gstuart wrote:

Talking of engines I didn’t realise these are going for alot of money , ie

lotus Carlton

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I remember when these were for sale for £20k, and it wasn't all that long ago

I even threatened the wife with buying one

RRSTDV8 wrote:

The RS500 is a true limited edition classic based on the normal RS Cosworth. Only produced 500 (for homologation purposes) and of those, the blue ones were the rarest with only 52 made. A few more white ones and the vast majority black.

Interestingly, the RS Cosworth engine used the Pinto block of the earlier RS2000 Escort with a new Cosworth head and, in the RS500, had an extra injector for each cylinder which was deactivated on the road cars but allowed the race cars to make around 500bhp (with other allowed changes). They also had some no-good-for-anything tabs near the rear suspension trailing arm mounts which allowed the race cars to have different suspension geometry - clever use of the rules by Ford.

And the RS500 was built by Tickford, not Ford, using the standard RS Cosworth base.

Thk u for such an informative reply as found that very interesting

As a side note wouldn’t like to see the insurance quote

Plus hopefully ur like this one , a 4x4 Ford capri cosworth 🤣

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HairyFool wrote:

My favourite magazine of the 70's+ was Car and Car Conversions.

At the time I had a mildly tuned Hillman Imp Sport and they had a piece on a Sunbeam Imp. They took out the rear seat and squeezed in a Rover/Buick 3500cc V8 attached to a Hewland gearbox. The impressive bit was they made it all fit inside the original bodyshell.

it came up for sale about 9 months later but for more pennies that a student nurse can afford.

Blimey I bet that was on the quick side

See they’ve also fitted a goldwing engine and a bmw k1200 both flat 6 ,

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Or even a Volvo engine

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Disco_Mikey wrote:

gstuart wrote:

Talking of engines I didn’t realise these are going for alot of money , ie

lotus Carlton

Click image to enlarge

I remember when these were for sale for £20k, and it wasn't all that long ago

I even threatened the wife with buying one

Assume if u bought one u would have to say that ur going to give the engine an Italian tune up

But indeed have drastically increased in price