Good price for a mk1 escort?

[4VCLEVO]

My brother has this escort for sale on ebay at the moment and has been offerd $2000 for it. Should he take that much, or should he hold out for more as good original 2 door bodies are hard to get, and there are 115 watches on ebay at the moment which I thought was alot of people after a mk1?

[R0BD0G]

if it isnt anything special and its a 1300XL auto is probably a good price at 2k also seeing as how the body isnt perfect and needs a little work to bring it back to original beauty

[4VCLEVO]

Agreed the body isn't perfect and the 2K does sound good, but as the person that offered the money said, the ones he'd been looking at rust every where and ones like this with very minor amount of rust were hard to come by, there for make an excellent project start. Also his plans are to put a V6 capri engine in.

[Les]

Hi I'm new to the forum and amazed at how hard it is to find good parts for Escorts yet I recently bought a reasonable Mk1 for $100-00 and swapped for a Mk2 near wreck for spares for my 11yr olds dirt circuit race car Mk2 2litre. I have got onto a few Mk2's since for up to $300 one ready to fit a V6 capri. Looking at the pic of your brothers car I would have thought 2 grand was OK considering what I've seen for sale around the place, then again I'm in country Sa so prices here may be different.
Cheers,
Les

[R0BD0G]

Originally Posted by 4VCLEVO

Agreed the body isn't perfect and the 2K does sound good, but as the person that offered the money said, the ones he'd been looking at rust every where and ones like this with very minor amount of rust were hard to come by, there for make an excellent project start. Also his plans are to put a V6 capri engine in.

wouldnt most people agree that if he's going to put a 3L V6 in it he might aswell start with one that isnt any good in the body seeing as how hes gonna screw it over anyway? sure it'll be quick but...? why not just buy a capri then

[2lt_Scort]

Why dont you accept whatever your happy with? I have no idea why anyone would both with a 3lt in it. A decent 2lt will out perform and handle it any day on the track.
$2000 is pretty good considering it condition.

[4VCLEVO]

Originally Posted by R0BD0G

wouldn't most people agree that if he's going to put a 3L V6 in it he might as well start with one that isn't any good in the body seeing as how hes gonna screw it over anyway? sure it'll be quick but...? why not just buy a capri then

He already has a capri tarmac rally car and a good body seemed to be important to him.

Originally Posted by 2lt_Scort

Why don't you accept whatever your happy with?

What your happy with changes in time and knowledge. He advertised it twice on this forum and got down to a price of $1100 which at the time he would of been happy with but no one bought it. Now it's on ebay and the auction is at $1500 and people have come to see it and talked to him on the phone and their general consensus is that it's worth $1800 to $2000.
At this stage I think he is going to let the auction run its coarse and hope the bidding gets to the $2000 mark or more.

On another note, what sort of condition does a mk1 have to be in to be deemed good? This one has no rust in the firewall or in the engine bay and small amount of surface rust in the boot and then everything else you can see in the pictures. Are there plenty of mk1's out there better than this?

[whooligan]

Originally Posted by 2lt_Scort

Why dont you accept whatever your happy with? I have no idea why anyone would both with a 3lt in it. A decent 2lt will out perform and handle it any day on the track.
$2000 is pretty good considering it condition.

Too right. The Essex V6 is a big heavy lump and is not really suited to the Escorts shorter wheel base. Might be fun for a while but I can image the dramas you'd get into on a windy, wet road. The Superspeed (v6) Escorts that were offered as a conversion back in the early 70's used to chew up gearboxes and diffs. Would be interesting how they would go with modern suspension and decent brakes. Still reckon a nicely worked 2lt is the perfect engine for an Escort.

[4VCLEVO]

He took the $2000 and pulled it from ebay. The new owner payed $700 to truck it to sydney and he said that the good body was important as he is a busy man and the beter the body the quicker it will be on the road with its V6 and respray.
Cheers.