There's nothing like sitting back after work having a beer and watching a very satisfying episode of Yorkshire restorations.
@101088Albert6 ай бұрын
One of the hardest things in life is to make something difficult look easy, this is what I am seeing here. Such a pleasure to watch and admire
@petesmith19246 ай бұрын
Mk1 Escorts were from the early 1970s, not 1980s weren’t they? I remember lusting after them as a kid growing up in the 1970s!
@nicholasviney59756 ай бұрын
The RS has come a long way, the amount of hidden rust is just incredible.
@justinsimpson79346 ай бұрын
Imagine all the hidden rust on these unrestored Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts at car shows. Considering this one was only on the road between 1974 and 1989 😮
@nicholaslittle23126 ай бұрын
Is it easier to build a new car sometimes? 🤐
@mikeburke6036 ай бұрын
Bringing cars like this back to life must be the most satisfying job ever!!
@MrNurdiboy6 ай бұрын
the metal working skills here is just next level, its a kind of thearapy watching these videos :-)
@jeffhammond89696 ай бұрын
Love the explanation and close ups of grinding and removing old panels to get back to original metal.
@Stigsens16 ай бұрын
This is a craft that is fast dissapering, it is only very special cars where it make sense to do this level of work.
@jesscourt90686 ай бұрын
The owner just made history. A full video of the extent of the massive rebuild. Even the original is improved. Whatever it is costing, the result is easy sell and or satisfied result. Fantastic job on what most would consider a basket case. I know the effort involved as i had to rebuild two inner arches in sections, and floors and inner sills on my Barchetta. Panels no longer available is the worst reply to any enquiry. So much admiration Steve!
@johnvaluk14016 ай бұрын
That lazer rust remover must be a god send not having to sand blast those hard to reach areas and all the mess involved with sand blasting
@davidbarnsley84866 ай бұрын
I just love watching skilled artisans do their craft It is so impressive And the paper template that is just gold
@bramvermaat14536 ай бұрын
I definitely like your work best. This video also has great presentation, and great information on all you do. You sir, are a metal genius.
@SFXfrank6 ай бұрын
Although the laser did not appear for a long time, it left a deep impression on me! It's so coooool ! !
@AndySomogyi6 ай бұрын
I understand those lasers are like $75,000 USD
@SFXfrank6 ай бұрын
@@AndySomogyi Your idea is so outdated, the laser in the video only $23,000 !
@russthebiker6 ай бұрын
This is a joy to watch, you must enjoy your work,because you are so conscientious When you have finished this will be concourse Watching you replace so many small but important parts, has given me a new appreciation for how well this car was designed in the 60s, compared to its predecessor the Anglia, it is light years ahead,and still a very usable car on todays roads
@georgeclements27426 ай бұрын
Impressive as always. I feel for the owner as each piece of work shows that the condition of the shell was much worse than it looked. Best wishes.
@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm6 ай бұрын
1970 RS 1600 powder blue ! was my twin cam escort ! round headlight!
@marciabaldwin25066 ай бұрын
Absolutely brilliant Steve totally awesome video and craftsmanship the Rs is in amazing hands.you never leave any stone unturned fantastic work as always ❤
@Rathom6 ай бұрын
That Laser cleaner is going to be the mvp of your shop.
@karenmurray30986 ай бұрын
wow , that laser thingy is a cool bit of kit steve !!
@mattcurtis64816 ай бұрын
Good, clear and decisive instructions, great job Steve easy to follow 👍👍😎
@JoesephBidon6 ай бұрын
Superb welding skills.....a joy to watch.
@Nathanmorganmk1escort6 ай бұрын
I’m doing all this to mine but you make it seem so easy top quality work
@JackNZer6 ай бұрын
Impressed by the work you are doing to restore this fabulous car. Impatient to see the finished car.
@77321476 ай бұрын
Nice one Dad. Lovely work as usual.
