early escort

[scrummyhorace]

any way of finding out what number off the production line ? just bought a 2door mk1 escy on an f plate. and wondered if there was any way of telling.

[Gareth]

In the Escy/Tina resto book,

There's a key in the back which tells u what all the different

letters/numbers stand for.

 

Mine for example starts bbatlj....

 

bbat means it's a base model, "l" means september and "j" means 1971

 

so my shell was manufactured september '71.

 

You shoud be able to google it and get everythin u need.

 

Hope this helps m8.

[scrummyhorace]

cheers for that, il try ang google it.

[atomic punk]

any way of finding out what number off the production line ? just bought a 2door mk1 escy on an f plate. and wondered if there was any way of telling.

 

Out of interest, Is your car sort of pale blueish with new wings on it?

[scrummyhorace]

yes bud, pale blue/green. no new wings though ? tht was some guess

[atomic punk]

An educated guess...... there was an F-plated mk1 just around the corner from me a few years ago - had new wings put on it then was put up for sale.

 

I can't imagine there'd be too many F-plate mk1 2doors in Portsmouth

[tim]

take alook at the bottom of page 2

http://www.rs2000.plus.com/files/VINdec2.pdf

[scrummyhorace]

yeh must be the one bud, stamshaw way. my brother bought it a few months back, stripped it got bored and iv just got my grubby little mits on it like you say not many that early in pompey.

[scrummyhorace]

thanks for that tim very interesting . cheers.