how old,when you owned you 1st rs

[TimGR]

Tor

Lovely car but, how do you get a T reg on a Mk 1??

those biodes are worth a bit too...

[tctor68]

My T reg mk1 still lives today but has been re-reg'd and painted with a famous exworks reg and colours and worth a hell of alot more than I got.

Tor

[cragster]

First RS

1989 PEC 864V Diamond White with BVR , sold it in 2003 . It's been restored and still in Cumbria as far as I know .

2000 EEC 914T Signal Amber with BVR , sold it in 2006 and now in Bonkers Collection.

[TimGR]

My T reg mk1 still lives today but has been re-reg'd and painted with a famous exworks reg and colours and worth a hell of alot more than I got.

Tor

But a T reg was 78/79 and they had long stopped registering Mk 1s by then.

[andysrs2]

First car was 13L mk2 sold it in 1989 for £1600 to buy a mk2 RS 2000 for £3900 with 57,000 on the clock and still have it now.

[g@ry]

But a T reg was 78/79 and they had long stopped registering Mk 1s by then.

must have been built in 78/79 the dvlc put it on a "T" as i dont think "Q" was the thing back then??

[tctor68]

As far as I could make out it was imported in 78 as car was a 73 spec car.
LHD etc.
Will put some pics of car when I had it.
Got a list of some previous owners and went through Donald Heggie's hand as well.
Originaly LHD with centre dash, converted to RHD by someone by using mechano type straps to hold steering column in place.
So I converted it back to LHD.
Took it down to AVO national to get someone to check it out, the year after Dave Watkins finished his lovely REV car.
The people that checked it out said the same T-reg, alloy arches etc.
Don't think they had seen a Gomm shell before.
Anyway it has been restored and i'm happy to see it looking as good as it does now.

Hopefully my 68 twink will look as tidy when finnished.
No Concours every new bolt and nut resto here.

Tor

[F1COS]

I was 17 years old and didnt have enough money for a genuine RS so i made my own out of a 1.3 base model with a strengthened shell (factory top plates and skid plates). Probably a bit to fast for me back then and this was the result.

[TugsW]

I was 17 years old and didnt have enough money for a genuine RS so i made my own out of a 1.3 base model with a strengthened shell (factory top plates and skid plates). Probably a bit to fast for me back then and this was the result.

Woops ! Least you got out of it and are here to write about it. Capri seats ?

I got my first Mk2 RS2 in August '94 when I was 20, in my eagerness to own one it cost me £1200 and £1250 to insure it, but that was okay as I had just finished my apprenticeship and was on a 'man's' wage. An Orange/BVR black int. Custom V reg, it had a Burton cam 40/41 cam fitted with a DGAS, Janspeed exhaust, I fitted some Koni struts to it as it failed its MOT when I got it.... ! Most of my mates were into Escort RST's and Astra GTE's so they were getting old then. My best mate had a Manta GT/E and the Escort was much faster and better handling, as my mate slid off the road while trying to keep up with my car. It also won a drag race against a new FRST, and had the same legs as a Montego MG Turbo up the Tilbury Dock approach road ....And like lots of RS's it got bloody nicked about 4 months of ownership

[mfordy]

22 back in '87. Wish I'd never sold it

[tammy]

First RS

My first RS was not an RS but close, it was a MK1 escort Twincam it was a 1971 car and i paid £450.00 for it, where did i go wrong and not keep it, what a fool i was, still am i supose. Laurence

[rsdc1]

1st mk2 escort at 18, 1st RS2000 at 20

[brettconnors]

red escort twincam KAN422K at 17 paid £750, and yellow superspeed ULY 791M at 19 paid £1700

Brett

[mk2mania]

mk2 rs2000

had this when i was 19, but my misses danni always drove it ( i was banned for a few years ) not my fault though

[loydpg]

Got my Mk2 RS Mexico in 1979...still got it!!! I couldn't afford a RS2000, very high insurance premiums and costs of purchase price of car (they were still available new then!!!), so got the Mex instead...glad I did!!! I was 23 at the time.