Blizzo's Mk2 Escort Sport of rust restoration

[BLIZZO]

Discuss here -//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?showtopic=47657

 

Hey Boes

 

So some of you might have seen this when i posted it in the "Left to rot" thread, well I have acquired it and after I pick it up on easter weekend it will start undergoing the reversal of the rotting process, I just really want to prevent it from completely disappearing into the ground. Some of you may give me copious amounts of shit for taking this on as it is very very rusty, but at the end of the day it owes me very little, is a genuine mk2 1600 sport with plates dead but still in the system, and the fact that these are getting very very thin on the ground now.

 

I have a mig, panel steel, access to donor escorts, a father in law who has been building escort rally cars for the last 30 years and most importantly, a wife that loves mk2 sports (because going up with a co driving in).

 

So yea this is going to be a pretty slow build as finances are being directed to honeymooning and house renovations, but luckily there is a whole butt tonne of work to go into this that will require much more time than money. Thank god for palmside and their aftermarket panels anyway.

 

Plans may change but at this stage it is restore body, worked zetec conversion on twin 45's or bike carbs running Nodiz ignition, undecided at the mo but possibly forest flares with wide arse 13" rims, build for fast road so it can be fanged on hillclimbs and clubsport events as well as being fanged to the dairy.

 

Anyway what you all want to see, some pictures of a rusty arse escort.....

[BLIZZO]

forgot to mention that this thing is rusty as hell in werid places, token escort rust traps such as heater cowel, floors etc are fine and not rusty, and those rear quarter window sills, actual sills, rear bottom corners are completely chooched