Holy crap! I dont make judgements on why,what, where or when people do things, as the same could be said about me. All i know is that were i in this guys situation, and obvious love of the car, i would be over the moon to find a company like yours i could rely on. Not just the work involved, nor the money, but the fact you explain in laymans terms, what will happen. There is an art in what you do, and you are at the top of the pile. Kudos!
I can't get enough of you guys. All highly skilled craftsmen/artisans in your own right. Listening to your description of how you were going to remove the floor pan and save the scars that make it a genuine RS2000 car was mind blowing. The care with which you planned the job was brilliant. I vote for you to do a live podcast one day, then we can watch you warts and all, it would be fun (for us but maybe not for you) Thank you
The Escort is my favorite project, enough with the BMWs. Also, Steve is great, he explains more of how and why than Ryan. He's like a tour guide on a rusty trip. But Ryan has a great sense of humor.
This is a really interesting part of the structural integrity of the car and to see how you have approached it, Steve, is absolutely well thought out. I know that you have many years of experience and practical ability, and with the salted roads, rust and err overcoming previous err repairs, but this is a great lesson for me. I appreciate the skills you and the YCR have and apply. I think I would have been like a lot of others and walked away but it is a round headlight Mk 1 after all! Thanks for the master class.
There is not much old metal left in that car.😅 Only thing that's same as when that car came to you guys is the empty space between the floor and the roof!😂 Keep up the good work. I'm dropping my eyes to the floor every time i watch your videos!💪👍
Hello 👋 Steve and Ryan, wow I love this video I love how that car has chassis rail the whole length of the car it sure makes them stronger it would be easy to make a tube frame and bolt to the chassis rails and it would be stronger then. But I wish all manufacturers would have made cars with chassis rail the full length of the car..very good video buddy it was extremely good 👍 tell my good buddy captain yorkshire I said hello and im doing pretty good.
There is now hardly anything left of the old girl that is original.fantastic job and your explanation of each step is 1st class.Back in my day we labelled a Ford as “Fix Or Repair Daily “.Glad I never owned one.
Obvious to see your commitment and standards of work, unlike others who have worked on the car in the past! Great video explaining the dos/dont's of fitting new panels.
If the Name wouldn´t be used by a Band already I would call you the " Cutting Crew " 🤣😂🤣 I absolutly adore your Videos and love to see how much enthusiastic and passion you put into the restoring of these old cars . It´s absolutly stunning work 👍👍🤘
I'm not to judge anyone on there work but when these cars was out in my day you could get them fo 50 quid . And we didn't have all the sprays you can weld on like you have now . At best we had tins of underseal. And we used oxygen and acetylene torch . Don't get me wrong the work you do is spot on . Love the videos.
Have you also noticed the handbrake mounting plate is slightly off-centre compared to a standard shell so the handbrake does not foul the gearstick due to the longer gearbox😊
AVO never expected their work to be scrutinised 50 years later! Steve, before you fit that rear quarter, remove the spare wheel strap bracket in the spare wheel trough, as its not an RS one. RS ones sat on the boot floor.
Thank you for explaining your process it is very helpful … we used to say that FORD stood for Found On Rubbish Dump those gear box welds from the factory would seem to confirm that! 😊
The work your are doing is clearly second to none, fantastic job. Pretty much every time you have to split a spot welded joint to carry out a repair when clean up to the original metal the mating between spot welded faces are invariably rusted, you clean them up before plug welding on the new parts which is great. What bothers me is all the other joints on the car that you do not (and cannot) touch, presumably most of the spot welded joints have corrosion between mating panels, how to stop this corrosion becoming a problem?
...to counteract those as best as could be would involve drilling out every other spot weld, pulling all the panels off/apart for inspection & treating or removing what's found, probably anti-ruust anodising or painting the repaired panels, then reassembling afresh with new spot welds & bead/brazed welding too... All in all a very time consuming and expensive process, that might not be totally needed or financial available.
