brought this car after driving past it lookin sad outside sum1s house,he was gonna break it,but i had to save her!800 quid changed hands,and im now the owner of a very rusty series 1!11 owners,rebuilt engine,piper cam,scorpion stainless,spent a a couple of hours ripping it apart to reveal lots of rust,only way to do this proper is a bare shell sand blast and lots of new panels,im still happy,dont care if its rusty,i got a series 1 :bigcry: let me know ya think peeps :00001753:



















good job i can weld!gonna do the floors,fuse box,scuttle,wings,inner wings,front panel,boot floor,sills and thts wht i have found so far :bigcry:
got new doors,boot and bonnet and bumpers already :thumbsup

 

sweet baby jesus, u have ur work cut out for u if that thing is going to be fixed! wud like to see the size of the hole where the battery tray is, and also down the sills! bet they fucked!!!!

 

fook me thats a lot of work, sure its worth doing?

 

good project ill be watching this one

 

Another one saved from the scrap heap!

always fancied a series 1! love the look!

 

Any S1 is worth doing!

 

u got ur work cut out there

 

the batt try is good and so is the chassis and sunroof!as said any S1 is worth doing,plus the fact i can weld,and all prep work is carried out by a good mate of mine!so cost aint a problem either,even all the panels i need only comes to 200 quid ish

 

my rs1600i looked champion until i began to pull panels off and interior out, then the orange tin worm began to rear its ugly head

have a look a my resto post to give you an idea of what kind of task you have in front of you, it will be hard and you WILL have those "why am i bothering with this" moments, but stick at it and take loads of photo's and once its finished it will be soooo worth it... trust me and mines not even finished

good luck, i say you rescue this S1 if you want any help or advice drop me a pm, if i can hekp i will

 

My neighbours are propper confused!!!

They saw a half decent series 1 leave my drive 2 weeks ago, only to be replaced by another, in a lot worse condition

Carl, WTF you spilt on my drive

Didnt see that when i came home

Its not that rusty, well, the rust has fallen completly off the car

Shell aint really that bad tho! no worse than old matey Rossco's when he started his

 

orion_crazy_carl
ur got ur work cut out there matey, good luck wiv ur project, gud 2 see another s1 saved

 

yippee another one gettin saved.dont give up mate if it ever gets on top of you

 

keep up the hard work mate it will be worth it

 

now thats what i call a project good luck with it keep the pics coming

 

RED16,cheers mate,ya a gent
TILL
and cheers for the coments,feel good saving a another S1,should start my own ford rescue club
more piccyys tmoz,gonna see if the beast will breath again!
cheers again peeps

 

Good to see another being saved ,keep the piccys coming

 

good luck mate, good to see another one being saved!
keep the pics coming!
cheers mark.

 

Great to see a another S1 being saved m8, As the others say will be worth it in the end

 

Great. 800 Squid

 

no progress today,cant get the fooker to start,all lights on,no fuel pump nor starter mota to cold,waiting to get it in a lock up,
i'm hoping it will be worth it, die a happy man saying ive owned a (rusty) S1!
cheers for the encouragment guys

 

be worth it! Keep pics coming

 

just one thing first mate ur car looks like it has the same prob as mine that the n/s wheel camber is exessive i bet if u try to fit a strut brace on ur car it wnt fit...

as mine didnt and wot it was that some nob had gobed up the battery traY with filler insteatd of weldiing it and the n/s suspension turret had droped towards the servo ad wheen i put a jig on it and pulled it back the hole in battery tray open and closed... just get it checked before u weld tray in otherwise u wnt be able to sort it out after easy..

 

looks like theres someone trapped in your engine bay!! FREEKY!!

 

Good luck

I know with my restoration its heart breaking finding such bad corrosion.

 

good to see another S1 saved and being sorted i start mine soon mate and im dreading to find whats under the body kit. It will be well worth though mate keep up the good work pal

Andy

 

pmsl at the ghost of the engine bay

as said tho, any S1 is worth saving, but there's a HELL of a lot of work there, good luck

 

lol,thts freaky,worried to work on it now,maybe its the old owner

 

no probs mate

now go get stuck in

 

Go for a reshell.... cheaper, neater, and easier

No m8, respect for having the balls to take the challenge!!!

 

cheers will
pick some bits up today for her,doors bonnect boot ect,and gonna try to get it running bloodly thing

 

glad to see your saving it from the scrap heap and good luck!

 

easier to reshell but finding one that wont require work is bloody difficult, and the sense of achievement once the shell has been rebuilt by yourself is soooooo good

any updates, pics etc ?

 

Well done mate,stick with it,I'm tempted to start a S1 Resto...now I have an empty garage

Don't give up

 

do it bud
no updates my orion turbo decided to make psiton to valve contact so time and money spent on tht!



doh

 

hi fella have you got the orion running yet? ps tell mogi you should of put the head on as well

 

ps if you need a hand to get the s1 alive again i will come and get her going not a problem

 

Its at mine micky, as if im lettin you near my garage, ya theivin pikey

 

bloody hell tillio is alive! hows things m8 i hope that ya s1 comes to gether a bit quicker then ya cab give me a call the cozzie is up and running i hope to have it on the rolers at the weekend

 

Mate thats as bad as my shell!! The more you remove the worse they get!

Good luck

 

orion_crazy_carl gutted about the engine problem mate just have to make it come back bigger n better than before

never a true'r word spoken my RS16i was a right state aswell