Lovely piece of history

[grum]

On Friday at the NEC the 14th original owner of my MK1 Mexico visited the show with his son. They were looking over the car then realised it was their old Mex when they saw the registration. I bored them to death for about an hour. They told me some awful stories about the re-shell & it's chequered history. His son also had a serious crash in it.
He told me the car was used in all weathers and was never driven below 70mph. The only modification he made to the car was to fit RS2000 stripes to it. He still has the original logbook in a draw at home. The rear window sticker which, like a tw*t I was going to replace, was his & his brothers garage but he couldn't believe it was still in place after an attempted theft left the glass in bits.
The registration is his initials which sounds like pure fantasy. I let him pick holes in the car and he confirmed everything was a total replica. It was horrible to meet him & his son. I felt a complete idiot.

ahhhhhh .............. poor Kev

[danderv]

What a nice story,I enjoyed the owner of my escort from new telling me all about his time in my car when he owned it.

[Chesney]

prefer grums version

which half was his then son, the front or the rear

[lee bishop]

Not forgetting all the shagging on the back seat !

[RS2000EXPRESS]

That's a great experience for you Kev! It's a great feeling linking up your car with the first owner. I was able to do this a few years ago with mine. It was a great time for me and great for the first owner, the things he told me just pieced the car's history together, with some interesting little stories. I have kept in touch with him!

Did you ask him if he has any pictures of his car during the time in his ownership? I got some of mine and they are fantastic to have.

Tim

[Frosticles]

I will be in touch with him later this week as they have some old pics of the car & their garage.

[kev14]

Nice story, good bit of history

[RS2000EXPRESS]

I will be in touch with him later this week as they have some old pics of the car & their garage.

Sound!

[leslie]

great story. have to say thats a really nice mk1 rs u have there

[pushrod]

Great story. Surely he must have done a bit of bulling in it tho. It's the reason everyone buys an RS, is to use it to crawl around picking up chicks you normally wouldn't have a chance with.

The front seat should have enough stains to keep CSI going for a month.

Make sure and ask him about that piece of history LOL.

[Dave1800BDA]

I will be in touch with him later this week as they have some old pics of the car & their garage.

nice one kev, thats great to have with the car.
chuffed for you when you told us the story the weekend

[RSI_TOM]

Bet that was a shock Kev. Nice though

[grum]

Not forgetting all the shagging on the back seat !

Great story. Surely he must have done a bit of bulling in it tho. It's the reason everyone buys an RS, is to use it to crawl around picking up chicks you normally wouldn't have a chance with.

The front seat should have enough stains to keep CSI going for a month.

sounds like that's where his son as conceived !!!!!

[wiggyrs]

That is a great bit of history mate

[mk1gaz]

That's cool for him too see his old Escort again .
I saw my old rs2000 mk1 in a concours competiton and talked to the owner . I told him i used to slide it everywhere as it was daily transport and once i even put it into a ditch at an rs owners club meet !!!! ha ha , he wasn't impressed .