What inspired you

[Trickster]

What inspired u to buy a MK11 RS Escort?? mine was the professionals as a kid so i always wanted a Diamond white RS2000

[Banishit]

Mine was watching the rally cars racing round Hafren Forest and I wanted to do it, just loved the sound, even though I have a droop I would rather have a Flat front with 4 Cibies

Brian

[BigNige]

Bani

Mine is the same as yours really

Saw them rallying and loved them

My sis then went and brought a 1.1 Pop that had harrier decals loved that so was looking for a cheap RS and had to be a Mk2 after plenty of cossies

This one came up so i brought it

NIge

[Fraz]

Just a right place right time sort of thing......

Took money out of bank to buy a 3dr Cos but couldnt find 1 that I wanted at the same time Guy put DDA up for sale, had seen pictures in the past and I liked so took the 900 mile round trip to buy her now she gets more attention than my other cars

[Chesney]

Re: What inspired you

What inspired u to buy a MK11 RS Escort?? mine was the professionals as a kid so i always wanted a Diamond white RS2000

me too trickster, i've loved them ever since, especially riviera blue. Mine's ok and useable but one day i'll have an absolute minter, even if it means living in a caravan lol!!!

[Tara]

A mate of mine has always liked them and he has a mk2 mex and over time he talked me into getting one so he had someone to go out with and mess around with them (so i did) :bom:
Never thought about them before now but i am really glad i went ahead and got it.

[roths]

Saw a picture in a car mag of an RS2000 Mk2, when I was in short pants..must have been late 70's....then The Professionals!

Said I'd get one one day.....

[ders]

I was inspired by 2 local boys who had them and used to rip by the house everyday. One was a signal amber "S"reg with 45`s etc, the other was a mates signal red "W" reg with BVR. His old man bought it for him for passing his test, this was 1982, not even 2 years old...the jammy ****er!
It was at this time i knew i had to give up the paper round and get a proper job, 3 years later i got my first RS2000 in 1985. VLS222R venetion red with BVR. Been hooked ever since.

CheeRS Ders.

[martin c]

Dabbled with several other RS's 16i's,S1's,xr2's but saw the light in 89 and bought a yellow mex - best fun ever - 2.1 engine,45s etc only problem was I couldn't afford to run it :bigcry: Followed by normal {boring} cars for a while. Lost the plot for a while, bought a house etc {even bought a diesel car} but finally got my dream car - my amber mex

[arron]

Seeing the cars around and about when I was a kid, I remember following an estate car with a java green nosecone in the back and thinking - that's off the car I want when I grow up !

I think The Professionals had an influence as well.

[Gooey]

The attention they get at shows and now I ve got it, the attention it gets on the road.

[Frosticles]

Grew up with them, My dad had a signal Green Mex when I was a kid............ Will be part of me forever I think.

[M11RF]

The rally cars did it for me and also my brother had a white mex, which i
wish i had have bought now about 8 years ago...
And a harrier and a sport...

[chrisp]

My late mum's mum and dad (thus my gran and grandad) had a 1980 1.3 GL 4 door in Nordic Blue - BHY 693V

That little 1.3 x/flow had a lovely burble that made me think 'when I'm old enough, one of them will do for me'. I got given it when I was 14 after my gran died (she was the driver and the car served no further purpose) and with my Dad being a vicar, had a church car park where I could learn to drive and abuse it.

Quite a gravelly car park it turned out and so I learned the art of sideways in low gears at an early age. I was hooked! It turned out to be a bit rotten, so at the tender age of 15 my mate an I undertook a bit of a resto...

Out came the engine for some bulkhead work and after an engine bay repair and respray, back in it went. It was sorted by the time I was 17 and I ran it for 2 years.

Going back a bit, this wagon had a decent set of owner manuals and so I read of this RS2000 thingy... Bloody 'ell I thought, a 2.0 in one of these... mine's tail happy enough on this gravel... one day, I promised myself, I'd own one of these beasts.

This thought never left my mind - my mate thought it was fad, but was pleasantly surprised when (10 years later) I finally bought one of these bleeders and took him for a spin in it.

It took some doing... I had to convince my wife (who knew me, although we weren't 'involved', when I had the 1.3 GL and she thought it was hideous!) that is was a good idea to sell that nice creature comfort air conditioned Vectra SRi and buy something that's darn noisy, bumpy and crap in the wet... but I did it!

And so I came to own STN 735S and it's lived in our garage (and come out on nice days) ever since! My daily driver changed from that accident magnet Vectra (another long story) to a rust bucket £300 Fiesta and latterly (currently) an Alfa... so I'm finally back in the good books again cos I've got an airconditioned car to take my lovely lady out in again!

Take a breath, Chris!...

[mk2phil]

I'm a bit younger than most of you guys on here *pauses*, but quite a few things conspired to me wanting and getting one.

A few of my neighbours used to have Mex's RS2000's and Harriers all the time outside their house working on them. Then when I passed my driving test at 17 my mate had a white 1600 mk1 escort. I didn't really think much of it at the time until we went out in it once and the amount of looks and people pointing and giving you the thumbs up in the car was amazing. Coupled to the fact that it blew the doors off all the local nova ****s while it overtook them sideways was a big reason to smile.

Then one day a mate bought a mk2 RS2000 all painted in the Michelin Pilot colours - looked lovely. That evening we went to a local biker/car meet place on a large roundabout where everyone meets and aprks up in the middle to have a chat. MY mate came screaming round the roundabout sideways in the RS and its a picture I remember to this day - then I thought 'I'm having one of them'.