Exactly, I’ve done a couple of rebuilds many years ago (1962 Austin Healey Sprite Mk2 and a 1966 Jaguar Mk2 3.8 manual with O/D) once the rust was cut out and repaired it was a case of dosing accessible areas either rust converter and pumping all none accessible area with Waxol. When spending the sort of money these guys must be spending I’m curious how to ensure the issues are not back in 5-6 years time.
As usual a very well detailed video. Just looking at the shell one would think it is a quick fix... WRONG! .. that car has been bodged up for decades with poor repair over and over again.. When is will it become not an original shell as so much is being replaced ? But will look in on the next update. Thanks for a very good video and professional workmanship.
Impressive work! Hope youll be able to continue to do it into the future. Youve done your bit in the dvla call for evidence, right? Deadline 5 July. Applies to all viewers and respondants here!!!!
Outstanding work going into the Escort but I can't keep my eyes off the Imp Californian in the background. I recon it might be my old one! When are you starting on this beauty?
I hope the owner of this car is really in love with this car and not planning on selling it.because I’ve had done a couple of cars in as bad as condition this one is, I would really,really had to be in love with it and not just no,no,no.to me too much.but why you make the big bucks,yea right,your the man and company to do it.be safe,great video as always.just continue doing what you do best.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Hi Steve good job did this to my mark 1 Mexico after a triumph impact rote it off 19 at the time and using oxy welding and many hours put side and rear together. Saw you at shed fest keep the vids going cheers Steve
Awesome work as always. At what point does the identity of the car become an issue? By that I mean you’ve replaced most of the shell, is there a point when DVLA or future owners question the cars identity?
Gawd! I don't know what's worse the tinworm, the factory RS conversion process on the transmission tunnel or the "over-the-top" repair panels on the floor. My mate used to do it like that, the caveman..... Still, it's all going in the right direction!
The next time you restore a Ford Escort, do this: First, cut off the roof. Secondly, buy all the sheet metal parts except the roof new and put them together. Thirdly, weld the roof on - done. 🙂
I think you will find this one is quite a lot better than most. It still has 85% of its bulkhead, A,B and most of the C Pillars along with the complete boot floor. Still shocking considering it was only on the road for 14 years
wow, a floor pan over a floor pan, I'd been wondering why you were replacing the whole floor, when the cut had revealed the pan on top of the original it all became clear then, quick question were RS2000's a special assembled "off" the line or were they assembled "on" the line but from a special bill of materials?
I had a European mark 1 and it had the spare wheel on the right hand side. Was it different on the right hand drive English versions? For safety reasons?
I have Toyota Corolla dx ke70. Its have lots of rusts spots. Where is the best place to start, bottom of car and wheels arcs or critically stop exsam window frame and suspension spots. I have small experience of welding and metal works. Is it worthwhile to take the car to a professional or do it yourself
Safer and easier to replace the complete floor as 1 single item and weld the trans modifaction from the rotten floor to the new floor once the floor is welded in place cause you and we viewers dont know where they welded the bodged up replacement in but it seems every body has fudged escorts in the last 30 years
(Although you cleverly retained original body parts as a measurement reference during replacement) these are now in the skip and the body is now basically new I assume?
At this level of "restoration" it would probably be easier to just build/buy a new shell. MST is Wales provide full new shells or whole new mk1 Escorts if wanted. This car will almost be a new shell anyway when finished but done in a very long handed way.
I was thinking the same but it could be to do with the new shell wouldn't be classed as a genuine Ford shell more a kit car so it would lose it's value and identify.
Would it not been easier to get a new body shell and swap the old good parts on it seems 6 of 1 and half a dozen of the other , great craftsmanship all day long
Rather than chopping and patching, would it not be possible and quicker to just use a whole new main body - and just weld the old original VIN plate into the new body? - what is the attraction of keeping and treating a few of the old rusty pieces, - and would the savings on hours of extra “rescue” labour not pay for a new shell anyway?
