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Davidians mk1 Ford Escort glass repair work van


yoeddynz

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Wow. What a score. I hope I'm not the only one here who thinks this...

Please don't paint that! It looks so sweet.

I'd happily chuff/chugg about in that all day long winding up the rozz. "Yes sir..its fully legal! " Gonna follow this one with interest :-)

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On 25/03/2018 at 12:53, cletus said:

That is sweet!

 

How did it survive so well? Whats the story behind you getting it?

Cheers man. 

I used to have an orange MK1 2 door which made an appearance at one of the ancient/early nats in Taupo in '07. It's actually my mate that's been recently looking for a 2door also and kept sending me escort ads to check out with him. After telling me to stop sending me the mentioned ads cause I will impulse buy something, the cup runneth over when he sent me the ad for this van. That was it I had to have it.

It was basically an old fella's work van for many years in Hastings until it came off the road in 94. Rego was cancelled then. I have no idea what the go was for over 20 years until it was sold to a dude in Wellington who I bought it off. I may hit up the original owner or his family once this is going and chase up some of the story details.

Shes got a rusty floor that needs fixing. Needs interior sorted, the seats are totally decayed as are the door cards and dash. In the process of refurbing a MK2 front end to fit in. If anyone knows if the MK2 crossmember takes the early mk1 control arms please let me know (they have 'track bar' things from the xmember going back rather than the mk2 style sway bar going forward)
For the time being, i will keep the 1.1 as the money is too tight to go through compliance and low volume.

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On 25/03/2018 at 09:03, yoeddynz said:

 

Wow. What a score. I hope I'm not the only one here who thinks this...

Please don't paint that! It looks so sweet.

I'd happily chuff/chugg about in that all day long winding up the rozz. "Yes sir..its fully legal! " Gonna follow this one with interest :-)

yeah that's what I'm thinking. The rear left door will have to have rust repaired quite a bit but I'm taking photos as I go so I can restore all the signage by hand. The patina will likely stay, at least for quite sometime.

The wife says it will need to make us money back, so if you see me selling burgers out the back come and buy one :)

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2 hours ago, davidian said:

 MK2 crossmember takes the early mk1 control arms please let me know (they have 'track bar' things from the xmember going back rather than the mk2 style sway bar going forward)

 

I have a vague memory it was only really early mark 1's that had that style of arm, and at some point they changed to the more common suspension where the sway bar is the brake reaction rod

 

I had a mark 1 2 door with that type of early suspension and arms were hard to get even then- 20 odd years ago

 

(sharn, sold it once, got it back for free, sold it again, should have kept it, super solid body)

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