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(Message started by: Highlander on Oct 6th, 2011, 1:49pm)
Title: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Highlander on Oct 6th, 2011, 1:49pm
Mk1 Escorts are pretty thin on the ground now, I said I'd post this on a few Ford Forums in case anyone sees anything

http://www.classicfordmag.co.uk/2011/10/03/stolen-mk1-escort/
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by martin_rowe on Oct 6th, 2011, 2:00pm
sorry, but if it was offered to me, I'd have it, allready looks like someone has pinched the engine.
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Mike H on Oct 6th, 2011, 3:53pm
Cripes, either someone is desperate for a Mk 1 body shell (stolen to order) or a scrappie's got it now  :(
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Highlander on Oct 6th, 2011, 4:02pm
I very much doubt it was stolen for scrap ;)
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by martin_rowe on Oct 6th, 2011, 4:30pm
Only kidding, I would have been gutted ifit was mine, MK1's fetch a fortune now, good streight body shell will fetch 1000s, they are very sought after, and wouldnt take more than a few mins to change vin number.
Stolen to order and allready cloned I should think.
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Mike H on Oct 6th, 2011, 6:30pm
I first learned to drive in a Mk 1 1300. Feeble power though.
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Highlander on Oct 6th, 2011, 7:17pm
That one had a 270bhp turbo cosworth
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by gozz on Oct 7th, 2011, 8:47am
Does anyone remember the true Mk1 Escort of the fifties,it was a basic 100E estate,the more upmarket one with a plank of wood fixed to the side was called the Squire.
Never could understand why Ford's second Escort became known as the Mk1  ::)
                                                   GOZZ.
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Scorpio_Mike on Oct 7th, 2011, 9:09am

on 10/07/11 at 08:47:58, gozz wrote:
Does anyone remember the true Mk1 Escort of the fifties,it was a basic 100E estate,the more upmarket one with a plank of wood fixed to the side was called the Squire.
Never could understand why Ford's second Escort became known as the Mk1  ::)
                                                   GOZZ.


Bit before my time GOZZ... ;D
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Tenfut on Oct 7th, 2011, 10:20am

on 10/07/11 at 08:47:58, gozz wrote:
Does anyone remember the true Mk1 Escort of the fifties,it was a basic 100E estate,the more upmarket one with a plank of wood fixed to the side was called the Squire.
Never could understand why Ford's second Escort became known as the Mk1  ::)
                                                   GOZZ.


I remember that one but seem to think it was "Esquire" with an "E"

Tony
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by gozz on Oct 7th, 2011, 5:10pm
No Tony,it was for the country squire (or his woman or dog),hence the wood,I reckon you're confusing it with the gentleman's magazine
of the time,the one full of pretty ladies  8).
                       GOZZ.
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Simmo on Oct 8th, 2011, 7:40am
Details Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Squire). :D
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Mike H on Oct 8th, 2011, 12:17pm
Ahh!!
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Tenfut on Oct 8th, 2011, 1:53pm

on 10/07/11 at 10:20:40, Tenfut wrote:
I remember that one but seem to think it was "Esquire" with an "E"

Tony


I stand corrected :D :D
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by lesterlad aka Rodders on Oct 8th, 2011, 8:12pm

on 10/07/11 at 17:10:45, gozz wrote:
No Tony,it was for the country squire (or his woman or dog),hence the wood,I reckon you're confusing it with the gentleman's magazine
of the time,the one full of pretty ladies  8).
                       GOZZ.


Blimey that magazine brings back mammaries memories  
;D
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by Andycan on Oct 8th, 2011, 9:30pm
Gozz if I remember correctly the original escort was copied as I had a thames estate which was exactly the same as the excort and I am sure there was another car maker that made a copy. I wonder if it was for this reason that the original escort was not classed as the mk 1? Was the old prefect the same as well?
Title: Re: Stolen MK1 Escort
Post by gozz on Oct 8th, 2011, 9:59pm
Andy.
The name Thames was only used on Ford commercials,eg the 300E van on which the Squire and Escort were based.The last Prefect was a 100E shell with the then new OHV engine as fitted to the new Anglia with slanty back window,and was designated 107E.Maybe your estate was a van conversion.
                                                  GOZZ.


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