@@justinsimpson7934 yes that’s interesting as I suspect the labour and panels used to “resurrect” that old rotten shell will probably come to a fair bit more than that…
Ah the old lasagna method of fixing floors!! I got a Jensen Healey parts car as we thought the shell may be better than the one that had decided to snap in half but on further inspection decided on the original and chopped up the parts car. There was 5 floors in it 3 chassis rails and 3 inner sills!! I dont think it would have been very quick with the amount of extra metal on it !!
It would be very enlightening to see how to prepare a customer - before the job starts - for these uncovered nasties. Not unlike home remodeling! And then to contact the customer and give t them the "good news".
Most classic car owners already know how much corrosion their is and Steve will have gone over the car throughly and pointed it out He has been doing it a long time,and has a good reputation
All the AVO cars were bodged up in this way. Shocking really but these things prove it’s originality. Would of loved to have made it look better but resisted the temptation
@@justinsimpson7934would these have gone to AVO for build? If so, I might review my thoughts on those guys, as I always thought they were producing top notch work!
I am no expert in any way but wouldn't it have been cheaper and easier and faster to assemble a new body out of spare panels and just transfer the vin of the wreck onto the brand spanking new old RS 2000 😊.....
you can't really build a new car from panels as they aren't all available plus you'd need a jig to put them together. Here - the original car acts as a jig as you gradually replace most of it with new panels
Holy crap! I dont make judgements on why,what, where or when people do things, as the same could be said about me. All i know is that were i in this guys situation, and obvious love of the car, i would be over the moon to find a company like yours i could rely on. Not just the work involved, nor the money, but the fact you explain in laymans terms, what will happen. There is an art in what you do, and you are at the top of the pile. Kudos!
Totally agree buddy
I can't get enough of you guys. All highly skilled craftsmen/artisans in your own right.
Listening to your description of how you were going to remove the floor pan and save the scars that make it a genuine RS2000 car was mind blowing. The care with which you planned the job was brilliant.
I vote for you to do a live podcast one day, then we can watch you warts and all, it would be fun (for us but maybe not for you)
Thank you
The Escort is my favorite project, enough with the BMWs. Also, Steve is great, he explains more of how and why than Ryan. He's like a tour guide on a rusty trip. But Ryan has a great sense of humor.
In one of Ryans' video I saw a Cossie Sierra on the side, maybe future project series
This is a really interesting part of the structural integrity of the car and to see how you have approached it, Steve, is absolutely well thought out. I know that you have many years of experience and practical ability, and with the salted roads, rust and err overcoming previous err repairs, but this is a great lesson for me. I appreciate the skills you and the YCR have and apply. I think I would have been like a lot of others and walked away but it is a round headlight Mk 1 after all! Thanks for the master class.
Magic. I could watch this channel all day.
There is not much old metal left in that car.😅 Only thing that's same as when that car came to you guys is the empty space between the floor and the roof!😂 Keep up the good work. I'm dropping my eyes to the floor every time i watch your videos!💪👍
Hello 👋 Steve and Ryan, wow I love this video I love how that car has chassis rail the whole length of the car it sure makes them stronger it would be easy to make a tube frame and bolt to the chassis rails and it would be stronger then. But I wish all manufacturers would have made cars with chassis rail the full length of the car..very good video buddy it was extremely good 👍 tell my good buddy captain yorkshire I said hello and im doing pretty good.
Really appreciate it when you explain what and why you are doing things. Learn a lot from that. Cheers.
I used to drool over these cars when I was a kid. Can’t wait to see it finished. Great work.
There is now hardly anything left of the old girl that is original.fantastic job and your explanation of each step is 1st class.Back in my day we labelled a Ford as “Fix Or Repair Daily “.Glad I never owned one.
Obvious to see your commitment and standards of work, unlike others who have worked on the car in the past! Great video explaining the dos/dont's of fitting new panels.
Great job! Shows your a pro at this. Fitment to perfection even though it will take you extra time. Thank you for the video.
The close up shots are great. I could watch them all day. Keep up the good work. Hello FROM Hong Kong.
Great to see you back Steve. Ryan was taking all the limelight recently. And good to see the RS 2000 again.
