ESCORT MK4 GHIA - HOW BAD IS IT? - BOUGHT UNSEEN - PART 2

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ม.ค. 2025

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  • @finleyk
    @finleyk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome motor mate, my first car in 2017 was a 1990 mk4 escort 1.3, had exactly the same interior as yours, believe it or not, its the rarest mk4 interior you can get as only came on some 4 door cars! If you ever want to sell that interior id be a buyer!

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ah really didnt realise that, but then again it could only have came with certain exterior colours 🙂 no would never break a car as solid as this. Whole car is for sale though 👍🏻

  • @peterogers5867
    @peterogers5867 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fab car and video there chap, cheers!
    I had the same in the early nineties on a 'D' reg in Chesnut with the same interior colour as yours. Alas mine being an '87 model year didn't get the power amp to the stereo.
    As a side note your reg F***MAR is a Ford fleet/press car reg number, my Dad had a Granada Scorpio at the same time and it's reg was also 'F***MAR' too.
    Looking forward to the next episode mate 🙂

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats really interesting info mate, would be awesome to actually find it in literature somewhere!

    • @peterogers5867
      @peterogers5867 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Retro Ratchet My current long term daily driver is a 1988 'F' 2.9i V6, Granada Mk3 Scorpio in Satin Gold with a Mace (tan) Leather interior.
      A fab car to drive, a really comfortable old barge.

    • @stephenmelrose1082
      @stephenmelrose1082 ปีที่แล้ว

      I had a blue 2ltr Sierra F168 MAR

  • @TheLincolnshireFlyer
    @TheLincolnshireFlyer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s looking good. I had a 1990 Orion version of this. Lovely cars. My interior was blue but I’ve always had a soft spot for beige interiors 😂

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah the colour coded interiors of the 80s were fab!

  • @jamesarculus9657
    @jamesarculus9657 ปีที่แล้ว

    Aren't you meant to disconnect the negative first then the positive on the battery?

  • @nickwatson2167
    @nickwatson2167 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    With old escorts , make sure regularly that the shocks havent gone cause when one does its fatal

    • @nickwatson2167
      @nickwatson2167 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like you won't even know until one day itsbraining and you go around a bend

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Will do mate next time im under it

  • @MegaReddevil71
    @MegaReddevil71 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Later mk4s weren't quite so bad for rot as the earlier d plate cars which were rotten at 6 yrs old still quite a few around with good battery trays mines a h plate and it's a never been welded shell

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah seen a few late ones advertised that also look good nick,

  • @marketmalc
    @marketmalc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks good especially for that age. Mind you, the oil will have helped. Sometimes theres a positive from a leak.😂

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha alas it didnt seem to help the rover 🤣

  • @MrMaxeemum
    @MrMaxeemum ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That car is in good condition for 25 years ago. Surely that car has been kept inside someone's bedroom for the last 30 years.

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah the underside is amazing, only really the bottom of the arches that need attention!

    • @philtucker1224
      @philtucker1224 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bedroom yes! (from a converted integral garage (but keeping the up and over door))..😁

    • @philtucker1224
      @philtucker1224 ปีที่แล้ว

      A little bit oily underneath but that’s probably why it’s so good….

    • @philtucker1224
      @philtucker1224 ปีที่แล้ว

      Crickey It still looks like some 10 year old cars!

  • @simonspider
    @simonspider ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Get rid of those awful XR2 wheels! they spoil an otherwise beautiful and original car!

    • @RetroRatchet
      @RetroRatchet  ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely mate, got some std wheels and trims, that will be on the nxt vid, (infact u will clock them sitting in the vid i put out today). What makes these worse is that they are actually capri ones, so only 13s