Hi Guys,
Well after about 2years of driving the car and its now been in storage for about 20yrs, it has now seen daylight....
It is back home and ready for the restoration as i have a bit of extra time on my hands. It will be a long project and have no ambitions to get it done within a certain amount of time, slow and steady wins the race, more like i dont want to bog myself down and get fed up with it and destroy personal life Hehe, the wife rules!
ill post a couple of pics and try and keep you posted as i go along.
Also will need lots of advice on how to and also to source parts etc.
The strip down commences.

Regards

Jamie

 

Hello mate and welcome .

You're in the right place here , I'm sure you'll get a tonne of support and guidance . Keep the pics coming that would be my top tip !

I have a two S1's so might be able help if required.

Good luck

 

Cheers Mate,

How come you have S1 my friend, are they both road worthy.?

I have a lot of steel work to do:
Floor pans
Front chassis leg
Boot
Fuel filler
Battery tray
Inner wings
Outer wings
Rear chassis legs etc especially where bad repairs have been carried out.

and i suppose there will be more as i go along and strip down to bare shell.

on the look out for a fuel filler insert if anybody knows of one kicking about.

Cheers

 

Hi

Yup, ones pretty original ( non custom ) that i rebuilt about 10 years ago now and the other is a black caged track slag thats been reshelled. The blacks ones legally on the road at the moment the white one needs and MOT and a dust off.

sounds like you've got a lot of work on your hands there!

Ill be watching for sure

 

Hi All,

Stripped the RS a bit more......








Next job all the suspension and brakes.......

Spoke soon

J

 

Looks like it just needs a bucket of soapy water....

 

Yes it does look fine in these pictures....

I will post some shots of the corroded sections as there is a few of them.

 

Good project,look forward to updates.

 

I was where you are now about 1 1/2 - 2 years ago. The road is long my friend and bloody expensive. I just stopped counting the money about a year ago 😂 but I’m seeing the light at the end now and I’m still totally besotted with my Escort, plenty of guts and gumption and a never put off to tomorrow a small job you could do today and you’ll get there
good luck mate
Steve

 

Awesome mate , good luck and keep the pics and info coming .