I know a few have been made before with all the running gear etc-anyone got any pics or details
I know they weren't ever made by Ford before some smart arse tells me

 

anyone

 

im sure theres a forum just for escort cabs and i know there was a couple of people on there that had them

just carnt remember the site address ask billy cabrio as he gave it me but i never saved it

 

Hi mate

I was told people dont make a lot of them as the floor is the thing that

Holds them together

So if u start choppin in to it to make the gear box tunnel it will make it not strong and it will be a flat pack lol

RST

 

Yer i would like to see one as well

 

There is a guy on here who has one

 

 

The very FIRST Escort Cosworth convertable was built in about 1990.........Fitted with Gartrac wide wings.............Built by the Reynolds brothers (Enfield)......
I may be able to find some pics in Fast Ford feature......

 

There was a blue one a few years back featured that was pretty amazing. 400bhp if I remember

 

1990

 

Tuh, name dropping lol

That site is www.escortcabrioletclub.co.uk you might be lucky, but i some how doubt it..............

MATCOS

I spose you've been reading this months Pf? Theres a mk4 Escort cabbie in there running a rear wheel drive cossie set up.

I briefly scanned over the article and it looks to be a saph floor pan, bulkhead etc.... with the cabbie bits put on to it.

Intresting tho, i must read it fully

 

[quote="EIL132"]Yes, Steve Reynolds had a Cabrio b/shell stripped and then got Gartrac (in Godolming, Surrey) to build in the big central tunnel and all other mods as a RWD conversion to accept Cossie running gear.......At the same time Gartrac were doing my G6 4WD Turbo Escort conversion.

 

Sorry, thought he meant a convertible that looked like an Escos with cossie running gear not a tin pot one

 

Tin Pot........Gartrac would have charged approx Ł 8 K just for the bodyshell modifications - Ł 7 K of that being labour

 

Hadn't seen PF but will go and have a look, it just popped into my head and I remember an Imperial blue one in Fast Ford years and years ago and also a Aurilus blue one

 

Mill Lane Garage Services built one quite a few years ago. The guy got a Escort Cossie shell and a Cab shell and then chopped them both up to make an Escort Cossie Cab. Loads of work involved. Did ask the guy but he didn't seem to chatty about the achievement

 

I remember that Aurilus one in a mag, the guy spent a fortune as he bought ALL original parts from Ford
The guy on here has an imperial one

 

heres a post from www.escortcabrioletclub.co.uk

http://ccgi.escortcabrioletclub.co.u...01&hl=cosworth

 

thats the one i saw

 

looks like some SERIOUS works gone into it

 

OMG the IRONY of this thread title!!!!

Karman in Germany did the original VW GTI's Cabrio's..........And when Ford wanted their own Escort Cabrio they also went to Karman who did the design for the hood and then built all the Cars for Ford too (they were the experts in Cabby conversions)............

But, even though Karman built over 7,500 Escort Cosworth's for Ford they did not build any Es Cos Cabrio's

 

This was parked up next to my Cabby at Ford Fair last year





Loads of work has gone into it - very nice motor!

Showed my runaround up properly!

Andy

 

Doug Stirling and Steve (oranaco) The Reynolds brothers and Mill Lane services are the same people. Steve and Gary are friends of mine (well I hope so!) do all the work I can't do for me. Top fellas, they have done a few of them now, latest one is just being finished, fairly serious power too. Its red and looks factory imho. Awesome cars, I think he still has 2 as well as the current one. Top blokes and very, very good at what they do.

 

Engines built/modified by Tony at Turbo Systems

 

Ah, didn't know that tbh, there seems to be a fair few people involved in the builds, all of high talent! I did ask if he would sell me one a while back, but I didn't like the price (was fair enough i am just too poor lol)

 

I remember going to that Mill Lane garage in hertford years ago, they where right arse holes, major atittude

 

 

really?
sounds totally out of character to me mate, never had any trouble, nor has my brother and we have used them for about 5 years now, maybe you caught them on a bad day?

 

That maybe so but after the way the guy there spoke to me I couldn't care less. Weird really this is the first time I've ever heard them mentioned since I went there in 1999 I didn't even know they where still going.
Regardless of the peoples attitude the Cos Cabrio they built was the bollocks thou

 

I remember dropping off my old saff shell to a yard in Herfordshire somewhere for Paul & Shelley (from Fordsport). There was a mint auralis blue cabriolet with 4x4 cossie running gear on the site. The chap who owns it is called Glynn....

 

Paul - There is nothing worse than people with an attitude problem- life is too short for that shit, bad day or not! - I must say I have been luck (or well advised) all the guys I have delt with since I have had my cossie have been top guys - Mike Rainbird, Mark Shead, Phil Saunders etc...

 

Back to topic I remember about 6 or 7 years ago am imperial blue cab featured in FF it was built on a saff floorpan - I wonder if it is the same car as the guy on here?? - there can't be many around?

 

nah it aint Glynns mate, he is a mate of the Reynolds brothers, its one of theirs. He had there red one a while back for some work too.

 

yeah still going, they mostly do run of the mill stuff there now, think they have another place somewhere though.

 

i remember that one i think it had venoms on it

i think that got stripped in the end as at one of the ford fais the shell was up for sale for 1500

 

here's my 4x4 cos

 

 

I remember an imperial blue pick up escort converted from about that time in FF. Was that cossie running gear?

 

that mk4 cabby pictured above was the one that was built by bbr i think was in the mags a good few years ago was also on a q plate sure of it

then i saw the shell up for sale at ford fair one year and as the lad states in the feature he saw it there aswell and bought it lol

the mk5 pick up with the cosy kit didnt have cosy running gear but looked cool the one with all the chequred plate in the back

 

nice