kiwisurf

Got a replica Rally wheel from Palmside for my birthday.

Once I got it home the first thing I did was fit some rear seatbelts and a child seat attachment point in the parcel tray so the family could come for a cruise. After a few days I got sick of the interior so stripped it out and sent it to the panel beaters to have a patch done in the drivers floor and the spare wheel well....other than that it it rust free. I stripped out the old sound deadening then wire brushed the floor and painted in Por15. I then applied sound deadening to the entire floor and inner doors. Fitted a new carpet kit and underlay. New low back bucket seats from NZKW. Recovered the rear seat with a cover kit from Autosport. Its not the same vinyl as the front seats but I had a price to have it done and it was 3 times more expensive than the covers that I got and I recovered it myself. Vinyl died the door trims. And reassembled. No before pics sorry but I can assure you it was poo brown with flogged out front seats and holes every where.

Been following this forum for a while and been meaning to start a build thread so here go's. I have had it close to a year all ready and have not been keeping to good a photo history unfortunately. A year or so ago I started a new job that came with a company vehicle which allowed me to sell my late model Navara freeing up some cash. About the same time we bought a lifestyle property outside of Hamilton that came with a converted pig shed at 130 square meters. So I thought I should get my self some sort of toy. I started looking for something american but decided that seems though we had a mortgage and a young family I could not justify the money required to get something decent. So I decided to look around for a tidy Escort. I used to play with old fords when I was younger....had a MK1 Escort van and a Consul 315. So I picked this up at a good price. A chick had it before me and it was her first, and only car. And as she discovered a 40 year old Ford is not really ideal for either of those.

Neil Allport Motorsport