JLarzzoon Posted June 5, 2021 Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 Hi everyone! My name is Joacim and I'm a new member here from Sweden. Recently I became a proud owner of an Escort Mk1 Lotus Twin Cam. I bought it from my grandfather who has owned it since it was new 1969. He bought it from Ford UK and was racing with the car for about 4 years, after that it has not been driven but unfortunately my uncle took it apart to use parts for his own racingcars years later. Now I finally own the car after years of persuasion. My dream is to restore the car to original top condition. The car has never been registered here and I want to register the car to be able to drive it on public roads here in Sweden. I'm not sure my grandfather can find the papers when he bought the car so I wonder if there's anyone out here who knows if there's possible to get any papers through Ford in UK or something like that? Is it possible they have info about the cars they sold during this time stored somewhere? I add some pictures of the car and the VIN-number. What info can I get from the VIN-number? Best regards, Joacim from Sweden 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colr6 Posted June 5, 2021 Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 Found this, it may help. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted June 5, 2021 Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 12 hours ago, JLarzzoon said: Hi everyone! My name is Joacim and I'm a new member here from Sweden. Recently I became a proud owner of an Escort Mk1 Lotus Twin Cam. I bought it from my grandfather who has owned it since it was new 1969. He bought it from Ford UK and was racing with the car for about 4 years, after that it has not been driven but unfortunately my uncle took it apart to use parts for his own racingcars years later. Now I finally own the car after years of persuasion. My dream is to restore the car to original top condition. The car has never been registered here and I want to register the car to be able to drive it on public roads here in Sweden. I'm not sure my grandfather can find the papers when he bought the car so I wonder if there's anyone out here who knows if there's possible to get any papers through Ford in UK or something like that? Is it possible they have info about the cars they sold during this time stored somewhere? I add some pictures of the car and the VIN-number. What info can I get from the VIN-number? Best regards, Joacim from Sweden Welcome to the forum, I can help you with details of your car. I could tell you more from the chassis and body plates if you have them? Don't post images of them on here mind. The numbers you have in your strut top, BB49 is explained from Col's image above. HY means it was built in Oct 1968 The final five digits are a vehicle specific serial number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLarzzoon Posted June 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2021 8 hours ago, Vista said: Welcome to the forum, I can help you with details of your car. I could tell you more from the chassis and body plates if you have them? Don't post images of them on here mind. The numbers you have in your strut top, BB49 is explained from Col's image above. HY means it was built in Oct 1968 The final five digits are a vehicle specific serial number Thank you! How can I edit my post and delete the picture of the VIN-number, if you recommend me to do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted June 6, 2021 Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 8 hours ago, JLarzzoon said: Thank you! How can I edit my post and delete the picture of the VIN-number, if you recommend me to do that? This has been taken care of for you. If you still have the chassis and bofy plates for the car, send me pictures of them by PM and I can interpret them for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLarzzoon Posted June 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 8 minutes ago, Vista said: This has been taken care of for you. If you still have the chassis and bofy plates for the car, send me pictures of them by PM amd I can interpret them for you. Thank you! I will check if I have them somewhere hopefully today. I'm just curious, what can people do with the number in the picture I posted? Got a little worried here if it was a bad idea? Can you delete the picture completely instead if editing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katana Posted June 6, 2021 Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 That's a good looking bodyshell for a restomod - it'd be a shame to loose its racing heritage! Love the flares on the rear bubbles, just for that little extra width - nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notenoughtime Posted June 6, 2021 Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 What a great looking car 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vista Posted June 6, 2021 Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 12 minutes ago, JLarzzoon said: Thank you! I will check if I have them somewhere hopefully today. I'm just curious, what can people do with the number in the picture I posted? Got a little worried here if it was a bad idea? Can you delete the picture completely instead if editing it? They can't do anything with the 4 digits that are left now, but with the full number in theory they could ring an existing stolen car in the UK by stamping that number into it and applying to register it here. Or upspec a standard shell and register it as a twin cam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLarzzoon Posted June 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2021 7 hours ago, katana said: That's a good looking bodyshell for a restomod - it'd be a shame to loose its racing heritage! Love the flares on the rear bubbles, just for that little extra width - nice! Thank you! Yes it still looks good after all these years it been stored in a barn. My grandfather told me they widened the original rear bubblefenders when they changed the rules about tire width and were allowed to mount as wide tires they wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaileyMex Posted June 7, 2021 Report Share Posted June 7, 2021 Looks great! love that 👌 Welcome to OSF and hope you can trace some history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLarzzoon Posted June 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2021 3 hours ago, BaileyMex said: Looks great! love that 👌 Welcome to OSF and hope you can trace some history. Thank you😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton-capriVlog Posted June 13, 2021 Report Share Posted June 13, 2021 Lovely looking machine buddy! Good luck with the search! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLarzzoon Posted June 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2021 On 13/06/2021 at 10:26, Anton-capriVlog said: Lovely looking machine buddy! Good luck with the search! Thank you!😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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