martinembleton

that looks shonkey lmao

booner999

pm me a price for the leather seats.

Composite@XsportRacing

we do a selection of panels if anyone is interested on building a replica

http://www.xsportracing.com/panels.php

rsmark86

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here's a picture of our old escort cosworth ...



now no matter how much i missed the hell out of it i would not go & spend the money nor time & effort on building a rep. theres people on here saying you should be happy that people are trying to copy escos owners cars but should you really?
i was 20 years old driving A REAL escort cosworth & people thought it was 1. a rep or 2. daddy's car because there is that many people building reps, that when you get people that dont know very much about them, just see the badge & the kit & they think its the real deal

rsmark86

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YEP! i used to get it with the escort cosworth how a 40 yr old back in the day couldnt afford one & how he's always wanted one never had one saying that he had one though lol
but dont get me started with my mk2!! people pull up next to me at traffic lights or in traffic & tell me they had one or their uncle or their dad or their older brother .... "yeh mate this 1 cossie powered" .... "OH" lol its funny as fuck

cossiedevil

well just taught i would come in on this.cossie reps for me are just a hobby as such.built 2 and starting my third. yes could buy a real one but everyone is different nothing to do with turbo cars as i have 2 sti's.insurance is a killer on rep if insuring the modification done well in ireland anyway was paying €4100 a year on my 1.6 rep and then the same on the rs2k once the kit was on them the insurance company here put in the class group 23r the same as a escort cossie said once it look like one it was most likely to be stolen. and yes if a rep is done to a high standard then the cost can go above the buying price of a real one.example my 96 rsk car cost €6000 and then body parts wheels suspension etc went over the €7000 so thats €13000 or just over £11600 so far.have all receipt to prove this thats not including fitting spraying and paint as this was done by me so dunno what price labour would be to get all this done as it was built from a bare shell up

https://passionford.com/forum/showth...ht=cossiedevil

Psycho Warren

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thats insane to spend more on a rep than the real deal, not to mention insurance which costs the same to insure as a real car!!!

If its cost you more to make and insure than the real deal WHY wouldnt you buy the real deal?? nuts, fucking nuts!!

combi van man

totaly agree,what a plonka

Bullett

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couldnt agree more. its not logical. maybe im shallow but i couldnt have a car thats not the real thing. except my 205 1.6 gti.which was actually an mi-16

cossiedevil

reason to not buying a real one well for this topic anyway.i have three cars already that sit in a shed hardly see the road last car i had out was at the mcrae gathering aug 08.so the cossie would never really see the road as the roads here are bad the white rep covered a total of 3000 miles and had three set off avo coilovers in that time back shocks keep blowing the seals so that will say how bad the roads are.as i said in my first post these are a hobby to me and for the reason that i can bring them out on the road nothing else and i do realise that they go above the price of a real one.even though there are rep i have had people come and say is she the real deal and always say no she a rep that i built i do no people that will bluff and say ya she real can't understand this as no matter how good the rep it will always have a give away biggest one the engine and so for all real cossie onwers i understand what your saying when you have the real deal alot people will say it a rep when they no nothing about them. in the same position with a car i have thats the real deal.

fastford.lt

Hi all it is my escort rs2000 replica

rsmark86

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who on earth are you insured with i wasnt 21 yet when i had an escort cosworth & i wasnt paying nomore than £3k a yr!!

cossiedevil

well i would have been 20 at the time no1 in ireland would insure it so got it with brittans an insurance broker in donegal had ford insurance and they would not cover me on it.and had to get an engineers report from a ford dealer ship to say the work passed there standard.

Psycho Warren

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are irish insurance companys run by retards or are most irish drivers retards crashing all the time to fuck up the insurance system???

Even if you have crap roads and only did 3000 miles it would still be better to have 3000 fun miles rather than 3000 miles of FWD gayness driving a never good enough wannabe car. If avos keep popping then fit standard suspension and dont run it so low!

booner999

Your comments are harsh but true.

Crazy if you ask me, I seen a nice bright yellow rep hiden under a cover down near me. What a pile of poo. Buy the real deal and enjoy it.

Psycho Warren

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I also cant believe the irish roads are really that much worse than UK roads. We have some roads that resemble the surface of the moon, not smooth tarmac it should be

rsmark86

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i missed my old escort cosworth so much i got another one lol this time in ash black

adam escort cosworth

just to put my say in to all this!!!! i use my escort cosworth 7 days a week its 400bhp yeh it can be heavey on fuel if i boot it!!! ok it is heavey on fuel!!!! lol but i love it and its miles apart from a replica but im not dissing the lads who want the looks of a cossi but cant afford a nice one!!! i always dreamed of owning one since i was a teenager and if i could of i probably would of done a replica but i stuck with my xr3 and xr3i and rs turbos instead untill now!!! im living a dream i love it

Glenn_

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Nice to see someone using there escos 7 days a week.Good lad.

teahan

irish roads aren't that bad, i never blow shocks and have run many cars low.

i don't mind reps, but for me it has to be the real deal. can't afford one at the mo so rs turbo for now!