Mk2 Escort stood since 1993

[HarrierTony]

Deffo a good point Davie, One place I rang for a price didnt know what an outer sill with doorstep was .

I havent spent much time on the door lately, so just a few pics of todays efforts,

The door skin before



and after taking the rotten bit off



Trial fit of the new lower skin i am making



and a front view

[mike77cos]

You have a job on there, looking forward to watching this progress

[HarrierTony]

Cheers Mike, it will be slow as i have other stuff to get done before i can give it some proper attention.

Little update on the door, still have the last bit of the lip to sort out, but cut more of the old skin off to where the new one will be going



Trial fit of the new skin to see where it all meets up



Rear view showing how the corner will look

[13sport]

Nice work mate. U got anymore pics of the car, underbonnet etc. What's the strut tops and innerwings like?

[HarrierTony]

Nice work mate. U got anymore pics of the car, underbonnet etc. What's the strut tops and innerwings like?

Thank you. I will get some sorted and put up mate, Strut tops have previously been done, but I will be taking them off to see what crap is under them, the innerwings look surprisingly good but there is some rot at the bottom of the heater bubble.

[Aaron P.]

nice job so far tony....was that a lucky find or did ya know the car??? it must ave been garaged all that time....keep up the good work on it....

[13sport]

Il look forward to seeing them.

[HarrierTony]

Thanks Aaron, I was lucky to get it to be honest, the owners have had people knocking on their door year in year out wanting to buy it, but this year they decided to sell and lucky for me no one went knocking on their door, so it ended up for sale on a local motor forum, thats where I 1st saw it and the rest is history.
Believe it or not, it has been stood outside next to the front window with a tarp over it for 19 years,
Here are some underbonnet pics for you Mr 13Sport lol, and more O/S door updates.







This is how I last left the front bottom edge of the door



I had to cut out some more crap to find something better to weld too



This is how it looks now with some paint on it



The rear bottom corner



and with the new plate being put on



and after a bit of a clean up and some paint, which means at last that it is almost ready for the new skin to go on

[south west restorations]

comeing well now m8.a task on the door .good stuff m8.at least ur have a got .
just think of it as a jigsaw.lol
as for buying the car u where just there at the right time .to get it.

[Groupfour]

Some nice repair work going on here , keep at it.

[HarrierTony]

Thanks Guys, Im getting there with it slowly lol. I trial fitted the door skin and it looks good, and that is the next job to get it welded on, treated and some paint on it to preserve it until its ready to paint with everything else

[13sport]

Looks ok under there mate, bit to sort out on that heater bowl area but other than that doesnt look that bad, i find it interesting to see the condition off other peoples projects because I thought mine was real bad but the more I look at resto threads it seems 90% of them all need the same areas treating. Keep up the good work

[1an2000]

Good to see another mk2 being saved my doors were just the same, lot of work to fix them but worth it the price good ones are going for.
nice work

[HarrierTony]

Another update on the door guys, the welding part is almost done, but im not going to lie to anyone, I did it one bit at a time like spot welding it, and moving along and coming back etc, but it started to warp a little, so it will need a skim of filler around the centre area where it has sunk between 2 and 3mm. You might just be able to see the gap between the skin and the spirit level. Most of the marks you see are from my grubby fingers. Other than that its come out really well, what do you think ? Thank you for your comments thus far, keep them coming.

[13sport]

Spot on mate that's another job off the list!