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Bam's 1980 Mk2 Escort 1600 Sport


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  • 5 years later...

Almost 6 years since I last posted a build update... A lot has changed in those 6 years. Let me try and do some updates over the coming days.

 

The car had a bunch of surface rust under the factory paint. It had been resprayed at some point but just thrown on over top of everything else. My good friend Zac Haar from Carboglass in Wellington called around. He suggested taking the bonnet off, taking it down to his shop and stripping the paint off, treating the rust and getting it looking new. If i liked the process, then I could do the entire car, if I hated it, I could put it back on and save to pay someone else to do it.

 

I am the type of person who hates paying for things and would much rather have a go and fail, than to fork out hard earned dollars for something. This will definitely bite me later in the build, but you now know the type of person I am.

Here are some more pics of her the day I got her, and some of the bonnet work. I am not sure I really enjoyed this work but please I was giving it a go.

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Once I realized that we had to actually do this to the entire car, we took the car to Prestige Tuning and Motorsport where Chris and I quickly pulled the car apart. We were critical in our bagging and tagging of parts and screws. It was cool to see a bare rolling shell at the end of the day. I rented a small bit of workshop space from Ash at Kaizen Works and the car went there to be stripped even further.

 

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