Mk6 Escorts

[dougiefourspeed]

The '90s Mexico is the thinking mans Mexico.

[greengartside]

I have just purchased a 1994 FIesta, it has just had some welding, it is unloved, basic spec and has been broken into at some point in the past and has/had several bits missing, should I have just scrapped it? A few years ago you could purchase a mark 2 Fiesta for a few hundred, I have just watched a rather tatty example go for over £1,000 on ebay. Might not eventually a mark 5 or 6 Escort gain a similar status, nearly everything else with a Ford badge has?

 

I did the same thing about 9 years ago, I bought a 1993 Fiesta 1.1 base model from my local garage for £150 - it had gone through the hands of several owners, been mildly 'barry'd' and then 'de-barry'd' and the rear arches were mostly filler and was generally unloved too. It even had one of those temporary fuel caps as the original had been smashed off in an attempt to syphon the fuel out of it.

 

I bought it because I needed a cheaper car to run as I'd just started a new job and had little money to run an Astra G 2.0 SRi and I felt really sorry for it and it was due to be scrapped when the garage had finished with it.

 

Turns out it lasted me for over three years and was one of the best cars I have ever purchased. I even sunk a few hundred into it for an M.o.T as it needed a shit ton of welding. I couldn't let it go because it was uber-reliable. I wrote to the DVLA and found out all the past history on the car - was a motability car when new to an old dear who died three years after buying it. Another owner lived on the same street as Craig Rolfe - he was the driver of the Range Rover that was involved in the Rettendon murders back in 1995.

 

I then ended up putting a RS1800 engine in it and then other things in my life got in the way and sadly I got rid of the old thing, but I'd dare say she'd still be going now.

 

R.I.P Champ.

[sierraman]

How did you know where the rettendon murder chap lived?

[greengartside]

How did you know where the rettendon murder chap lived?

 

I put the address of the PO of my car into Google and his name came up as living on that street!

[sierraman]

Read the book about the murders. He didn't sound like someone you'd want living next door.

[Hendry]

I am glad someone else said this as that is what I have been thinking all through this thread.

 

When I first joined members were purchasing some very ropey, unloved, known to rot cars and I never saw any criticism, nowadays  I think Hendry would get less adverse comments if he was purchasing a Nissan Juke on a ten year finance plan at 50% apr whilst offering his mother as a part exchange! I always thought that was one of the raison d'être of autoshite, love the unloved and unfashionable.

 

I have just purchased a 1994 FIesta, it has just had some welding, it is unloved, basic spec and has been broken into at some point in the past and has/had several bits missing, should I have just scrapped it? A few years ago you could purchase a mark 2 Fiesta for a few hundred, I have just watched a rather tatty example go for over £1,000 on ebay. Might not eventually a mark 5 or 6 Escort gain a similar status, nearly everything else with a Ford badge has? 

 

As for dealer plates I think they add interest to a car whether old or new. Not long ago I saw a early Ford Mondeo on ebay with "Jessup's of Stoubridge" on the plates, my parents bought a Sierra from there in the 80's whilst going out on a Sunday afternoon for a bag of Sugar. I wanted it for that reason, although it was more than I could afford, it was for totally sentimental reasons I admit.

 

My Renault 5 has it's original Renault London Branch sticker and rear number plate complete with '01' number, it adds interest and a talking point to the car.

 

Its already happened, there was a mk6 Mexico on ebay for £3995, a couple of RS2000s for over £6k and an N reg Calypso Convertible for £5995. Much tidier than the one id buy, but then im not daft enough to pay that for an Escort either. 

 

Can they do that? Never really looked into them. I assumed they only had a set load of styles.

 

Plus that involves spending money on it. So far the black Sharpie has sorted it for the last 3 years.

 

Yep, the set load of styles they have are ones people have emailed them pics of to get repros made for damaged originals or maybe off another car that came from the same dealer as theirs when new in order to get original looking plates on the car.

 

They will make up anything, but if you do it, send him loads of photos, closeups, exact bits of the details so its as close to original as possible, because I sent him a pic of a plate off an old Renault 5 I wanted the same dealer plates for my Clio, when they arrived I was impressed but as soon as I compared them to the pic I could see obvious slight differences. 

[fordperv]

Can they do that? Never really looked into them. I assumed they only had a set load of styles.

 

Plus that involves spending money on it. So far the black Sharpie has sorted it for the last 3 years.

Yeah if they havnt got the style you can email them pictures of your plates and they make you a replica set, they email back to you an image showing what they will be like as well iirc well they did when i got my plates from them

[Felly Magic]

MOT History says that ones rotten anyway! Bugger!

We've been trying to say that about any in Scotland, survivors are almost all fucked, and the cheapest on ebay atm, a silver S plater has a very bent history, as it comes up as a white Fiesta with a few more miles on! By the time you work out how much you need to spend on eliminating rust, you could easily have afforded a mint one, btw, mint mk6's are now upwards of £1500 due to their increasing rairity, a local stealer has a mint giffer owned from new Y reg Finesse in black on the forecourt at £1795, only done 44k with full history, that's about the going rate now, anything sub a grand is rusty and barried normally now

[Hendry]

Yeah if they havnt got the style you can email them pictures of your plates and they make you a replica set, they email back to you an image showing what they will be like as well iirc well they did when i got my plates from them

 

Same!

