A truly fantastic restoration Steve. The colour choice is perfect and the metal work on the engine is awe inspiring and I hope driving it gives you and yours many years of pleasure 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻
Just amazing, what a talent with utter dedication to detail. I’m in complete awe of your abilities. The video was perfect with excellent music to accompany it. Thank you.
A few years ago I was the owner of an exactly ford escort, color and all that restored with a difference Left hand wheel. I have followed your work of restoration! Sincerely my congratulations
Steve you really have done an incredible masterpiece there. The areas you don’t usually see look as good as the areas you do see! The car is stunning and the detail is wonderful (including the petrol cap, rocker cover) but I guess this and more has already been said. Enjoy your beautiful piece of art as others will! I used to do a little car restorations myself but I can honestly say mine might look nice but it is not until you get-right into the restoration do you see the quality of work and parts used!!!
Fabulous car Steve ,colour and wheel combination is perfect,you are a true craftsman.....also the music was awesome.thanks for sharing,cheers from Australia
What an amazing car.i found this video inspiring when I was building my mk1 escort,especially the attention to detail.the only thing better than Maltese escorts is the Maltese people,I cant wait to go back one day.
Very nice....my brother and I both built 1974 Escort 1300Xl's back in 79/80. Mine was an estate and I fitted all Mexico running gear. Bruv went to 2.0 Pinto. We were still teenagers back then. I kept mine until 1996 ....with hindsight I should have kept it.
Wow. Not only a car restoration but a work of art. In England in the 70's these were popular but austere in appearance this has it's austerity but it looks like it will rip your head off. Extreme effort = Fast moving artwork. Well done.
My favourite car of all time. Forget your Ferraris or other exotica. Lottery win purchase number 1 is a mint 1600GT (Mexico), followed by 1300E and possibly a RS1600.
this is a very beautiful and bad ass hell of a sick car just as the German made ford cortinas,this is a British made ford that was built for the Caribbean, Australian,European,Asian and African markets this car rite here is priceless really appreciate every piece of this video very much
I owned both models. The mark 2 was the pits It didnt even have recaro seats on the model I bought and it was stolen by so called joy riders. So I got rid of it and bought a mk 1 Golf GTI which I loved to bits I even loved the Golf more than my ex fiance.
I bought an escort RS200 in 1974 which I had for 6 happy years. I sold it in1980 and bought a mk 2.that was the worst decision of my life apart from getting engaged to my ex fiance.But nothing is perfect.
the car looks amazing and that colour is totally outstanding. I did fast forward through a lot of this clip, i think some video fottage would have been a great addition, rather than photos and effects.
Maravilloso! Fantástico! Único en su clase y único es su género, ha quedado espectacular, has hecho revivir a todo un clásico del motor, has conseguido que una leyenda de Ford, como el Scort, haya resucitado, y no haya acabado en el desguace, gracias por hacer cosas así, no hay que reciclar jamás, hay que restaurar siempre, reciclar es la trampa, que nos han puesto los lobbys ecologístas, no recicles nunca, restaura reutiliza, pero no recicles.
A persons very first full restoration can be very hard work, time consuming, and labor intensive but very rewarding once completed... but their are lots of projects that become to much work they get abandoned, stay motivated & focused on the end of the project for completion, but remember its not just the work its the cost of parts and finding those parts can be a hard job if your looking for perfect new-ish ones.
passed my test at the age of 18 (1989), the car i wanted was a escort mk1/2 ended up with mk1 950cc fiesta, driven fords ever since now driving mk7 fiesta zetec s but still would love to own mk 1/2 escort. gorgeous car
In addition to the restoration work! ... The Video is fabulous, Music well chosen "Vangelis" I believe .. My Congratulations for the work of Audio and Video
YOUR SO LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO ENJOY A MK:1 RESTORATION PRO~JECT... premises, shell, etc... a very jealous fan of your labour of love... ALSO IN AWE..!!! JUST - BOSS - PAL
I think they should have stopped designing cars after this Escort. Just can't beat it. Such a clean, beautiful design. And I love it in that colour and with the minilite wheels. Just perfect...
Great video, a pleasure to see that much effort put in to a lovely car, well done on restoring her to that standard, she looked beautiful, loved the body colour, I spotted a Mk3 Cortina in the final show pics, what country are you in ?, as the shell you started with looked to be rust free. (don't you ever get rain!!) liked the music choice to very enjoyable to watch.
i have always been a v8 mustang guy...but i wish ford brought those mk1s over to the us...i will bring 1 over 1 day. and put a eco boost inline 4 with 800+ hp to kill all the stupid Hondas around here..
MK I Escorts are my favourite ever car, I used to own one 30 years ago and miss it dearly, I have no understanding on the way some people argue over big and heavy cars with a V8 power unit compared to small and light cars with a less powerful power unit, power to weight ratios equal out if you get the right combination so you can effectively reach the same speeds so it doesn't seem to be a speed issue, it seems more like a "my engine is louder than your engine" issue, the smaller lighter cars are just nippier and corner better and have a better economical fuel consumption which makes it more affordable in countries like the U.K. where we have expensive fuel prices as compared to the U.S.A. It also makes it good fun when you can throw your car around more, Escorts make for good rally cars which I used to do in my old 1972 Escort, if you should realise your dream (and I hope one day you will) then I hope you will have many years of non-stop fun driving your own MK I.
I wish my mk1's had as little rust as that one!!! 😁 That's the advantage of the Maltese climate, very dry and dusty (I cycled across Malta and Gozo many years ago) Because they're so light a standard mk1 with a 1600 engine will beat any modern 2.0i away from the lights... and top out about 200km/h, if you have a big enough radiator to stop it overheating!!! Many a time driving up the M1/M6 in summer with the heater full blast and the windows open to rid the excess engine heat!!
