Ford Escort Mexico with TVR V8 - stolen 3/3/15 9.20pm
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Hi, my beautiful Escort was stolen from Trackspeed, on the Portsmouth Road, Ripley GU23 6HB - at 9.20pm on Tuesday 3rd March 2015.
The garage was ram raid by an old Land Rover, and the Escort dragged out of the showroom on a chain, last see on CCTV being dragged towards Ripley and the A3.
Police arrived within 5 minutes - no sign of it!
Many of you will know my car from some of the Ford shows a few years ago and visits to Boxhill.
The car is totally unique, it is exactly as pictured below - Reg: DAD 422K and number 27 is still on the door and bonnet. TVR 5 liter V8 race engine under the bonnet, full race spec.
Any information please get in touch, forget the insurance money, this car is irreplaceable and just i want it back!
Please please any help or information greatly appreciated.
I will post more detailed pictures in the morning.
many thanks for any help or leads recovering by baby.
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The garage was ram raid by an old Land Rover, and the Escort dragged out of the showroom on a chain, last see on CCTV being dragged towards Ripley and the A3.
Police arrived within 5 minutes - no sign of it!
Many of you will know my car from some of the Ford shows a few years ago and visits to Boxhill.
The car is totally unique, it is exactly as pictured below - Reg: DAD 422K and number 27 is still on the door and bonnet. TVR 5 liter V8 race engine under the bonnet, full race spec.
Any information please get in touch, forget the insurance money, this car is irreplaceable and just i want it back!
Please please any help or information greatly appreciated.
I will post more detailed pictures in the morning.
many thanks for any help or leads recovering by baby.
Cracker (Mark)
Thanks guys, really appreciate it. Thanks for posting on the TVR forum.
The engine was very unique, it was built by Dominic at TVR Power years ago, its a Takara 5 litre all aluminium race spec unit.
The shell was probably one of the best out there, Prepfab (same people that built McRae's Escorts & Porsches)worked on it for me. To build a car like that is £80k without the unit!!
Below are some of the last pictures taken outside Trackspeed.....
thanks everyone.
Mark
The engine was very unique, it was built by Dominic at TVR Power years ago, its a Takara 5 litre all aluminium race spec unit.
The shell was probably one of the best out there, Prepfab (same people that built McRae's Escorts & Porsches)worked on it for me. To build a car like that is £80k without the unit!!
Below are some of the last pictures taken outside Trackspeed.....
thanks everyone.
Mark
Hi, firstly thanks for the huge support and coverage on all forms of media - Social sites, forums, local radio & TV, BBC website and many more regional news sites - unbelievable - thank you all.
No concrete news that i can disclose at the moment, but the CID are doing an amazing job and following up several promising leads.
I hope to be able to release the CCTV footage soon, but need to respect the ongoing investigation and not jeopardise anything.
I will let you know as soon as i am able to disclose any further information.
I am totally overwhelmed by the support and help from everyone!
kindest regards
Mark
No concrete news that i can disclose at the moment, but the CID are doing an amazing job and following up several promising leads.
I hope to be able to release the CCTV footage soon, but need to respect the ongoing investigation and not jeopardise anything.
I will let you know as soon as i am able to disclose any further information.
I am totally overwhelmed by the support and help from everyone!
kindest regards
Mark
Thanks guys, greatly appreciated.
Just to cheer you all up, we put it on a rolling road a few years back and chickened out at 178mph!!!!!!
The noise was unreal, we genuinely got scared!
0-60 was around 4 seconds, it easily out lifted a ferrari 550 off the line, done it on several occasions!
Great days.
Thanks everyone!
Off to the pub to drown my sorrows.
Cheers
Mark
Just to cheer you all up, we put it on a rolling road a few years back and chickened out at 178mph!!!!!!
The noise was unreal, we genuinely got scared!
0-60 was around 4 seconds, it easily out lifted a ferrari 550 off the line, done it on several occasions!
Great days.
Thanks everyone!
Off to the pub to drown my sorrows.
Cheers
Mark
Again thanks everyone - due to everyone on here this story is reaching every corner of the country and beyond - i truly feel i will get my car back, you are all amazing - thank you.
