G & Fi's MK2 RS

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 ...

Looking good Gdub. I get my paint bits from the Body Shop too. Didn't realise they also did spray booth hire.

Car looks fantastic Gareth, you have done a great job so far

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Originally posted by Sterling

may i ask which car had my twin 40's and speco cam in it?

that rust was pretty bad, makes me appreciate the little rust my girl has.

looking good man, not that i have anything against the typical RS colour, buts its nice to see one that isn't red haha.

and in the first pic it looks like it has some seriously fat rubber on it?

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The 40's were on the green flat front track car.

The colour is the original "Lemon Lime"

The tyres in the first pic (on the factory Volante's) are the same as in the last pic on the RS Alloys. They are 205/60/13 Falkens


Thanks for the good comments guys

Looks great Gdub!!

Hi Gareth, Looking pretty good, i thought this might have been a secret build (No Pre Photo's). I will have to drop around & check out how you deck that new Garage out next month!!

John

Its been a while since i added anything to this thread and a fair bit has happened so here goes.

The car has been back on the road for about 6 months but i was never really happy with the finish on the paint work. It looked great in the photos but had a really inconsistent finish that only got worse when i tried to rub out some of the imperfections.
Anyway, i have bitten the bullet and repainted it. Now i am really happy with it!
It was painted yesterday and i have spent most of today (with the help of PMR) reassembling it again.
This time i will finish it properly and put the original stripes and decals on it.

It wasn't even there for 24 hours .... Cant hide anything in that place.

Its all back together now and looks fantastic. I'm really proud of it. Just have to put the stripes on it and its ready for SFS.

Now back to the MK1 ...