Mexico wings

[Mk1 escort twin cam]

I know this has probably been posted lots before but what are the mk1 mexico style wings like to fit that are currently for sale being sold as "not the Chinese ones" ? Have any of you fitted them personally?  Thanks.

[preacherman]

The Chinese ones come with free prawn crackers and bottle of coke.

[Mk1 escort twin cam]

I do love a bag of prawn crackers so i might just have to go for the Chinese ones then ha ha . Serious feedback would be of help though as I'm getting to that stage in the resto ! ? 

[John escort mk1V6]

Hi , if you watch the wheeler dealer episode with the brown/yellow mk1 you can see that the grey ones are cheaper and fit bad , so i say take the black one`s.

I did bought 25 years originals one`s [standard] and these didn`t fit also right so i did get another set and that was the same story , so i wish i bought aftermarket at that time , for half the money.

What i am trying to say is , that most of the time it`s gives problems.

[Xp197777]

There Not great ,go with magnum ones

[Mk1 escort twin cam]

Are the magnum ones the same as the black ones that are for sale on ebay ?

[Rich T]

Cambridge classic cars had a genuine pair for sale a little while ago. Maybe give them a ring and see if they  still have them? Make sure you're sat down when they give you the price though.

[Ray]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ESCORT-MK1-RS-MEXICO-TWINCAM-NOS-RARE-Wing/173230719853?hash=item28555b036d:g:Qt4AAOSwAPVZJAnB

 

 

[colr6]

9 minutes ago, Ray said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ESCORT-MK1-RS-MEXICO-TWINCAM-NOS-RARE-Wing/173230719853?hash=item28555b036d:g:Qt4AAOSwAPVZJAnB

 

 

Double the price of pattern parts, could you justify it? Once fettled and painted could you tell the difference ?

[Ray]

 

29 minutes ago, colr6 said:

Double the price of pattern parts, could you justify it? Once fettled and painted could you tell the difference ?

if your doing a resto like my purple one, then worth every penny, if you aren't looking for the extra mile, go magnum, the magnum wings actually fit better with less fettling than the genuine ford ones, however, like all pattern never perfect, and if you look carefully you will see are a different shape round where the grill fits, the badge holes are incorrectly spaces, and the swage line slightly off height

[Nick Heer]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/car-replacement-parts/ford-escort-mk1-rs2000-wings/1292911691

[Ray]

And thats for rusty old junk Nick

makes the NOS look cheap

[Nick Heer]

nothing a good panel beater cant sort out 

for £2000

 

[Rich T]

How do you tell between genuine and copy panels other than the poor fit when you try to stick em on? 

[Ray]

15 minutes ago, Rich T said:

How do you tell between genuine and copy panels other than the poor fit when you try to stick em on? 

1) sellers asking price is twice that of a Magnum

2) magnum panel is black, genuine ford ones were mainly brown

3) a well stored set of ford ones will still have the ford stickers on them

once in your hand, compare a magnum to original ford on the car, the headlight area is wrong shape, holes for the badges incorrectly spaced and the main swage line height is about 1mm out

experience on fit with 2 cars, the magnum actually fit better on offer up believe it or not, but swage line and headlight area was too far out for me

I have no experience of expressed panels to compare against though

[Rally Pack 2000]

Wow those guards cost more than my whole Twincam. I have a set of genuine Ford Twincam arches in boxes in my shed that I actually bought before I got the car and they are Black like the ones pictured.

[tezscort]

I had a pair of new genuine Ford Mexico wings some years ago and they were black, I ended up selling them on as I wanted bubble arches and didn't want to cut them up.

I've still got a NOS standard wing which is also black.

[piekey]

As previously mentioned, we must not loose sight the age of Mk1 body shells. Some/most have had a tough life on the way to 2018.

Any wings will deffo require a certain amount of  fiddling & fettling to make them fit nicely.

I have seen most makes requiring cutting & shutting to get door/bonnet gaps spot on.

Good luck, you will need some.

[Ray]

1 minute ago, piekey said:

As previously mentioned, we must not loose sight the age of Mk1 body shells. Some/most have had a tough life on the way to 2018.

Any wings will deffo require a certain amount of  fiddling & fettling to make them fit nicely.

I have seen most makes requiring cutting & shutting to get door/bonnet gaps spot on.

Good luck, you will need some.

spot on is the one thing door gaps/shuts and wing gaps were not, ford didn't give 2 monkeys what the gaps were like, as long as the doors etc didn't rub, so any shell you see that they are perfect, is definitely not how it was

the trouble is, its whats pleasing to the eye, and these days we are used to seeing perfectly created computer designed cars, so we go down the line of thinking that's how all cars should be