Escort Cosworth ex rally car
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Escort Cosworth ex rally car
Thought it about time I introduced my very, very, very long term Escort Cosworth project.
It all started way, way back at the start of 2010!!
I was looking for an Escort Cosworth to use as a track car ( 8 years and still have not got there ) and whilst working in Spain came across an advert for a rally car that was being broken for parts near where I live in Bristol. Contacted the seller straight away and found that all the mechanical parts had gone and all that was left was the shell, so after a quick think I ended up purchasing it completely unseen, no pictures and not even a description!!
After returning back home I needed some way of collecting it so purchased what was left of a caravan to use the chassis and base
The first picture is taken from its competition licence and the rest are what I ended up with
It all started way, way back at the start of 2010!!
I was looking for an Escort Cosworth to use as a track car ( 8 years and still have not got there ) and whilst working in Spain came across an advert for a rally car that was being broken for parts near where I live in Bristol. Contacted the seller straight away and found that all the mechanical parts had gone and all that was left was the shell, so after a quick think I ended up purchasing it completely unseen, no pictures and not even a description!!
After returning back home I needed some way of collecting it so purchased what was left of a caravan to use the chassis and base
The first picture is taken from its competition licence and the rest are what I ended up with
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Hope if the weather and work allow to come down for the Bank holiday weekend in a couple of weeks time then as often as I can
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Strip down
Once it was home I started to look at what I had bought and was not impressed. Have to say I was a bit naďve, the car had been used for competition, rallying so was never going to be a show car.
Anyway it all started when I tried to sit in the drivers seat trying to imagine me flying around a track when reality hit, I am too fat to sit in a standard bucket seat!!
So the seats had to be removed then anything else that I did not like the look of, which was everything.
The doors were in very bad shape so were removed followed quickly buy the tailgate and bonnet.
In the end I had a very large scrap pile and just the body of a car which had some damage to the front and the rear panel was being held together with metal tape.
Anyway it all started when I tried to sit in the drivers seat trying to imagine me flying around a track when reality hit, I am too fat to sit in a standard bucket seat!!
So the seats had to be removed then anything else that I did not like the look of, which was everything.
The doors were in very bad shape so were removed followed quickly buy the tailgate and bonnet.
In the end I had a very large scrap pile and just the body of a car which had some damage to the front and the rear panel was being held together with metal tape.
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Looks good just like that!
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Yes they are St170 wheels which were fitted to a mk6 escort that I bought, being the wrong offset I changed them and these were then spare
It had its bath at Surface Processing Ltd (SPL) in July 2010 and was Ł2000 I expect the price has risen a lot since then
As was stated at the beginning it was indeed what was left of a caravan, it got used once more to take the shell to a body shop, no idea what happened to it after as I did not want it back
As was stated at the beginning it was indeed what was left of a caravan, it got used once more to take the shell to a body shop, no idea what happened to it after as I did not want it back
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Great project...will be ace
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