how old was you when you got your first

[SHIFTY]

Got my 1st old skool escort last month!! mk2 Rs2000 ''AFX 558T'' at the age of 22, been into Fords all my life though! Cant get enuff o em!

[plentysideways]

got my first rs 2000 when 18, mk2 1600 sport at 20 and mk2 rs2000 at thirty. Put the first one on its side day i got it, spun the second one through a hedge on day two of owning it and was very nervous for the first week of driving the third one!

[steve p]

18 (1978) MK1 Mexico WNN751M Le Mans Green which I still own today!
20 (1980) MK2 RS2000 XCP868R pre custom sold 82
22 (1982) MK2 RS2000 XWL9V custom sold 84
24 (1984) MK2 RS2000 LEL80W custom sold 86
Steve

[RS2000ash]

I was nearly 17 i bought a 2 door 1100 escort PRC 99L bought it in 1987 for £100 put weller eight spokes and bubble archers on it my dasd painted it electric blue
Sold it 12 months later and bought a MK2 Rs 2000 lookalike.
Never looked back still got a MK1 and Mk2 Rs 2000

CheeRS A

[John Hall]

From my original post

That was it, until the mid 1980's when I started stage rally co-driving in a Mk2 Escort Group 1 1300. After two sucesfull years, we rebuilt the car to Group 4 with a 1600 BDA. We had mixed success over the next two years, but then my driver got married and had to sell the car.

I found some pictures of the Mk2 Rally car and scaned them in. Sorry for the poor quality, they are just over 20 years old.

My first ever rally as a co-driver "hanging on for grim death" in a Mk2 Escort Group 1 1300. This is the Britivic stages run by the Chelmsford Motor Club which I was a member of in 1984.


The highlight of my novice co-driving. The Manx National in 1986. The same car built in to a Group 4 with a 1600 BDA.


Those were the days....

John

[gary goldsmith]

20 --1979 mk 2 rs in beige pup 646t bought it 1982 cost £2500 sold cos it kept getting nicked bought the worst car I've ever owned chocalate brown porsche 924 piece of shite ..................... girlies loved it though

[Paul]

I was 17, MK2 1300GL 4dr, Roman Bronze with black vinyl roof.
Absolutley loved it, after 6 months blew the engine up doing 94mph downhill Scrapped it and bought a 1300 popular plus 4dr in pale light blue, fitted some ring spotlights, a dodgy aftermarket spoiler, rolltop recaros and capri ghia wheels and painted a big fat black stripe down each side, looked crap but at the time I thought it was cool and was more interested in my sounds etc. That got scrapped too after mot fail on too much welding, What did I expect I only paid £125 for the whole car from an Arthur Daley in Buckingham. The photos are too embarassing to scan in.

[cossie si]

16, mk2 1.1pop plus. Beige.Painted steels white harrier style stripes. Got it for £65 as a non runner with a damaged rear arch. Sorted it ran it for 12 mths and sold it for £350. Next a mk1 1300 in tawny brown with steels of a mk3 that i won off my future best man in a game of pool,hustler! Then got into xr3i's! The days!

[rs new boy]

got my first escort in 1989 1300 sport r reg £1200 body work excellent got 1600 engine in it had it a week had massive oil leak from crank seal chunk broke of crank engine out built 1700 stage 3 head and 270 piper cam got it on road undriveable got it on the rollers 75 bhp at wheels done my head in to noisey sold it and bought a mk1 astra gte now thats a rare bird