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mk1 escort pick-up!
scotty g - 19/5/07 at 12:04 PM

after 8-9 months of hard work and much head scratching the (formerly) Dutton has been transformed into something altogether more appealing and nicer on the eye!



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Hammerhead - 19/5/07 at 12:08 PM

Thats cool.....good effort!


TGR-ECOSSE - 19/5/07 at 12:17 PM

Realy nice. I love mk1 Escorts. Have i missunderstood or is there a dutton chassis under there?


scotty g - 19/5/07 at 12:25 PM

Its not actually my car but a mates, i just did all his GRP work for him.
Yes it started out as a dutton sierra that was truly horrible both in terms of appearance and handling, the bodywork was removed, chassis VERY heavily modified then the body chopped up and made back into the Mk1 escort that its donor was in the first place.
i guess you could say that its been an exercise in reversing what kit builders do.
we have taken a kit based on an escort and turned it back into an escort again, albeit one with a difference!


Humbug - 19/5/07 at 12:28 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scotty g
Its not actually my car but a mates, i just did all his GRP work for him.
Yes it started out as a dutton sierra that was truly horrible both in terms of appearance and handling, the bodywork was removed, chassis VERY heavily modified then the body chopped up and made back into the Mk1 escort that its donor was in the first place.
i guess you could say that its been an exercise in reversing what kit builders do.
we have taken a kit based on an escort and turned it back into an escort again, albeit one with a difference!


Presumably that means it has had to be SVAd, as it doesn't use the "original unmodified chassis"?


scotty g - 19/5/07 at 12:32 PM

couldn't possibly say, as said its not my car.
Its deffo a damn site safer then the standard dutton chassis though, have you ever driven one? Scary!


Confused but excited. - 19/5/07 at 03:59 PM

It's a little beauty!


Danozeman - 19/5/07 at 04:43 PM

No that i like!!