Escort Cosworth convertible's-anyone got any pics/info
02-02-2006, 05:26 PM
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Escort Cosworth convertible's-anyone got any pics/info
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
I know they weren't ever made by Ford before some smart arse tells me
02-02-2006, 08:04 PM
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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
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
02-02-2006, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by xr4x4rs
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
just carnt remember the site address ask billy cabrio as he gave it me but i never saved it
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02-02-2006, 08:18 PM
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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......
I may be able to find some pics in Fast Ford feature......
02-02-2006, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Doug Stirling
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......
I may be able to find some pics in Fast Ford feature......
02-02-2006, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by xr4x4rs
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
just carnt remember the site address ask billy cabrio as he gave it me but i never saved it
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
02-02-2006, 08:28 PM
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[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.
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02-02-2006, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Doug Stirling
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.
02-02-2006, 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by EIL132
Originally Posted by Doug Stirling
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.
Tin Pot........Gartrac would have charged approx Ł 8 K just for the bodyshell modifications - Ł 7 K of that being labour 
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Originally Posted by BillyCabrio
Originally Posted by xr4x4rs
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
just carnt remember the site address ask billy cabrio as he gave it me but i never saved it
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
02-02-2006, 08:39 PM
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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 
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02-02-2006, 08:55 PM
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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
02-02-2006, 08:57 PM
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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!
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Loads of work has gone into it - very nice motor!
Showed my runaround up properly!
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02-02-2006, 08:59 PM
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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.
02-02-2006, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Nomaderst
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
02-02-2006, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Nomaderst
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 (was fair enough i am just too poor lol)
02-02-2006, 09:57 PM
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I remember going to that Mill Lane garage in hertford years ago, they where right arse holes, major atittude 
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?
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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
Regardless of the peoples attitude the Cos Cabrio they built was the bollocks thou
02-02-2006, 10:07 PM
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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....
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That maybe so but after the way the guy there spoke to me I couldn't care less.
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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?
02-02-2006, 10:34 PM
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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....
He had there red one a while back for some work too.
02-02-2006, 10:35 PM
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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
Regardless of the peoples attitude the Cos Cabrio they built was the bollocks thou
03-02-2006, 12:02 AM
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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?
i think that got stripped in the end as at one of the ford fais the shell was up for sale for 1500
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Originally Posted by Simon Day
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?
06-02-2006, 03:00 PM
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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
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