Everyone on this site has been incredible, such huge support, huge efforts of help, encouragement, spreading the word on social media that i have no idea about.....its just unreal - THANK YOU ALL!!! AND not one single word to slander me or the car - you are all true car that have a passion and live it.
on other sites and news agencies they go for comments like "insurance fraud", "old escort not worth anything" and bulls
t about a car they dont know or understand, it incredibly insulting towards me and my character - and DAD 422K
here is my comment to all the other website trolls:
Hi Guys, its my car - there is no insurance fraud - i am gutted and want my car back i dont want the money. The car was stolen Tuesday night at 9.20pm, when i finally got home that night i stayed up till 3.30am getting the word out on every social media site and forum i could. 6am the following morning i was up contacting radio, tv and independent news services - i want the car to be found - there is no fraud so please stop the damaging speculation and insult on my character, turn your attentions to more positive activities.
The figures quoted are due to the build and development costs over the last ten years, it is an incredible car built with all the best components available to rally Escorts - it has been continually developed over the years. Prepared by Prepfab, just call them and ask how much for a race/rally prepared shell - be seated and be prepared to be shocked, engines to this specification can run into tens of thousands. This is not a boy racer built in a shed, its a very serious car with one of the best prepared race shells of any Escort - hence i guess why it was targeted specifically in a showroom with 10 other expensive cars sitting around.
I gave up counting a few years ago, between myself and the original owner who started the project build 10 years ago we have spent over £100k, off the top of my head i can add at least another £15k in the last few years alone. This car was a love and a passion, not built for a profit - when was the last time we ever made our money back on a project car, from my experience i am always on the wrong side of the equation, but it was an addiction. The figuress quoted by the media reflect the build cost and pile of receipts i have, not what its worth if i had to go to webuyanycar!
Thanks to everyone that is spreading the word, hopefully i will get the car back soon before it is stripped and sold, burnt or dumped.
Cheers guys, enjoy your cars and lock them up safe.
Kindest
Mark
Everyone on this site has been incredible, such huge support, huge efforts of help, encouragement, spreading the word on social media that i have no idea about.....its just unreal - THANK YOU ALL!!! AND not one single word to slander me or the car - you are all true car that have a passion and live it.
on other sites and news agencies they go for comments like "insurance fraud", "old escort not worth anything" and bulls
t about a car they dont know or understand, it incredibly insulting towards me and my character - and DAD 422Khere is my comment to all the other website trolls:
Hi Guys, its my car - there is no insurance fraud - i am gutted and want my car back i dont want the money. The car was stolen Tuesday night at 9.20pm, when i finally got home that night i stayed up till 3.30am getting the word out on every social media site and forum i could. 6am the following morning i was up contacting radio, tv and independent news services - i want the car to be found - there is no fraud so please stop the damaging speculation and insult on my character, turn your attentions to more positive activities.
The figures quoted are due to the build and development costs over the last ten years, it is an incredible car built with all the best components available to rally Escorts - it has been continually developed over the years. Prepared by Prepfab, just call them and ask how much for a race/rally prepared shell - be seated and be prepared to be shocked, engines to this specification can run into tens of thousands. This is not a boy racer built in a shed, its a very serious car with one of the best prepared race shells of any Escort - hence i guess why it was targeted specifically in a showroom with 10 other expensive cars sitting around.
I gave up counting a few years ago, between myself and the original owner who started the project build 10 years ago we have spent over £100k, off the top of my head i can add at least another £15k in the last few years alone. This car was a love and a passion, not built for a profit - when was the last time we ever made our money back on a project car, from my experience i am always on the wrong side of the equation, but it was an addiction. The figuress quoted by the media reflect the build cost and pile of receipts i have, not what its worth if i had to go to webuyanycar!
Thanks to everyone that is spreading the word, hopefully i will get the car back soon before it is stripped and sold, burnt or dumped.
Cheers guys, enjoy your cars and lock them up safe.
Kindest
Mark
dmitsi said:
Have you spoken to your insurance about the offering of a reward. Can save them lots in the long run.
Is there any particular reason their faces are blurred in the video? It's not like it isn't obvious they're in the act of stealing the car. Usually you get a nice grainy close up of an uncovered face for people to try and recognise.
Best of luck getting the car back.
hi,Is there any particular reason their faces are blurred in the video? It's not like it isn't obvious they're in the act of stealing the car. Usually you get a nice grainy close up of an uncovered face for people to try and recognise.
Best of luck getting the car back.
I cant really comment on that at the moment, but i think there is a lot more to come - watch this space. We have to let the police do their work, they are doing a great job. That was just one CCTV footage - there are lots of other cameras at the garage the record for weeks.
many thanks
Mark
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