I needed a holiday 😂
The more you dig the more you find, it's going to be a beauty when it's done
If the Name wouldn´t be used by a Band already I would call you the " Cutting Crew " 🤣😂🤣 I absolutly adore your Videos and love to see how much enthusiastic and passion you put into the restoring of these old cars . It´s absolutly stunning work 👍👍🤘
Nice job, Steve, keep the special mods by factory to make it an RS2000, love it! ❤😂.. Greetings from South Africa!
That is amazing. Great video as always.
love the video, love the explanations, love the attention to detail and the care taken, and love the music!
Really interesting episode , great attention to detail and quality craftsmanship
Brilliant, love your concept with the ref points, as an engineer I used this for 99% of the time when changing the aspect of a new project ❤
It is unbelievable what some people think is a good job, best of luck..
Whoo, looks like a built of a completely new car, you guys look like real sheet metal artists
I'm not to judge anyone on there work but when these cars was out in my day you could get them fo 50 quid . And we didn't have all the sprays you can weld on like you have now . At best we had tins of underseal. And we used oxygen and acetylene torch . Don't get me wrong the work you do is spot on . Love the videos.
Have you also noticed the handbrake mounting plate is slightly off-centre compared to a standard shell so the handbrake does not foul the gearstick due to the longer gearbox😊
You beat the old Ford factory in terms of quality.14:08 Factory bodge job!
.. bodge job, not budge,😅 ...no budgies were smuggled or harmed😂
hi awesome vid i love the old school fords had many when i was younger ,including a rs2000 mk1,,👊👊
Nicely done as always. I love watching your videos ❤
Thank you Paul :) 👍
AVO never expected their work to be scrutinised 50 years later!
Steve, before you fit that rear quarter, remove the spare wheel strap bracket in the spare wheel trough, as its not an RS one. RS ones sat on the boot floor.
Thank you will do 👍
Good spot 👍🏽
Vas a pasar una vida restaurando ese escort.
Saludos desde España.
Thank you for explaining your process it is very helpful … we used to say that FORD stood for Found On Rubbish Dump those gear box welds from the factory would seem to confirm that! 😊
Brilliant video , seeing this makes me clad that I own a 30 ‘s vintage car , at least it wasn’t bodged like that Escort !
The work your are doing is clearly second to none, fantastic job. Pretty much every time you have to split a spot welded joint to carry out a repair when clean up to the original metal the mating between spot welded faces are invariably rusted, you clean them up before plug welding on the new parts which is great. What bothers me is all the other joints on the car that you do not (and cannot) touch, presumably most of the spot welded joints have corrosion between mating panels, how to stop this corrosion becoming a problem?
...to counteract those as best as could be would involve drilling out every other spot weld, pulling all the panels off/apart for inspection & treating or removing what's found, probably anti-ruust anodising or painting the repaired panels, then reassembling afresh with new spot welds & bead/brazed welding too...
All in all a very time consuming and expensive process, that might not be totally needed or financial available.
Exactly, I’ve done a couple of rebuilds many years ago (1962 Austin Healey Sprite Mk2 and a 1966 Jaguar Mk2 3.8 manual with O/D) once the rust was cut out and repaired it was a case of dosing accessible areas either rust converter and pumping all none accessible area with Waxol. When spending the sort of money these guys must be spending I’m curious how to ensure the issues are not back in 5-6 years time.
Love seeing the escort come together
I'm well impressed with your skill and workmanship, top notch, well done.
thank god its not another BMW video its something classical about time
I love know how much the cast of this would be too do all the work
Fantastic work with complex shapes. Awesome explanations and so calm. I would take a different approach to this repair. I'd sell it for scrap metal 😂.
As usual a very well detailed video.
Just looking at the shell one would think it is a quick fix... WRONG! .. that car has been bodged up for decades with poor repair over and over again..
When is will it become not an original shell as so much is being replaced ?
But will look in on the next update. Thanks for a very good video and professional workmanship.
Well done Steve
Great work as always Steve 👌🏽
Impressive work! Hope youll be able to continue to do it into the future. Youve done your bit in the dvla call for evidence, right? Deadline 5 July. Applies to all viewers and respondants here!!!!
