As some of you know my dad has a M reg Fiesta RS1800 he uses the car every day for work but a few months ago a bloke at his work drove in to and damaged the passenger side rear quarter and light! my dad got payed out through the insurance and he decided to get the car repaired and he also knew he would need to add to the repair as there was a fair bit of rust appearing around the fuel cap!
We took the car to a garage to have the rear wheel arch replaced and the rear quarter sorted but we got a call from the body shop saying the rust is worse than first thought!
So today we went and collected the car and my dad has decided to restore the car so we are going to strip it and get all the rust sorted and the whole car resprayed!
So far we have collected a genuine ford front drivers side wing a genuine ford passenger side inner wheel arch and a few brand new bits of body kit
The car is standard apart from Fiesta ST front calipers disc's and pads, Zetec S rear axle and Zetec S rear drums and Escort RS 2000 Wheels and a magnex stainless exhaust
Here some pictures of how it looked when he first got it




With the RS 2000 wheels fully refurbished

Can see the rusty arch here

Will update once we make a start striping it
Brian

 

looking good mate

 

Cheer's mate


Brian

 

Good luck mate. looks a nice motor....
How long Has you dad had it? no rust at all in first pictures.

got the same problem with my S2 didnt look bad when I started but just keep finding more and more.

Will be keeping an eye on this, goodluck

 

Thanks mate

He must of had it 3-4 years now i think, tbh i think it already had a tiny bit of rust that has got worse over the years!


Brian

 

Good to see it getting the treatment

 

Cheer's mate yeah it will be good to see it all finshed and looking mint, tbh its had a few little dings on etc but as he used it every day for work its has just been left atleast now we can sort the whole car out


Brian

 

**Update 2/3/11**
We got the car back on Saturday from the body shop, and then today we got the car out and gave it a quick wash as it was covered dirt
Before we washed it








After we washed it





We have removed the rear bumper, passenger side rear body kit and rear lights





Close up of rust











A few of the new genuine ford panels we have collected so far



And one of our little helper


Brian

 

Small update 26/5/11
Have managed to source a brand new genuine Ford wing (which wasn't cheap) but better to have genuine stuff than pattern panels






Also managed to source another ECU after having trouble with the one in the car now


Brian

 

It looks well on the RS2000 wheels.Shame she is a bit rotton.Good luck with the resto.

 

good luck with it brian have u still got your mk2

steve

 

Cheer's Glenn

Cheer's Steve yes mate still got it that's having a full restro aswell and fitting a zetec turbo engine in it!


Brian

 

good work

 

Will be nice when finished.These must be rare cars now.

 

Got plenty of work there to keep you busy! Good luck with it.

 

Cheer's guys will be awhile but will be well worth it as these are getting rare now


Brian

 

 

**Updated 28/11/11**
My dad found these on ebay and bought them
rose jointed and adjustable lower wishbones




Brian

 

**update 28-11-15**


Wow 4 year's ago I posted this here , well a few weeks ago we finally got the car booked in with a welder and the bodywork is starting to take shape and its turning into a solid shell again, We bought another mk3.5 1.1 for spares amd swapped the doors over to the RS to start with then it was off to the guy's welding it will let the picture's do the talking











Brian

 

The bottom ares look trick.

Its a bit of a over due update lol.

 

I know mate can't believe it's 4 year's to the day I last updated this

Will be some updates over the next few days and weeks
Brian

 

Cool i will keep a look out for the updates.

 

Seems this on instagram,just brought a rs1800 myself great litlle cars,keep up the good work

 

Yeah that's me on there mate


Have you any pictures?


Brian

 

 

Very smart mate




Brian

 

I know that garage lol

 

Cheers

 

I seen yours on ebay or gumtree a while back when I was looking for one, Did it turn out to be a good one? It looked good in the pics

 

Yeah it's good,it was better then I'd expected glad I went for it ,quick aswell

 

Haha you have been mentioned a few time's mate




Brian

 

Worth saving looks an awesome little car love em

 

Did this ever get done?

 

It's being started on again as we speak it's currently having some fabrication done in the engine bay have a slightly different engine spec


Brian