Poor old air compressor probably cacked it painting 2 cars at once.
 
If the column mods dont work out, and you arent going to a Maclaren push button start,  I have a complete MK1 column with ignition and set of keys floating around.
 
 

Today I resprayed the doors and bootlid as the finish before was bit rushed . Also dug out the Ford GT mirrors to be painted, and I am on the fence with them being black or colored so thought while painting to just do them and see. Personally like black mirrors but since there's going to be satin black/charcoal stripes, I don't want to over do it.

I suppose after the last car I'm up to spec with this 2pk painting now, still learning but getting better each time.



As there was still heaps of paint left over I quickly steelo padded this works style centre console , again only cause I had paint spare but it'll end up being satin black after I've remodeled it to suit the head unit and switches etc.

Thanks Mark, I'm happy now work the doors and bootlid, just minor cutting and polishing required now.
Going back about 15yrs I did paint a mates mk1 escort in jet black, that took a lot of block sanding and polishing but looked amazing, I have only ever seen 1 genuine black mk1 Escort which was a GS sport pack (not quite 1300GT spec) super rare.

Yes, I hope the Focus barrel will be what's needed to update our old ign barrels, I think it'll be here early next week which will give me more to play with and let everyone know if you or Deano want to convert yours.

Had a look at the Kak rotors, the 12mm isn't a drama with my calipers, they're 14mm gap, and shaving the axle, I can do on a lathe. I bought Alfa rotors for my Anglia and axles needed reducing too. Only thing with Kak is they are small dia 240mm? , I'll go the mx5 rotors which are about 260mm . I think the NA,NB models are 4 stud so just oval the holes to Ford makes it simpler . I should dummy up the calipers on the housing and see what thickness rotor hat I need before shelling out on stuff..

Yeah is is for the parker light, these are old escort ones, the new ones came with the crystal lights and are for T10 bulbs so are plenty smaller than the pic

More building the doors up, I think they will stay on the car, why take them off now. Still needing the bailey channel, inner and outer glass seals or blades tho they can go on after glass is in it's the bailey channel I need now.
I'm still going to attempt the electric window conversion but not for now, will try on another spare door before I hack anything up. Deano, electric windows ???
Installing the inside door open lever was simple but the pass side threw me a bit as the door wouldn't shut, only bounce back. After a beer and some oiling of parts I noticed the spindle with the coiled spring was spinning, effectively doing nothing except look shiny, I'll remove it again and tig it solid so the spring does it's job of retracting the inner handle and the mechanism works correctly.
Also Deano, thanks for the 3d file for the no go gap tool, i printed it off today in pretty purple silk filament, just need to convert USA imperial to rest of world metric , it's a panel gap checker so you know how bad or good your car is !

Yup, what's .1875" anyway , I did print the other one shaped like a star which I reckon is better . Retired guy, I'll call on Dave's Garage then.....!

Did you get centre locking already, just not fitted, I'll show a simple effective way when I do mine..

Last couple days I installed the sunroof into the mk1 , as it was a heavy chunk of glass and alloy I was doing it myself and didn't want to scratch the inside panels , plan was to use milk crates as stepping up blocks, 1 each side and sat the sunroof on them then added another 2 creates and stepped it up and so on till high enough to just lift one side and nut it up then moved to the other side and do the others up, 12 in total plus the back support stays.


Next bit of fun is to mount the VE SS Holden sunvisors with mirrors and lights.

Moving back onto the ignition barrel designed for Focus mk1, mine arrived yesterday so I had a good look and compare with the mk2 Escort one. Luckily it's the same diameter and the bottom tabs are identical, I did fully dismantle the barrel housing for this conversion. I can say that this conversion is pretty straightforward once the old barrel is out.


This is the barrel housing that had the mod needed which is the notch I did at about the 10oclock point on the housing.

ooh clever. Yes listening and watching.
No, I dont have a central locking kit, but will wait for that future episode.
My ideal would be to have my rear doors central locked as part of the 3,  so at to render the t handle surplus and not use any keys aprt from ignition.
 
Surely Mrs Marty could have helped hold the sunroof, looks like you got there anyhow.
Wheels next please.

I think the best way to render the T bar shed handle redundant is to see what ute or van like Hyundai I load etc use and graft the mechanism in somehow, I don't think the solenoid will have enough power to open the door . I am thinking with the centre locking I can use the boot or aux button to open/close the sunroof possibly .
Still working of the ign but now it's the steering column part. Mk2 has the ign body which mounts to the bkt welded to the column, mk1 doesn't, it's got the (big end bearing cap) system so I've taxed a steering rack mount or rear swaybar mount as the cap but have had to cut and weld it to fit, now I need to install it all in the car so I know where it will be positioned in relation to the column shroud, once done I'll weld it on allowing the ign body to bolt on as normal.
Mk1 and mk2 are just enough different is most things to be such annoyingly annoying !!

Wheels, ain't got tred for them yet..