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Old 21-05-2011, 11:45 AM
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Few cars here in a barn,

MK1 escort, MK2 Escort, 4 Series 1's MK3 Xr3, MK4 3i and a S2 Turbo



Old 21-05-2011, 12:05 PM
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Fuck me Andy where do you keep finding these filled up barns? lol

What condition are they all in?
Old 21-05-2011, 12:09 PM
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Wooooooaaaahhh!!!! What a find!!!
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i will have a series1 please
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he goes barn finding
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fuck me, id love to find them! that is a sweet find, any more details on them ?

them 4 s1's
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Originally Posted by bubs_rsturbo
i will have a series1 please
+1 at least he'd still have 2 left
Old 21-05-2011, 12:24 PM
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Ill have the tractor... well digger.
Old 21-05-2011, 02:45 PM
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Put me down for a S1 please lol
Old 21-05-2011, 02:56 PM
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looks like they have been tucked away as a investment to me
Old 21-05-2011, 03:01 PM
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what a find? arew you buying any?
Old 21-05-2011, 03:03 PM
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mabie a brush and shovel is needed to brush them of the floor.


thanks steven
Old 21-05-2011, 03:40 PM
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dibs on the xr :P
Old 21-05-2011, 03:47 PM
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escort mk.2 for me lol.
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That sure is a full barn Andy

I hope that's not my S1 at the back
Old 21-05-2011, 04:13 PM
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Mint find what a lucky fella.
Old 21-05-2011, 08:17 PM
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Lol you need to fill it up abit more andy
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Bloody hell i would be straight back there with a trailer and i would be taking them cars.
Old 21-05-2011, 08:33 PM
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People talking like this is a Ł50 note found in the street.

These are someone's cars they've obviously deliberately stored in a building on their private land.

All this talk about dibs and going back with a trailer... FFS, if I turn up at your house, see a car in a garage, take some pictures then start with comments about coming back later to take it how would you react?

Somehow the reactions are different when it's your car getting the attention or disappeared on a trailer...
Old 21-05-2011, 08:45 PM
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So whats the story on the cars??
Old 21-05-2011, 08:50 PM
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someone has a neat collection
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Originally Posted by wibbler
People talking like this is a Ł50 note found in the street.

These are someone's cars they've obviously deliberately stored in a building on their private land.

All this talk about dibs and going back with a trailer... FFS, if I turn up at your house, see a car in a garage, take some pictures then start with comments about coming back later to take it how would you react?

Somehow the reactions are different when it's your car getting the attention or disappeared on a trailer...
i was only joking btw
Old 21-05-2011, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Glenn.
Bloody hell i would be straight back there with a trailer and i would be taking them cars.
That would be what is know as 'theft' mush, and is apparently, against the law
Old 21-05-2011, 09:39 PM
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Nice collection! Do they all belong to one person?
Old 21-05-2011, 10:51 PM
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Nice collection,
Old 21-05-2011, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by dave cos4x4
escort mk.2 for me lol.
sod right off thats mine as is the red s2!
andy its hardly a barn find when its your barn and im paying storage lol!
Old 21-05-2011, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by wibbler
People talking like this is a Ł50 note found in the street.

These are someone's cars they've obviously deliberately stored in a building on their private land.

All this talk about dibs and going back with a trailer... FFS, if I turn up at your house, see a car in a garage, take some pictures then start with comments about coming back later to take it how would you react?

Somehow the reactions are different when it's your car getting the attention or disappeared on a trailer...
wind your neck in mate 2 of those cars are mine and most of the rest belong to mates of mine, if we can enjoy the banter then so should you do you honestly think any of the people who have posted above are seriously going to come down and start trailering these cars away?
better fucking not do anyway lol
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oh and andy you forgot to add the mk2's got a cossie lump
Old 21-05-2011, 10:59 PM
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Is the copper coloured car at the back a mk1 Escort?
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Originally Posted by Glenn.
Bloody hell i would be straight back there with a trailer and i would be taking them cars.
bring your saff up there on your trailer and you can gladly trailer home my red s2
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Originally Posted by Icurus
Is the copper coloured car at the back a mk1 Escort?

yes mate its sporting steel bubble arches too
Old 21-05-2011, 11:03 PM
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Nice

Used to own a copper coloured mk1 Mexico. not seen many since!
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i wish i had a barn like that
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Originally Posted by Icurus
Nice

Used to own a copper coloured mk1 Mexico. not seen many since!
Nice i've never seen one in that colour ever iirc.

not even in a picture.

green, white, red blue obviously but i actually have never seen one in copper.

not being funny here but was it a gen mexico? any pics of it?
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Originally Posted by orionmojo
Nice i've never seen one in that colour ever iirc.

not even in a picture.

green, white, red blue obviously but i actually have never seen one in copper.

not being funny here but was it a gen mexico? any pics of it?
its not a mexico mate it was a 1.1 its actually bronze/red oxide!
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Double post

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It had the correct AVO plate under the bonnet, but then again it might have been a converted 1300E?

I heard that the RS shells had slightly thicker chassis rails as the ultimate way to know? But I never got to test that! It had the gussets under the front wings on the suspension tops, anti tramp bars at the back, stone deflector studs in the boot floor, black headlining, beta cloth interior and some small tilt only bucket seats?

As far as I was aware it was an original, and I joined the RSOC with it.

I sold it as a restoration project, along with a shed load of spares and another 2 door shell for next to nothing in about 2000 iirc. How how I wished I had not! I had that Mex for over 10 years!

I might have 1 or 2 pics somewhere of it stripped down.

I did see a genuine one at the RSOC national day 2009 at Donnington. An old fella had it. When I saw it I thought it was my one from a distance! My heart started pounding!! But alas, it was not

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bet your gutted you sold it mate something like that would be worth a small fortune now
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i'd love to be able to store my car somewhere like that then i won't worry someone will take every day nice collection between u lot :P
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