666DAN

I love the community feel of this forum! LOWMK11/Andrew who was a complete stranger a part from talking on these pages said he had a rear bumper for my Escort and sent it down to me. He even did this with no cash exchanging hands. Top bloke. So seeing as I received the bumper I chucked it on. It is chrome rather than black like I had but I wanted to see what it looked like. I love the chrome!!!

I don't envy you having to scrape all the old underseal off. We are building a LS powered '57 4 door pillarless Belair at work and we have just finished scraping the underside. So worth it now the paint has gone on but still a dirty bastard of a job

Great talking to you today! and again thank you so much for the bumper

You sir a legend! Thank you so much

You have PM good sir

Dude that would be fantastic!

Cheers, I really appreciate the kind words.

4 doors is where its at! Love it dude, can't wait to see it with colour on it

I went today since I missed the drive there on Thursday. Not nearly as cool as hanging out with you cats tho xx

On Thursday I headed to a Panel Beater that a mate recommended to me to get a quote, top bloke and really got enthused about my wee car. Got my quote and decided to pop down to The Surgery (where this was rebuilt) and see if the owner Mike would be interested in shedding some light on the history of my car. Mike is a good man and at work we do The Surgery's exhaust work so when I said that I owned the car now he was thrilled. He talked me through a lot of what was done and I finally got the true figure of what was actually spent on this thing and I can tell you it was LOTS. We had a good chat, I told him what I paid for it and he told me I was an asshole, but went on to say he would dig out the build pics and put them on a disc for me and drop them off at work. After leaving I stopped in at work to see the boys, we are currently building an exhaust system for a vintage Landcruiser The Surgery is building and the tailpipe was sitting back at The Surgery. Well I had no problem heading back to see Mike and he just so happened to be waiting at the computer to show me build pics of my car. Holy shit some serious work went into this Escort body! The Engine and Gearbox were rebuilt and I should be getting all the receipts, I should also be getting the Upholstery receipts and when I asked Mike what he thinks I should do with the damage he said I should get a Crash Repair shop to pull it straight and then him and I should talk about him/The Surgery doing the repairs. I am still unsure of who is more excited me or Mike. He is super stoked that it has a loving home. In his words, He really likes me but hates me at the same time. This brings us to today, what a fantastic afternoon for cruising with my ladies (Wife, 3 daughters and the Escort) in The Best City! We started off heading from Whitby out to Makara Beach from J'ville side. Love NZ back roads, this wee gem just eats up the corners. Got to the beach, chilled out for a while then carried on through to Karori. Cruised through Wellington and parked on the waterfront next to a Ford Galaxy and an Impala both of which had broken down! The Galaxy had a fucked Fuel Pump and the Impala was having Transmission issues. We carried on around to Oriental Bay for a perv. You really can't beat Wellington on a good day! Cruised home via SH1. 80km round trip for a Sunday arvo was awesome! Couple of pics of The Black Pearl down at Makara

I object cos I won't be there

Just curious if anyone knows of a rear bumper lurking an a shed somewhere that needs a loving home. I have managed to secure a rear cut with a bootlid but no bumper.

The weekend just been was the Wellington British Car Day. Headed along with my mate Corey and our families in our Escorts. What an absolutely fantastic event, it is my favourite of the summer season so far. Didn't get many pics of the day unfortunately but I managed to get a couple of quick snaps outside my place and when we had arrived at BCD. Haven't really come across too many pics on FB either so I am a bit bummed that I didn't take my camera. My mate Kelvin took his tho and here is a bit of a write up he did if anyone is interested http://www.tasteslikepetrol.net/2016/02/14/british-car-day-2016-pt-1/ Today I pulled an old aftermarket steering wheel out of retirement, it was originally on my old CRX so there are a few good memories attahed to it. It has seen better days but after a clean up its not so bad. Reason for changing is pretty simple, the one that came with the car is ugly as fuck and had also started splitting on one of the spokes as you can see in the pic UGLY and my old faithful Looks so much better now //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/50660-666dans-1980-mk2-escort-discussion/page-2#entry1660429 Discuss

