mk1 escort washer bottle

[Craig holland]

        just wondering if anyone thinks there is a market for this. need some feedback to see if its worth having a tool made as i work at a rotational moulding company that can make small production runs. thanks

[colr6]

Would have thought if you can re produce as per Ford original there would be a market for them. Restorers want an original and white but if you can achieve that spot on then I would say it’s a goer. I’ve just paid £60 for a mk2 bottle of fairly good condition, have seen mint ones go in excess of £100.

[Ray]

there are 2 variants of that type shape bottle, the one you have and the one more popular is with the filler hole in the middle, i cant remember the part no off my head but its embossed in the front

however, someone already makes a repro of the one with the centre filler hole, and it usually retails around £55, but it has the repro company logo and not the ford part no on the front

now if you could copy that bottle, complete with the ford number, at a reasonable price, rather than a repro name or nothing at all, ie it looks like a genuine one, then i think you would have a market, genuine ford NOS usually fetch anything between £200 to £250 a pop, theres probably a market for the one in your picture, but it would be a lot smaller, i have seen very good used ones go over £200, 

the original bottles suffer with going off colour, but they also split on their mount slides, small splits can be repaired, but wide ones deem the bottle scrap

[Craig holland]

I can get the tool maker to make any of them. I can also make them identical and in any colour. Don't want to put ford identification on as copyright might be a big issue.  I need to cost it to see if it's worth while.  Tool will cost about £1500 so I need to be sure.  Our technical team are going to have a look and then I will make a decision . It's only a side line so possibly make 100 at a time.  Thanks for your advice. 

[Xp197777]

Making the cheese wedge bottle would also be a goer I would of thought they go for big bucks

[Rally Pack 2000]

Definitely a market there. The later ones have in fact been reproduced before. You could buy them from 45 to 65 pounds at the time, and this was around 18 moths ago. The cheese wedge type are probably more in demand but I would never pay the ridiculous prices of them and the horrible discolouration of them and how they get their name. If white ones were reproduced I would definitely get one. My Twincam hasn't had one for decades because of the prices and look of them. I almost went with the later style repro ones which mainly seemed to be coming out of Europe but it wasnt period correct for my car but still I should have now that I know at 45 to 65 pounds was a reasonable price. They were clearly marked with a corporate logo of the manufacturer so you could tell they definitely weren't a Ford item.

[Ray]

tbh, with the tooling at £1500 alone per type, i dont think its viable on either of the cheese box type or the one in the picture, theres not enough demand for them, otherwise the people making the other one would have also done those, and the only way to make the other viable is to be an exact ford copy, if you leave the numbers out that ford put in, then youve just put yourself in competition with the repro one already out there, which is still available, and with the dealers, and people who are doing concourse restorations wont buy it for the same reasons they wont buy the repro one now, as they want theirs looking exact as possible and are prepared to pay the price for an original good or nos one

[Xp197777]

Your absolutely right Ray the concourse boys won’t have a replica that’s why the originals are at a premium, I know someone that sold a nos cheese wedge to a guy in Brazil for £750 🙈