newbie from ayrshire

ESCORTRS2000 · Post by **ESCORTRS2000** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:22 pm

hi to all my name is matt I have a 1998 Yamaha r1 in blue this is my third one love them also restoring a 1990 exup my hobbies are mk1 and mk2 escorts I have a mk2 rs2000 and another mk2 half done website looks good cheers

Post by **jompy** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:44 pm

Get some pics up of the RS2000 in fact get all your escort pics up !

Shiny-ShoesYZF · Post by **Shiny-ShoesYZF** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:46 pm

jompy wrote:Get some pics up of the RS2000 in fact get all your escort pics up !

Last escort I had fun with was a 5'10" russian girl.... Oh, sorry, wrong forum.

Shiny-ShoesYZF · Post by **Shiny-ShoesYZF** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:47 pm

Welcome anyway.

Post by **jompy** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:49 pm

Welcome in Matt
Sorry bud but I get a little over excited at the thought of mk 1&2 escorts ohh and capris !
Love my early R1's too although mines an acquired taste lol
there's a lot of helpful info on the 4xv but then with your experience you may not need it

Post by **Bub** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:50 pm

Welcome to the forum mate, as said lets see some pics of the escort and the bike

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ESCORTRS2000 · Post by **ESCORTRS2000** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:03 pm

cheers once a get a hang of putting pics on I will do asap

Post by **R1Clarky** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:58 pm

Welcome in

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Post by **carsonr6** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:23 pm

Welcome mate

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Post by **LOCKE** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:45 pm

Welcome in mate. I'm just up the road in Glasgow. There are a good few Scots on here so join in mate.

Colin

Post by **Scrapman** » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:49 pm

Welcome Matt, not to be confused with a welcome mat at the front door.
Where in Ayrshire mate ? Ever doon the the Largs for coffee ?

samr1 · Post by **samr1** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:28 am

Hi Matt welcome in

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Post by **Steve R1** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:47 am

Welcome to the forum Matt and yiur escorts sound cool, so as Jompy says, let's see the pics, we love pics on here. I loved those RS 2000 's still a cracking looking car today. To post pics yiu need to host them in say photobucket and then copy the IMG link into yiur post..... Simples as Alexander would say

So welcome, join in the fun and banter and yiu have already got a lot if peeps on tender hooks wanting to see yiur RS

Stephen

Post by **petepassion** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:29 pm

Hi, welcome.
My first ever car was a mk1 escort 1300GT with a 1.6GT lump...ah...memories.
You may get more interest in your car than your bike here

Post by **jompy** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:54 pm

My first car was a mk2 escort estate in a state , 1100 base model with drum brakes alround with a 1300 engine still with the 1100 box , I found

some front struts with disk brakes & fitted those

Post by **petepassion** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:04 pm

jompy wrote:My first car was a mk2 escort estate in a state , 1100 base model with drum brakes alround with a 1300 engine still with the 1100 box , I found some front struts with disk brakes & fitted those

Used to stick the Capri diff in for more top end...if it had the power to get there in the first place of course

Post by **Steve R1** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:04 pm

jompy wrote:My first car was a mk2 escort estate in a state , 1100 base model with drum brakes alround with a 1300 engine still with the 1100 box , I found some front struts with disk brakes & fitted those

I bet you took the wings off it to make it naked

Post by **jompy** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:55 pm

petepassion wrote:
jompy wrote:My first car was a mk2 escort estate in a state , 1100 base model with drum brakes alround with a 1300 engine still with the 1100 box , I found some front struts with disk brakes & fitted those
Used to stick the Capri diff in for more top end...if it had the power to get there in the first place of course

yeah it didn't have loads of power but it was fun sideways in the wet

Post by **hash29** » Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:46 pm

Hi Matt and welcome to the boards..
Please share some pics of the RS2000 as most of us here are old fucks that grew up around them

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Enjoy the site fella

hash

johnA · Post by **johnA** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:59 am

welcome in mate top motor the rs.

sir digby · Post by **sir digby** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:38 am

Come on fella where's these escort pictures oh and welcome in fella.
Cheers
Mark

joe_bloggs · Post by **joe_bloggs** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:23 pm

Welcome in bud am in Sunny

Barrhead not a million miles from you

Cheers John

BIG UN · Post by **BIG UN** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:24 pm

welcome pal.
sold my mk2 mexico in signal green.
wish i never did though..realy miss that car and itd be worth a fortue now.

Post by **jompy** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:49 pm

Mmmm Mexico , I prefered the Mexico to the rarer Harriers

Post by **2002r1jon** » Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:24 pm

Welcome in mate

www.YamahaR.co.uk

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