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2009/11/24 20:20:35
Phil
quote:
Originally posted by BLOWNMK12L

what if like me he has a couple of cars ?




Spot on Ben...the stable includes...

Concourse original Mk2 Cortina GT in white with gold GT stripes.
This Mk1 Escort with SR20 power
Another Mk1 Escort with similar body spec but 600hp B&H GrpA Cossie under construction
And lastly,what could only be considered as a SuperCar...
2009/11/24 20:27:25
scortfreak
Gonna go ahead and say this has taken IMB05S's place as my favourite Escort.

If my project ended up even half as good as that I'd be happy. :)
2009/11/24 20:34:11
niscort
The same old rhetoric,

Personally its not down my alley, and thats fine, Im not about to start bagging on someone elses car.

And the same goes for mine, Im sure there are the same that think its a waste of effort all powered by rice, but hey.. Its being built by me for me.

Somehow I think that the inital excitement and wording of the first post has more so impacted on peoples reactions. Im still trying to find the Japanese drift influences there???
2009/11/24 20:38:32
laurie
I second that scortfreak. There is too much elitism about having a Cosworth powered car on this forum. Some of my friends(They know who they are). do not look down their nose at George's car just because he runs an SR20. The man has a 360 Mondial sitting in his garage at home and he would rather drive his MK1 with an SR20. Speaks volumes to me. Still beats a MK2 with a weazey N/A engine.
2009/11/24 22:38:18
digginganddirt
my view on the car is, there to hard to get and to rare to just go cut up and put massive rims and engines in and its out of eva i no i no its not the 70's but thats where this car was made! if your gonna go **** it up give me your Escorts and ill give you a 90s model car to butcher (walks away slowly) on that not i can really take in the amount of work gone in and the quality looks great and that is a acheivment on its own
2009/11/24 23:24:48
tybrown
Thats a nice car!!! come on give him some credit!! i hate sr20's too but i haven't seen a pic of under the hood yet!!
just pretend its got a fuel injected pinto!! [:x)]

I like it!!

hope he had air con and power steering added??? he did everything else
[:u]
2009/11/24 23:47:16
510pom
TY wash ya mouth out nice car whatevers in it [:p]
2009/11/25 09:23:32
escortinadriver
quote:
Originally posted by escortinadriver

I prefer the white,

To me the silver looks like a bad photoshop attempt with stupudily oversize rims.. not a fan.

Shaun



This was my opinion from the first photo, without the RS stripes. I stand by that as the photo doesn't do the car justice. It almost looks false sitting there, a lack of shading evident and huge wheels screams photoshop.

In the next set of photos, with the rs stripes, I thought 'now that's more like it, the car looks great, awesome finish', however i still thought the wheels didn't sit right'.

For me, that's fine, everyone has different tastes and thats ok. I dont mind that it has an SR20DET... I'm all for differnt power plants and engine choices etc. Hey, we mod everything else, suspension, discs, callipers shockers gearboxes, rims and tyres, seats are often not as ford intended, so why stop at the engine??

I'm the first one to think outside the box... I think my hybrid mitsu/pinto project shows that

I appreciate the many hours of time, money and research that goes into a car like this. I would be over it like a rash at a car show, examining all the work that has gone into it.

But that does mean I have to love it .......

nor does it mean that I think all cars must be on minilites and webers or cosworth power...... what a boring world that would be


Shaun
2009/11/25 11:23:22
Juiceman
Funny thing is, maybe 6 months ago I probably wouldn't have like this car. But I freakin' love it! I would be proud to own it.
2009/11/25 11:30:23
joeyjonsey
quote:
Originally posted by digginganddirt

my view on the car is, there to hard to get and to rare to just go cut up and put massive rims and engines


but not too rare to rally ?
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