rs 1600 colour ?

[morcheen]

anyone know if they were made in met blue?

[Tim]

electric/monza blue or marine but not seen any in metalic,only met were copper or tawney

[Skids]

I had an Ex Works Rekkie car that was Mettalic Blue with Gold RS Stripes ,steel big winged with custom interior and as far as I am aware was painted that way by Ford as when I painted it after quite a few pannel mods it was blue in all the floor pans and inside the doors.
Don't know if this helps

[morcheen]

got any idea on the reg of it?

[silverrs]

electric/monza blue or marine but not seen any in metalic,only met were copper or tawney

Sorry Tim and silver.

[morcheen]

must be some pics about of that car then

[Skids]

VEV 484L

Was written off about 25 years ago Reg and scrap shell sold to a guy in Chesterfield who was building a show car twin cam I think.

[morcheen]

met blue rs1600 big wing

was told of this car today by someone who seen it

[Skids]

As I said in old posts on here if only I had it know ,even though it was well used and a bit paggered what would it be worth today restored an original RS1600 with Works connections.

[Mexicomark]

This ones a Mexico....
Taken from Classic Ford 2001.
Interesting little read at the botom of the picture.
Wonder what the reg of the RS1600 was.

[Skids]

Mark
I wrote to CF about that when it was out in 2001 .After several months of chasing a response they finaly replied and said they didn't know anything further about the car which I assume was the sister car to mine .
The usual CF Bull as they seem to no nothing about the classic cars ( too young )
KL seems to know far more and has most probably forgotten more than they know.
I think it was originally via Withers of Winsford and was used by RAC
I would welcome any news on it whereabouts and what it currently has the Reg on .
Mark

[Mexicomark]

DVLA Site says....
VEV 484L
Date of Liability.........14/04/1983
Date of Registration...24/11/1972
Clylinder capacity......1601
Colour.....................White

So it looks like it's been off the road since you wrote it off.

Here are the other cars registerd in that batch.
VEV 478L 1601cc Green
VEV 479L RS1600 1601cc Yellow
VEV 480L RS1600 1601cc Red
VEV 481L Mexico 1601cc Bronze
VEV 482L Mexico 1601cc Yellow
VEV 483L Mexico 1601cc Black.
VEV 484L RS1600 1601cc White
VEV 506L RS1600 1601cc Blue

So the closest RS1600 to VEV 483L is Your old car.

As for the guys at Classic Ford, someone had to do the research
surely they could have told you where the info came from.
I'm guessing the photo would have come from Fords Photo department.

[Aaron P.]

ive got a set of those wide steel wheels on that red car....came with my grp1 carbs and other parts

[Skids]

Don't recall seeing any white on the car when I had it ?

Aaron
They where pretty wide those steels,where also sprayed gold when I first got the car.Do you like the lower picture where we are lifting a wheel.
That was on the 1982 Beaver Rally I think early December .****ed it down all night,even treated myself to a brand new set of yokkos ,first time I had ever bought new tyres LOL.Think we finished about 6 O/A ,16 xflow mex engine,BDA was long gone.
Mark

[Chris]

Mark
I wrote to CF about that when it was out in 2001 .After several months of chasing a response they finaly replied and said they didn't know anything further about the car which I assume was the sister car to mine .
The usual CF Bull as they seem to no nothing about the classic cars ( too young )
KL seems to know far more and has most probably forgotten more than they know.
I think it was originally via Withers of Winsford and was used by RAC
I would welcome any news on it whereabouts and what it currently has the Reg on .
Mark

Graham Robson would probbably know!

Chris