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Old 27-10-2006, 11:25 PM
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Old 27-10-2006, 11:29 PM
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well says everthing cosworth so might be a cheap way to get a escos if it rs2000 on log book if you after cheating insurance that is
Old 27-10-2006, 11:30 PM
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or perhaps some numpty decided to re shell a escos into a rs2000 shell
Old 27-10-2006, 11:32 PM
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Rung up small turbo escos on rs2000 id if you ask me, the rs2000 4x4 and escos shells are totally different!
Old 27-10-2006, 11:33 PM
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Old 27-10-2006, 11:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Shings
Originally Posted by paul16v
Rung up small turbo escos on rs2000 id if you ask me, the rs2000 4x4 and escos shells are totally different!

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT
notice how i miss thye obvious
Old 27-10-2006, 11:41 PM
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Old 27-10-2006, 11:41 PM
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Dosent really look blue to me tho but as for the pixs its a cossie rep (rs2k) .
Old 27-10-2006, 11:43 PM
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maybe its built of stolen parts
Old 27-10-2006, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Shings
Originally Posted by Greg shepherd
Originally Posted by Shings
Originally Posted by paul16v
Rung up small turbo escos on rs2000 id if you ask me, the rs2000 4x4 and escos shells are totally different!

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT
notice how i miss thye obvious
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT


Now the question is do I pitch up for a look see and rip it to pieces and accuse it of being a ringer????????
(unless of course its not )
or go looksy and if it genuine and cheap enough grab yourself a escos engine
Old 27-10-2006, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by TrevCannon
Dosent really look blue to me tho but as for the pixs its a cossie rep (rs2k) .
Tbh i dont think the pics are of a replica if it is its a very good 1 rear quaters meet the spoiler as per origional, proper front splitter hockey sticks etc?
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Old 27-10-2006, 11:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Shings
Originally Posted by TrevCannon
Dosent really look blue to me tho but as for the pixs its a cossie rep (rs2k) .
You need to look a bit harder matey.. that looks far toooooo good to be a replica...
Just beet me to it lol
Old 28-10-2006, 12:10 AM
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Well ive sent the seller a message asking just how it has came to be on an rs2000 logbook when the 2 cars share no mechanical and hardly any parts of the bodywork bar the roof and a couple of other bits and bobs, i will post his reply up when i get 1
Old 28-10-2006, 12:40 AM
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The plate brings up

Make
FORD
Year of manufacture
1995
Model
ESCORT RS 2000
Engine size(CC)
1994

Well it seems somthing isn't right. I wouldn't have thought someone would take a perfectly good cossie and stick everything on an rs2000 shell for the fun of it
Old 28-10-2006, 12:44 AM
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Looks like a small turbo escos... Totally different to an RS2k shell!



Ringer!
Old 28-10-2006, 01:43 AM
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'Tis an Escos running with the ID of an RS2000
Old 28-10-2006, 09:50 AM
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Ł6800!!!!
Old 28-10-2006, 09:57 AM
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ITS A RINGER

That is blatantly a complete escos, stolen, whack the rs2000 chassis numbers on and flog it as a replica.

Couldnt be more obvous if the number plate was

R1NGA



Dont go anywhere near it if you are planning to use it on the UK roads cause it will probably be taken off of you.

There is no way thats a rs2000 4*4 shell the fucking engine is sat the wrong way round for a start and the rear quarters are genuine escos!
Old 28-10-2006, 10:04 AM
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well if you lot love your ford's i'd bloody report it no time for stolen cars of the modded varity report you suspisions
Mybe even manage to get it reunited with it's owner
Old 28-10-2006, 10:05 AM
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What i cant understand is why people are people 6 grand on it. They obviously realise its a proper escos and a ringer!!!!

It wouldnt be worth that much it parts would it???

I reckon someone with an escos ID might buy that and ring it again, and sell it on to some poor git as a proper one!!!!
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If i wanted to report all the blatantly rung cars, or blatant money stealing scams on ebay I would have to employ a team of a 100 to help me
Old 28-10-2006, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by S1rst
What i cant understand is why people are people 6 grand on it. They obviously realise its a proper escos and a ringer!!!!

It wouldnt be worth that much it parts would it???

I reckon someone with an escos ID might buy that and ring it again, and sell it on to some poor git as a proper one!!!!

Worth far more than that in parts.

They break for about 12k!
(thats including a shell with id, so a few grand less without)
Old 28-10-2006, 10:14 AM
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Looking at the stuff he's buying, you'd think he was planning to leave the country or something!!!!!
Old 28-10-2006, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by S1rst
Looking at the stuff he's buying, you'd think he was planning to leave the country or something!!!!!
maybe he's been 'finding' too many porsche wheels before they were lost
Old 01-11-2006, 07:04 PM
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Its made Ł8000!!!!!!!!

Now surely the bidders realise what their buying here???? If they do, and if it is what people are saying it is, then that makes them as bad as the people who did the car! Its just fueling that type of activity in my opinion.
Old 01-11-2006, 09:20 PM
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battery is also in a different place is it not to an rs2k?

did anyone ask him what his game was???
Old 01-11-2006, 09:23 PM
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It's looks a funny shape to me.

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wheel is in the right place on the arch too(front wheel, rs 2k sits nearer door!!)
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RINGER
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Originally Posted by Shings
Originally Posted by TrevCannon
Dosent really look blue to me tho but as for the pixs its a cossie rep (rs2k) .
You need to look a bit harder matey.. that looks far toooooo good to be a replica...
I've seen.. & even built one on a half project of my mate that is certainly better than this one for exp... not all these rep's that everyone have to post on here are not pieces of shit you know...

If i got a black mk4 bonus or w/e shell for mine & rebuilt it to it, it would just look the exact same with the numb plates off
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ringer
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dont get how it will not show on the hpi with issues, or is it a nicked cossie and a hpi clear rs2k
Old 01-11-2006, 10:42 PM
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yes that would be the case really

chassie number cut out of written of rs2000 and id plates taken of then fitted on a stolen cossie
Old 01-11-2006, 10:43 PM
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Thats more than likely what it is a stolen escos on legit rs2000 id, he never replied to the question i asked him
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no thay dont mate it needs reporting to west midlands police really
Old 01-11-2006, 10:55 PM
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fookin ringer
Old 01-11-2006, 11:40 PM
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depends what the women in the dealer ship wrote on the reg docs when new i have had some esc cossies which came from ford vehicle leasing and said rs2000 in the log book
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its a ringer
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Paul @ North Yorks' RWD escos was rs2000 converted???

so it must be possible


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