£750k for a used Ford Escort??

[Billhook]

How much would my Little Grey Fergie be worth with H M the Queen as the second owner?

Start bidding at £100k???

[GarethM]

Are those two different TVO fergies or a pair as they look to be different colours ?.

Edited August 28, 2022 by GarethM

[Billhook]

No just the one, straight petrol

[GarethM]

Must be the light as one looks blue other grey.

 

A decent fully restored road legal fergy would be around 4k, plenty of unrestored ones around 3k, I've always preferred the TEF diesel Perkins version.

 

So guessing with the queen connection 4/5 maybe a little more if it's road legal and if you can find more paperwork or possibly pictures with the queen driving it with the numberplate.

Edited August 28, 2022 by GarethM

[eggsarascal]

£650k + fees is cheap for princess Diana’s escort. Prince Andrew paid £10 million for his.

[MattyF]

Series one RS turbos fetch stupid money any way… I really regret selling mine for 2k 20 years back and getting a series 2 which was a massive mistake at the time anyway…  when you are now seeing them go for 20k+.. I think the other thing was the whole run was done in white at the factory with the exception of princess Diana’s as she wanted a black one , made it that bit more special. 
folk are mad for those RS fords and always have been , I remember my mates dad had a mk 1 lotus escort shell that made 20k just for the log book and chassis number as the thing had rusted away and that was back when I had mine.  

[spuddog0507]

2 hours ago, MattyF said:

Series one RS turbos fetch stupid money any way… I really regret selling mine for 2k 20 years back and getting a series 2 which was a massive mistake at the time anyway…  when you are now seeing them go for 20k+.. I think the other thing was the whole run was done in white at the factory with the exception of princess Diana’s as she wanted a black one , made it that bit more special. 
folk are mad for those RS fords and always have been , I remember my mates dad had a mk 1 lotus escort shell that made 20k just for the log book and chassis number as the thing had rusted away and that was back when I had mine.  

there was a mk 1 Escort that sold at auction in Holland a couple of years back, it was type of complete, it had been stood outside for near on 30yrs so had vast amounts of rot, which i would of said was far beyond salvage, vin number was 0000000004 so number 4 off the production line, it made 48000 euro !!

Edited August 29, 2022 by spuddog0507
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[Billhook]

13 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

£650k + fees is cheap for princess Diana’s escort. Prince Andrew paid £10 million for his.

How much did Prince Andrew have to pay Fergie over the years???!!

[Billhook]

5 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

there was a mk 1 Escort that sold at auction in Holland a couple of years back, it was type of complete, it had been stood outside for near on 30yrs so had vast amounts of rot, which i would of said was far beyond salvage, vin number was 0000000004 so number 4 off the production line, it made 48000 euro !!

I regret not keeping the Escort I built in 1975  Mk 1 RS bodyshell brand new in grey primer from Ford AVO for £270 fitted with 3 litre V6 and overdrive gearbox from a Gilbern RS brakes etc.  Sold the bodyshell in 1990 to a grasstrack racer from Skegness for £50!  Engine and drivetrain still going strong in a Dutton Phaeton

[spuddog0507]

16 hours ago, Billhook said:

I regret not keeping the Escort I built in 1975  Mk 1 RS bodyshell brand new in grey primer from Ford AVO for £270 fitted with 3 litre V6 and overdrive gearbox from a Gilbern RS brakes etc.  Sold the bodyshell in 1990 to a grasstrack racer from Skegness for £50!  Engine and drivetrain still going strong in a Dutton Phaeton

Hine sight is a wounderful thing and we have all made the mistakes, late 70s early 80s i had circa a dozen Yamaha FS1E,s go through my hands, used to buy one for a fiver or a tenner get it running and then sell it on for 30-40 quid, all so had DT125s 175s Rd 200 and 250s, but back then they where worth nothing but now very sought after, a elderly neighbour of mine has a MK1 2 door Escort on a F plate and every time i see him i ask have you sold that car yet, and his answer is could of sold it dozen times today, Only good move i made was getting away from Jap bikes in the early 90s and buying my childhood dream,