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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/9-MK1-Escorts-Yes-nine-2dr-MK1-ESCORT-s-RS-Rally_W0QQitemZ280409895924QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAuto mobiles_UK?xxxx=item4149bb73f4
That's some job lot!
someone will pay big & get them... some look ok, but a couple are right sheds.. i'm guessing they are french by the yellow driving lamps
but a couple are right sheds..
I'm guessing that's why he is selling as a job lot - thinks he will get more money that way, as they are probably worth very little individually!!
Will probably come over to this side of the water though and be sold again for twice as much!!!!lol
someone will buy then they will be listed indvidually <sp?>
Yeah, some look French. As said though, easy conversion to RHD. The guy's mad selling them all as one lot. I'd list them all seperately. More money to be made and you know for a fact you will get buyers as they're all 2 doors, unlike at present. lol
auzzy2000
19-10-09, 09:41 PM
thats mental. i sold a mk 1 last year who was trying to get a car for each month of the year.he was on number 7 with mine
thats mental. i sold a mk 1 last year who was trying to get a car for each month of the year.he was on number 7 with mine
he is a nutter lol
Yeah, some look French. As said though, easy conversion to RHD. The guy's mad selling them all as one lot. I'd list them all seperately. More money to be made and you know for a fact you will get buyers as they're all 2 doors, unlike at present. lol
Couple of them look like pears, but some of them do actually look alright, so chances are you'd get a little out of the shoddy ones (thinking low hundreds here for some of them lol) but the decent ones will sell very well being mk2 escorts.
Couple of them look like pears, but some of them do actually look alright, so chances are you'd get a little out of the shoddy ones (thinking low hundreds here for some of them lol) but the decent ones will sell very well being mk1 escorts.
Edited :)
I bet there split up by that dude, wouldnt suprise me if even after 10 attempts of selling them as a complete set he cant shift them.
t45_ste
19-10-09, 09:52 PM
Couple of them look like pears, but some of them do actually look alright, so chances are you'd get a little out of the shoddy ones (thinking low hundreds here for some of them lol) but the decent ones will sell very well being mk2 escorts.
:confused: :p lol
Markd89
19-10-09, 09:55 PM
not worth that money,
for a pair of wings you are talking £300 each 5 of the cars need them
Have to re register them in the uk which isnt cheap
Convert them to RHD if they are used for rallying
Theres no pictures of the underneath...
They have been relisted 3 times already and no one has bought them
They will be standard 1100 1300 Gl you can buy a basic mk1 2 door with a 1100 in it for around £2500
Not worth it even to break them
meh mk 2, mk 1, all too expensive for standard frauds lol
t45_ste
19-10-09, 10:01 PM
meh mk 2, mk 1, all too expensive for standard frauds lol
lol
rwaggers
19-10-09, 10:10 PM
thats fooking carzy . and cheep
twistysnovagte
19-10-09, 10:19 PM
scrap the lot of them lol
cost you more than the asking price to get them all repaired, registered etc
id give him 5k tops for the lot,seeing as there all base spec models
Southie
19-10-09, 10:22 PM
**** yes i want that lot
Buy them and cut them all up to make a limo ey lol
lol @ the mk1 Escort hate. OSF will always demand more than VX's. Deal with it and embrace the basis of some fine machines!
They do look WA|\|K with the square headlights however!
*Rushs out to buy a barn, 9 Landys, 9 trailers & 9 mates....*
Fook me what id give to have all them!!!
Who ever buys that lot will make a fooking killing breaking them for spares, prepping the shells & then selling the shells on!
EDIT: Fook id take both the other items hes selling aswell!!! Anyone lend me about £50k??
GRUNT 16V
19-10-09, 10:44 PM
wtf
The chap runs Nurburg trips, makes sense now!!
I bet hes bought them all purely as an investment...by cheap abroad whilst your over there, get em back to the UK & re-sell them for 3 times the price.
Cant fault him at all really, ive done the same just not with cars lol
auzzy-b
19-10-09, 10:50 PM
The Bagga!!lol but why sell as a whole lot, who wants 9 escorts:confused: profitable i know but 9!! and there not even mk2's.. they look way better:)
do you lot not realise how much a rally prepped mk1 shell would sell for
Ofc they dont burgo. They know **** all remember!
do you lot not realise how much a rally prepped mk1 shell would sell for
Nobody on here obviously does Luke!! Two of them *could* make back the initial £23k if done to a good standard.
auzzy-b
19-10-09, 10:58 PM
do you lot not realise how much a rally prepped mk1 shell would sell for
Errrrrr.... 1 monkeylol
Nobody on here obviously does Luke!! Two of them *could* make back the initial £23k if done to a good standard.
Don't include me lol. I'm fully aware of the potential. :thumb:
Don't include me lol. I'm fully aware of the potential. :thumb:
Ay it! The profit margin on them, to the right person, is immense TBH!
