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Tell me I'm a git if you wish, but in my head I'm thinking, " So you have a rare Mk2 Escort 4dr, and you effectively want to use it as a donor for a kit car, why?" Sell the 4dr and use the money plus the expected budget for all the body shop work and the new shell, and all the incidentals to buy a good 2dr. Or, buy a bucket to collect your anguished tears and wreck a good car to make a bitsa.

Many thanks, I have a 1600GT head to fit once I've found it, and also a complete spare 1300 engine I can use if required. Thanks again for the offer.

That's kids for you, no responsibility. I'll stop his pocket money and let the tyres down on his BMX, that'll teach him!

It's only done about 15k miles. I suppose I deserve it, my son built the engine when he was 17, he's now 36, and the 11yrs in the barn, followed by 5yrs of abuse wouldn't have helped it. Poor thing.

Between 2 and 3 cylinder's. Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to the spares pile I go..........

HA! You won't find me 'cos I'm hiding under the stairs, Err hang on a minute, DOH!

I'd worry about a cop picking up those wheels for dangerous parts/condition with those edges sticking outside the bodywork. Buuut, roll the arches, fit some Anthracite ATS cups and a works spec engine and I'd be on it. None of yer Subaru transplants, that's like fitting a Redtop in a Ford Anglia............ Big John now runs away and bravely hides?

Switch the lights off, lock the doors, retreat under the stairs with a bottle and a big bag of chocolate. Or Switch the lights off, lock the doors, retreat into the garage and and fire up the welder.

Shouldn't it require a BIVA test? It surely cannot be allowed to be tax/mot free as it's more Honda than Ford. It appears to be an exercise in ruining two good cars, were Leepu and Bernie involved?

And then he'd fall off, write off his fairground ride, and the engine could go back in a cement mixer? Is that what you're trying to say??

OooooH! I'm off to get some pressed plates for my Mk1 Golf Cabrio, I didn't realise the benefits.

I'm an old technomuppet and like the site as it is and appreciate the work that goes in with thanks, but if change came I would roll with it. I have noticed since I joined 11yrs ago that the age demographic has shifted, or we have got older and the younger feed in is becoming rarer. This is probably due to old Fords increasing in price, even old shitters to restore, (or bodge and smoke around in, which is probably where most of us started), are daft money for what they are. I'm glad NudgerSS asked the question as to who the Retards Club was as I hadn't a clue either. I wasn't even aware OSF had a club FB page.

Back in the late 70's I remember talking to a Regional Crime Squad cop who was using a 4dr 1600Gl badged Mk2 Escort which was apparently an RS2000 4dr, they also had Modena Green 3litre Consul GT which had Capri 3.1 RS drive train. Lots of weird shit went through Police forces as development vehicles, like the Cosworth 2.9 Granadas, before they became open to sale. We had Mk2 Granada 2.8i's with taxi interiors and sports suspension, and then there was the Flying Pig MK4 Zephyrs with Ferguson 4x4 from the 60's, Lancs Police still had one on their skid pan in the late 70's for the instructors to rip off rookies for beer vouchers.....

As a ringing kit.

A purple member? Oooh Matron! Made me snigger like a 13yr old anyway.?

Another interesting one, again from Clitheroe, re shelled, standard shell. no tags, a classier type of ringing kit to someone? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/escort-mk2-rs2000-rally-race/192638120779?hash=item2cda20734b:g:x2wAAOSwHj1bgsM5

I saw the Friendcentive and thought "Russian hookers"

But wouldn't you need all the band members to be young again? The remaining members would be old and knackered. So maybe the question should be which band would you like to see now, as they were when they first recorded? Even as a Soul fan, I would second the Beach Boys, followed by the 1960's Who.

Being a big Northern Softie, is this spam? I daren't open the link from a Stateside newbie............?

It was owned by The Pope? Great for pulling nuns!

Well it's was a Trans Am!!

Ah, I've heard of Iron Maiden, I just wasn't aware aficionado's referred to them just as Maiden, me not being a Rock God an'all. Still don't make my play list even with their full Sunday name.

Sorry, but as a Northern Soul monkey, who are Maiden?

Why does he always look like his farmers are killing him?

Morris Ital?