RE: ?100K Escort RS2000!

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lucido grigio said:

The other 2 RS2000s I had were a bit disastrous ,bought a beige V reg car in 1991 ,stolen about 6 weeks later.

My 4th one another 78 S, red car in grey primer was a project but it was so bad I cut it up myself.

Just looked at the details on my old ones, the first one, BDA 8T reg is now black, no longer Venetian Red and is on SORN. The black one looks to have expired in the late 80s.
Friend thought the BDA reg off my Red RS2000 would have gone well on his RS1800..... sadly it was a year older

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lucido grigio said:

The other 2 RS2000s I had were a bit disastrous ,bought a beige V reg car in 1991 ,stolen about 6 weeks later.

My 4th one another 78 S, red car in grey primer was a project but it was so bad I cut it up myself.

Just looked at this old one belonging to another friend and its on SORN, so presumably still alive in some barn

[rwilson]

Ha, top of bull market just like de Vinci painting that sold today however, if the buyer likes it then i guess both parties are happy!

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_Leg_ said:

Keep it up everyone. :-)

My 72 RS1600 BDA. Awesome fun for 20 years and then a nice tax free pension pot.

How much did it cost you 20 years ago?

[HumanDoing]

rwilson said:

Ha, top of bull market just like de Vinci painting that sold today however, if the buyer likes it then i guess both parties are happy!

3 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day, yet someone/some institution has enough resources to blow $450 million on a painting and people are forking out £100,000 on an old Ford. I mean I'm not a socialist but FFS.

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HumanDoing said:

someone/some institution has enough resources to blow $450 million on a painting and people are forking out £100,000 on an old Ford.

Pah, I've seen old Fords go for £10 million .......and if that annoys you don't go looking at the price of old Italian stuff!

[mfp4073]

HumanDoing said:

3 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day, yet someone/some institution has enough resources to blow $450 million on a painting and people are forking out £100,000 on an old Ford. I mean I'm not a socialist but FFS.

Strangely enough I was thinking the same thing....I wonder how the world ended up this way.

[E34-3.2]

mfp4073 said:

HumanDoing said:

3 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day, yet someone/some institution has enough resources to blow $450 million on a painting and people are forking out £100,000 on an old Ford. I mean I'm not a socialist but FFS.

Strangely enough I was thinking the same thing....I wonder how the world ended up this way.

Completely agree.

[richinlondon]

Delivery mileage or ultra-low mileage stuff troubles me in that to retain or grow the value of your car (and that's probably the purpose when buying these trophies) you cannot put any mileage on it as you then lose the thing that gave it the value in the first place.

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richinlondon said:

Delivery mileage or ultra-low mileage stuff troubles me in that to retain or grow the value of your car (and that's probably the purpose when buying these trophies) you cannot put any mileage on it as you then lose the thing that gave it the value in the first place.

Doubt anyone will be driving it - unless it's off a trailer to MOT it

[Leins]

Unless someone v wealthy fancies one as a daily! Now that would be pretty cool (but admittedly unlikely)

[Martin350]

As a kid in the late 1970s / early 1980s a friend's dad a few doors down the road had a red Mk2 RS2000, XMR442T, which I liked very much.

I remember seeing him one day putting body filler in the bottom of the driver's door and spraying primer over it.

He then sold it and got a very early Sierra - RMR383Y.

It only occured to me recently that that means the Escort was going rusty at just four years old!



As much as I like them, I can't get my head round £100k for an Escort.

[LewisR]

J4CKO said:

lucido grigio said:

J4CKO said:

Dont get it, old Escort with a Transit engine for 100 grand ?

They were great than the sum of their parts but jesus, drove one back in the day when I had a Mk1 Golf GTI and it felt old and a bit disappointing then, never mind spending 100 grand on one.

Nice piece of history but just cant get as excited as some over them.

Not really a Transit engine is it ?

Named Pinto because it started off in that American POS.

I'm opposite to you anyway ,had an RS2000 MK2 ,not a very good one ,sold it in August ,bought a Scirocco GTI MK1,didn"t like it ,

sold it in less than a few months and was back in a much better RS2000 MK2 by December.

Still a ludicrous price for this one at 100K.

Yeah, dont get me wrong, big soft spot for them, but 100 grand seems madness, but I guess if you are worth 30 million or something and want a really original one, it is small change, and you wont lose much.

2 litre Pinto got fitted to the Transit van, but think I am bit sore still as had a 944 S2 and got told it had a van engine on so many occasions

Viper has a pickup truck engine for balance.

I cant get my head round how weird car prices are, I picked up a really quite decent Mk1 TT for just over two grand.

Yes, the 924 had the VW van engine. The 944 got half of the 928 V8.

[Alex Langheck]

Anybody who follows British rallying won’t be so surprised by this. They are the backbone of the sport – and the specs & prices are eye watering.

[JMF894]

E34-3.2 said:

mfp4073 said:

HumanDoing said:

3 billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day, yet someone/some institution has enough resources to blow $450 million on a painting and people are forking out £100,000 on an old Ford. I mean I'm not a socialist but FFS.

Strangely enough I was thinking the same thing....I wonder how the world ended up this way.

Completely agree.

Sorry to be pedantic but this is disingenuous and hypocritical. Those 3 billion who have $1 a day to survive on will look at you and I with our mortgaged homes, 1 or 2 car garage, average income of £30k/year (60k if dualled) and a holiday abroad each year and consider us to be very rich/wasteful indeed.

It's all about perspective. If you're gonna put on the white hat make sure you look behind you as well as in front.........

[WCZ]

Joeguard1990 said:

Whoever got the 1999 R34 GTR V-Spec Skyline for £29k got themselves a bargain considering the prices I've seen them go for...
Also very rare to find one unmodified.

that's an insanely cheap price

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Leins said:

Unless someone v wealthy fancies one as a daily! Now that would be pretty cool (but admittedly unlikely)

Their is always that Leins - they'd maybe buy 2 - this one for sitting in in their heated memorabilia garage.....and a cheaper 20k one for driving.

Or maybe a Singer-esque re-imagined Millington engined one for another 100k a la Coln McRae

[Zetec-S]

I've agreed with my wife that when we (hopefully) move in a few years it will be to a place with enough space for some sort of project. Always said it would be an old Ford, but can't see that happening any more. I did have my eye on a Mk4 Escort RS Turbo a while back which was "reasonably" priced, but with no-where to keep it at the moment it was never going to happen. I expect by the time I'm in the market prices will be even further out of reach

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Zetec-S said:

I've agreed with my wife that when we (hopefully) move in a few years it will be to a place with enough space for some sort of project. Always said it would be an old Ford, but can't see that happening any more. I did have my eye on a Mk4 Escort RS Turbo a while back which was "reasonably" priced, but with no-where to keep it at the moment it was never going to happen. I expect by the time I'm in the market prices will be even further out of reach

Pumas are pretty cheap now?

[MikeT66]

LewisR said:

Yes, the 924 had the VW van engine. The 944 got half of the 928 V8.

I get your point, but it's not quite correct. It was originally an Audi car engine, which subsequently got used in the VW van. The 924 only shares the main block with the van engine - the Cylinder Head, etc. were purely Porsche designs.