We Failed !! - Mk1 Ford Escort RS2000 restoration 

Absolutely not failures. Your so thorough with the work you do and the quality of the end results speak for themselves. You stop and do what needs doing where others might decide to skip those areas or bodge them. You never do that.

R-TECH supply some good kit and their customer support is second to none. Nice to see the escort coming along

I don't think it was a failure, Steve. You have already saved so many automobiles from being scrapped, you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. I can't wait to see the next video from the escort! Keep it up! Ich glaube nicht, dass es ein Misserfolg war, Steve. Sie haben schon so viele Autos vor der Verschrottung gerettet, da sollten Sie nicht so streng mit sich selbst sein. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, das nächste Video vom Escort zu sehen! Weiter so!

Great work on the rs2000 rot box car😮😳 I can't wait to see the completed rebuild of this 👍

Good man Steve. Better to have found it now. Regards from Ireland

When Steve has finished, this car will be structurally sound, and SAFE , no half measures here, and on Saturday Ryan blags the Plasma Cutter !!!! money wisely spent by the client, you are only going to do it once

The work you do is incredible. You are saving our history for future generations. My dad had a 4.2 v6 E type when I was a child in the 70's. If I ever could find that exact car again and it needed restoring. I would be coming to you. Keep up the great work. :)

well done steve for deciding to do the job properly, but what a disaster it looked ok, but hey these things happen at least its nearly all good metal now...

I've 2 of these repaired this year with a third coming in next week. They are tbh, bloomin hard going - just when you think you're finished, you find more corrosion. They aren't for the faint hearted.

Is there ever a time when you say to yourself "this is a waist of my time and the customers money" Would you not be better manufacturing new body shells? You definitely have the talent for it.

Steve, that's no fail bud. That was a cracking find. Imagine if you hadn't found it? Take a bow Stevie boy. Intuition and knowledge are key.

As a Ford bloke really appreciated this video. The hidden rust thing, never ceases to amaze me!!

Nice to see mk1 ... remaind me of my own .

god i love mk1, best looking car ever

Good job, Steve. That little Ford is looking better and better. Enjoyed from South-Africa! 😊

Awesome work, mate 😊 had one in the 80s with more rust, LOL.. you guy's are surgeon's,, keep the faith, keeping automotive art alive! .love the videos, Tim from Australia ❤

Better to find whats inside that chassis leg now than in a year or 2 when its all shiny and done !

Amazing work as always Steve personally I don't see them as failures just set backs, the customer has made the best for the restoration and the end result will be spectacular much better to find the corrosion now than when it was sent back to them only to rust out and tarnish YCR's reputation excellent video I'm a huge MK1 escort fan and looking forward to seeing the completed restoration ♥️

I am LOVING the work done on this and the other cars. Also enjoying the tips

Great video 👍 As it normally goes if one side is bad then the other side is also bad😊 it's going to be a decent mk1 escort shell when you guys get done.

Rust was terrible on those, same as in the Renault 12 or even worse. I used to have one of those Fords just for autocross in the very late 90s. Nobody was even considering to repair or restore the rust bucket back then, so I got it mostly for free from a scrap yard. I ended rolling it and that was its demise :P. Great job rebuilding that one!

Great work again Steve 😎 definitely was the best decision to replace that passenger chassis rail also. The new pair of inner wing flitches will also finish off the front end nicely. Definitely no failures mate 👏🏽👏🏽

Well what can I say ...its a rustcort what did you expect lol.. very reminiscent of my old mk1 rust bucket more holes than metal creaked when thrown in to corners lol.. this is an amazing rebuild , great to see another icon being saved and who better to do the work . Thanks guys very therapeutic to watch

Great video on how to take off chassis leg and inner wings. Best way fitting new, then try and remove the rust. Guess it sames time in the long run. 👍

Love the video, some good camera angles, i've had to subscribe

The coverplate on a rusty McPherson top connection. I did that on my Escort mk2 in 1986. Seeing it on the RS2000 sure brings back a lot of memories.

Cracking job as usual lads! I owned a few Escorts in the late Eighties and they were rust buckets then 😂

Steve...You guys didn't fail here!....The failure was someone buying a Mk1 Rs2000,😂😂 I remember owning plenty Mk1's and 2's back in the day and they were rust buckets even then, you could practically watch the inner wings rot out!... If one chassis leg was rotten then it was obvious the other wouldn't be far behind!.....Keep up the good work always a good watch. 💪💪

Thats not a fail guys , just a bit more work 😅 👍👍👍

You haven’t failed you Metal Wizard, you’ve succeeded in an alternative way!

Great video seeing all the various stages of quality repairs.

They must be real rose tinted glasses Steve to see the good in a big old pile of rust , well worth it though to rescue a true classic

Glad u did the other rail 😊

No worries more time to see the master at work Steve.

Who’d have thought there could be more rust. You must’ve had it too close to Matt’s BMW!

great video steve awesome stuff on a car that deserves it very well done

The whole thing needs sand blasting lads

Ain’t no fails going on here dude you fixed it properly! I bet most of those escort shells are at least like that I’d say that’s not actually a bad one and now you’ve fixing it properly 👍 be warned escort Byers before you part with serious amounts of cash there not worth those huge amounts if there not restored to this standard and they’ll keep falling apart on you !

Good job you saw that corrosion first Steve the rust gets in every where 👍💯

i do like the voice over, sounds a bit vintage! great work again!

Saludos desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷.Buen trabajo el que hacen .Pregunta el cliente pidió reparar el piso también porque está como las caricaturas de los Picapiedra jajaja 👍

As always great watch , Steve.

as usual good work and efforts such top of the class craftsman these boys

Thanks for the video.

excellent workmanship, but I would have fitted the inner wing before removing the chassis leg, surely that would have aided alignment with it in place. Once the inner wing was fitted that would have kept some structural integrity and then replace the chassis leg.