Ive passed the number onto a guy i know who is ALWAYS on the look for Mk1 & Mk2 Escort shells, i hope to funk he buys all them up :) ill soon have one off him!!
Ofc they dont burgo. They know **** all remember!
no its only you who knows **** all
fair enough you will need to pay out but at the end of the day theres easily potential to double your money
Bobminda
19-10-09, 11:23 PM
On a quite Essex night you can hear the Fords rust......
That is all
On a quite Essex night you can hear the Fords rust......
That is all
Before I went to Essex for a week my car was alright, after spending a week by the sea, it was a shell of its former self.
Ba dum tish.
Crap joke.
I'll get me coat.
Bobminda
19-10-09, 11:32 PM
Before I went to Essex for a week my car was alright, after spending a week by the sea, it was a shell of its former self.
Ba dum tish.
Crap joke.
I'll get me coat.
The door is thata way
made me smile though:thumb:
brainsnova
20-10-09, 12:17 AM
id offer 15k meh
Bobminda
20-10-09, 12:19 AM
id offer 15k meh
Id offer 15k of your money as well tbh:)
lmao at people saying not worth that, anyone want to club together £2k each and then numbers in a hat and draw which shell you get? can buy more than one if you want!
i was actually gonna buy a mk1 2 door last week. had a load of shell strengthening done already plus other trick bits. basically wanted a respray and an engine. was only 2k
They do look WA|\|K with the square headlights however!
FYI the rarest model of Mk1 also came with square lights (the Twin Cam) although when it was rallied most converted over to round lights as the squares where about as good as a wet candle :roll:
out of all that lot the Blue '68 car (you can tell its an early car by the bonnet release in the grille) would do me!
do you lot not realise how much a rally prepped mk1 shell would sell for
But the money you have to spend to prep one properly would soon diminish any profit margins!!!lol
But the money you have to spend to prep one properly would soon diminish any profit margins!!!lolnot at all. if you can do all the work yourself then i recon 2-3k will get the shell prepped
hybridturbo
20-10-09, 10:17 AM
He's been offered £20k on another forum and hasnt sold them yet :d
FYI the rarest model of Mk1 also came with square lights (the Twin Cam) although when it was rallied most converted over to round lights as the squares where about as good as a wet candle :roll:
out of all that lot the Blue '68 car (you can tell its an early car by the bonnet release in the grille) would do me!
I knew that about the twin cam. Still doesn't look half as good as the round Sport? head lamps though IMO.
rallycraig
20-10-09, 07:49 PM
I know a preparation company that would rebuild each one of them into group 4 bda monsters and they would sell for between £70,000 & £100,000 each. They have a waiting list for built cars and have suplied people like jimmy mcrae, higgins, waldegard etc. so £23k for 9 cars, a year or so of work and a return of around £800,000 aint a bad little earner!!
craig green
20-10-09, 07:53 PM
Will probably come over to Ireland though and be sold again for twice as much!!!!lol
BINGO!
All I can say is though. OMG :eek:
MattBrown
20-10-09, 08:02 PM
If I win the lotto, ill rip his hand off!
Well, ill still haggle lol
If I win, burgo, ill give you one:thumb:
Also, converting them to RHD is pish, and i know of atleast 30 logbooks knocking around with no shells!
Afew friends have mexico logbooks aswell!
Markd89
21-10-09, 11:54 AM
Do the math and work it out, it is not worth it.
I've had more mk1 and mk2 escorts through my hands than people have hot dinners
Im also suprised no irish have snapped them up ( or " borrowed " them )
They are poverty spec 1.3 escorts, the engine are worth £50 i have 4 in my backgarden, they all need mass of welding by the looks of things, thres nothing on them atall.
Sure you can put £10k towards one and have a nice one but for all the time and effort you wont even make a few hundread on them especially with the ammount of money he wants
The only people who will buy them will be a rally specialst team who alreayd has all the gear to convert everything.
To register one in the uk it cost £1800 that was with new vin plates all legal rregistration costs etc if you do the math properly you could actually lose money.
Edit - MattBrown, if you know people with 30+ logbooks how come they dont sell them at the peak rate of £1500 each logbook.
I have 4 but i'm waiting until march to sell them
next cars to watch and buy if you can get one ( mk1 fiesta's )
They will be doing silly money in 3 years
next cars to watch and buy if you can get one ( mk1 fiesta's )They will be doing silly money in 3 years
Good news for my mates Vulcan Engineering 1750 crossflow then, and also me, been hanging on to a mk1 xr2 log book for ages now, comes with an awesome plate too. Sold my last V5 for only £150. As you say, they should bring much more! Can still pick the cars up for buttons too.
That would also be good news for my mate, 3 of them sat in his barn lol
Tidy Max
21-10-09, 12:20 PM
Do the math and work it out, it is not worth it.
I've had more mk1 and mk2 escorts through my hands than people have hot dinners
Im also suprised no irish have snapped them up ( or " borrowed " them )
They are poverty spec 1.3 escorts, the engine are worth £50 i have 4 in my backgarden, they all need mass of welding by the looks of things, thres nothing on them atall.