@jimmcfee34886 ай бұрын
Mates rallied these locally in the late 1980's/1990's. i was mainly mechanical(I was a RX3/$ person, not clunky old piston engined cars back then) but my shed had a permanent floor framing jig and permanent pulling points laid out for repairs, amazing how quick you can replace a side, front or back when you are cutting up complete cars for parts. So much wasted. Nothing much rusts badly down here(Tasmania) but escorts were prone to it regardless.
@philjones30796 ай бұрын
Superb craftsmanship. Wish I could afford to get my old Volvo restored.At the moment it has "patina".
@justinsimpson79346 ай бұрын
Great work as always Steve, even though you have made that near side inner tub mint. I would of sent you one if we had known how bad it was. Never mind it’s done now 👍🏼
@paulchurchuk6 ай бұрын
Great job and nice to see the RS2000 back again ❤
@jagracershoestring6096 ай бұрын
Back in the day, when I was repairing rusty cars for a side job, all the panels were available from Ford Competitions department. I used to have a copy of the AVO repair manual to work to.
@Phuc_Yhou6 ай бұрын
The easiest way to spot an AVO shell is look in the boot for the axle hump 👍
@allanrichards37526 ай бұрын
I've seen those laser cleaners come with a welding head. They are absolute mustard at welding thin metal with very minimal distortion and actually quite quick at welding. Much quicker than picking at it with a MIG. The only thing is that the metal must be perfectly clean and with virtually no gap to fill. If you have some spare time with it you could offer a cataract removal service!!!
@boydsargeant74966 ай бұрын
Loving the new music, very Zen, suits you. Maybe you could remind us which disks you are using on your grinder if they are flap or slit etc. That new machine is earning its keep now!
@jonnenne6 ай бұрын
Glad to see you using the laser!
@stephenyoud61256 ай бұрын
Steve you're an artist indeed - outstanding work as usual.
@melwilliamson82086 ай бұрын
nice bit of explanation on panel removing big help for people starting to learn keep up the great video's
@colinritchie17576 ай бұрын
What a Brilliant job Steve
@noenlunde70286 ай бұрын
The skills are from another world
@blimpism6 ай бұрын
Very impressive work
@msearlam6 ай бұрын
Great video as always! I'd be quite happy to watch these if they were hrs long.
@Braveheart7914-idfl6 ай бұрын
This will be one solid shell when your finished Steve! Crackin job there bud 👍🏻😉🇬🇧
@tl4ever2626 ай бұрын
Man that's a lot of work for such small area. Love your work guys.
@chrisstokoe31695 ай бұрын
AHH the rs2000 simpler times
@NicholasTerry-p8g6 ай бұрын
Love watching you guys,so talented brilliant team.
@pip54616 ай бұрын
Steve, your skills & craftsmanship are most commendable...!
@schrauberkonigsolingen24636 ай бұрын
Hello, very nice work. Greeting from Germany City Solingen.
@matthewgrice69026 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. Great work Steve.
@dirkbosse17866 ай бұрын
A pleasure to watch. Thank you!
@danielwatson29106 ай бұрын
Nice work
@philippestrickler34616 ай бұрын
You are so talented to be able to fix all these damaged parts . In France we said that you have golden hands (des mains en OR) .
@danijelcar51846 ай бұрын
Great work👍👍👍😎
@samperras6 ай бұрын
Love your work
@davidmckinney65775 ай бұрын
Hello 👋 Steve good buddy 👍 you have pretty much built that car it's going to be like a new car again, do they use a lot of salt on the road over there in wintertime to cause so much rust? They use salt here and also put on calcium and it's severe on vehicles..t take oil and I get under my trucks before winter and I put it in a pump up sprayer and I spray it in every orfice in the chassis on my trucks because usually on those box frames they use on trucks they rust from the inside out .very good video buddy tell captain yorkshire I said hello
@yorkshirecarrestoration5 ай бұрын
Hi David. I will tell him :)
@Chiller199020086 ай бұрын
very nice smoth soft skills ;) need you for my VW T4 chears, grettings from Germany ;)
@levelcrossing1506 ай бұрын
Lovely work.
