Dammed sure there is no intelligent life down here a Mk1 escort sport? what would you imagine one would be worth, nice enough motor but its not a Mex or Twin cam or an ex works RS
I missed out on an ex-works Mk1 rally car in around 1989, but I /just/ couldn't afford it at the time.
TBH, if you have a look at the prices for Mk1 Escort 2 doors, that's not a huge amount of money for one. I know a garage that just sold a very very clean low mileage unrestored Mk1 RS2000 for £42000.
A chap I know sold an RS1800 Custom (mega rare) to a bloke from New Zealand for £18500 and that was 8 years ago.
You'll get over £1500 for a tidy Mk1 or Mk2 2 door shell, bare, nowadays.
I'm fairly certain I have driven that vehicle.
Seems a lot of money for a motor well down on my desirability list I can understand the value on the RS motors still plenty of lads ( well they were when I was a Mini Se7en member ) competing on classic events. The difference being they now have the money for that kit rather than the (occassional ropey) conversions done on vanilla escorts.
5 Days to go so it should be interesting to see what it tops out at in perpective a series 3 went for £565 this morning shame I have a drive full of Landy really need a bigger house! Derek
was a very nice thing. Ian Harwood Ltd in Ellesmere Port was the vendor.
Having said that, I sold a Mk2 RS2000 Custom in 1992 for over £9k, but that was exceptionally nice.
Any nice Mk2 2drs out there in NZ, I'd be willing to travel for a nice one, provided the price is right.
Virtually no RS2000s as AFAIK they were never officially sold here. There were however a lot of 1600 'Sport' 2 door Mks2s sold here and there are still decent examples available for reasonable money.
A 1600 Sport would do nicely. Extremely easy to drop a 2.0 in, and I've still got an RS sump, engine mounts and bellhousing in the garage somewhere.
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