Sure you can put £10k towards one and have a nice one but for all the time and effort you wont even make a few hundread on them especially with the ammount of money he wants
The only people who will buy them will be a rally specialst team who alreayd has all the gear to convert everything.
To register one in the uk it cost £1800 that was with new vin plates all legal rregistration costs etc if you do the math properly you could actually lose money.
Edit - MattBrown, if you know people with 30+ logbooks how come they dont sell them at the peak rate of £1500 each logbook.
I have 4 but i'm waiting until march to sell them
next cars to watch and buy if you can get one ( mk1 fiesta's )
They will be doing silly money in 3 years
maths mate, its maths, nothing personal, Americanisms just really do my head in, the spell and grammar checker would have picked it up but it can only be set to English (US) i wont get started on that,
anyway, id love a mk1 escort!!! big willy style! but i know nothing about them, do people recon they will sell?? or will he just end up relisting them?
Markd89
21-10-09, 02:07 PM
They will end up relisted
They have been relisted 3 maybe 4 times already
Tidy Max
21-10-09, 02:43 PM
whats a mexico logbook??
if thats the case why wouldnt he have just sold them to the guy who offered 20k! he should just prep them himself, it seems the way to go
Mike B GTE
21-10-09, 02:58 PM
not one of them looks like its worth more than £500!! £20K??? beat it!
they will be re-listed time and time again, surely nobody is stupid enough to pay £20K+ for nine crusty old Fords?
maybe if any of them had been worth saving, i.e been RS's then i could perhaps see the attraction.
MattBrown
21-10-09, 03:16 PM
whats a mexico logbook??
if thats the case why wouldnt he have just sold them to the guy who offered 20k! he should just prep them himself, it seems the way to go
Mexico is a model of mk1 escort! Well sort after if you have a genuine type49 shell!
Also, why sell the logbooks?
Are they making anymore of them??
rallycraig
21-10-09, 03:17 PM
maybe if any of them had been worth saving, i.e been RS's then i could perhaps see the attraction.
The ad says most of them are 'gcat' shells, so they are strengthened as per rs/mexico spec.
MattBrown
21-10-09, 03:21 PM
The ad says most of them are 'gcat' shells, so they are strengthened as per rs/mexico spec.
TBH you can get a group A shell built for £10k, so theres no point buying these, unless you have 9 sets of rhd stuff, 9 logbooks, and will take the risk of a rimming for ringing 9 cars!
Mike B GTE
21-10-09, 04:18 PM
The ad says most of them are 'gcat' shells, so they are strengthened as per rs/mexico spec.
doesnt make any of them any more desirable, especially in the condition they are in.
Southie
21-10-09, 04:35 PM
I wish I had some spare cash as this is quite nice CLICKY (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ford-Escort-MK1_W0QQitemZ260494125826QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomo biles_UK?hash=item3ca6a8eb02) :d
On the other hand this is more me. CLICKY (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ford-escort-mk1-bubble-arch-rs2000-replica-2-0-pinto_W0QQitemZ160369717314QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAuto mobiles_UK?hash=item2556c7b042)
rallycraig
21-10-09, 05:01 PM
if i had the money spare, i would snap them up to go with my other 2. don't matter if they have scabby wings etc. They will ONLY go up in value.
rallycraig
21-10-09, 05:01 PM
TBH you can get a group A shell built for £10k, so theres no point buying these, unless you have 9 sets of rhd stuff, 9 logbooks, and will take the risk of a rimming for ringing 9 cars!
Why would you want to convert them to rhd??? most rally cars are lhd anyway!!!
Also, why sell the logbooks???
So you can get any old 3 door shell, give it a Mexico book, VIN & plates an hey presto, you have a fake yet genuine Mexico shell!!
Same as SR logbook/VIN for S1400 cars & GSi logbooks/VIN for S1600. I got £100 for mine :)
Markd89
21-10-09, 06:43 PM
So you can get any old 3 door shell, give it a Mexico book, VIN & plates an hey presto, you have a fake yet genuine Mexico shell!!
Same as SR logbook/VIN for S1400 cars & GSi logbooks/VIN for S1600. I got £100 for mine :)
mike b, matt & yourself seem to be the only people making sense :thumb:
They are not worth 23k
Edit - it doesnt matter about the wings ? at £300+ each i think it does.
novaboyopr
21-10-09, 06:45 PM
when i picked up my engine, these were all on a transporter in the place my mate offered to buy one. we asked where they came from he said bulgaria most of them are ****ed. lol about 2 were in good nick,
mike b, matt & yourself seem to be the only people making sense :thumb:
They are not worth 23k
Edit - it doesnt matter about the wings ? at £300+ each i think it does.
lol cheers mate
There not worth £23k in that state no BUT regardless of that IMO its still a bargain for the potential return you could quite easily make!!!
The chap i passed the auction number onto offered him £20k an pick up the next day, seller declined lol
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