RS2000 saved from the scrapyard.

Welcome to the forum mate
I remember seeing this for sale a while back, and Thort to myself, it's not really as bad as it looks , but it does look bad !
Hope you can got it completed at some point.
How strange a 4dr has the Greg Carr coloured stripes, if you know the history, please let us know.

wow, yeah Ok, you win in the most committed stakes to begin with.
Just start on one bit at a time, and work at it.
 
But thats seems to be more and more the norm for the UK guys to start with?
At least out rusty old wrecks are 'dry' rusty, as opposed to soggy arse, dragged from a farmers field in Wales wrotten.
 
So are you in Aus, Tas, or Ireland, doing in undertaking this one?
I wonder if it would be worth considering pickign up a donor car, just for so many of the odds missing from your shell.
 
Glad to see another havign a crack, keep us up to date and welcome.

That UK RS rust is so bad the windscreen has left the chat !

A friend of mine thought he was in a winner a few years back, find a 69 mk1 Escort project from Port Lincoln so he trailered it back to Adelaide , a 16hr round trip.. it was so rusty that the boot lid skin broke away from the frame somewhere near Port Augusta, then the drivers door skin started flapping so that needed taping back on, when I went to see it I couldn't stop laughing, even the metal dash panel was full of rust holes. I opened the door and it fell off, no floor, no chassis. He sold it to a keyboard warrior I know for 500 , he came down from Peterborough to collect it, fool !
He reckons he'll restore it, he can't even weld, not that there's any good metal on it, the whole shell needs replacing

I cant, seem to fix my location details. Will try later.

Somehow Marty I think Nicmag2 was taking the piss re donor car???
Plenty of help here and the fb (if you ignore all the scammers) for sourcing bits

I reckon logistically you'd just about need a basically complete but otherwise rutted car just to get everything needed, especially the incidentals.
Then just some sheet steel, buy some of the repair sections, and rip into it.
There are some buggered cars around for not much money.
Rust scares many people, when often theres not much diff fixing a small hole or a big one, you just have more tacks to do.
 

Cheers Drewdog, that would be awesome! 
 
 
I'm going to be on the look out for a complete 4 door, I have gathered a lot of stuff, so my mission for the summer is to get it rolling again, I have a complete front end and a roof cut, that I got with the sale, so I can make a start when I can move it into the shed.
 
Here's a couple of pics if the kid with the first escort project,
 
 
 
 
Its hard to keep your eyes open in the harsh Tassie sun!