Ford Escort MK1, Crash repairs. Car Restoration. 

Excellent workmanship and fabrication Dave 😃😃😃😃

Fantastic job again Dave. Lick of filler isn’t a bad thing mate. Well done sir

great work dave.a few quid saved there

A little ‘English wheel’ would be useful in that fabulous work shop of yours!!!❤

Morning Dave. Just caught up with this one 👍🏻 Lot of work on the door but it’s has come out really nicely 😀

I'm lking the repairs Dave, well done. 👍

Another challenge executed, nice one Dave 👍

I liked the way you built the replacement subframe on the manta, 👍

You have gained a new subscriber today! Just going back and forth and watching all your Escort Videos :)

your right there mate,my motto is save all tin,and for the younguns its all valuable practice making templates,shaping and butt welding,the door will look like new at the end pal,it wont take a lot of shallow filler to make it good,again dave a valuable hour of experience from you for the newbies.

Brilliant.Thumbs up. Thanks mate.

great job done

Hi dave just a tip for all your external body panels that need filler firs skim them with fiber fill as filler is not waterproof love the work keep it up

nice job dave great work as always (bob)

Good work dave put some chopped fibre glass filler on before any filler as its not porous like filler you may already know but just thought I would mention keep up the good work british fitz

Great work dave 👍

Dave,just got to the end of your vid;i only watch about six different channels on you tube & your,s is one of them.(because it,s good). Cheers mate.

Just subscribed to the channel, and I have been catching up on your content. Good save on the door. I like to see cars being repaired rather than having full on concours restorations, using 1000's of pounds of new panels to do so. The reason the wing has a less defined swage line than the doors and rear 1/4s is that it is a circa 1980s pattern panel. they were renowned for it.

New subscriber ✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 keep it up

Top job 👏

Good effort :)

I've been wrenching on cars since 1983, and I learn from every one of your videos. I've only ever begrudgingly done body work, but I'm about to straighten out and paint my 1998 GMC Safari so I'm trying to get as much knowledge as possible. Your stitch welding skills are about the best I've seen, I'll be re watching those segments over and over.

Great work as always Dave, nice presentation too. Thanks for the effort videoing it.

Well done again Dave, (quite a tedious repair working to recreate the swage line and beautifully done sir!) in addition, being able to avoid spending an additional £250 on a replacement skin is a great result. (I always think that just fitting new heritage panels to any old classic is an obvious time - saving option but also a big cop-out if the old car just ends up as mainly brand new ha ha!) Big respect and thanks. 👍

Well done dave on. Subscription numbers great video again

Love watching your series on the Mk1 Escort. My first car was a 1972 1.1L which I bought for £100 when I was 17. Still dream of owning a mk1 RS2000 but not many of those around in Australia now :) Keep up the great work. I’m learning lots from following your videos. The way you tackle each problem is interesting and inspiring.

Great job again Dave. Just reading some of the other comments, This is my (not necessarily correct!) take on fibre loaded filler. There is a common technique that I see used by the crash repairers where the welded joint is left deliberately low, then skimmed with fibre glass filler before finishing with ordinary filler. The only reason I can see that this is a better job is that it takes care of any pin-holes in the welds, which are the only things susceptible to moisture problems. Your welds are perfect as far as I can see and will not have any pin holes. Fibre glass filler will give you a worse end result because it does not feather out and always leaves the repair high. When it comes time for paint, just strip off all the weld through back to clean bare steel, sand it to at least an 80 grit scratch, apply the skim of filler, work it to shape and epoxy prime any bare metal left. Job's a good 'un.

Dave, congratulations on reaching 2000 subscribers, though given the quality of your work and your videos I can't understand why it's not 200K! Another brilliant video, as you say when you have nothing to loose and no fear of failure, it's amazing what you can achieve with fairly simple tools. Have you seen that bending device that Fitzee uses, comprising 3 different sized tubes welded together with a small sheet sized gap between them for putting a curve in a repair panel. You could do with a scaled down version about a foot long with a tab welded on the bottom to fit into your vice. Though you made a pretty good impression bedding over your knee. Really excellent work....... I bet you were pretty impressed too! Hope the 100E auction makes really strong money to help finance further projects, whoever wins that one will have one superb car that will give another 50 years of fun and the knowledge that it was expertly built. I really could have watched those door repairs in real time and was disappointed when the video was sped up and bits were skipped....but understand not all of your viewers are as sad as I am.

When skinning a door (or making a skin repair) always bed the skin onto the frame with a bit of body sealer (sikaflex / tiger seal etc) this helps keep water from getting between the various layers and rotting from the inside out. You were also right about the weld through primer, but it was still a decent repair 👍🏻

great well done AAA+++

Nice job I have a question did the welding mask come with the torch/light or is it one you have attached.

Well done Dave brilliant results just shows what you can do when you try love the contents of your videos and MK1 escorts 👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️

Top job Dave 👍

Been binge watching your repairs, your mig welding results are excellent. Yourchannel is sure to bring more subscribers Dave. Thanks for sharing your skills!

Lovely dovely

Lovely job dave 👍

Hi Dave, Delighted to hear you have hit 2k subscribers and are making and few quid for your effort. I have been following your channel for a good while now. Your videos are great and I always learn something. Thanks for taking the time to make such brilliant content. Top man!

That's a steep driveway bet it's a nightmare in winter

Great job Dave another step closer 👍👍 my mk2 in the pic bare shell at the moment 👍

The best thing about giving it a go with the old door is that had you spent the 250 quid on the skin, theres no guarantee the fitment would be perfect anyway. I think you acted wisely👍

Did you not consider lead loading instead

£250 to spend elsewhere Dave ,👍

YOU MAKE IT LOOK SO HARD, WHY NOT JUST USE ON PEICE. YOU CAN BEND STEEL YOU KNOW.