Ford Escort Mk1

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Back to the Dustbin - Mid 2013 IIRC.
Al decided that he really wanted a Twin Cam 160mph gauge cluster, so he bought a bracket and after much hunting about he obtained a rare Twin Cam 6-dial 160MPH...

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Mid 2013 I found myself made redundant from my engineering role.
I’d been noticing that our workload had been slowing down through the first half of 2013, and then in June my boss advised...

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2013 rolls around.
The rust repairs, chassis and body mods are complete and so Al and I start enquiring at the local panel shops as to if they’d be interested in painting it.
All said...

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Now you’re probably wondering what’s going on with the engine…? This was actually the first thing that Al got stuck into.
An engine conversion to a Zetec to Duratec or (ugh) Pinto...

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Al had been busy during all the repairs and modifications – assisting me in the shed or organizing jobs to be done and ordering parts.
He decided that after getting a less than satisfactory...

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The rear suspension also received attention.
A ‘Twin Cam’ trailing arm kit was ordered from Burton Power, and I welded the body and banjo mounts into place after careful measuring....

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Somewhere near the end of the rust repairs, Al got a significant pay rise from his work - so of course up went his disposable income…
The replacement of the front guards to Mexico items triggered...

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The firewall was going to be a challenge as there wasn’t much left in the middle so I didn’t have any real guide of where it went – only a vague idea.
Al, his Dad and I went to the Small Ford Sunday...

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The blaster did a great job blasting everywhere and giving it a coat of etch primer (in hindsight Epoxy would have been better), but he left the roof, bonnet and boot for us to strip the paint from ourselves...

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Nah Brad - it was only 2 years...

I'm probably going to disappoint everyone, as it hasn't ended up with bubble arches, roll cage and a 2.7 Warrior......

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On the 18^th of October 2011, with the Dustbin in my shed we did the logical thing and pulled the doors off first.
Followed by the bonnet and boot.



This allowed us better...

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Way back cira ’96 at the age of 16, my mate Alex (Al) bought his first car – a pov-pack ‘L’ Pepper Red 2-door Mk1 Escort.
It was already well worn at the time, yet he learnt...

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https://www.twitch.tv/superstreamau

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Christ... You're asking me to recall details of an article I read 15 odd years ago?!
OK, I'll try...

Melling was asked by then TVR boss Peter Wheeler to design the Speed 6 engine as...

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I read an interview with Al about that 15 years ago - he's obviously never gotten over it...

Fantastic page - I needed something to read....