1982 1.3 Ghia, the old lady who owned it from new has gone into a home and a family friend was asked to sell it for her, 54K miles and always garaged, only a small bit of corrosion on the N/S rear arch, completely original, metal number plates, dealer sticker with matching tax holder and Jim Reeves and James Last cassette's in the storage box! here are some pics as the clean up continues....




Ive taken the back end apart and T Cut and polished all around the boot, the interior has had a good hoover and clean too


dirty shelf

clean shelf





Bent bumper will go in the bin


Taken off the rust preventing paint


Back to how it should be

made a start on the front end today, bumper has joined the rear in the bin


half way there

 

Nice

Good work so far

 

looks great pal
what are your plans for it

 

What a little minter

 

Great car, gonna be mint

 

that is a minter!

 

wow, thats super clean..

look forward to seeing it finished.

Any other plans apart from a good clean up ?

 

Cant believe how clean that back panel is!! Was the black paint just painted over mint white when it was nearly new you reckon?

Looks a cracking car tbh.

 

That is proper mint clean for the age !!

Good find

 

good find and good luck

 

clean 1 that mate

 

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnice, looks a proppa minter!

 

Looks good as new, nice find

 

looks great

and in awsome condition

great work so far

 

Cheers guys the black paint (I think) is from when the car was new, the whole underside is covered in it too which has helped keep it tidy. Its much better than I thought it would be, will post some pics of the interior which is immaculate and oh so retro brown

plans are to keep it original, no spoilers etc but I will lower it, Escorts look kak IMO unless they are low and I'll change the wheels, I've got Series 1 RS wheels on another of my MK3's and a set of clover leafs lurking behind the garage, not sure on either I'd like something along the lines of those Ronal Turbo wheels

 

What a lovely example keep up the good work

 

just noticed it said christchurch on the trailor then realised your in poole as im in christchurch

 

hi chap nice escort very clean just got a 4 door 1.6l b reg minter to what you doing to the car as would like to see what you doing damian

 

Great little motor mate.Old school rules performance or not....

 

How mint is that.Now clean the engine bay.

 

Found a nice pool of water yesterday in the passenger front footwell, i'll be getting the battery tray sorted this week now

Took the carpet out and gave it a good hose down, scrub and shampoo



The sound proofing is like a sponge and now weighs a ton, why after only two days of being wet does it smell like a dead wet dog? This will be take a while to dry out.



At least I got a chance to check out the floor, happy enough with this





The only MK3 ive had without any cracks in the dashboard

 

hey nice find there bet your happy with what you have found under the floor.

cheers neill

 

very nice car mate, i think the dash is different to the series 1 turbo which is why it isnt cracked!

 

same dash mate just different colour, the cheapo specs had the hard plastic dash

 

looks lovely! as said all it needs is lowering and a decent set of rims then just used and loved! great work so far

 

love it

 

oh right, i didnt know that! learn summert new everyday!

 

Cracking example

 

looks great mate keep it up, must go and give mine a wash and clean

 

looks mint chap keep up the good work are you modding it or leaving it as is

 

small update

car is in for battery tray welding Tuesday the only rotten bit on the whole car was the tray, Ive had a few MK3's and never had a rotten tray even though they are common, here it is



a view from underneath (not very good though)



the new one



dash out, major pain



will post some pics when done

 

looking good whats your plans for it? turbo? lol

 

if it was only the battrey tray i would be over the moon, mine wants rear and of sill and tray after a good wire wheel the tray wasn't that bad but still not happy)

 

after seeing local johnboisescorts nice job of the zetec converstion I fancy that, will keep the standard 1.3 until I fully decide, still not sure whether to stay original

 

cheers mate
get a 2.0 in there will be awsome and will go well to

 

Brief update, fetched car from the welders today well pleased with the new tray, here's a couple of pics from the bay and under the dash, its now a lot more water tight will give it a coat of paint tomorrow weather awful today

Interior can start going back in tomorrow

 

I sssssssoooooooooooooo want a mk3

 

Passed MOT today after a rear wheel cylinder was sorted along with a new pair of wipers, had some new bumpers painted in Diamond white, not sure whether to put the overriders back on, what do you reckon?

 

looks awsome mate

i say leave them off

 

looks a very ncie car you have got there
and i would leave them off if i was you..