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. avo club has brought back an award for most origional car,this year i think there was @ 8 cars your car would be very welcome and if you wanted fall into this category.peeps like to see the untouched cars they are becoming very rare now.got any pics i would like to see the old girl.i was at the nec on the stand good show that met some interesting people. cheers kev ps i wouldnt swap either i treated myself on my 40th and bought a mex similar to yours by the sounds of it,something may be coming off in september that may interest you and the mex will keep you posted

pmsl very good that i like your sence of humour

no youre right its a 72 rs1600 there is of corse always differences of opinion,if you restored a car and replaced every panel is that still the origional car?i dont know if you looked at the car but on the slam panel it states rs1600 service shell.i have all the receipts for the new parts which were bought in the early 70ts.its not a 1300 xl converted into a 16.if you crashed your everyday road car,lets hope you dont,and the insurance company decided to re shell it,is it not the same type as pre accident.a lad local to me bought a 3 door had it 5 mins put it into a brige support.he bought a nos cozzy shell and because it was a new shell not something else b4 he was allowed to retain the origional id.at the end of the day it differances of opinion which will never change.cheers

first of all congrats on your award at avo the weekend.its nice to see that my car seems to have created a topic of conversation. i chatted with a fair amount of people the weekend about the car and i always say that imo all the cars no matter wot peeps chose to do with them are lovely its all about the cars.xjo is a brand new gen ford rs1600 bodyshell bought in the early 70ts and found dry stored in 2001.the origional car was rallied all its life and was battered to death.the idea was to build a new mk 1 using all gen ford parts or as close to.all the mechanicals have been rebuilt.i have collected parts for along time in case anything like this was to turn up and is true to say that if i was in it for the money i would not be fitting all the rare parts to the car theyd be on fleece bay the only part inside the car that wasent new was the centre console.one appeared on fleece bay and i just had to have it,you all know wot i mean. i dont intend as peeps have said to drive it and yes i do like trying to perfect it and get it as close to the vision inside my head last year i did the lakes tour in my mk1 2000 had a great time chasing other modded escorts ,so at every oppertunity the rs2 comes out to play with the oldest car in concorse with the rsoc and trying to defend my title car of the day for 2009 i feel i have to be on the top of my game not to let the car down and keep flying the old school flag.feel free if you see us at the shows mainly rsoc to make yourself known,user name to face to car and all that cheers kev