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newbie from ayrshire
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
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Re: newbie from ayrshire
Last escort I had fun with was a 5'10" russian girl.... Oh, sorry, wrong forum.jompy wrote:Get some pics up of the RS2000 in fact get all your escort pics up !
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Re: newbie from ayrshire
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
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

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Welcome to the forum mate, as said lets see some pics of the escort and the bike
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Welcome in 
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Welcome in mate. I'm just up the road in Glasgow. There are a good few Scots on here so join in mate.
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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 ?
Where in Ayrshire mate ? Ever doon the the Largs for coffee ?

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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
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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
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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
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


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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

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Used to stick the Capri diff in for more top end...if it had the power to get there in the first place of coursejompy 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 foundsome front struts with disk brakes & fitted those


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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 foundsome front struts with disk brakes & fitted those
I bet you took the wings off it to make it naked

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yeah it didn't have loads of power but it was fun sideways in the wetpetepassion wrote:Used to stick the Capri diff in for more top end...if it had the power to get there in the first place of coursejompy 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 foundsome front struts with disk brakes & fitted those

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Re: newbie from ayrshire
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
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Please share some pics of the RS2000 as most of us here are old fucks that grew up around them

Enjoy the site fella
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Come on fella where's these escort pictures oh and welcome in fella.
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Welcome in bud am in Sunny
Barrhead not a million miles from you
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Re: newbie from ayrshire
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.
sold my mk2 mexico in signal green.
wish i never did though..realy miss that car and itd be worth a fortue now.