Hello!

[old gas bottle]

just found the forum and look forward to learning a bit more aswell as making the odd hopless comment,cheers.

[Frosty]

Hello fellow Derbyshire fridge guy, I live in Littleover, Derby. Nice to 'meet' you. Who do you work for? I work for Star refrigeration.

[Brian_UK]

Welcome OGB, do like your profile; short, sweet and honest.

[old gas bottle]

hi chaps, run our own wee family business,derby cold stores, been at it since 1980 as a company, mainly commercial/industrail but not amonia,

[slingblade]

hi bud. how old is that mk 1. is it a two door and whats under the bonnet?

[old gas bottle]

hi mate,its gone now, mki rs1600 BDA,2 owners from new,should have kept it,doing a nice mk2 track/fast road car now,cheers.mark.

[slingblade]

no way in the world i would part with an rs 1600 bda.
good luck with the mk2, but they were never a match for the mk1 for my money.

[rbartlett]

as an apprentice I was offered a Mk RS2000 or a 'hot' Mexico. however as an 18 year old I just could afford the car but not the insurance.

It wasn't till ten years later that I managed to buy a Mk II RS2000 . When my ex left me part of the divorce was my car which she took and promptly blew the engine..so I ended up giving it away for almost scrap value..

Of course these wern't really the car to have but there was no way I could have bought one of those belt drive assembly jobbies

Cheers

Richard

[old gas bottle]

http://www.refrigeration-engineer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=792&stc=1&d=1141405895 never uploaded a pic on here,if it comes out its the new project,i,ll put the spec on the next post.

[old gas bottle]

there you go, its a harrier,body shotblasted,repaneled,floors,doors,a posts,wings,front panel,boot,alloy tarmac arches, ajustable leda legs, 4 pots,vented discs,rear discs,LSD axle 5.1 diff,panhard rod,tramp bars,quick rack,WCXM,bais peddle box,poly windows, streight cut rocket box,1700 all steel gear driven crossflow,mtwin 48 webbers, 180 BHP at 9500rpm@the flywheel,errrrr cant think what else, oh i know,its not finished. cheers.mark.

[phil68]

About ten years ago my then girlfriend bought me a days rally-driving experience for my birthday & they were using tuned 2-dr. Mk. 2 Escorts there. I asked why they were using such old cars & the reply was that they hadn't found anything else that could stand the abuse as well as them:)

[Steve Coates]

Hello fellow Derbyshire fridge guy, I live in Littleover, Derby. Nice to 'meet' you. Who do you work for? I work for Star refrigeration.

Hi, I work for 3CL and live in Alvaston. Nice to meet you too.

[old gas bottle]

same here,up the rams ! well something like that.

[slingblade]

there you go, its a harrier,body shotblasted,repaneled,floors,doors,a posts,wings,front panel,boot,alloy tarmac arches, ajustable leda legs, 4 pots,vented discs,rear discs,LSD axle 5.1 diff,panhard rod,tramp bars,quick rack,WCXM,bais peddle box,poly windows, streight cut rocket box,1700 all steel gear driven crossflow,mtwin 48 webbers, 180 BHP at 9500rpm@the flywheel,errrrr cant think what else, oh i know,its not finished. cheers.mark.

two words for you, rover V8.

[old gas bottle]

all well and good but they dont make one 1700cc ,and unless you spend good money on one it wont live with this,150 hp i think.

[phil68]

two words for you, rover V8.
Nah, having a great big heavy lump like that up front would ruin the handling, what you want is the 2 litre 4 cyl. engine out of a Sierra Cossie & 'chipped' to 350 bhp:)

[old gas bottle]

dont think i would have the balls to drive it phill!