Mrs6C Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 5 hours ago, Unlucky Alf said: Did they actually make pickups like this? I think home-made conversions were popular for the earlier cars - there are a few about - but there was a factory made pick-up called a Bantam in South Africa, from the Mk3 Escort onwards...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Bantam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 14 hours ago, Unlucky Alf said: Did they actually make pickups like this? No - that was an estate. I wonder what they're doing with it, it's probably still not beyond saving economically going by current prices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 On 4/9/2021 at 6:48 PM, Spottedlaurel said: One day I'll find the article on a converted van that had the lower roof from a saloon/estate, that looked good. Here's a nice standard-looking Mk1 back in 2009: I'm not going to copy and paste someone else's photo, but a quick Google will show what it looks like now....... That's perfect. Absolutely gorgeous. I really, really, really wish I hadn't found a photo of what it looks like now. Just WHY? There should be prison sentences for this sort of bastardisation. danthecapriman, LightBulbFun and Austat 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthecapriman Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Thing is, by doing that to it it’s now lost what made it nice & special. It’s now just ‘yet another’ heated up rally wannabe. There’s loads like it. Its not my car of course and each to his own etc etc. Austat and LightBulbFun 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 12, 2021 Author Share Posted April 12, 2021 It's utterly ruined. However, it would be interesting to know how much it cost the owner to bugger it up into the barried shiz which features in the second photo and what the market value would now be compared to previously. To me, the blue carbuncle is worth approximately 0.001% of the original. Don't some Ford fans* pay silly money for the fugly look though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isopon Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 (edited) I'm a huge fan of mk1 escorts- they're before my time but an unmolested one really grabs my attention. my grandfather had a constant cycle of them when they were cheap run arounds, he had 3 at one time; my mother recalls him having about a dozen engines spare. he still has an abundant spares stash these days as well. the best part (for me at least) is that, after all these years, he still has one! his current car is a 2dr 1100l in oh so 70's bronze, and is completely standard apart from that. I've been in before and it attracts rather a lot of attention, not least because it was towing a load of garden waste to the tip! (edit: this was only in 2017) picture of the car below. Edited April 23, 2021 by Isopon more info Dick Longbridge, Eyersey1234, bunglebus and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard_FM Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 I remember Mk1s were cheap runarounds when I first became interested in cars in the early 1980s, plenty of them around still & easy to keep going as the mechanical bits were simple to work on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ETCHY Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 On 4/12/2021 at 8:23 AM, Dick Longbridge said: That's perfect. Absolutely gorgeous. I really, really, really wish I hadn't found a photo of what it looks like now. Just WHY? There should be prison sentences for this sort of bastardisation. That's criminal, an unmolested early GT turned into that fuck up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 Once a make of car has a "scene" it seems to attract morons. Austat and danthecapriman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 Split_Pin, Dick Longbridge and danthecapriman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austat Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 On 4/24/2021 at 5:57 PM, artdjones said: Once a make of car has a "scene" it seems to attract morons. True, very true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 I wonder how many new shells this has had? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-RS1600-Ex-Works-VVX-958L-Genuine-Car-/234046888013?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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