Yes we have and deffo needs backing as all us classic car owners need to do.
What happened to this RS2000 restoration series? Keen to see the car completed! Cheers Nigel
Bet the owner is even keener 😂
Outstanding work going into the Escort but I can't keep my eyes off the Imp Californian in the background. I recon it might be my old one! When are you starting on this beauty?
I hope the owner of this car is really in love with this car and not planning on selling it.because I’ve had done a couple of cars in as bad as condition this one is, I would really,really had to be in love with it and not just no,no,no.to me too much.but why you make the big bucks,yea right,your the man and company to do it.be safe,great video as always.just continue doing what you do best.👍👍👍😎😎😎
I’ll be keeping it 👍🏽
It's funny to think that when I started as a mechanic a mk 1 escort was worth next to nothing. If I'd known I would have filled a barn with them😞
Hi Steve good job did this to my mark 1 Mexico after a triumph impact rote it off 19 at the time and using oxy welding and many hours put side and rear together. Saw you at shed fest keep the vids going cheers Steve
I worked in a Ford garage in the 80’s and 90’s and it was normal to weld on cover sills etc at MOT time on ten year old cars
Triggers Broom!
Awesome work as always. At what point does the identity of the car become an issue? By that I mean you’ve replaced most of the shell, is there a point when DVLA or future owners question the cars identity?
Nice jod, but why you don't dril spotwelds open?
Gawd! I don't know what's worse the tinworm, the factory RS conversion process on the transmission tunnel or the "over-the-top" repair panels on the floor. My mate used to do it like that, the caveman..... Still, it's all going in the right direction!
I must say I did get really excited reading RS200 maybe one day your have one in 😉😘
Well spotted and not typo changed :)
You gotta admit it takes a lot of skill and dedication to weld to rust 😂😂😂
Hi do you think the E24will be complete this year ?
Good update keep it up the good work 👍👍
The next time you restore a Ford Escort, do this: First, cut off the roof. Secondly, buy all the sheet metal parts except the roof new and put them together. Thirdly, weld the roof on - done. 🙂
I think you will find this one is quite a lot better than most. It still has 85% of its bulkhead, A,B and most of the C Pillars along with the complete boot floor. Still shocking considering it was only on the road for 14 years
wow, a floor pan over a floor pan, I'd been wondering why you were replacing the whole floor, when the cut had revealed the pan on top of the original it all became clear then, quick question were RS2000's a special assembled "off" the line or were they assembled "on" the line but from a special bill of materials?
RS2000’s, Mexico’s, RS1600’s and Twin Cam’s were assembled at AVO.
Keep on the good work, cheers.
Steve good job
I had a European mark 1 and it had the spare wheel on the right hand side. Was it different on the right hand drive English versions? For safety reasons?
Wow! this is turning into Trigger's broom! :)
I have Toyota Corolla dx ke70. Its have lots of rusts spots. Where is the best place to start, bottom of car and wheels arcs or critically stop exsam window frame and suspension spots. I have small experience of welding and metal works. Is it worthwhile to take the car to a professional or do it yourself
Safer and easier to replace the complete floor as 1 single item and weld the trans modifaction from the rotten floor to the new floor once the floor is welded in place cause you and we viewers dont know where they welded the bodged up replacement in but it seems every body has fudged escorts in the last 30 years
(Although you cleverly retained original body parts as a measurement reference during replacement) these are now in the skip and the body is now basically new I assume?
At this level of "restoration" it would probably be easier to just build/buy a new shell. MST is Wales provide full new shells or whole new mk1 Escorts if wanted. This car will almost be a new shell anyway when finished but done in a very long handed way.
I was thinking the same but it could be to do with the new shell wouldn't be classed as a genuine Ford shell more a kit car so it would lose it's value and identify.
Because an MsT is not a genuine Ford escort mk1 and will never have the same desirability
The gear box tunnel change isn’t it for a 5 speed gearbox ?
