Hi all, first time posting and first time owning a Mk3 Escort!

Went to view her Friday evening, she looked great but refused to start!
Wasn't impressed but she looked too good to leave, so I went back on Saturday armed with tools, daylight and a new battery, and managed to get her running!

She drove great on the way home ... aside from awful brakes, flat spots and running rich ...

Not really decided what do do with her yet, so thought perhaps here was a good place to look for ideas!


The interior is fairly good, but the dash has cracked badly

Exterior is fairly good, couple of scratches and dents here and there, but nothing major.


Bad bits (so far)...
The weather strips on the windows are shot (having issues finding these) The rear lamp bulb holders are broken and held in with gaffa tape
The key wont open the boot lock


Going to have a tinker tomorrow, adjust valve clearances and see if i can get her running a little less rich!

Will take a few photos too!

 

ghia's should be left standard and pampered mate

 

and one pic aint enough

 

quality mate ,check my xr3i resto,all the best

 

Exactly. Too nice to be molested. More cred earned by minting IMHO

 

Thats really cool.

 

polish it, set the carb up and enjoy all the attention from the middle aged blokes looking, pointing and wanting to chat to you

 

Also if those front mud flaps are genuine they're worth a few quid themselves.

What spoiler is fitted to the bootlid?

 

Looks nice, I had one in the late 80's ... Hydraulic tappets so you can't adjust them. Running problems are usually down to a split VV Carb diaphragm. Be sure to replace the cambelt if you don't know when it was last changed.

 

Hi all, the plan is to leave her standard but bring her up to a showroom condition!
She's already had a carb upgrade as far as i can tell, running quite rich though so i need to sort that out!
She has a noisy valve lifter, planning to replace the set when i change the cambelt (was done 2k miles ago... apparently... but I'd rather be safe!)

Whats really annoying, work had a load of BNIB genuine spares, but chucked them all just before i started! was gutted when i found out!

 

I think the mudflaps are genuine, not really looked tbh! Its got a rubber spoiler on the boot, I'm waiting for some better weather to polish her up and take some more photos!

 

Looks nice.

My brother's mate has some new rear lightbulb holders for sale if you need some. I can give you his details if you want.

 

that was on facebook for sale on the essex car page

 

If he has still got them then yea i'm interested, mine are rusty and broken!

 

lovely car benniz nice colour aswell I have two mk3 ghias one is 5 door 1.6 a reg and the other is a 1.3 3door w reg quite rare so im told good luck with yours mate al be keeping my eye on this thread

 

Sort it all out and leave it standard!

 

I miss my mk3

 

yeah looks nice keep it standard ghia is very rare these days