Been on with this for quite some time now so I thought it was about time I started a thread on here, have owned this car for about 6 years now due to one thing and another it was parked up for a few years doing nothing.

Started to get the ball rolling with it late 2011, I stripped the car to a near enough a bare shell and firstly sent it to Karl (special K) to sort out a couple of small welding and the underside resto & engine bay paintwork

Start of with the couple of bits of welding it needed, it wasnt bad to start with seen alot newer cars in alot worse shape than this.

Seat mounting points first,


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Done!


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Moving onto the jacking points on the floorpan, these were quite fucked after years of jacking the car up on them, at first he did think about cutting them off and fabricating some new ones but Karl suggested that we cut flaps open on the inside of the car to access them from above and hammer them back out into shape, the flaps on the inside are then welded back up,



Getting back into shape,

 

Work on the floorpan starting, I decided to get it done in body colour and I was really happy with the results,


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Onto the enginebay, again no real issues here even the battery tray only had minimal surface rust no rot anywhere, not requiring any welding

Old strutbrace holes welded up,


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Battery tray,


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Moving onto the rest of the bodywork. When Karl had finished with the car we took it up to Gaz in Durham, having seen plenty of his work it was him who I entrusted with the re spray, the car had been painted at some point before I owned the car it was a very nice job but it was the wrong shade, the paint on mine always looked a lot darker than other Jewel Violet ones I had seen at shows, so I decided to have a full hit on it.

The car had previously been de-locked and I hated it, so I got my de-locked doors re-locked lol


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Some pics of the respray,


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Car back at our workshop


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love this colour !!!

 

Penis

In

Hand

Best colour ever!

 

Good to see some pics at last ginge ,looks minty fresh

 

Paul, great job you have got done there mate

 

That looks unreal the colour is lovely bud

 

Thanks for the comments

Wing mirrors fitted, glass all cleaned & refitted with new door scraper seals, new inner & outer rear screen seals & windscreen seal, genuine new rear lights & side repeaters fitted and spoilers on with a new spoiler seal.

 

Fantastic!

 

Looks really nice mate, do you think it will be at any shows next year then?

 

Cheers bud, don't know yet not setting myself any deadlines, I'm just on trying to get a new job now if it works out I'm going to have a bit more time off so I will have more time to spend down the garage.

 

cracking job paul

 

That looks the nuts!! Usually photos don't show the true job but that looks amazing bet your over the moon!

 

Great work Ginge, get the old girl sorted and back out.

 

Looks beautiful mate you are doing a great job. you will more than likely have this on the road faster than my brother will with his car.

 

Looks lovely, wouldn't mind another JV Monte myself!

 

Few pics of some other bits,

1st batch of stuff back from zinc plating







Wiper linkage was fully stripped down, painted, re-plated & rebuilt.




Pair of awesome vin tags from Dave Monster

 

Best colour by far!!! Be nice to see it built back up what spec engine goin in it mate

 

New wing grills from Ford




New genuine badges & Monte decals from DMB




Powder coated parts








Bits I've painted myself



Inlet, plenum & throttle body rebuilt





Alternator



Engine mount arms



Thermostat housing




Modded heater vent gauge holder from Dave 'Twins' , spot on job looks like a factory thing.

 

Nothing mental mate just a rebuilt standard ish motor, around 350bhp

 

Looking as lush as ever

 

Powerflex rear beam bushes





4 new genuine Ford trailing arm bushes fitted to the arms & new hub to arm bolts



Standard rear diff that was removed from a 19k mile car years ago, cleaned & painted up with new rear prop bolts



I snapped the breather pipe outlet on the diff casing when I was cleaning it and you cant buy them anymore so machined a new 1 up from alloy

 

That looks beautiful.

 

Stunning

 

That is such a good colour on an Escort Cossie.
Cant wait for more pics .

 

Top work going on there!

 

thats beautiful, mate top work

 

That colour is fantastic!

 

Looking good Paul

 

Stunning fella

 

Awesome Ginge , been waiting for this thread

Makes me want to do mine again

 

Omg!!! Impressive

 

Ive seen the paint work on Ginge/Pauls car and I can safely say its the best paint job ive ever seen.Its like glass. Keep up the good work matey and hopefully it will be finished soon cause its been way too long off the road lol.

 

A great standard of work on this.