1972 Mk 1 Escort daily driver project.

After I gave her a polish last week. needs a wash again now though :( 

Max Photobombing...at his best :P

Finally some interior shots
Front seats with sheep skins off...MINT!

The dash in its current state...still has a long way to go

the original dash. needs to be pulled apart and cleaned up...although I'm thinking about doing the RS conversion


rear seats. also MINT!

Now for the rust :( 

Yer ill definitely have my hands full. 
My mate who's house its living at, and who is also helping me, his and my birthdays are both in June, so i told him i wanted to have it ready by June...unfortunately i don't think that is going to happen now :( but i am going to try my hardest to get it done by then. 
I still haven't stuck my head under the car to look how good or bad the front suspension is in regards to bushes etc etc. 

well today i put the car up on stands so i could get ready to start re bushing the suspension. I decided while i was there i would try the one original 12" wheel i had, on the front, as it has only been on the back...while i had the front wheel off, my mate says to me "those brake callipers looks pretty big" and without thinking about it, tried to put the 12" wheel on the front, with no luck. The wheel did not fit over the callipers. so at some point (i think) someone has fitted bigger brakes to the front of the car. i had a look at the rotors, and although they are rusty, there is loads of meat left on them, and same with the Pads. they look new...anyway here is a couple pics of the callipers if someone could tell me what they are off that would be good :) 
 

 

WELL, there has no news on the house as yet, but it turns out that my mates uncle had organised the real estate agent to come around to value the house without, talking to my mate. He basically called Gareth one morning, and said, can you please clean the house up, there is a agent coming to value the house. Basically was given 6 hours notice. Anyway, Gareth had been on the phone to his father and his uncle, and is fighting to keep it. 
As for the car, I finally got the last ball joint to crack, after heating it up, hitting it, breaking a ball joint splitter, hitting the back of my hand with a hammer which bled quit badly. it was actually Gareth that got it for me.SO now the whole front suspension is out of the car, sway bar included. I have all the new parts ready to go back in (bar the tie rod ends). Tomoro I'm going to clean all the sway bar brackets and washes up on the wire brush. The sway bar is getting cleaned up and getting sprayed red. 
once i have the front finished, the back will be pulled apart, and all the bushes replaced up back. plus a set of lowering blocks. 
when i finish the suspension, the car will be taken down to Geelong to get the rusted floor replaced. basically once the floor is done, its a matter of rewiring it, putting the interior back in, doing up all the tail lights etc etc, the car will be just about done. 
As for the engine, i need to replace the front and rear mains, do the timing gear up, plus a few other bits and pieces. I am pretty keen on keeping it with the original 1300 engine, but a lot of people have told me that i should put at lead a 1600 in, just for the extra oomph. i would also love to go manual, but a new engine and a manual conversion maybe out of my budget. I have a 32/36 carb ready to go on the engine, plus some extractors. is it worth going up to a bigger engine if I'm driving it as a daily? or should i keep it an original?

just a couple questions....
 
1, why the single piece tail shaft? 
 
2, the radiator, is it just larger? The one in the car looks nearly new, i know the coolant inside it brand new, plus a new thermostat and housing on the engine. Is there a way to tell the difference between radiators? 
 
3, how do u go about putting the hole through the firewall for the clutch cable? 
 
Ive already been sourcing a lot of stuff through Mike, he is very good. Im heading back there this week hopefully to get my tie rod ends, so might need to talk to him then. 

Your MK1 should already have the tube for clutch cable (mine did). Have a look at the base of your booster bracket, there should be a short tube with a rubber bung in it. 
 
MY BAD 1.6 radiator  does not  mount up the same.
 
The 1.6 manual gearbox is a different length and has a bigger mainshaft than the BW35 auto. So you need the 1.6 tailshaft. Auto and manual bellhousings are not the same.
 

  
 

Panko Thinking about it, i might already have the bigger/manual radiator

 
 I doubt it. The MK1 radiators are the same regardless of auto/manual. The MK2 is where it changes with heater lines for the C3 auto, none for the manual.
It's all explained in the ford, gregory's, haynes manuals etc. Do you have any manuals to reference? Cheap as chips on ebay, very much a necessity.