WORTHERS

[lee bishop]

They look like original factory welds to me Lee.

i was joking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ian parker]

Update as of 22-12, I knew the car had been d/a,ed so i thought i,d do one of my round robin trips, up to Stoke-on-Trent for 8.30am, i was pleasantly surprised to find very little body filler in Worthers, a section on the top of the rear quarter, looks like something may have dropped on the car over the years, no damage to the light aperture or lower valance, other little knicks, nothing at all to worry about, wings, doors, bonnet and boot all fine, rear arches very sharp, very pleased, said my goodbyes and drove down to Coventry to drop my diff housing off, that,ll be built up and ready for beginning of Jan, drove down to Northampton to pick up my rebuilt gearbox, the first piece of "hardware" back, suddenly it dawned on me that it is slowly coming together, well pleased with the end result of the gearbox, all new A2 stainless bolts, polished reversing light sender, new gearbox plug, just need my gromits !!!!! Paul Spence you said City Electrics, have you a number ???, everyone have a great Christmas and bring on 06 !! Brian will post the pics, (cheers Brian)

[Banishit]

Defo NOT WORTHERS NOW IAN that is one hell of a good shell, now you can see the metal too

[RS2000&MEXICO]

she is looking super ian
worthers is on its way back....

[Banishit]

[Andrew T]

luverley juberley!!!
Can't wait to see 'Worthers' back together.........Dysentery Beige.....drool!!!

Andrew T

[ders]

that looks MINT..too nice to be hidden in a tunnel

cheeRS Ders.

[phantom_r32]

Very nice.

[Trickster]

Ok im lost was this not mint when u brought it and that was the reason u brought it because it was mint????

[ian parker]

Trickster, in my eyes it wasn,t ever mint, they were other peoples words,it was very good, a good base to make mint, and thats what i,m trying to achieve, i,m trying to make every bit, however small, however much detail, as good as i can, i,m only going to do this once, so it needs to be my mint, does that make sense,

[arron]

The level of effort and work you have put in though Ian, could you not have started with a car that was not in such good condition - after all it would not have mattered because all the bad bits would have been covered during the resto plus you might have ended up with a colour you preferred and a much cheaper starting point.

[ian parker]

Hi Arron, yes, your right, i have considered that, although when you think it through, what did i spend my 7k on. I spent it on a car thats done 57k, with every MOT from new, that had been owned for 23 years by one guy, that when stripped down hasn,t required any welding to the floor, hasn,t required any body panels and is 100% structurely, with the advent of Ebay, as you know anything with the letters RS attached to it is spiriling out of control, cars with no history, multiple owners and ROT are fetching alot of money, what additional value would you put on a car with such history ??, and a knowledge that it really hasn,t had a hard life, Also at the end of the day consider, you could end up spending alot more money replacing panels, parts, bits and more importantly still end up with a car with 11 owners, a couple of old MOT,s and a speedo reading whatever, what i,ll end up with (hopefully) is a stunning car with FULL HISTORY, 57k, Every MOT from new and a very genuine, honest car, however, i take your point on the colour !!!!!!!! lol,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, love it really ????

[arron]

Fair enough - you are going to re-paint the original colour though ?

[Andrew T]

Colour

Whats the matter with Beige!!!
Don't change the colour Ian, if your going to do that........I'll swap you OFE for Worthers!!!

I'm on the look out for another, complete or project.....Beige it has to be

Andrew T

[dasadrew]

The level of effort and work you have put in though Ian, could you not have started with a car that was not in such good condition - after all it would not have mattered because all the bad bits would have been covered during the resto plus you might have ended up with a colour you preferred and a much cheaper starting point.

Funny you should say that! I was thinking more or less the opposite - there's hardly a single panel which hasn't got a repair on my shell and some bits are just slightly distorted with the repair panel (notably over the rear wheel arch). This means that, after years of work, I'll finally have basically a patched up and filled Escort! Looking at Ian's shell, I was just thinking how good it looks and, after all, he'll end up with a non-patched up shell when he finishes.

When I started off, the Internet hadn't been invented. It's just changed things sooo much. All of those tricky repairs which I did with self-fabricated bits can now be avoided with a mouse-click and a new panel.

Agree with you on the colour, though!

I guess 20-20 hindsight is on every Escort owners Christmas List!