1971 МК1 ФОРД ЕСЦОРТ РС1600 БДА

Hi, that Escort was ...

Hi, that Escort was last on the road, well, taxed until December 1993, it is down as having a 2000cc engine, so after you had it someone must have put a pinto in it, looks like it may have been scrapped or may be sitting somewhere waiting to be renovated!

wow, great posting! ...

wow, great posting! I had an electric blue one PVX191K in '75, anyone seen it?

Observant man!!! no ...

Observant man!!! no I didn't quite manage to kill myself!.. rolled a fiat 128 in that field though!! but I was more worried about losing my precious fuel from the tank!

You know you need ...

You know you need to get another one and terrorise the French countryside again!! Did you ever roll or fall off that 2cv chassis hot rod???

I really miss my ...

I really miss my old escorts :-(

Cheers bud !

Cheers bud !

nice sound! 

nice sound! 

Also asembled here ...

Also asembled here in Uruguay,South America

lol thanks im a ...

lol thanks im a big car fan

oh ok! we will have ...

oh ok! we will have to call you "the info guy" and not the Annihilator !

cool i just put it ...

cool i just put it in for people to know where the car was assembled in other countries i do the car info for reich967 and saabkyle04

thanks for the ...

thanks for the history lesson! any reason you mentioned all that lot? I know for a fact that mine was made in Essex, England, South ockendon/ aveley to be precise!, I actually spoke to the guy in 1983 who ordered it back in 1971, he went to the factory to see it being assembled, two years later when he was 54 years old he part-exchanged it for a "new" escort 1300E as he thought the RS1600 was too thirsty!

the 1968-1974 Ford ...

the 1968-1974 Ford Escort was assembled in Halewood Body & Assembly, England Saarlouis, Germany Nazareth, Israel Homebush, Australia New Zealand Taiwan Genk, Belgium

Big wing RS1600 my ...

Big wing RS1600 my dream car,think it suits the pin stripe,awaiting more vids,Awesome!!

oh cheers bud, i ...

oh cheers bud, i keep promising to do a video of it having a bit of action and some full throttle stuff, i will soon, so watch this space!.

mouthwatering !

mouthwatering !

wow! you must of ...

wow! you must of been about 6 years old then ! because ive had it since 1983 and you were born about 1977 and i could swear the bloke i bought it off was around 35yrs old ! Sounds similar, but i dont have the yales on the bootlid, back in the day people stuck the bloody things on everything, i hate them!

This looks like my ...

This looks like my old car. Mine had red pinstripes and yale locks on the doors and bootlid.

Thanks, thought ...

Thanks, thought I'd never seen them before

Hi, Thanks, when I ...

Hi, Thanks, when I bought the car in 1983 it had red pinstripes painted on, i had the car repainted to tidy it up in 1985 and when it came out of the paint shop it looked a bit plain, so i put some red pinstripes on it in the same position that the old red painted stripes had been, I think all rs1600s came plain without stripes, so all the stripes you see on a bda will have been a personal choice I think!

Gorgeous car, ...

Gorgeous car, basically my perfect Escort. Just wondering, is the ornage pinstripe an RS1600 'thing' (like the mexico stripe?) or is that just a personal touch?

nice...nuff said

nice...nuff said

hi Kev, yes the car ...

hi Kev, yes the car is going fine thanks, I really need to put an electric fuel pump on it though, its fine flat out in 1st and 2nd but gets fuel starvation towards the top of 3rd gear, noticeably worse if I have a fat passenger in it too! I neeed to do that before i get it on the rolling road! I have at least found the limit on the standard mechanical pump, but for normal driving and a bit of blasting, the std pump is fine, simple and reliable and keeps it original etc! CheeRS !!

i see that ...

i see that expressed are now producing roof skins that sort of completes the jigsaw puzzle of panels needed for new bodyshells ,i wonder how long the agony has to continue ,before these amazing cars ,get a new lease of life ,i for the life of me cant understand ,why no one has seen a gap in the market, the mk1/2 escorts ,there record speaks for it self ...any way how is that awesome car going :) cheeRS

oh thanks code 2-2 ...

oh thanks code 2-2 !