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newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:22 pm
by ESCORTRS2000
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

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:44 pm
by jompy
Get some pics up of the RS2000 in fact get all your escort pics up !

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:46 pm
by Shiny-ShoesYZF
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.

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:47 pm
by Shiny-ShoesYZF
Welcome anyway.

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:49 pm
by jompy
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 ;)

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 8:50 pm
by Bub
Welcome to the forum mate, as said lets see some pics of the escort and the bike





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Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:03 pm
by ESCORTRS2000
cheers once a get a hang of putting pics on I will do asap

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:58 pm
by R1Clarky
Welcome in :)


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Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:23 pm
by carsonr6
Welcome mate


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Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:45 pm
by LOCKE
Welcome in mate. I'm just up the road in Glasgow. There are a good few Scots on here so join in mate.

Colin

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:49 pm
by Scrapman
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 ?

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 5:28 am
by samr1
Hi Matt welcome in


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Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:47 am
by Steve R1
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 :P

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 :P

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:29 pm
by petepassion
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 :lol:

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 12:54 pm
by jompy
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 :shhh: some front struts with disk brakes & fitted those

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:04 pm
by petepassion
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 :shhh: 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 :lol:

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:04 pm
by Steve R1
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 :shhh: some front struts with disk brakes & fitted those

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

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 4:55 pm
by jompy
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 :shhh: 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 :lol:
yeah it didn't have loads of power but it was fun sideways in the wet :whistle:

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 7:46 pm
by hash29
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 :shhh: ..
Enjoy the site fella

hash

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 12:59 am
by johnA
welcome in mate top motor the rs.

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:38 am
by sir digby
Come on fella where's these escort pictures oh and welcome in fella.
Cheers
Mark

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:23 pm
by joe_bloggs
Welcome in bud am in Sunny :lol: Barrhead not a million miles from you

Cheers John

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:24 pm
by BIG UN
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.

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:49 pm
by jompy
Mmmm Mexico , I prefered the Mexico to the rarer Harriers

Re: newbie from ayrshire

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:24 pm
by 2002r1jon
Welcome in mate