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[Bkjames]

As some of you know my dad has a M reg Fiesta RS1800 he uses the car every day for work but a few months ago a bloke at his work drove in to and damaged the passenger side rear quarter and light! my dad got payed out through the insurance and he decided to get the car repaired and he also knew he would need to add to the repair as there was a fair bit of rust appearing around the fuel cap!

We took the car to a garage to have the rear wheel arch replaced and the rear quarter sorted but we got a call from the body shop saying the rust is worse than first thought!

So today we went and collected the car and my dad has decided to restore the car so we are going to strip it and get all the rust sorted and the whole car resprayed!

So far we have collected a genuine ford front drivers side wing a genuine ford passenger side inner wheel arch and a few brand new bits of body kit

The car is standard apart from Fiesta ST front calipers disc's and pads, Zetec S rear axle and Zetec S rear drums and Escort RS 2000 Wheels and a magnex stainless exhaust

Here some pictures of how it looked when he first got it






With the RS 2000 wheels fully refurbished


Can see the rusty arch here



Will update once we make a start striping it

Brian

[fezza89]

looks good brian, any luck with that inner rear arch strut panel?

does your dad show the car with fcgb?

[Bkjames]

Cheer's mate, yes we have managed to source a inner wing gen ford aswell

I have been taking his car to show for the last few years on FCGB stand while my mk2 is off the road, i have also taken this out on track for the last 3 years at Ford Fair


Brian

[fezza89]

good good, where did you get it in the end? and how much for if you dont mind me asking?

[RS rob]

that really does look epic in the first picture,

look forward to seeing your progress

[Bkjames]

That first pictures was taken about 3-4 years ago now, and tbh the car was showing a few marks as its used every day, will update once we make a start stripping hopefully next week or so


Brian

[jonyb4]

bloody nice looking RS that

[rst-steve]

Lovely looking car that, and the RS2000 wheels are a huuge improvement

[mrorange2]

Looks nice i really love the RS2k alloys on these.

[Bkjames]

Thanks for the replies

Picked up a few more panels today just need to get abit of time to start stripping it to see how much work we have have on our hands with it


Brian

[knuckles]

looking forward to seeing the restore.
Any more parts you need just let me know. More than happy to help

[Turboboy67]

Looks nice i really love the RS2k alloys on these.

I agree Tim, they look stunning on the 2k rims

[rsonblackwheels]

looks awesome, fantastic every day drive

RS2K wheels FTW

[Bkjames]

Thanks for the replies, my dad was thinking about scrapping it last week when we found out there was a fair amount of rust but we had a think and chat and i managed to get him to keep it and get it all sorted!

looking forward to seeing the restore.
Any more parts you need just let me know. More than happy to help

Cheer's mate, thanks very much for your help so far, sorry i didnt get to meet you today but i never got home until 6.30am from work so come home and went straight to bed!


Brian

[Bkjames]

**Update 2/3/11**

We got the car back on Saturday from the body shop, and then today we got the car out and gave it a quick wash as it was covered dirt

Before we washed it










After we washed it







We have removed the rear bumper, passenger side rear body kit and rear lights







Close up of rust













A few of the new genuine ford panels we have collected so far





And one of our little helper




Brian

[fezza89]

looking good brian, good to see its being done properly

[Razer]

Nice rust holes reminds me of my rebuild.
keep up the W.I.P !

[Bkjames]

looking good brian, good to see its being done properly

Cheer's mate, yeah we are going to it properly it takes as long as it takes


Brian

[Bkjames]

Nice rust holes reminds me of my rebuild.
keep up the W.I.P !

Yeah it does have a fair amount


Brian

[Bkjames]

Small update 26/5/11

Have managed to source a brand new genuine Ford wing (which wasn't cheap) but better to have genuine stuff than pattern panels






Also managed to source another ECU after having trouble with the one in the car now

Brian

[Fraggle]

Respect fella...lotta Graft 2put into that one...Another on the saved list,Top work

[jonyb4]

alot of bad rust, good luck with it mate

[Bkjames]

Cheer's guy's

There is a fair bit of rust but we have nearly got all the panels we need


Brian

[jayrs]

bet ya cant wait to get cracking on it once you got all the parts

[Bkjames]

bet ya cant wait to get cracking on it once you got all the parts

Nah we can't mate but we will get there lol

I have been doing my mk2 fiesta now since 2005 lol


Brian

[jayrs]

i started my xr prob 2 years or more ago, mind you i havent touched it in 18 months

[knuckles]

all the way from germany that panel traveled from

[Bkjames]

all the way from germany that panel traveled from

Yup lol cheer's mate


Brian

[fiestasiphil]

any updates with the project?

[Rs Adz]

hows this coming along

[Bkjames]

**update 30-11-15**

Wow 4 year's ago I posted this here , well a few weeks ago we finally got the car booked in with a welder and the bodywork is starting to take shape and its turning into a solid shell again, We bought another mk3.5 1.1 for spares and swapped the doors over to the RS to start with then it was off to the guy's welding it will let the picture's do the talking









Brian