No it was done because it had a pinto engine which moved the gearbox further back. But it will be having a 5 speed gearbox when it’s put back together
Just curious
What happened to the disaster Datsun and Colin's BMW?
holy crap... the ship of Theseus myth is coming to mind with this one
Would it not been easier to get a new body shell and swap the old good parts on it seems 6 of 1 and half a dozen of the other , great craftsmanship all day long
New shell is £18,000 before you start
Shocking amount of pure bodgery from the previous 'restorer' and Ford themselves...whoaaaa! Well done for dealing with it all.
Rather than chopping and patching, would it not be possible and quicker to just use a whole new main body - and just weld the old original VIN plate into the new body? - what is the attraction of keeping and treating a few of the old rusty pieces, - and would the savings on hours of extra “rescue” labour not pay for a new shell anyway?
A new shell is £18,000 and is made from the same magnum panels welded together by a company called Motorsport Tools
@@justinsimpson7934 yes that’s interesting as I suspect the labour and panels used to “resurrect” that old rotten shell will probably come to a fair bit more than that…
Beautiful work 👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
When’s the next video out on the escort? Been waiting patiently for months 😂
Just amazing
is that why the car is so rusty steve , you are fixing somone elses bodge ?
Yes it’s been poorly fix quite a few times :)
Ok, potentially stupid question coming up….
How did you guys ever manage to do what you do before angle grinders were invented?..
Wouldn't a new shell be more economical than all the cutting?
Ah the old lasagna method of fixing floors!! I got a Jensen Healey parts car as we thought the shell may be better than the one that had decided to snap in half but on further inspection decided on the original and chopped up the parts car. There was 5 floors in it 3 chassis rails and 3 inner sills!! I dont think it would have been very quick with the amount of extra metal on it !!
Thats not a car, is a frankenstein. Cant believe how many patches it has and all that rust! But Nothing you cant repair 💪🏻
Surely this can’t be classed as an original anymore. It’s had so much replaced it’s a re shell.
I understand why you are repairing it this way, but it is going to be a lot of work!
Where’s mat armstrong BMW it been a while no video 😅😅
Trgger’s RS 2000
You really do have to wear proper ear and eye protection. You are putting yourself at huge risk trusting your glasses.
Why not just replace the floor complete
We was going to but there is no corrosion to the complete tunnel and want to keep all the original AVO bodges in place.
Yellow lamborghini ?
They don’t make them like they used to. Thank God
It would be very enlightening to see how to prepare a customer - before the job starts - for these uncovered nasties. Not unlike home remodeling! And then to contact the customer and give t them the "good news".
Most classic car owners already know how much corrosion their is and Steve will have gone over the car throughly and pointed it out
He has been doing it a long time,and has a good reputation
Someone has been busy bodging it up in the past.
"Mk1 Ford Escort RS200" I was a bit miffed it was only an RS2000 :P
Well, at least ut will still have the original transmission tunnel bodge, if nothing else original!😂
All the AVO cars were bodged up in this way. Shocking really but these things prove it’s originality. Would of loved to have made it look better but resisted the temptation
@@justinsimpson7934would these have gone to AVO for build? If so, I might review my thoughts on those guys, as I always thought they were producing top notch work!
Yes they did, typical 70’s bodgery 😂
is that the origin of the word "sandwich"?
I cant believe ford butched the shell so much to make the rs2000
It'll be like Triggers broom this car😂
As seems typical, when you cut a metal part out, you reveal the rust it was covering up... Looks can be so deceiving with vehicles...
Some people can be much like that
I am no expert in any way but wouldn't it have been cheaper and easier and faster to assemble a new body out of spare panels and just transfer the vin of the wreck onto the brand spanking new old RS 2000 😊.....
I'm pretty sure that's illegal 😂😂
They never line up properly
you can't really build a new car from panels as they aren't all available plus you'd need a jig to put them together. Here - the original car acts as a jig as you gradually replace most of it with new panels
You can buy every panel from Magnum but they all need fettling with. A company called MST do make new bodyshells on a jig with them.
At the end he will have a brand new old car in 2024
is that "Triggers" car lol
Just for the algorithm.