As per title,

Were there any genuine RS Turbos, that came from factory with no sunroofs.

Looking online, the answer is NO. But there are story's of a few early ones out there with no sunroofs...

I need to reshell my sunroof RS Turbo, but cant find a decent sunroof doner vehicle.


Thanks

 

Could the donor in need of the reshell not have the roof cut off?

 

Yes, I could cut the roof, off and use the orginal roof, but, cutting the roof, to me, does not seem right!

 

don't need take the full roof of its just a skin same as like on the doors

 

If you reshell the car you need to use the donar cars id anyway,so you would be better to source a good roof off a car and use that on your original shell

 

As twins says, you can't transfer the ID anyway so I'd be looking for a shell without a sunroof as the sunroof is half the problem with an S2 rotting.

Lee

 

i remember seeing mk4 rst's without sunroofs.sure they did them.

 

I seen one early Mk4 escort rs turbo (think it was 1987) without a sunroof many years ago at a car show in Ireland. I was told it had a motorsport shell. This car had manual window winders. I have never seen one since.

 

Yes they did make RS turbos without sunroofs, they were known as non custom pack. Also as a non custom model, they had no central locking and no electric windows.

There is no such thing as a motorsport shell for the S2 ERST, They were never rallied by Ford, But were built for I'm sure GRP N rallying in mind. Which lots of owners did use for that purpose.

Non custom models was an option during the early period of the MK4 Escort production, But this option was phased out roughly 1988. They can be found on C-E plates.

Incidentally the Series 2 was produced in 6 different colours... but that's for another thread.

 

I own a Non sunroof Escort RS Turbo S2.
A non sunroof shell is the best option for a decent handling car.
My
Red rwd mk4 is non sunroof
xr3 non sunroof
White rwd mk4 non sunroof
Erst s2 non sunroof

 

according to some original 1986 post cards i have from ford, they did come without sunroofs

 

I owned an RS TURBO in 1987 without a sunroof this did have central locking and electric windows and was on a C plate

 

Why would you need to use the donor car id out of interest.
Surely you would scrap the donor on paper via DVLC

You can buy non plated minis for a reshell.