! If only Id known

 

I remember Mk2 and Mk1 escorts going for banger money, and i mean a couple of hundred quid!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing though aint it!

 

my mum had a mk1 escort (gave it away!!) and a mk2 rs2000 after that. I remember as a kid the mk2 was worth fuck all. It was a run around and got nicked once and ended up in luton. remeber as a kid thinking who the fook would knick that old thing

IF only i had a way to read the future back then

 

Nova 1.3 SR, Solar yellow, 3495ono

 

look at the price of the supra turbo on the 2nd page how much are they worth now peanuts....

 

Might buy myself a tidy mk6 escort gti or something, who knows, could be worth something in 20 years time!

Either that or it'll have turned into a pile of brown dust


Although we laugh about it now, what if.....

 

i freind of my parents where telling me when i bought a cossie, that she used to have a Lotus cortina, she nearly died when i told her how much they go for thse days, when she sold hers for £950