More RS2000 madness

[strummerville]

This may have been seen before, but I clocked this today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281210/Pr...

Gutted I let my fully restored Venetian red Custom go in 91 for £2000...

[LongQ]

strummerville said:

This may have been seen before, but I clocked this today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281210/Pr...

Gutted I let my fully restored Venetian red Custom go in 91 for £2000...

I note the 'official' inflation figure places £2800 in 1980 as £11000 today.

So what would be the current market position equivalent of an RS2000 and how much would it cost?

[aeropilot]

Lovely.........

You'd need some hefty security though to stop it going walkies, which is the only problem with these.

I'd like to think Ford themselves would buy it for their Heritage Collection.

[sim16v]

strummerville said:

This may have been seen before, but I clocked this today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281210/Pr...

Gutted I let my fully restored Venetian red Custom go in 91 for £2000...

Nice to see The Mail got a corresponding period Ford Advert for the Escort.

The 1989 Mk4 Escort!

[Pingman]

Cruising around in that time warp would be magical

[strummerville]

LongQ said:

I note the 'official' inflation figure places £2800 in 1980 as £11000 today.

So what would be the current market position equivalent of an RS2000 and how much would it cost?

AFAIK by the time it reached the last year of production in 1980, the RS2000 was around £5000, not £2800 that the Fail is reporting.

[aeropilot]

strummerville said:

LongQ said:

I note the 'official' inflation figure places £2800 in 1980 as £11000 today.

So what would be the current market position equivalent of an RS2000 and how much would it cost?

AFAIK by the time it reached the last year of production in 1980, the RS2000 was around £5000, not £2800 that the Fail is reporting.

I can vividly remember going to a open day/fair event that my Dad was involved in every year, this one being in 1980, and the local car dealers would all have a selection of the latest stuff on display. I had only been driving on the road a few weeks, this was Aug '80, and the local Ford dealer had an unregistered RS2000 on display, with a sign on the window stating this was their last one they had left unregistered. I think I spent about 2 hours just sitting in it thinking if only....
It was a Cordoba Beige car with the chocolate interior.....probably why they hadn't sold it

[Nors]

As much as I love it, that kind of money is way too much for a Mk2 Escort.

If someone is willing to pay that - good luck to them, it's their money. Just can't get my head round it I guess.................

[OllieC]

silly price, not going to get anything close to that.

[LongQ]

strummerville said:

LongQ said:

I note the 'official' inflation figure places £2800 in 1980 as £11000 today.

So what would be the current market position equivalent of an RS2000 and how much would it cost?

AFAIK by the time it reached the last year of production in 1980, the RS2000 was around £5000, not £2800 that the Fail is reporting.

I remember spotting a used Mk1 RS2000 for sale in the West Country in, probably, 1977 when a pal of mine was interested. I think it was about 3 years old at the time and he paid something like £1250 for it so the £2800 may be refers to the launch price or a mid 70s price for a Mk1. I had sold my '73 Mexico about a year earlier for somewhere around £1100 so the numbers look about right.

OK, so lets say around £20k today for a market equivalent to where the RS2000 was positioned in 1980.

What would it be?

[aeropilot]

LongQ said:

so the £2800 may be refers to the launch price

£2800 sounds about right for the launch price of the Mk2 in 1976.....??

I think the end of production list price for the Mk1 RS2 at the end of '74 was either just below or just above £2k.

[Kinkell]

I bought my RS 1600 for £ 1100 in 1977 with 21,000 miles on the clock. They are 30k now with most of them being used as rally cars in the seventies. RS 2000 and Mexicos could be had for similar money as folks were put of by BDA scare stories. I was 20 years old and the govt. were restricting bank loans so it was a struggle but getting insurance was no problem for such a fast Ford.

[Sir Bagalot]

So 33 years old... original tires and paintwork....

Hold on a second... Tires? FFS It's TYRES

[LongQ]

Sir Bagalot said:

So 33 years old... original tires and paintwork....

Hold on a second... Tires? FFS It's TYRES

Worse than that. Pirelli tyres. I had a really dodgy experience with some Pirelli tyres back in the mid 70s and have no reason to suppose they improved much around that time, though in the 90s I found some that were excellent on the barge I was driving at the time.

Clearly they are pitching this as a museum piece.

[final_edition]

Pirelli CN36's

[9mm]

Nors said:

As much as I love it, that kind of money is way too much for a Mk2 Escort.

If someone is willing to pay that - good luck to them, it's their money. Just can't get my head round it I guess.................

Totally right, they are not even much cop to drive.

So many nicer things to own for less money than a chavvy old Ford but fashion is a powerful force. Good luck to the seller.

[aeropilot]

LongQ said:

Sir Bagalot said:

So 33 years old... original tires and paintwork....

Hold on a second... Tires? FFS It's TYRES

Worse than that. Pirelli tyres. I had a really dodgy experience with some Pirelli tyres back in the mid 70s and have no reason to suppose they improved much around that time, though in the 90s I found some that were excellent on the barge I was driving at the time.

Clearly they are pitching this as a museum piece.

I would think so, and as I said probably deserves Ford buying it for their Heritage collection if it's better than the one they have already.

I'm not convinced they are the original to the car tyres, as no way would a set of CN36's have lasted that mileage
I think original in this case means, original spec, not actual original to the car.

[neutral 3]

My old RS2. I couldnt sell it in 2010, took ages to sell,( to a Frog who said he was going to race it ) yet it had all the trick bits and more, it was ferociously quick, and would go side ways on demand.
Pirrelli CN36s were standard fit to many new RS2000s, inc the venetian red W Reg one my then best pal bought new from Gates of Woodford Green in August 1980. They were terrible tires.
I had an aquaintance who was very sadly killed in a very quick Turbo RS2000 in the early 80s.
I loved that RS2 and really didnt want to sell, but prices of these cars are now ridiculous, far better cars for the money.

[iSore]

neutral 3 said:

My old RS2. I couldnt sell it in 2010, took ages to sell,( to a Frog who said he was going to race it ) yet it had all the trick bits and more, it was ferociously quick, and would go side ways on demand.
Pirrelli CN36s were standard fit to many new RS2000s, inc the venetian red W Reg one my then best pal bought new from Gates of Woodford Green in August 1980. They were terrible tires.
I had an aquaintance who was very sadly killed in a very quick Turbo RS2000 in the early 80s.
I loved that RS2 and really didnt want to sell, but prices of these cars are now ridiculous, far better cars for the money.

I like the look of that one. A bit of dirt down the sides, looks like it's begging you to go out and cane the tits off it.

Not for 37 big ones though - you can get a seriously nice mid eighties 911 for that. Or one of the best Integrales left. Or a mint 215 bhp E30 M3 - any number of vastly superior vehicles.

[aeropilot]

iSore said:

Not for 37 big ones though - you can get a seriously nice mid eighties 911 for that. Or one of the best Integrales left. Or a mint 215 bhp E30 M3 - any number of vastly superior vehicles.

And you know what.......I'd still take the RS2 over any of those others (but just not that 37k one)


Some times, it's the flawed and technically inferior cars that often just put a smile on your face.