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Stolen Mk II Escort
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:24 pm
by Luxobarge
Copied from Old Skool Ford
[quote="wonderfulweasel"]Some more details and some pictures:
It's a diamond white mk2 Escort, reg HFE 194 T
It has glassfibre boot, bonnet and Mexico spoiler.
It has a panhard rod and anti tramp bars.
It has a bolt in rear cage, alloy firewall, 4 point harnesses.
It has a 1600 crossflow, with lotus flat top pistons, MegaJolt mappable ignition and a single 45 Weber on a Peco manifold. It has a Burton rocker cover, painted in crackle black.
It was taken from our driveway in Sutton Coldfield, North Birmingham, last night (08-02-2011) before 11.30PM.
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Re: Stolen Mk II Escort
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:49 pm
by Mitsuru
Wow that car looks good!
Sorry to hear that it's been stolen.
Which other forums have you posted on?
(I ask this so nobody duplicates the posts)
I hope that the theif(s) are found, and that
they suffer from every stomach bug and virus.
(I'm diabetic a virus puts me in Intensive Care Unit regularly)
Re: Stolen Mk II Escort
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:37 pm
by JPB
Most of that will probably be in Ireland by now! Obviously, I'd love to think that it would be found in one piece but the value of these things to participants in the national sport out there means that there are thieving scumbags who find it worth their while to fill containers and send them over occasionally. They're invariably bought in good faith by enthusiasts who have no idea that they're buying stolen cars and parts. Sad, but absolutely true.
Re: Stolen Mk II Escort
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:45 pm
by Ian Stanford
[quote=".....but the value of these things to participants in the national sport out there means that there are thieving scumbags"[/quote]
Which particular national sport over here are you refering to?
Re: Stolen Mk II Escort
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:53 pm
by JPB
That would be the historic rallying. If only the roads in rural areas of the UK could be closed to the public for events as frequent and so worth watching as the ones over there.
Looking at some of the very many videos of these events, it appears that most of the population must spend at least half of their free time standing along the sides of narrow, rural roads, freezing half to death in the hope of seeing a bit of sideways action. Great stuff.
I sent some bits over to a mate who stays in Ballybricken, by Waterford, and he reckoned that it was usually pretty hard to tell what was kosher and what wasn't when it came to parts that were sourced from over here.