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Escort Mk1 RS Continumod, serial numbers carry on from the last RS that Ford produced. Still a good looking car, the 2.1 litre four is a beast, with 300bhp!
That is quite a looker.
It’s great idea. But i can’t imagine how rich I’d have to be to spend £300,000 on a car
Save £150k and get an MST. Won't have a Ford badge on it though... 😉
https://mst-cars.com/mk1-fast-road-touring#
I'd have their Mk 2 Evo-X
https://dir.mst-cars.com/assets/5b579bc1-3b52-47e6-84ea-1fd149df9e22?format=webp&width=2000
There’s a ‘new’ RS200 coming from them as well, that won’t be cheap either!
Brilliant fun would love to have a drive in that but think I'd get bored pretty soon, much rather spend the next 15yrs or so frittering my money away by buying a different entirely unsuitable car every 6 months...
As a teen my friend bought an Escort in Borneo because he could not afford a Toyota Celica/Levin. He got it cheap because nobody wanted it as European/British parts were difficult to come by. Still is. Instead, he modified it with a Totoya 4A-GE 1.6 engine. It was a brilliant drive but everyone was laughing at him because other boy racers were driving Toyota Celica/Levin AE86.
£300k for a ford escort?? I know inflation has been nuts but seriously?
If I had that much money to spend on a restomod, it would be the Alfaholocs 290R. But I never will so good luck to them.
Did either of you read the article? They’re limited edition custom built cars from the ground up, they aren’t ‘restomods’, there are no original parts from Ford in them, and they aren’t built by Ford, but they do have chassis numbers that continue from the last RS Mk1’s. Which is why they’re ‘Continumods’. Yes they’re expensive, but when you can have a 2.1ltr 4-cylinder that revs to 10k and produces nearly 300bhp, and all the other stuff that goes into it, they justify the cost - try putting one together from scratch. The shell alone has been completely re-engineered for stiffness, for example.
If you want a cheaper one, you can buy new body shells, and build one from scratch, but it’ll never match one of these for quality.
I did read the article. I find it hard to believe most of these won’t end up in a climate controlled “barn” sat in a line of amazing cars between a beautifully restored series 1 Landrover and Ferrari F40. Kept that way it might even appreciate in value
I really not a car person so i did a bit of googling. A 235 bmw, which is presumably much heavier, is £50,000 and also 300hp. I know I’m missing the point but the £250,000 difference in price is a really serious yacht or 2 really serious motor homes or even a flat or chalet some where nice.
13s and no bubble arches for me - I'd probably get RetroPower to build one a bit like Gordon Murray's.
A 235 bmw, which is presumably much heavier, is £50,000 and also 300hp.
Exactly – a BMW235i is pretty much exactly twice the weight of the Escort.
Boreham Motorworks is pursuing a target weight of just 800kg for the Escort Mk1 RS Continumod. This would result in a power-to-weight ratio comparable to a supercar.
I can't begin to imagine how much fun this car could be 🙂
Meanwhile, in France,
I'll hold out for the £300k restomod Mk1 Transit van.
I'd love one of those, sadly don't have 300,000 spare 🙁
And WTF does "turbo" mean when applied to an electric car? Is that the same as the turbo buttons on a 386 PC?
I really not a car person so i did a bit of googling. A 235 bmw, which is presumably much heavier, is £50,000 and also 300hp. I know I’m missing the point but the £250,000 difference in price is a really serious yacht or 2 really serious motor homes or even a flat or chalet some where nice.
A motorhome and a rep-mobile? You are missing the point. 😀
I'm well past the days of dreaming about buying something like this, but they are great to look at, and presumably if I could dream of frittering £100s of thousand on something like this or the MST (or various Alfaholics) then I'd already be able to afford the motorhome if I really wanted one. Anyway, for nostalgia's sake I'd want a 'Mexico' with a bog standard 1.3l engine, basic interior, skinny wheels and hand painted in Dulux' best, just like my mate Hugh had in 1984!
Anyway, for nostalgia’s sake I’d want a ‘Mexico’ with a bog standard 1.3l engine, basic interior, skinny wheels and hand painted in Dulux’ best, just like my mate Hugh had in 1984!
When I was a teenager, some kid had a Mini painted up in the Martini colours. To my teenage mind, it was a thing of absolute beauty.
And why oh why on 15’s and not 13’s
Presumably to fit some brakes underneath that will stop the thing.
I love stuff like this, yes I'd love, no I'd never be in the position to buy anything remotely like it.
Funnily enough, I've just won a few B class rallies with this...I can't quite stretch to the real thing!
I’d have their Mk 2 Evo-X
Man alive thats fantastic. Love it!
For £300k I’d want more than cart springs and a 4 speed box. The bigger 2.1 engine sounds amusing.
Like jimw I’d be knocking on Alfaholic’s door.
There’s a ‘new’ RS200 coming
After the launch of the new Capri, I’m not holding my breath.
I still remember the ford catalogues my grandad had in the early 70's and looking at the RS2000 and Mexico and thinking they were the best cars in the world! Or make the Capri was better still ? Anyway my grandad bought the Ford Pop in a rather less than eye catching mustardy brown with a black vinyl roof. Don't think it had more than a few thousand miles on it when he died in the late 80's.
I'd love to be sat back there on a black vinyl sofa in Wythenshawe with the hiss of the gas fire in the background when looking through a car catalogue could keep me happily entertained for hours
+1 for that Renault!
I drove a MKII G4 with something over 220bhp on slicks way back when. Whilst an interesting experience it's not one I want to repeat with reflexes, neck muscles, eyesight, and strength that haven't improved over the last 40 years. Flat out with warm tyres, engine and brakes and on a road with nothing coming coming the other way they were ace. But... the rest of the time the engine was irritatingly cammy, noisy, clunky, the steering was heavy, the brakes iffy, the ride dreadful. If you're going to rally it great, but anywhere other than on a special stage I just don't see the point, and MST, Millington etc do that so much better. I'll keep the Zoe thanks.
OP and I are both disappointed today.
Not sure about the head lights.
My first car was a 1300 sport mk1 escort.
Like most fords from that era it could be accessed using a lolly pop stick or something similar. Mine was stolen from my works carpark. The police found it the same day and called me telling me to come and collect it. The robbers had taken the front seats out and left it at the end of an un adopted road on the edge town. The police didn't tell me about the missing seats so when my dad dropped me off and left, I said the policeman, there's no seats how am I going to drive it away? He looked around and picked an empty beer crate, there you go sit on that, was his words.
I sold it not long after that. £600. Oh I wished I'd hung on to it