istepinyards 77 escort project

[istepinyards]

Hi all. this will be one of my first posts and my first project car so bear with me.
I decided to start of nice and simple with a car everyone is familiar with.
I picked this 1977 ford escort off trademe as a likely candidate to tinker with.
had a look and then won the auction.sweet! my first car.
went and picked it up with the help of my old man dave and drove it home.it went ok on the way home
so i drove it around for a couple of weeks.Parked it up and started dismantiling.
(couple of pics hopefully)

[istepinyards]

There was going to be a theme to this project which went along the line of "its not what you know but WHO you know" as
this was my first car AND project
First of all the car went to my dads mate Mark Norris whos a engineer/hot rod builder for some rust repairs as
i wasnt going start mucking round trying to weld pannel steel.The whole car was actually really good for rust apart
from under the 'bulbus bit' in the engine bay where leaves had collected and rotted a couple small holes which where
leaking into the floor pan.so the spots got drilled and it got peeled back (hehe imature i know) and welded up.
next I sent it to the pannel beaters beacuse the previous owner had bumped the right front guard and it was a mess.
So got it back from pannel beaters and started looking for the little shopping trolley dings that most cars of this age have.
Filled those.I Did pannel beating of my own at the front under the bumper and got that looking pretty good. Went and pciked
a colour and broght some paint. got this paint job for 24 heinekin  yeeeow!!