Baxter

dose any one know wat them mini van/wagons are called ?? cheers

The ones with rear seats (ie the wagons, not the vans) are called Travelers.

Still a few years younger than the average graduate with leaf springs, air con didnt exist, 5 speed didnt exist for quite a few cars back then too.

Awww, come on, you're just sore 'coz the poms still made '60s cars well into the '80s.

Anyway, I think you miss my point - a/c, 5-speed, injection, etc were all options on the old school CR-X, just as they were on many '70s cars, Cortinas included.

Mark Baxter

'69 Escort

converted to 1600 GT spec, stripped, suspension, etc. It's not too wild - but there's probably nothing standard left on it

Originally built as a non-cage club car, it is now destined to become a scruffy classic race car.

a host of mark 1 CR-Xs:

'84 CR-X 1.5i

wasting away in garage.

'84 CR-X Si

My new club car, stripped, Bilsteins and loud muffler. Goes ok, but under development.

'86 CR-X Si

Face-lifted mark 1, tidy-ish, my daily runner. Probably actually goes better than the stripped car...

I've owned a succesion of mark 1 Escorts, a couple of Anglias (including a van), and a couple of Cortinas for parts cars

I'd love to build a Lotus Seven replica one day, but lack the welding skills. I have the side-lights already...

I'd also like a tidy mk2 1600 Sport Esky one day, and maybe jap DOHC conversion in a mk1, I'd like to try a Mini, or maybe a fintail Mercedes, or even a Jag of some sort. Oh, and a monster-truck, and world peace...

Um, yeah that's about me.

Unless you want to buy an '84 corolla (on hold - needs minor repairs - cheap) or injected '84 323 2-dr (dereged - very cheap) also have lying around but no time for...

What?

Have you ever driven one?

They certainly aren't new or middle school - a few years older that your average graduate with torsion bar suspension and in the days where you had to specially order air-con, 5-speed etc...

Most anything with wind-up windows is oldschool these days...

Anyone into mark 1 CR-Xs?

Here's my image gallery of a good selection: http://www.redpepperracing.com/gallery/baxter

I'm told an old Accord dizzy can be very easily adapted - ie the toothed wheel from the Escort dizzy can be easly pressed on to the Accord's shaft by a machine shop.

Take an Esky dizzy into a japanese car wreckers and see what looks right.

And let us know what fits...

A bit of car history:

No, not all mk2 RS2000s have the droop-snoot front.

Ford Australia made ones with normal flat front (and I think so did South Africa as well). I don't know if they were all badged as 'RS's, but certainly many were - I'm pretty sure the RS ones were all 2 doors, but they also made 4 door 2-litre Eskys as well...

I don't know about mk2s, but all 'export' market mk1 Escorts have stronger bodies than the UK market - very similar to the GT/RS body (type 49 shell).

Both drop-snoots and flat front 2-drs were homologated for racing as RS2000s.

All RS2000s in NZ are special imports, and there is a mix of UK, Austrilian, and home-made replica ones about...

On topic:

I haven't done it myself, but have considered it many times - there's heaps of sites with lots of detailed conversion info, try google (particularly the UK version http://www.google.co.uk).

Some people are now fitting the injected Serria motor, which I imagine would be great in an Esky.

The 5-speed is a cheap enough box and just as easy to fit as the Cortina 4-speed, and it will make for a heaps better end product.