Being Wellington Anniversary weekend this past weekend, The Kapiti Horowhenua Zephyr club held its Ford day at Kapiti School and just up the road The RoadRunners Inc HotRod club held its annual picnic at the Otaihanga Domain. I spent a few nights after work during the week polishing and cleaning the Escort so she looked pretty for the events, I also managed to score a new RamFlow filter nice and cheap. Pilled the wife and kids into the Escort nice and early on Sunday morning and headed to Paremata to meet up with a mate and his daughter in his F100 truck. We convoyed into Paraparaumu and headed into the Ford event. I managed to park up and pop the bonnet before being inundated with people who were keen to chat about my Escort and Escorts in general. It was actually really friggin humbling. We left The Ford Day and headed up to Otaihanga to check out the goings on and what we were greeted with was amazing. HotRods, classics, muscle cars, mini trucks and modern cars around the entire domain with barely a park left in the place. We did the walk-about and talked shit with all the different people from different clubs, dipped our toes in the river and pretty much just soaked in the atmosphere. As we were leaving my mate Louis from Western Bays Street Rodders managed to step in front of us and snap pic. Here is the link to his page if you want to see more from the Domain https://www.facebook.com/LJDphotographix/?fref=ts Did Paekak hill on the way home and generally just drove as much as I could as she is such a happy little car at the moment. Which brings us to Monday morning. I got a text from the boss saying he was at work doing some shit on his Impala, so I headed down. Since I have had the Esky the drivers seat has never been 100% bolted down due to the mounting bolt in the floor being pulled through and some of the steel torn and being that I don't have the gear at home to do it I have been waiting for a good time to do it at work. Pulled the seat out, pulled the carpet back and ground the area back to bare metal. Persuaded the steel into a better position with my handy dandy hammer and stitch welded the tear back together. I honed out the hole where the factory mounted nut would have been and welded a new bigger one in its place. Cleaned welds up, painted and reassembled. Seat is now mounted and another thing is ticked off the list!

The last couple weeks I have replaced front wheel bearing and front pads and rotors. Bugger me she is a different car to drive now!! Took her for a spirited jaunt over Paekakariki Hill Rd this morning and for the first time I could enjoy (with confidence) how well she handles etc I friggin love this car!!! Couple pics at the top...

Expressing my interest, will confirm closer to date.

Love the car, Love the build, Love the "drivel"

Not a lot has happened except being washed a few times and doing a few k's. Yesterday I cleaned and waxed the engine bay and painted the washer bottle to tidy shit up a little. And so today I cleaned the underside of the bonnet, gave her a wash and went for a small cruise. Took a heap of (shitty iphone) pics cos I friggin love this car Tomorrow the rear bumper is coming off to be massaged so its a little straighter and I may massage the bootlid some more too. Basically just doing what I can without spending coin until after it goes to get pulled.

Not too much of an update but an update none the less. Over the last couple weeks I have had it on stands and pulled shit apart, re assembled, lubricated, adjusted and spanner checked everything I could. Wired in the temp sensor that had been butchered. Yesterday I replaced the front tyres with some Nankangs and got well looked after by the boys at Beaurepaires in Porirua who also did a wheel alignment for me too. Spent a little time this morning giving the arse end and bootlid a massage with my hammer and I also chucked my Mooneyes "foot" gas pedal in. This car is just getting better and better and the amount of people that stop to chat about it is absolutely mind blowing!

What a rad car! I love XA/XB/XC coons. Well done on removing the fuel and the tank etc, its not the nicest job in the world let alone if you haven't done much on cars before. As was said above, get yourself a workshop manual.

Man the nicotine on the windows of the car was disgusting. Really looking forward to having a look at your toys when you are back!

Wheels are 13x7.5 -19 offset and the tyres are 175/50/13 The car is getting there slowly. Sorting through the mechanical issues and saving my money for the panel work.

A couple pics from the Southwards swapmeet I forgot to post

Still trying to get the day off work

Participation is hard when you don't know anyone. I am lucky enough to know Shaz, Ktrips & Mr Bwarp so fitting in wasn't so hard. I'd love to know who's first name is who's forum name tho!!! Obviously I am Dan with the Escort