1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3

[dockertrigger]

I thought I'd share this on here seeing how much love the brown VDP 1500 thread got!, Goes to prove that there must be some retro love on here!

A few weeks ago I went to a local classic car show in Clacton-On-sea, It was a good show with plenty of nice cars to oggle over, as I was walking around I saw this mint looking Mk3 Escort in the distance that was for sale, This Escort had no price, just this sign saying offers accepted, So I started chatting to he owner, I asked how much it was, "I'm hoping to get about £500 for it" he said!, I didn't even bother haggling!, I just bought it there and then

It's a 1984 Escort 1.3 L with only 43000 miles on the clock, It's never been welded, it is as clean as a whisle, Comes from Candor Motors in Colchester from new, the same garage my dad used to buy his cars from!, It's got the CVH engine with the 4 Spd gear box, You could eat your dinner of the engine it's that tidy and it's so quiet with no rattles and knocks at all, MOT until October and taxed until the end of September.





This is as I saw it at the show, Since then I've removed the tow bar, repainted the wheels in a better silver and done a couple of other little jobs.

It's been great so far and get lots of comments and points as I'm driving about, It's my wife's daily driver at the moment though she is struggling with the sharp clutch some what...

Here's some better photos taken this weekend.


1984 Ford Escort 1.3 L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr


1984 Ford Escort 1.3 L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr


1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr


1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr


1984 Ford Escort 1.3L Mk3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Another Fluffer]

I love the massive clock on the dash

[davepoth]

It's so clean it looks wrong!

[Egg Chaser]

Fecking hell, that's unbelievably clean! And it's a bargain at that price too, good work

[Baffled Spoon]

looks lovely

[northandy]

That's a museum piece, lovely condition, a proper bargain at 500

[Baryonyx]

Very nice indeed!

[dockertrigger]

Thanks guys, It is a lovely old thing and it really does drive as well as it looks, other then the sharp clutch!

What do you think of the brown dashboard?!

[robsco]

That looks superb! Garaged through its life do you think? Bearing in mind there doesn't seem to be a speck of rust on it anywhere. Are those the original dealer plates too?

[dockertrigger]

Going by the condition it must have been garaged, It's certainly never been restored at all.

The rear plate and window sticker are it's original but the front one is a repo, I used www.dealerplates.co.uk to make up the front one as it had a pre-2001 font when i bought it which i didn't like and also had the Candor Ford logo etched onto it.

[i remember]

Awesome

[downthepub]

Nice! That's one clean car, wonder if it's worth more than £500 to some of the Ford nuts. They like their shiny Escorts....

[martin mrt]

That's fantastic, but please don't ruin it by running it daily through winter, it looks too good for that

[Six Fiend]

Fantastic find, I really like those

[BoRED S2upid]

A Mate of mine has one of these thats going to the scrap man very soon its horrible, pink paint rusty doors the other end of the scale to this one! very good find for £500 just keep it away from water.

[pacman06]

Strange how a 1.3L escort puts a bigger smile on my face than most other threads in this section!!

Love it

[anonymous-user]

I love it, brings back lots of good memories

My dad had exactly the same car/engine/trim level, same colour (sunburst red isn't it?), same year, his was B145 XYS, probably long gone into the scrapyard in the sky.

I remember as a kid playing with those pop-out cassette holders, retro-tastic

[mark seeker]

Cracking buy

[PumpkinSteve]

£500?! Billy bargain!

[rumple]

Loved these nice to see one that good, I had an x reg 1600 ghia gold then a y reg xr3i sunburst loved em both specialy the xr3 most underrated car ever