Mine was a 1972 Mk1 Escort estate for the grand sum of £200 as a birthday present from my parents.
The car kept me a Uni as it kept getting crashing into an written off, I'd then obtain parts
fix it MOT it and away it'd go. If I remember rightly it was written off 3 times. Thankfully no HPI then.
Started life with an 1100cc engine which rapidly went pop, by various means it ended up with a 2000cc engine but the original gearbox.
I remember one night being stuck at some traffic lights next to 2 lads in a fiat supermirafiori giving it some large. Left them standing at the lights up to 30mph went like stink but rapidly ran out of legs and brakes.
Would I have it back, probably, but I'd rather have the RS2000 I always yearned for.
