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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 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

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The main reason they are rare is that when we would see and little bit of rust the size of a 20 cent peice, we would scrap them and then you have the rally guys who would throw them away rather then rebuild, the circuit guys keep racing them.

In the UK the guys would take a shell that we wouldn't even use as a doghouse and they would save them and build amazing cars out of them.

They are rare here because we like to throw poo poo away.

nigel mk1 Posted - 25/11/2009 : 23:16:34
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The notion of 'if you dont have anything nice to say dont say anything' should be left at primary school where it belong...i follow your project post with great interest~your another guy from vic chucking a cossie in a MkI simple as that,but i hate fibreglas & fink it should be left for the ricers!i dont go off typing: "why are u using those guards..did you run out of money"or"fibre glass guards thats half arsed!"just because thats my opinion,i wouldn't do that out of respect! its your car and your decission!


This is a public forum and i sure want to hear if someone doesnt like my car or any other. If i wasn't prepared to hear opinions (good and bad) then i wouldn't be posting images or a build thread here...so because this is public forum and people post threads and images it makes them automaticly open to have their pride and joy criticised??.. Joe blogs who loves his poverty pack 4 door bitsa wif a powerhouse weezy clapped out kent and has post pics & details on his thread,Do we hammer him and tell him its a POS and what he should do with it!
..NO! then why bag someone else who has put in more money and effort??..or has this car got a few people jealous??

What i'm trying to say is if you want to keep people joining and staying on this great forum keep the BS to our self! you dont like a car and haven't got anything constructive to type click "back" and ignore thread and let the rest of us pat he/she on their backs for their efforts

This has been the best thread in ages. When people fire up you learn all sorts of stuff.
I would like to thank:
The owner/builder for such an awesome car.
The admins for not doing a big brother act on us.
The guys that are bold enough to voice their opinion, even if negative.
Nothing wrong with a civil debate about the pros and cons of a particular car or mod.
Only real negatives were comments about this forum and its members being no good. Actualy the opposite is true. The forum brings us together from all walks of life and unites us in a common interest.
We dont all have to have the same opinion.

omg cant believe how good it looks in white with those rims!!! shows what a coat of paint and set of wheels can do!

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Originally posted by MkI_JeT
i hate fibreglas & fink it should be left for the ricers!i dont go off typing: "why are u using those guards..did you run out of money"or"fibre glass guards thats half arsed!"just because thats my opinion,

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That could be worded 'why are you using glass front guards, they seem to me to devalue what is otherwise a decent build' To which i could respond with the reasons why i have gone that route. I may not change them to steel but i would certainly take it onboard.

I DONT think we should be bagging any other persons car, forum member or not, but i think sharing an opinion on someones car, and bagging someones car are pretty different things. It may be as simple as choosing our words more carefully.

I've just read this lot of drivel.....man haven't you guys got cars to go and work on.

I'm with Danny M.

I don't like it but I can admire the work gone into it. For that he gets a thumbs up but it's not the best mk1 in the country good yes the best no.

The journo in question seems to take great delight in putting together articles about cars the have jap engines in them whihc in my opinion makes us look liike we can't build cars with blue oval power in them. He should be representing the world of Small fords down here better than he does.

There's nothing "new" in the world of small fords. Hasn't been for many years. I challenge anyone to show me a car that is truly innovative in the street scene.

To each his own and that includes opinions. They're just like bumholes everybody has one and not all of them are fit for the wider world.........

Sorry nigel hope it didn't like i attacking you! just used your car as an example to get my point across!and yes the wording SHOULD have been different but that was just tone as others chose about this cars powerplant & that probley the problem..peoples wording!

Interesting to note that when this car...

http://classic-ford.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19422

...appeared on a thread in this forum there was no where near the emotion outpoured against the negative comments it received?

But to move on from this thread maybe we could have a new thread (or several) on topics that can be debated until the cows come home without singling out a particular persons car.

For example -

a) Wheel sizes on classic Fords - is bigger better?
b) We fought them in the war, but hey don't they make a great engines for classic Fords? Jap conversions vs. Blue oval.
c) Is Classic Ford mag going downhill?
d) Old skool vs. new skool - which is best?

Just an idea.

And i couldn't agree more with Mk1_Jet & nigel mk1 - i think there is a lesson for all of us to learn about how we word any post on the forum, myself included.

GT

This thread has been great reading, its been the most exiting thing on here for a while.
keep firing boys[:u]

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Originally posted by 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???

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Spot on Glenn.

My sentiments exactly and each to their own regarding the way in which they invisage their project. Expression and attention to detail is great even if not to everyone's taste.

This would be a revelation in Classic Ford where the usual rolling stock is a 13x7 with a 185/45 stretched over them [:u]

Either way it's a fine interprtation of a Mk1 Escort.

PS The BP, Duratec etc are actually a Jap derived engine are they not - but it seems fine to jamb one of these in an Escort but not an SR????