Minds out of the gutter please gentleman. For just 300,000 of your English pounds sterling, you can have a remanufactured 300bhp, 800kg(!) Mk1 Escort RS2000. Get your name down quickly though, as they’re only making 150. If only Ford could have done something like this when resuscitating the Capri instead of inflicting that electric SUV abomination on the motoring public. I love it! https://borehammotorworks.com/
I like the clean front end. Still in keeping with the original but with LED headlights that most likely illuminate the road way better than the OEM candles most were fitted with back in the day. £300K seems a bit steep however. If I had that to spend not sure if my money wouldn't go on an original concours Mexico instead and change to spare. I believe Aston did a similar thing building a handful of DB5's Bond replicas from scratch. Though I believe they cost north of £3.5 million quid each
No. I have seen a documentary on this and admire the efforts made to resurrect this iconic car, but I certainly wouldn't pay that sort of money, even if I had plenty of spare cash.
No, wouldn't want one, original or new build. They are too highly 'Trendy Taxed', too obvious, and too crass. Find a more obscure classic for a tenth of the price, enjoy it for what it is and be different.
Much as I loved my 1300E, part of the love was for its flaws and idiosyncrasies which this will not recreate, so even if I had the money to burn it would be a no from me.
Hey, now you’re talking. I had 2.8 Special back in the day. I thought it was the absolute bollocks at the time, and I wasn’t the only one. I recently saw the exact same model/colour/MY at a Sunday car show and it looked shit! The wheels looked comically small and I’d forgotten all about the interior… which is understandable…
Jeff Uren's Stampede in it's understated form appealed a lot more to me personally and had the only powerplant that filled the stupidly over-long "design exercise" engine bay.
Didn't Jaguar do something similar with the lightweight E-Type. Originally they planned to build 12 but only built 6, so there were 6 unused chassis nos in the ledger, so Jaguar recreated 6 exact replicas. They were all pre sold for around £1.5M each, homologated for classic racing only and apparently un-registerable for road use. As far and I'm aware, they were not available in pink. There was a TV programme on the remanufacturing that was pretty interesting, and they were lovely things, but really just a piece of automotive artwork, that isn't actually the real thing in many peoples eyes, and you'd need to be seriously bunced up to race one, or get a driver to race it for you. What a world we live in today.....
