If you want to bastardise a car..... please, please sell this to someone who appreciates old Fords and buy a newish fiesta/corsa/saxo!

 

Haha... no if you don't like it, don't look at it.

 

hello mate, the way i see it, wot you do is up to you, wot some people on here like to see is the way mk2's should look or to be.. if you want to go crazy on your car do it.. if people dont like it, theres nothing they can do.. ave got a mk1 and mk2 and built them the way i do it. if someone says i dont like it'' or i think you should do that this way or another , its all advice.. but becarful how you give it back in respect.. if you going to put the car back on the road, well good luck to ye''mate.. as for alot of rally mk1 and mk2s out there that get killed and rolled all over on stages, then Some have to get another shell to build another rally car on, as that they get that smashet up! some can be paneled up but ave seen were there been that crushed up.. no one thinks of that.. weres the respect in that..

 

Exactly

This "sk8ter" or whatever he wants to be called gets given a classic car and rather than cherish, maintain and look after it, he wants it to look like a pile of random bits and bobs. Dont feel sorry for him because he's young, I'm younger and I'm not this idiotic.

sell it to a true enthusiast (which you are not if you'd gladly butcher this classic)

 

Subaru vents are cool LOL i had one on my Fiesta Si, i liked it haha, but not everyone likes what your doing.. just ditch that gay louvre thing on the rear window and lower it, and all should be well... Dont like yours personallyy, it looks like it drove thru halfords backwards...But, good luck with your future plans

 

Please don't!! Mk2 escorts are drivers cars, not chav cars. There's a lot of difference between many of the mk2s around, its just you need to be able to spot the details (its all in the detail). You'd be much better off focusing on the way it goes and handles instead of bonnet scoops, (a new bonnet is piss easy to get hold of). It will hold its value much better that way.

 

A crime against a true classic car. Keep your individuality in the way YOU look and behave, please don't inflict such behaviour on a rare and potentially valuable car. Make it look retro and period correct, then sell it and buy yourself a mountain of guyliner and oxy 10 or whatever you fancy.
On the plus side if you get it on the road and drive it daily i'll give you a fortnight before someone relieves you of it as the other guy have warned.

 

...and even if they break it for parts, it would be treated better than what he wants to do with it

 

Slight overreaction from a few people just for the sake of a bonnet vent.

I agree that it will look out of place, but have seen far worse things.

Think it could be modified to quite a nice "period" look with the rear louvre. Something different from the norm. I can't remember seeing something like that with wolfrace wheels/slot mags or something like that with some period street machine-esque mods in many year. That side of thing could look ok and different. Personally I'd be going a more conventional and "clean" route, but always nice to see something different as long as it's done well and tastefully. A bonnet is easily changed so hardly ruining the car.

I would urge caution and remember the value of the car, and what the value of the car could be if well preserved in years to come.....

 

jack up at the rear with the louvres is so 1980
in a way it would actually be quite cool to keep it as it was modified way back then when mad max was the bollocks.

its your car and your street cred though

 

If you want cred, drive it properly, thats what will earn you cred. Nothing like a well driven mk2 being thrown around in style

 

As a 17 myself, I agree. If you want to be different, make it 100% original.

Most 2 doors have arches, or wheels etc.. Make it 100% original and you'll recieve a lot more street cred.

 

You guys aren't worth the effort... bye

 

People have made more of an effort with you by actually giving you advice and pointers which will actually help you out, and you come out with this shitty smartarse comment
Big man!

l88888eeerrrzzzzzzzzzz

 

what a fucking ASW.

Clearly an EMO punk rock or similar freak. Quite why his hair completely covers his right eye i dont know..... Hes playing his guitar right handed and is also likely to be right eye dominant and thus cant see out of his right eye meaning he will walk into things.....

oh well, we will probably hear about his suicide for "cyber bullying on a car forum" in a few weeks either that or some poor mental health team in yorkshire will have to deal with him after he is referred to them for an overdose/self harm episode because of Pf, all while some genuinely mentally ill person cant get help because the resources are being wasted by this EMO cunt.

of course i could be stereotyping the lad

 

that's funny mine is a roger clark rep hopefully looks old skool but hopefully but that looks horrible but each to their own

 

19 my arse! 12 more like!

My God Warren you do look at things don't you. Fair play i missed that.

 

This car is doomed by the reading of this shame this little freak has it ! Shame when i first saw the thread i was expecting good things

 

Needs a haircut for a start. That'll catch fire when she starts welding


Warren...... That was class !!

 

I think he has successfully been scared off...

 

No no no it'll be back !

 

what a little c**t, typical kids attitude. Shame the car could look pretty good with some effort. as soon as i saw the pic of him I knew this wasnt going to go well!

 

If i looked like that i wouldnt be putting any pics up

 

 

seems to be a stupid 19 year old who knows the lot... before he sorts the car out he aught to sort his dress style out!! lol..

 

mk2 escort , don't ruin it, i had a Mexico at 19, side ways everywhere, could look the bollocks.

 

Bloody Emo's thinking they know shit... When will it stop

 

Never. They're like aliens

But yeah, this one is right little bastard. But I would be if i had hair like that and was as skinny as him

 

he wants to get the grinder into they front teeth & get them down a couple inch before he starts on the escort

 

Lol, Aliens..Just a stupid kid who doesnt deserve to own such a nice car ( bar the crap mods ) but then again 'rockstars' like fucking perfectly good stuff up dont they...

 

I see them at work all the time!

 

Lmfao one of them saltwheels that guniea pigs have would do the trick

 

Do you give em the same hospitality as this little boy/girl ?

 

Thought cool young lad gets a MKII. checked pic, was a 3 door and was jealous. Then read more of his first post. Clearly scooby vents will look ghey as hell. some subtle vents like the retro Opel Manta rally car wouldn't be so bad with the correct engine under the bonnet.

Also sod fibreglass items a proper car like this needs proper panels.

This car is doomed for the scrapyard at this rate, lets hope the keys dont 'get' into his hands and the father realises his mistake for giving him the car.

Oh the other hand, im sure if someone sees it on the road, they'd smash the vent/bonnet.

 

Fuck me lads dont hold anything back ay .
He's young and dont know as much as he'd like to think but there aint no need for the nasty comments
all you can do is give people advice and after that it's there choice
I know its a classic and we'd all love the chance of being given one but its his car at the end of the day.

 

His dad must be a empty head, surely the man wouldn't let his kid ruin a classic

 

Happens allot on here .. people calling people Cunts .. Usual gang ..
Green giant has taken over i suspect.

I like the look of it I imagine he wont sell this .. After a few year (if its not stolen / wrote off / rotted away) Am sure he would put it back together in a more subtle way ..

The lad never asked for advice on body work .. Just advice on a few parts ..

 

not everyone see's these cars in the way that we do, so his dad probably couldnt give a fuck about it as its just a "normal car"

 

Granted but if his dad has kept the car for so long be must like them, More than likely the lad will get over enthusiastic in front of his mates and probs wrap it.

 

Oh dear God no, someone please rescue it!

Seriously dude, it's a classic car, treat it with a bit of respect!