This is the 'other' car i have been working on for the last 18 months in between blowing up race engines and building new ones etc.
Nearly 3 years ago we bought this yellow 4 door RS. As is normal when buying old cars they have usually either been bashed around or they are rusty, sometimes both. The reason we bought this is that other than a very light tap on the inside of the L/H headlight area (which i didn't even notice until i removed the nose and found it was still in undercoat behind it!) this car has never been accident damaged. It was however fairly rusty!
Despite this it was a fairly un-molested car that still has the matching engine number and its original "A" series victorian number plates.
The firewall area wasn't bad by Escort standards but still needed repairs. The heater dome had been off before but it had been repaired underneath with bog. Why anyone would go to that much trouble to do a half assed repair escapes me but ..
The bottom of the rear window had 3 inches missing in the Left corner and as a result the boot floor was rusted out.
The interior floors were perfect which was what made me decide the car was worth restoring. All the rusted areas have now been cut away and i have welded in new steel. I have also removed the bottom half of the inside section of the c pillar vents and then welded over the vents themselves.
Anyway, i will let the pics speak for them selves ...
