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Originally posted by ossie cossie

I like it. Wher did he get those wheels? what size are they? its so hard to find 4 bolt ford spaceing 4 x 108mm wheels in the bigger sizes. I am after a set of at least 8 or 9 by 18 any body help me with a dealer in OZ (thats not overthe top on there prices) that can supply them in 4 x 108mm.

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The wheels are ROH Modena's and they are a 3 peice wheel, much like Simmons wheels where they can custom order to any spec you want and because of that, they are pricey.

If you want a wheel like that in a 4x108 stud pattern, it gonna cost you, or you can change the bolt pattern to a ford 5 stud and then the options are out there.

Yep!!!! That thing is cruisn sweet st all day long!!!!

Unless there are people with imagination, things would get very boring..
Times move on and so does technology. I love it all, new style,old style or a mix of both!! Insides and outsides,Keeps things interesting for all enthusiasts...[^][^][^]

He really has F@%KED a good car....

Why go to all the expense of doing that to the body work and put an SR20 in it?? Did he run out of money??

Maybe we should all have superlites on our cars...

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Originally posted by whooligan

I'm all for doing things a bit different but those wheels are just ridiculous.[V] They look what they are - an afterthought.
The seats also let it down. Baby sheite brown against silver - Sack the interior designer, they're obviously colour-blind.
what's the motor? Stirfry20?

You can talk all you like about japanese drift racing influences, but all I see is fat yorkshire slapper trying to sing karaoke while pizzed on saki. Where I come from the only oriental influences are rice pudding which comes in a can you buy from Tesco.

Australia's best???? More like Australia's 1/2 rrsed. I'm sure its tough getting a gig with Classic Ford, but please don't let this car represent Small Fords from Australia. It just re-inforces the myth that Aussies are a bunch of nut bags with very little respect for the Blue Oval heritage.

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Well said.. Those rims look terrible. I'm all for trying difefrent things and that, but they look shocking.

Sorry but I don't think its Australia's best.

Oh come on, give us a break will ya.

Do you really think this car is "different"? Do you expect us to believe that this is the first ever SR20 MK1 Escort? Or the first with Silver Paint? Or the first ever to have big wheels?

Its all been done before, so in your terms of reality this is just another car following an all too familiar trend -jap motor, slammed and on ridiculously oversized wheels for the model of car, just like every other car in Street Machine/Hot Fours/Fast Fours etc. etc. Folowing the same trend.

And as for engine conversions well I may have been around a lot longer than most of you becuase i haven't seen anything "different" in any conversion in years. 4 years ago was last time i saw something different when the first Duratec coversion was done. Anything else was old hat.

Having said that it does appear from the pics that this is a well built car with great finish and attention to detail - a credit to the owner for their vehicle building ability.

But like a few "game" others on here, i personally (in my honest opinion) would have liked it a lot more if it was on different rolling stock and powered by Ford.

GT

this truely is something else

i have been on a few of the UK forums, oldskoolford in particular and i find they r all very suportive of one anothers cars no matter what the modifications r.

i think that if someone from the UK jumped on this forum and saw the reaction to this car they would b horrified and i think that would b the only thing tarnishing our repuation!!!!

i don't think anyone has the right to be saying such stuff about the car, in particular the part about him running out of money. thats an absolute insult!!!

this car has been heavily modified and i agree not to everyone taste and to some extent not mine, but by saying that this car is an absolute credit to the owner and his ability to think outside the traditional views of a mk1 escort is an understatement.

i dont think you can be pushing about these kinds of cars from our forums or from out clubs as there r probably going to b more and more of them, this car and the mk2 on ebay r just a couple of examples, and they r the new thing, yeh theyre not traditional but at the end of the day they r still the cars we love and we should b seeing more about what goes into the work of them rather than just looking at hte size of the wheels and what motor is under the bonnet

an absolute credit to u bud, its a beautiful car and very well done. i personally look forward to ure next item ... it mite b a bit more accepted here ... HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS GUYS ITS GOT A COSSIE !!!