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Well after the birth of my baby boy and the missis deciding that a life of leisure was for her, the fleet has had to go. 
The 4 door has gone to my old man. Managed to do a deal over the weekend on my RS minus the interior and some other bits I wanted to keep.
Estates for sale and despite no sniffs I'm still forever hopeful that will be moving on soon......Which leaves me with my lowly 1300GL. Work started on it with enthusiasm about 18 months ago....then my top welding buddy had to take on some other work...and interest was lost in it......it's spent the last 12months hanging in the rafters of my mate's workshop gathering rust....or dust.....or both.
But seen as I've got a small amount of cash left from the sale of all my wares and a garage full of Escort bits left it would be rude not to get the old gal back on the road.
To all intents and purposes it'll be a Replico...although not badged as such.....It's gonna be a heinz 57 of all I like about mk2 Escorts, not trying to be owt is isn't and people can either look at it and enjoy it......or knock it to their heart's content...my name's on the log book so I'll do what the hell I like!
Well here's some pics from the strip down, and the story so far....she was originally going to be red but I've decided to stick with yellow seen as my Estate will never make it onto the road under my ownership......and I've already painted my engine yellow to match...... 
It will have a warm 205 block 2 litre pinto, bike carbs, type 9, billies on the front, Gaz adjustables on the back, for now a set of Alleycat Replicas seen as I already have them and don't want to spend any serious brass. Black Vinyl roof and be coated in a new coat or 2 of signal yellow. Then inside I will have my retrimmed RS interior.
The key word is Budget!! I've only sold the idea to the missis based on the fact I've argued that it won't cost me anything I'll just use the money from selling the other cars.....so it won't be a show stopper, just a nice useable classic I can go out and enjoy. I'll post some more pics when we get back into it.
The 4 door has gone to my old man. Managed to do a deal over the weekend on my RS minus the interior and some other bits I wanted to keep.
Estates for sale and despite no sniffs I'm still forever hopeful that will be moving on soon......Which leaves me with my lowly 1300GL. Work started on it with enthusiasm about 18 months ago....then my top welding buddy had to take on some other work...and interest was lost in it......it's spent the last 12months hanging in the rafters of my mate's workshop gathering rust....or dust.....or both.
But seen as I've got a small amount of cash left from the sale of all my wares and a garage full of Escort bits left it would be rude not to get the old gal back on the road.
To all intents and purposes it'll be a Replico...although not badged as such.....It's gonna be a heinz 57 of all I like about mk2 Escorts, not trying to be owt is isn't and people can either look at it and enjoy it......or knock it to their heart's content...my name's on the log book so I'll do what the hell I like!
Well here's some pics from the strip down, and the story so far....she was originally going to be red but I've decided to stick with yellow seen as my Estate will never make it onto the road under my ownership
......and I've already painted my engine yellow to match...... It will have a warm 205 block 2 litre pinto, bike carbs, type 9, billies on the front, Gaz adjustables on the back, for now a set of Alleycat Replicas seen as I already have them and don't want to spend any serious brass. Black Vinyl roof and be coated in a new coat or 2 of signal yellow. Then inside I will have my retrimmed RS interior.
The key word is Budget!! I've only sold the idea to the missis based on the fact I've argued that it won't cost me anything I'll just use the money from selling the other cars.....so it won't be a show stopper, just a nice useable classic I can go out and enjoy. I'll post some more pics when we get back into it.
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