INCREDIBLE TIME WARP FORD ESCORT RS 1600i
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2021
- We just had to show you this very special 1 off! of an already very special Ford RS line. with under 10K miles from new this Escort RS 16i really is one of the best out there!
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takes me back to the early 90's, i owned a RS1600i identical to this one, same colour, i went to alot of raves around the country back in the 90's, great times in mine.
Great car I had white and red, love seeing them now, the seats are by Scheel not recaro, cracking find.
Wow factory fresh RS1600i Escort with a turbo very rare car 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Wow that is literally factory new. What a example of a classic. Can’t believe how clean and original it is😱 growing up in the 80s & 90s always loved this spec Escort.
Always aspired to have an RS1600i, rarer than hens teeth now! Proper car of my era, a thing of beauty and those seats 😍
My Dads 83 VW Passat GL5 had Dunlop D2 Sports what a blast from the past! Fabulous example of an RS1600i. Lovely W124 in the background,
Young fellas appreciating old cars, excellent!
Lovely car. I had one exactly the same colour in 1990. I sold it for £1500. It was very low miles and good condition. Amazing how these cars have gone up.
Awesome. My mate had one of these in black. Stunning example you have there.
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
Rare motor that is. Rs1600i in white, my mate had the exact same one as your showing and jheeeeeeez i love the style of it.the money they go for not wow.Thanhs for putting this up. 👌
My favourite since they first came out
A mate of mine had one years ago, I remember going to Croft Circuit in it ,it felt special.
What a beauty
Wow, what a great find. It’s absolutely perfect, I owned 1 before I swapped it for the series 2 RS Turbo. Nice vid bruh.
What a criminal act swapping for a S2 turbo🤷🏼♂️
What a car!!! Insane find :) Greetings from Holland
Best wishes from the U.K Thank you for your support 👍
That’s rare, very nice. Best colour too. I nearly bought a rally version in the 1988 owned by Peacocks in London. Group A spec.
Caspian blue ones were the best colour IMO
Lucky find awesome car lads 🙂
Cool car 👍👍👍👍👍
Nice car.
Very nice, I had two back in the day first a black one then the orange or sunburst red I can't remember its factory colour name the second one was the better of the two always loved the finned rocker cover on the CVH that was exclusive to the RS1600i, My gawd I wish I still had one now though!
Such an underrated car
Had a sunburst red one fkin loved it
Definitely love a white one now
I had a Sunburst Red '83 A reg one,back in the 80's,which was also turbo'ed, & featured in the car Magazine Hotcar..I sold it for £8750 about 1988,to buy my first house..it used to eat clutches & head gaskets,but was extremly fast in its day..clearly the early days of turbo conversions, it was also water injected, with a water cooled intercooler..id love to have it back today..
I'm awaiting the dawn of the age where we sell our houses to buy back our first cars 👌🙂
Oh, heaven.
That is absolutely sensational, never knew that you could get a blower fitted at the dealership as an optional extra prior to the RS Turbo being launched., do you have anymore details on this as I am unable to find anything on the internet. Learn something new everyday, thanks for sharing what a car.
The boys look serious
I miss the iconic twin coil ignition which made it different under the body.
Yes pristine condition
Wonder if it has the original gearbox? they was prone to failure (if hammered) & many 1600i`s got swapped for the XR3i box, those seats look like they seen more than ten thousand miles though.
I had a graphite grey one in 1988, I was 18. Loved it. Wish I'd kept it, but you're not to know are you.
It's a familiar conversation these days "if only I'd have kept that one!" Your absolutely right though, you never know at the time.
OMG my childhood dream ok you had the xr3, xr3i and rs turbo but then you have the Rs1600i it's presence on the road was the same as the diamond white Rs turbo and if you had a D reg then it worth today a fortune but the Rs1600i was in a class of its own and what a car, This beauty with the Rs turbo conversion is the icing on the cake and ok the new car today are more comfortable but the classic keep you a live and the adrenaline rush going down the B roads against its competitors the Renault 5 GT, Golf GTI, and if you know that was the time for hot hatchback day's. I remember seeing a D reg diamond black Sierra Rs500 with the whale tail on the back what a machine and next to the beautiful Rs1600i A reg Rossina Red in the garage, A childhood memory that never forgotten. Who ever has brought this is a very lucky person. A true time piece of motor engineering history.