 

This was the ones I got done:

 

Reproduction Robert Wyper Sticker by Greg Hendry, on Flickr

 

Reproduction Robert Wyper Irvine Renault Number Plate by Greg Hendry, on Flickr

 

And the originals for comparison:

 

Robert Wyper (Motors) LTD by Greg Hendry, on Flickr

 

Robert Wyper Renault by Greg Hendry, on Flickr

[Lacquer Peel]

All 90s Escorts are fucked, from the factory

[Cavcraft]

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-1-6-Sport/263155212350?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649

[Hendry]

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-1-6-Sport/263155212350?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649

 

An Escort Sport? WTF? Wasnt there enough pukka specs of Escorts without folk making up their own?

[Pillock]

V136FTE is a Finesse, according to the DVLA. Can't see any Sport badges on it, just looks like it's got different wheels and side skirts and wanky blue side repeaters.

 

By the way Hendry, there's an X reg Escort popped up locally for £800, saw it as I tazzed by. Didn't get enough of the reg in my head to check to see if it was SCTSH - do you want me to go back and check or is X reg not on your radar? It did look really clean, it was that metallic burgundy with the triangle pattern wheels.

[fordperv]

Dont forget the gti spats on the rear bumper, it did confuse me at why the owner didnt just fit the gti skirts as well seeming as they fitted what looks like the 15" wheels from one as well, i always liked them 60mm lower on the 16" Mondeo version of them

[sierraman]

V136FTE is a Finesse, according to the DVLA. Can't see any Sport badges on it, just looks like it's got different wheels and side skirts and wanky blue side repeaters.

 

By the way Hendry, there's an X reg Escort popped up locally, saw it as I tazzed by. Didn't get enough of the reg in my head to check to see if it was SCTSH - do you want me to go back and check or is X reg not on your radar? It did look really clean, it was that metallic burgundy with the triangle pattern wheels.

If it's not got Glasgow number plates he's out. Doesn't he want one that's slightly scruffy though?

[Rusty_Rocket]

I wish Hendry all the best in his search. My advice would be however, to buy the absolute best example he can find, whether it was registered in Glasgow or Grantham.

As far as I know, the op isn't the type to spend hours welding up an old crock or have the facilities to do so in the first place. With that in mind, it can only be crazy to buy something that is beyond redemption - it'll turn into an expensive lesson if he buys one with the desired dealer sticker on the back window and no sills left or floor to weld new sills to. 

But one must learn from experience and I look forward to seeing the pictures of the car when it arrives with shiny tyres and a bent MoT. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

Out of a mk1 Focus and a mk4 Astra, I'd have a Megane.

now you're just being silly!

[sierraman]

The Mk1 Megane wasn't that bad a car, it does suffer a few electrical gremlins but these are invariably the usual suspects, Coil, Crank Sensor etc.

 

The 1.4 16v was fairly nippy, more so than the 1.6 Focus.

 

A good Megane Mk1 isn't a bad buy if you are handy with the spanners.

[andy18s]

And the price keeps tumbling...

[Lacquer Peel]

The Mk1 Megane wasn't that bad a car, it does suffer a few electrical gremlins but these are invariably the usual suspects, Coil, Crank Sensor etc.

 

The 1.4 16v was fairly nippy, more so than the 1.6 Focus.

 

A good Megane Mk1 isn't a bad buy if you are handy with the spanners.

Oh and a >13 year old Ford will never break down?

[Snipes]

Oh and a >13 year old Ford will never break down?

Renault's were especially bad for coil packs back then. I knew a Renault tech is refused to fit the Simens packs and always replaced them with Denso.

[BorniteIdentity]

And the price keeps tumbling...

This would be good enough for me.

 

It's the right car. It's in Kettering which is basically Corby which in turn is basically Scotland.

 

GiB

[Hendry]

And the price keeps tumbling...

 

Im now wondering what the deal with that one is, why its so cheap.

 

Yes admittedly I thought that was dear for a mk6 Scrote, but having looked on ebay and seen ropier looking ones at 2/3 times the price, and ones which in pics look as clean as that at £2500/3grand im wondering why he hasnt clocked this and stuck it on ebay for those figures.

 

PS whoever it was who said im not being fussy about a daily, I want one for nostalgic box ticking exercises and one thats not quite right is pointless. Bingo! Nail. Head. Hit. Thats what ive been trying to explain all along and failing miserably. 

[sierraman]

It's cheap because there's zero market for them. Anyone looking for banger would buy a equivalently priced Focus.

[beko1987]

It's cheap because there's zero market for them. Anyone looking for banger would buy a cheaper priced Focus.

Shitely from Kettering to a field near Buckingham is probably doable, hell I'll drive someone there to help collect just to close this thread off if you pay the man electronically, just get yourself on a train the weekend of the 9th September, one of us can collect you then road trip back!

[twosmoke300]

*hendry rapidly looking for excuses !

[BorniteIdentity]

I'm happy to get it for you and sit on it a bit; I have an unused policy still running and Kettering is 25 miles from here.

 

Then when you get here I'm just 40 minutes from Stansted. Doug did it from Ayr to buy my w124!

[Lacquer Peel]

*hendry rapidly looking for excuses !

To be fair he's told us all along exactly what he's looking for and that's not it.

[fiatdaft]

 

But this one one gumtree Coatbridge is closer to not EDL SCOTTISH NOT RACIST registered special editionness.

 

 

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[sierraman]

Worth £123 to fuck about with on the driveway.