Will this work?

[John Laidlaw]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2556465875/permalink/10154762847815876/

 

[LostKiwi]

Worked for me

 

[Yugguy]

Yep.

 

[Frosty149]

Not convinced about that 3rd wing look?
The finished mounting looked a bit 'gappy' too, then again I couldn't do it!

 

[A.J.]

Don't particularly care for one let alone three !!

 

[00slk]

Doesn't do it for me, had a '95 Ford Escort 2dr........Never again, in fact it was the worse car we have ever owned, and that hurts to say that, as I am a Ford Man!

 

[turbopete]

Doesn't do it for me, had a '95 Ford Escort 2dr........Never again, in fact it was the worse car we have ever owned, and that hurts to say that, as I am a Ford Man!

Cosworth was a WHOLE different animal though. ive driven more escorts than I care to think of and NOTHING compares to the Cosworth. and Leather wasn't rare, over here at least. if I could find one, at the right price, id have one in a heartbeat. especially the ones with the aero pack (which the car in the video has) which gives you the top rear spoiler and the front splitter.
those OZ wheels were standard on the limited edition Monte Carlo edition
3rd wing WASNT genuine as he said (ive yet to see a hollow fibreglass OEM wing from Ford) and even on the model looked NAFF and putting it on the car for real didn't help. the original spoilers looked great. the 3rd wing just made it look cluttered.

 

[00slk]

Cosworth was a WHOLE different animal though. ive driven more escorts than I care to think of and NOTHING compares to the Cosworth. and Leather wasn't rare, over here at least. if I could find one, at the right price, id have one in a heartbeat. especially the ones with the aero pack (which the car in the video has) which gives you the top rear spoiler and the front splitter.
those OZ wheels were standard on the limited edition Monte Carlo edition
3rd wing WASNT genuine as he said (ive yet to see a hollow fibreglass OEM wing from Ford) and even on the model looked NAFF and putting it on the car for real didn't help. the original spoilers looked great. the 3rd wing just made it look cluttered.

Have to agree with you, they are certainly a different beast, don't think I have driven a Cosworth, plenty of RS Turbo's and Mk2 1600 Sport, RS2000 MK2, MK 5 RS2000 which was awful!! We had an Escort Twin Cam 1970 in the early '80's which was very twitchy and fun to drive However my English Ford pick is the 1974 Granada 3litre Ghia, closely followed by the MK3 Capri 2.8 Injection, two of the coolest in my opinion

 

[turbopete]

with the Granada, id say the Ghia was no different to any other version, unless it was the Coupe. Capris IMO have to be either mk1 or mk3 (the mk2 was ok, but a bit lost in the styling department) the 2.8i was great, especially in later cars when 5 speed box and LSD were added. 280s were cool (1037 were built) even though they weren't the nicest colour IMO (Brooklands green, hence theyre known as the 280 Brooklands) but whilst I think the bodykit was ugly (no capri should have one IMO) the holy grail, especially in the mk3 Capri would be the Tickford. only 100 were built, Aston Martin (tickford, hence the name) gave it a fancy interior, a 'unique' bodykit, and stuck a turbo onto the 2.8i engine. last I heard, about 10 years ago, there were only 48 tickfords left in existence.
I drove a few RS turbos, mk2 escorts were fun being rwd, the mk5,6 or 7 (as they became known) drove pretty much like a fast version of a normal escort which seemed to lose its way after the mk4 in 1991. ive driven a handful of Cosworths, one of which was a Monte Carlo edition (one of about 1000 made, it had the plaque on the dash so it was the real deal) and it had a few extras that the standard car didn't have. mostly performance related. ive never had any proof, but rumour was that the factory tweaked the Monte edition to around 300bhp from the standard 220ish. different wheels, the car I was in had a stainless exhaust, etc. which, at around 22 years old (which I was at the time) was really a VERY nice tool to be let loose with (even though the boss would have hit the roof, had he known, as insurance for performance cars at that garage meant you had to be over 25 to drive ANYTHING with an XR RS (or similar) badge, or ANYTHING AT ALL with a turbo!!!!

 

[LostKiwi]

The holy grail of Capris in my view is either the RS3100 or the South African 5 litre one....

 

[turbopete]

The holy grail of Capris in my view is either the RS3100 or the South African 5 litre one....

RS3100 was more common that the tickford. in fact the RS2600 was the only other one I'm aware of that was built in anywhere near as low numbers.

yes the 5 litre V8 from South Africa would be nice, but we were talking about UK spec cars originally.

 

[LostKiwi]

RS3100 was more common that the tickford. in fact the RS2600 was the only other one I'm aware of that was built in anywhere near as low numbers.

yes the 5 litre V8 from South Africa would be nice, but we were talking about UK spec cars originally.

The Tickford was just too damned fugly.
The RS3100 was beautiful.

 

[turbopete]

The Tickford was just too damned fugly.
The RS3100 was beautiful.

agreed. which was why I said the Capri should NEVER have a bodykit fitted. even the genuine Ford RS kits for the mk3 looked cr@p. and ALL the mk1 RS capris (2600 AND 3100) looked good (even if they were before my time a little) and it was a humble base mk1 1300XL capri that actually got me hooked on Capris in the first place. dad had it, it got t-boned by a yob in his dads jag chassis on the capri was twisted and Jigs were rare back then, insurance fixed it as best it could be, hiding roof damage with a vinyl roof. it was electric blue. I HATED the roof and because it never drove properly after that, it got sold. it broke my heart. I was only 3 or 4 at the time. I wanted a capri ALWAYS after that. I had chance of a 2.8i but it was overpriced (at the time) for its condition. before then I couldn't afford the insurance. now I can, I cant afford the cars!!!!

 

[00slk]

You wont like that I came across a RS3100 in a breakers yard in Fulham in 1983, rust had ended its life, the front struts and front brakes were fitted into the TC Escort....Oh LaLa.....it was far too strong a spring and it made the handling shite

 

[LostKiwi]

I had a 3L Mk2 that had been modified. Whilst not the favourite Capri of many it was a deeply impressive car for it's time.
It was particularly entertaining on wet roundabouts....

 

[turbopete]

You wont like that I came across a RS3100 in a breakers yard in Fulham in 1983, rust had ended its life, the front struts and front brakes were fitted into the TC Escort....Oh LaLa.....it was far too strong a spring and it made the handling shite

dad and his cousin raced grasstrack cars in the 70s. his cousin, being considerably better off financially, HAD an RS3100 which he wrote off (around a tree, I believe)

anyhow, the engine (and probably gearbox, I'm not sure) came out of the capri and into the grasstrack car (which they had to try out on the road, things were more relaxed back then) and they found they had a rather rapid mk1 Escort!!