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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 05:17 PM
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Default Escort Cosworth Underside & Engine Bay Resto **Continued BACK ON ROAD**

After having the car a year and met some good people i have decided to start working on my car this week a few pics of what my car looked like before i started...
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 05:25 PM
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looks sweet ,wiil be watching this space
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 07:53 PM
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New pics coming tomoz when we start stripping it!
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Looks good. Ive just striped the underside of mine will be watching
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How my car looks today after me and mark (cossiecrazy) took it to bits, got a lot done in a day!



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Coming on good and i started cleaning a little bit of the floor and it looks like its gonna come up good, i hope so anyway!

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Thats it for today more tomorrow gonna crack on and clean floor tonight ready for paint!
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Old Dec 31, 2008 | 05:32 PM
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Old Dec 31, 2008 | 10:28 PM
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I painted it today it looks mint


cum on nath where the pics ???
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so many escorts looking like this at the moment injoy cleaning
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Old Dec 31, 2008 | 10:36 PM
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so many escorts looking like this at the moment injoy cleaning
hi dunc im doing this one for a customer he wants to know where you got your spark plug cover frrom (carbon one )

cheers mark

ps still want these sensors ???
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Originally Posted by cossiecrazy
hi dunc im doing this one for a customer he wants to know where you got your spark plug cover frrom (carbon one )

cheers mark

ps still want these sensors ???
Hi yes i do please also the cover was from creative carbon/raybum
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hi yes i do please also the cover was from creative carbon/raybum
cheers get them to you after hols happy new yr buddy x mark n oly
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cleaned up mint
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half done you can see how dirty it was!
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cleaned up very good
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Wheel arches before and after cleaned up loads better than i thought!
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well impressed with the speed of cleaning what did you use
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Tar remover mate brought it off mint
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awesome work
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Customer markus? Does customers do all the work while you supervise? Ha ha ducky
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customer markus? Does customers do all the work while you supervise? Ha ha ducky
just get the latest pics on you geordie get
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looking good
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Originally Posted by cossynath
Tar remover mate brought it off mint
Good to know as I'm about to do this in a few minutes... Need to run to the autoparts store and pickup a few cans.
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That has come up well
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Keep up the good work mate.There is loads of top fords like this getting stripped and looked after.
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Update the floor is now painted and looking mint! Thanks to Mr crazy Thanks to him for doing a mint job at painting! Even tho i think it was my mixing that did it ha!

So the first pics is the floor stone chipped this is just the undercoat...
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And here is the man himself

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nath please tell them this is only the primer/stone chip and get the finished pics up geordie fat boy lol
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very nice,gonna be mint
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all the restos iv seen latley your doing it the hard way lol should stemam clean it before you start lol saves loads of efort looking realy nice though
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I live just around the corner from this! Have seen it parked on the car park a few times i wondered who owned it. I never knew there were ramps inside there too!

Good work so far


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nath please tell them this is only the primer/stone chip and get the finished pics up geordie fat boy lol
If you read what i put at the beginning of those pics mate it does tell them its stone chip! silly bugger
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Originally Posted by Moonstone Mart
I live just around the corner from this! Have seen it parked on the car park a few times i wondered who owned it. I never knew there were ramps inside there too!

Good work so far


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I just had the ramps put it mate keep it to yourself tho ha
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Originally Posted by Moonstone Mart
I live just around the corner from this! Have seen it parked on the car park a few times i wondered who owned it. I never knew there were ramps inside there too!

Good work so far


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I just had the ramps put in mate, keep it to yourself tho dont want any chavs finding out ha
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Originally Posted by jacko
all the restos iv seen latley your doing it the hard way lol should stemam clean it before you start lol saves loads of efort looking realy nice though
I luv the hardwork mate keeps me busy
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Originally Posted by cossynath
I just had the ramps put in mate, keep it to yourself tho dont want any chavs finding out ha

Understood Nath, thats why i didnt put any info/names of places too .

You own it now or you rent from people who own it? You run a valeting company?


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Old Jan 2, 2009 | 08:15 PM
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Own it mate, i own the pub next to it, my mate used to do valeting there but someone grassed him to council so he had to stop, Come round sometime if your not far away and see whats going on...
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To keep my dad happy, The finished floor painted up really well, cheers dad ya moody git!

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Mark painting, Next pics is the floor finished



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Own it mate, i own the pub next to it, my mate used to do valeting there but someone grassed him to council so he had to stop, Come round sometime if your not far away and see whats going on...

Own the pub too? You also got a 3 series BMW or Audi RS4?

Is Mark your dad? He comes to our RSOC meetings in Crewe.


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