Genuine RS or lookalike

[docscars]

All the nice ones are reshells etc just like RS porsches , lotus cortinas , lotus sunbeams , hs chevette's , mini copper s , blah , blah .
Seeing as they were all rotten in the 1980's and worthless most got scrapped and the V5's stashed in bedrooms . Now they are worth money then all the log books come out , lol .

not sure what ur trying to prove but there still a few originals out there

[CHELT RS]

All the nice ones are reshells etc just like RS porsches , lotus cortinas , lotus sunbeams , hs chevette's , mini copper s , blah , blah .
Seeing as they were all rotten in the 1980's and worthless most got scrapped and the V5's stashed in bedrooms . Now they are worth money then all the log books come out , lol .

I know at least 1 is original. Mine.

[grum]

Lol. Gone right over your head this one has.

was still a lack of talent tho

[Frosticles]

was still a lack of talent tho

Lol. Wasn't the first corner. The Foggy S's caught my surprising inadequate talent out that day

[kas750]

All the nice ones are reshells etc just like RS porsches , lotus cortinas , lotus sunbeams , hs chevette's , mini copper s , blah , blah .
Seeing as they were all rotten in the 1980's and worthless most got scrapped and the V5's stashed in bedrooms . Now they are worth money then all the log books come out , lol .

Thats like shooting fish in a bucket mate!.....seems to work everytime though..lol

[mk1gaz]

Obviously the odd one was kept out the weather back then and has survived today as one bit but not many . Even in 1986 when i was after a nice mk2 rs2000 for a daily runner it was hard and a "V" reg was only 6 years old !!!!
They rusted like foooook and were just cheap runabouts for joe public back then . Even the cleanest "V" reg i found back then still had too have new wing rails and even had the top plates off as they had started too lift . Scary stuff on a £3500 6 year old RS .

[Hoonabator]

Yeah there are no original ones left.....

[jimmer]

Obviously the odd one was kept out the weather back then and has survived today as one bit but not many . Even in 1986 when i was after a nice mk2 rs2000 for a daily runner it was hard and a "V" reg was only 6 years old !!!!
They rusted like foooook and were just cheap runabouts for joe public back then . Even the cleanest "V" reg i found back then still had too have new wing rails and even had the top plates off as they had started too lift . Scary stuff on a £3500 6 year old RS .

Yes crap German tin! They rotted as badly as the rest of the cars of the era! They were still lots of boy racers in the day with pops with RS badges stuck to them. That couldn't afford the insurance. Or afford a proper RS! Some things never change!

[mk1gaz]

In mid 1980's a proper Rs was £600 , lol . I used to get £300 a week so i could buy tons of them (and did) . They were all rotten back then though and there was pages of them for sale every week . Good times though , especially when my mate Terry bought rusty Lotus cortina mk1 all complete for £700 .

[Dobbo63]

Bought my first RS2 in 1982, it was a77 broadstripe, and it wasn't rotten, it had waxoil from new.. Cost?? £2250..sold it after a few yr to a copper who promptly wrote it off!

[mk1gaz]

You were lucky it was 5 years old with no rust yet . Another few winters and it would of broke in half , lol .

[Frosticles]

All the ones I used to buy in the late 80's & early 90's were all good ones. I only bought one rotten one & that was promptly sold.

[mk1gaz]

Depends what you call good though . They all looked good until you started poking at them with a screwdriver .

[ugly]

dont think it really matters, just buy the best shell you can afford, whether its an rs model or not.

[maru_uk]

Is it just cars that have a non RS shell that you're worried about? Or is it say a Mexico but fitted with a 2ltr engine, 5 sp box etc? They are both non genuine so why are engine swaps acceptable but not shells? I mean teh 2 ltr engine may even have originally been fitted in a Transit, Cortina, Sierra etc so couldn't possibly be "RS"