It's funny how things pan out for cars sometimes isn't it? I'm glad your RS is still in good hands.
 

Drewdog
Yeah agree about the stripes on the Aus midnight cars, silver just looks a bit awkward to my eyes, black, not much point really.

Its a lesson on how schemes can make or break the look of a car isnt it? Colours like yellow, white, black, red suit the Aus style down to the ground, the other colours like green, orange and midnight struggle a little with the larger stripes.  
 
 

Nice little mod, I went 1 further totally maiming a badge or both badges

Well to begin with I am going to put all the ford and escort badges on the back, then im going to stand back and squint a little then decide where the rear RS2000 goes on - if at all ! As always I'm of the opinion that I can always add a decal later.


 
See and here is my view on the UK placement of rear RS2000 - it works well with the longer number plate, in fact, I think the whole back of the car looks better with the longer plate. 
 
 Also check this out - I know its a Facebook link but I found this super interesting 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16i8ac179V/

PartTimeMK2
Its a lesson on how schemes can make or break the look of a car isnt it? Colours like yellow, white, black, red suit the Aus style down to the ground, the other colours like green, orange and midnight struggle a little with the larger stripes.  

Absolutely. The mirrors are another case in point.
I was going to run with the standard black mirrors that the RS's came with however they were painted, by mistake, in body colour.
I wasn't convinced about keeping them until I offered up a spare black mirror I had. Looked bloody hideous. The difference was chalk and cheese to me, body colour all the way now.
 
Those badges made me smile Marty, I'd kill now for all of those badges we used to cut up or throw away.

Drewdog
I was going to run with the standard black mirrors that the RS's came with however they were painted, by mistake, in body colour.
I wasn't convinced about keeping them until I offered up a spare black mirror I had. Looked bloody hideous. The difference was chalk and cheese to me, body colour all the way now.
 

I just went back and looked at the photos of your car again - 100% the yellow mirrors look better, especially with the black plastic mount, gives it the right amount of black to tie in perfectly with the other black areas of the car. If the whole mirror was black it would look odd.

Damit.... Now you got me on thinking with my mk1 escort mirrors, I bought Falcon xw gt motors which look like a deformed Ford mirror, was going to leave them black but am trying to reduce black add-ons. Won't do anything till doors and decals are on ..
Seen that link, swirl is the key for bhp after all other mods. D Visard shows this in his vids.
The badges are fglass of the originals I did from the 90s when they were everywhere, I still have a rusty Milo tin full of Escort/Capri/Cortina badges that were pocketed from wreckers back in those days.
RS and rally pack mostly had black badges but your car being almost black possibly have silver? Which ever colour I suppose the decals should match . If doing the satin back rear panel bit, it needs to be done right and watch a lot of The Professionals shows, mine was done wrong after a crash incident and I wasn't happy. In the end it's up to your taste and what you like, yours to appreciate and others to admire