Mk 3’s were total rot boxes had an 8 year old XR3i back in the day it was falling to pieces so the condition of this is absolutely unbelievable.
These were fitted with twin coils how is it that this has a distributor? I purchased one back the 80,s loved it
Our best guess is that it was done in line with the turbo conversion, although you would expect the twin coils to work better with the turbo charger, providing a stronger spark.
With originality being paramount for many collectors would the addition of a turbocharger add or detract from this car's value?. It looks simply gorgeous by the way. 👍👍
Detract
Detract the cost. The more factory original it is the more classics they, especially a rare find like this one. Gotta be worth a small fortune.
Factory conversion at Ford with relevant documentation. Chances are theres less than a handful of these if any more at all!! £50k at least?
They are not Recaro seats. They are made by a German company called Scheel.
I stand corrected, I mistook the RS badge on the seats as the RECARO one commonly found on the Ford RS range. Thank you for your insight 👍🏻
@@carmodityclassics And they were also fitted to the Zakspeed 2.8 turbo Capri
Wow rs1600i turbo! From the factory 😮 would love to know the price these days of something like this.
Thanks for watching! This one has now moved on to another enthusiast Ford collector, for an undisclosed amount :)
Proper Bo I tell thee
rare and valuable car. worth 60 grand nowadays.
Some condition
Tidy!!!!
40yrs old
Can we just clarify some things here... 1st yes it's a stunner, to find a car like this in such good nick is amazing, but I was around when these were new, had couple of friends who had 1,not for long though because, it's slow, much slower than u think, brakes are shocking, after the 2nd roundabout flat out your not stopping for the 3rd,they let water in like u wouldn't believe, I remember my mates spare wheel floating in a lake in boot well. Think if I remember right these weren't propper RS's more like a special edition with a few RS bits thrown on a xr3i. I've always thought though these do look nice just doesn't perform anything like how it looks. It's amazing to me how pretty much all fast ford's prices have been going crazy, shows how much people love them I think. But some like this 1 weren't good new, so don't quite get the madness for them now tbh... But I know I'm in the minority lol... Great find still.
I've never driven one but also heard on good authority that the brakes were awful
Greatly in the minority, they are only going one way price wise, up n up. They have a following like nothing else. Fast fords, brought affordable sports car ownership available to the masses, just infectious. I've got a Fiesta ST, good fun on a b road and affordable, sporty and not outrageous enough to lose your license!
@@richardburns5925 yeah k.. Your kind of missing the point tho, do u think now that this rs1600 (thats slower than standard Honda Civic these days for example) that now fetch over 30k is bringing affordable speed to the masses?? Its was never fast or good when NEW, that was my point in first place & never mentioned ANY other model Ford.
@@vaughanwatkins7146 your the one that's missing the point entirely, they brought affordable sport cars to Joe public.......in the 80s. Hot hatches. A bit quicker and more sporty than your standard models. All we had then was unreliable, bad handling British two seater stuff or Porsche or Ferrari. A modern TDI would thrash an 80s hot hatch, everything now is quicker, across the board. Everyone knows that. People wanting nostalgia and to relive their youth buy these now, with so few left and the people that want them usually have deep pockets, the prices will rocket. If you don't get the "Ford thing" don't pepper the net with detrimental comments.
@@richardburns5925 omg.. I miss the point????... An rs1600 at over 30k..IS NOT WORTH IT!.. IS MY POINT U MUPPET! Just because u have a Ford u think everyone has to agree with u... I DON'T!..ALL Ford's are badly made, age terribly & are massively over rated.
That's MY OPINION, I don't need a fool like u to tell me differently because u have a different 1....ok?
looks like a turbotechnics
Lindsay dealer sticker Northern Ireland car 👍
I always wonder what might have happened, when a proud owner buys a really nice car but for whatever reason doesn’t use it hardly at all and just mothballs it? What was the story behind this one please?
Missing duel coil pack, only fitted to the RS1600i, shame.
My parents sold them new ‘ good times
Surely 40 years old, not 30.
Wrong gear knob for the year. Strange as it’s such a low mileage car 🤷🏼♀️
I had a black RS1600i - loved it. BUT - those are NOT Recaro seats they are ASS seats (german company - can't remember the full name). Twin coils, flywheel sensor-fired, little castor on front wheels, so steered like a rollerskate.
The seats were made by Scheel
Got to be worth about £50,000 plus?