Wow, I thought that was a pretty mint shell before the work started. Does it ever get to the point where you have already done lots of work but then discover lots more corrosion to which further work becomes unviable?. I'd love to have skills like this and be able to repair stuff. Great content. 👍

Another great job done well cheers for the video 👍

That's quite a rotter of a body. I hope you got most of the rust off, but I suspect there's a lot more hidden rust on it. Seem like a lot more work than anticipated. The weather over there is really brutal on car bodies!😮 When do you decide whether it is still worth fixing it?

Nice work Steve ,tell me does it ever get depressing opening up a box section and finding nothing but rust - I know it would get to me !

Good job my friend....❤

those plasma cutters are a cool bit of gear steve, it will save you a "shocking" amount of time ..... 😁 are you going to fix that swiss cheese floor pan ?

Nice work 👏 👌 👍 💪

NEW BODY SHELL NEEDED

Spot on very Very good 👍

Great work as usual Steve, you just keep going that's great. I see the Rocketeer is still work in progress, is that client not getting a bit peeved at the time it is taking?

Hi Steve. It's not a restoration, it's a resurrection.

As soon as i saw in the thumbnail you had failed, i knew it was s@*t lol Amazing channel, guys

Exelent work!

how the hell do you manage to workout while doing such a physical job? thats mad. wish i lived in england i would ask to come apprentice dont even pay me man i just want to learn this stuff! so cool

I think you will find that under every over lap you will find more rust...

TBH, every seam in that car is boned. If that were me, I'd pull the whole thing to pieces, body shell too. New chassis rails, everything. Without a full rust removal, even if you seal everything up, there will be residual moisture in there and it WILL rot out again. Maybe it will take 10 years, but I'm a perfectionist. 100% or nothing.

Brilliant channel 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

We all knew what we would see once the skin was removed. Just the surrounding floor etc. told us it would be so. Lucky that the entire body panels are now available for these (which is a worry for all the owners of original Mk1's).

Ayup fellas hope everyone is all good another video to enjoy 🙏🏻👍🏻😉

Good job 😉 try strip and clean disc with drilling machine. For me this is almost like Sand blasting.

I wish I had your failure rate Steve , I would be a wizard too !!!!!!!

No Steve, not failed, just a reminder to inspect cars before restoring even more for hidden 'treasures'. And another 'way to exploit your craftsmanship even more'. Although you may not feel that way: showing what wend 'wrong' is a sign of strength AND helps me to feel that 'even craftsmen like you make mistakes', so i am less hard on myself. You are human! Poor customer: the more you reveal, the bigger the disaster. But than again: better now than after what seemed toe be a restauration. Is it an idea to inspect the cars that come in with an endoscope, to reveal the 'hidden treasures' timely? Do such discoveries make you think that acid dipping is THE first way to go if you really want to discover such disasters timely, or is the chance too big that there are no reference points left to hang on to after such an procedure? Come and think of it: do you have these points after this thorough cutting? And are after market panels precise enough to fit to the rest of the car? Anyway: thanks again!

As long as the VIN plate is intact, it's still the same car, right? 😁

Hi Steve. Once again great work. At what point in this job would you quit trying to fix what is still a Dagenham dustbin? Regards Allan 😮

It looked pretty good till that wing came off 😮

Omg! Those welds are awful. Previous shotty repairs. My 12 yr old grand daughter could have done a better repair. Good thing you guys at YCR are fixing it now.

It seems like the floor pan is gone, what will you weld the chassis rail to?

Do you gents have access to a acid tank to drop the body's into

Hello guys, am I right in assuming that there are differences between RS from England and those from Genk etc. I don't see any reinforcement plate on the upper strut and the front plate in the area of ​​the radiator looks like it was sawn by itself. Greetings from Germany

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hi Steve, those MaxiFlex Cut kevlar gloves (34-1743) look excellent. Do you have a UK stockist? I can find other gloves in their range, but not the kevlar ones. I can find the kevlar ones from overseas suppliers but shipping costs more than the gloves! Thanks, Mike

It looks like you cleaned up some rust then painted over it instead of cutting it out and replacing around 23:09. If so is this because of moisture or something else?

did someone weld the fenders on or was that a common practice.. think they would be bolted on not welded?

Would be interested to know the cost of all the welding and body repairs compared to buying a whole new bodyshell?

Looks like a chicken and egg situation: do you fix the chassis leg before the floor pan or vice-versa ?

Acid dip better?

Mate that's a challenge

reinforcement plate on the upper strut ????better to fit before mounting wings

You should start another channel putting IKEA furniture together in record time.

That original floor pan looks a bit ripe.

Steve can you do a video on sharpening drill bits? And Are those parts from some warehouse or made to order from old info??? Thanks. Great videos.

No rot protection from new ,those where the days

is there a chance that some of your colleagues may start making videos on some of the other cars that can be seen in the video?

Amazing work!!!- that escort seems ridden with some disease!!! Honestly, every panel overlap and spot weld seam is filled with corrosion- is that body acid dipped? Is that the cause of this or are these car just this bad???

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Who primered that chassi over rust? Sure doesn't help to spot all the problems.

Wondering if she really should be bolted on to a chassis jig ... ?

As often with old cars is one step forward 2 in reverse - plasma cutter from R-TECH looks really good but like most males we do need to read instructions

The more rusty parts you're trying to replace, the more rust is exposed....😐 Great job anyway.👍👍

It's as rotten as a pear. Hope you sort it. Regards kev

Great content guys

Hhmm, does RS stand for rust super?

You would of been better putting a full new front on it looking at that.

I would sell one of my children for an R-Tech set up.

Hardley a fail.