Does this deserve to be saved?

[warren t claim]

 

This ex Merseyside Police four door Mexico has been offered to me for £2500 requiring total restoration.

 

Is anyone wearing their brave trousers today?

[Pillock]

The world's gone mad.

 

Looks rusty, crashed, and incomplete. Twenty five hundred? Is that the going rate?

 

Was it unmarked then, given much of it appears to be red? And were Merseyside plod such poor drivers they needed a roll cage?

 

I know someone whose old man was a traffic officer in Liverpool I seem to remember.... He was saying they used RS2000s

[trigger]

I've never heard of a 4 door Mexcio but they do exist. http://www.rs2.co.uk/police.htm

 

I bet that would be worth a fortune once finished but it looks like some major work!

[chaseracer]

That's heavy dollar just to end up with a VIN plate and some glass that MAY once have patrolled Liverpool...

[warren t claim]

That's heavy dollar just to end up with a VIN plate and some glass that MAY once have patrolled Liverpool...

And worth 10x the purchase price restored/rung?

[KruJoe]

That story needs checking out.

If you don't take it on, I'm sure someone else will, and probably make ALL THE MONEYS at the end of it.

[vulgalour]

Wish I had a fucked Mk1 Escort at the bottom of my garden.

[sheffcortinacentre]

yes very rare ,they used mk2 RS2000's.

 

ford built 2 mk1 mexico ests & 1 mk1 RS2000 est all 3 survive.

[warren t claim]

Not feeling too much Mk1 love here tonight.

[rml2345]

That looks a bit rotten for £250, never mind £2500. However, since the price of these things has gone a bit mental it must be worth saving for OMGKERCHING at least?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The square headlamps and XL door trims would suggest that not much more than the vin plates were ever patrolling the Merseyside streets, but as others have said, people pay that sort of money for Maltese estates in worse condition.

A mate of mine picked up ,what looks like a riverbed find mk1, just because it's got some decent type 49 front wings fitted to it- he paid £1200 for the piece of shit.

[Sudsprint]

No.

[RichardMoss]

Is it worth £2500?  No

Is it worth restoring? No

 

Will it sell for £2500  Probably

Will an Escort wearing those VIN/reg plates be on the road sometime in the not too distant future?  Probably

[londonm]

Suggest he puts it on the bay, and see how far it goes towards £2,500.00

[Richard]

Would a 4 door Escort, even one as rare as this appears to be, make the same sort of money as a 2 door Escort?

[dollywobbler]

I don't know. Mexico seems a real badge of honour, even though it was the most feeble of the Hot Escorts.

 

Watching For the Love of Cars reminded me that looks-wise, the Mk1 Escort really was spot on. Don't forget they paid £8k for their wreck. Four-doors make it pretty rare but two-doors are where the dosh is.

[trigger]

Aye, 2 doors are all about the money but as there was only 6 4 door Mexicos made all it takes is a fan boy wanting some genuine Ford history and the value could go sky high, as a rule it's always going to be worth £10k+ once finished.

 

You need to make sure it's 100% a genuine Mexico and that it has the history to back up the claim.

[Split_Pin]

That doesn't look like a car I'd want to get involved with at all.

[dollywobbler]

The good thing about the much-derided old school Ford scene is that it seems you can get an awful lot of restoration parts at least.

[Pete-M]

Merseyside Police were the only force to have 4dr Mk1 Mexicos. They were the only people anywhere to have 4dr Mexicos as they were built for MerseyDibble. According to Google it looks like Jersey Dibble have had one or two of the six or seven.

 

As such, this - if it is genuine, which would surprise me - is one of six or seven Mexico 4 doors built. As such, properly restored, it would fetch close to £20k.

 

It would not cost anywhere near that to restore. 4dr bits are a lot cheaper than 2dr ones, and Mexico trim isn't hard to find.

 

Is it worth saving? Yes, but it would have to be exactly correct in every detail, and the genuine article. If it's just a standard 4dr Mk1 it isn't worth doing.

 

Merseyside Dibble did have Mk2 RS2000s. I owned one of them for a while in the early 90s - XEM649W. They were the last RHD RS2000s built. Not the last registered, but the last built. XEM650W had the last chassis number, I believe. XEM651W was the last of that batch registered to the Dibble.

 

Lots of places registered X plated RS2000s but they were built before XEM650W.

 

I would be able to tell within seconds if this is a genuine Mk1 Mexico shell.

[Split_Pin]

^^^ Get this man round there asap! Nice bit of history there.

[Pete-M]

I'd happily check it over but I've got no interest in saving it.

 

I don't like Mk1 Escorts all that much. Never really did. I've had a few - my first Road legal car was a yellow Mk1, but I was always a fan of the Mk2.

 

I know them inside and out though. This "Mexico" certainly doesn't ring true from this one apparently ancient photo. Without knowing the registration or seeing this car in the flesh I'm not convinced.

[Guest Breadvan72]

This heap reminds me that I once did a case about MerseyPlod in hot pursuit of two teenage scally chav pikey feral scumbag promising young footballers and art students (13 and 15) who fish-hook through letterbox lifted a couple of Full-Barry hotbox Vauxhalls from some des res in the Wirrall.  The teenage twoccer aces each met a firey, explodey, crashy, spikey, deathy DEATH in the Mersey Tunnel where the TunnelPlod had set up a rolling road block using a Landy and a lorry.  TunnelPlod had not told MerseyPlod about this because, can you believe it, the two separate forces had radios that could not talk to one another.    Cue mahoosive Inquests, IPCCs, law suits, and assorted argy bargy (I got the gig for TunnelPlod, sueing the ass off the Coroner, who said some dumb stuff when winding up the Inquests). MerseyPlod driving standards haven't improved much since the old Escort days, it seems.

[Vince70]

A friend of mine had a 4 door Mexico a few years back, he told me it was an ex police car which he bought long before the scene tax came in but kept it under a tarpaulin on the drive for years.

 

I just wonder if it's the same car but his was a solid car at the time and can't see it would of got that bad.

[Pete-M]

It should look like this.

 

Rarity would push the value right up in comparison to a normal 4 Dr.

 

For £20k the doors would have to line up better and the vinyl roof would have to go.

[UmBongo]

Phone Mike Brewer, Pip Glenister and those those other guys on Sky TV.

[Lankytim]

It won't get scrapped, so there's no need to save it.

[D-Dubya]

someone somewhere will have it. its far too gone for most to tackle, and like some said, its going to be someone who is going to save it for the VIN and glass

[Cavcraft]

It's £2500 for a log book and VIN plates, that's what it is.

 

Great cars but quit over rated and it seems to me they fetch stupid and unwarranted levels of scene tax from fan boys.

It'll be back up for sale in 6 months time as an original car, of which 99% will be anything but.

[fordperv]

They all deserve to be saved, nuns and kittens will be sacrificed on old skool ford if they aren't