well not quite a barn but stood in a garage for the past 5 years
1 owner from new 67K with full ford dealer service history
Series 1 Escort RS Turbo
all origonal paint,mint trim uncracked dash I was a little giddy when I puilled it out
story is the guy bought it when he was 17.5 years old,unfortunatley he blew the engine up 5 years ago and thats where its sat ever since
just got it back and on the lift to have as check around looks all good,does need a full under bonnet and underneath resto,but a cracking origonal car
will post photos when I have steam cleaned it off

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Nice find pete whats the plans for the car ? you just going to sell it on the way it is.

 

what a nice find and fairplay to you

 

lucky boy i love a barn find cant wait to see pics.

 

Iam no longer a trader on this site so Iam not allowed to say I just thought i would share this find to show there still is unmolested cars out there turning up,amazing what people have tucked away

 

Pics?

 

pics please

 

Nice one i would love to come across something like that but then again i would just spend loads of chash on it

 

+1

 

as i said I need to un seize the brakes so it rolls easier and give it a good steam clean under bonnet,the rest of the paint is superb being origonal

 

nice , find, if you don't mind me asking how do you find about about these, presume it's your adverts or word of mouth from you being in the game 20 years..

bit like that barn find rs500 you found last year,what happened to that?

steve

 

yeah man i was wondered bout that rs500 to.

 

with over 20 years in the game you get well known plus adverts in the major mags i get offered quite a few
as to the 500 I found that know has been fully restored and sitting alongside the other five 500s in a personal collection

 

wow...i want to find one!!



x

 

Pete that s1 wasnt a left hooker was it i sold my mint s1 with low miles to a young rs entusiast i heard he blew it up and never seen or heard of since that had similar miles on her (b6--bpp) similar era 5/7 years ago

cheers
ian

 

no its RHD,the guy bought a brand new XR3i when he was 17 then 6 months later drove past his local Ford garage and saw this sat in the showroom so he went in and bought it
man i bet he was the dog gonads driving that around at such a young age

 

Lucky boy having that new at his age,nice find though pete.

 

Once its clean be nice to see more pics of engine bay ect

 

 

awesome find - i want pics of this 500 you found

 

Would love to see pics of a rs500 thats just been found before & after

 

looks nice
get some pics of that 500 up as well sounds good

 

Mint nice find.

 

great car with superb potential.

these old fords keep apprearing from old barns/garages etc

 

nice find.

 

He cant , I sold it for him the same day he bought it

Its now fully restored

 

is the new owner got any pics of all his 500's on the net anywhere? has he got every colour?

 

great find pete ,not many left on original paint


cheers james

 

nice

 

pukka find fella whats the plans for her?

 

I,ll tell you what makes a nice find,...when we find out how much it cost...if he shelled out 10k on it for example, it wouldn,t be such a find now would it !

 

darren what makes it a nice find is the fact that their is some of these cars still sitting about in peoples garages unrestored ,the cost is irrelevant really,its the excitment of finding them


cheers james

 

Thats your opinion James,in my opinion it would be a much nicer find if it was nice and cheap!

 

my opinion of "cheap" and your opinion of "cheap" will be a million miles away as I know the value of what I have found,
I think a mint uncracked 3 door cossie dash is worth a Ł1000 all day long BUT I guarantee you wont

 

and i would agree with him, but if you can find someone moronic enough to buy it then fair play

 

nice car!

 

Lovely car. Looks like it could be a minter with just a little bit of TLC.

Who bought the RS 500? Wouldn't be a certain RS 500 collector that sells RS spares from North Yorkshire would it ?

 

nice one

 

Supply and demand guys, there aint many things like this left and if you want it then you pay what the market dictates, does it mean l would pay it? no but then it also doesnt mean it is not worth it.

I know where there is/was a 15k miles series 2 sat in a garage, the bloke would not sell a few years back though

Mike

 

Very nice find ! I want !!!!!!