@DanRoper-ex2vy6 ай бұрын
Top work Steve
@davefrench36086 ай бұрын
Fabulous fabrication and weLding Steve.
@as3cs36 ай бұрын
just spotted a Hillman Imp. Will be great if you do a series on that as I'm just about to start body-repairs on mine
@steveworth5446 ай бұрын
Brilliant
@tomswindler646 ай бұрын
You accomplished quite a bit in this video made some definite improvements on this wheel house.great video,great job.just continue on doing what you do best.😎😎😎👍👍👍
@mclark38746 ай бұрын
New subscriber love your work
@paulwortman4836 ай бұрын
Good old British Steel!!! How did any cars survive over there???
@isopepe1086 ай бұрын
Great video and car, ihave 3 mk1 escort mexico. What is that silver paint what you use?
@justinsimpson79345 ай бұрын
Weld through zinc primer
@lrcb406 ай бұрын
Metal wizards!
@jasperdemann59366 ай бұрын
Yorkshire Car Restoration: sponsored by Safety Squint Welding Accessories and The Invisible Ear Defenders Co Ltd. 😄
@scottcallis34916 ай бұрын
As soon as I heard the word 'Laser' I'm like... Ok...I'm in 🙂
@TastierBackInThe80s6 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, thoroughly enjoyed it.
@grahamdavies226 ай бұрын
That welding is brilliant, it’s like surgery. The only thing I ever welded took 5 minutes to do….. and 2 days filing to get the excess crap off 😢
@ToreDL876 ай бұрын
American restorers has it easier, way thicker metal on those rods/muscle cars and what have you not. Everywhere else we're working on what amounts to nothing more than mallable paper. This channel serves as proof of that. Master class as per usual Steve! 💪
@wazzazone6 ай бұрын
Masters at Work thanks Steve.
@peterbockholm31766 ай бұрын
Question: a couple of videos ago you used a special kind of wire-wheel-thingamajig, 10-12 cm wide. It gave a great result with what to me looked like little effort. I was expecting you to use it again on poor pitiful Patches but you used 320 instead, why? Was it in preparation for all signatures at the car show or is the metal too thin? Is thin metal the reason you will only sandblast the inner and undersides? It seemed like a great tool for saving time and effort and prevent from inhaling a lot of dust if it can be connected to a shop-vac with good filtration. I've used that system for all my tools since 2003, I finally realized the importance of dust management when I got kids. For me, it turns out that it was too late, but Ryan is younger than I was back then so for health's sake, he shouldn't cover himself in dust and whatnot over and over again. There's a limit to how much only a face mask can protect so use both masks and control dust.
@JsyJames6 ай бұрын
This is like Trigger’s broom! What will the proportion of original metal be by the end?!
@AndySomogyi6 ай бұрын
When you made that dog leg section, wasn’t the part you cut out a double layer? Did you replace that double layer with a single layer ?
@hoggmotorsport6 ай бұрын
Caught up on the full playlist for this one, great work!! Although there looked to be a fair bit of rust pitting in the osr inner tub, plus all the fabrication time going into repair panels ... would it not have been easier to fit a pair of inner tubs as you're this far into it? 🤔
@justinsimpson79345 ай бұрын
I should of also sent those to him, but it was too late by the time I realised
@hoggmotorsport5 ай бұрын
@@justinsimpson7934 hindsight is a wonderful thing mate, still be an awesome car when it's finished 👍
@justinsimpson79345 ай бұрын
Yeah exactly
@davidbarnsley84866 ай бұрын
I am surprised by how much you have to work with they were tissue paper to start with and no rust protection 👍👍🇦🇺
@terrypugh30293 күн бұрын
Are there any updates on this?
@stevensmi11676 ай бұрын
Loving that laser ooohh suit you sir
@LilYeshua6 ай бұрын
Nice BGM selection
@stevenbennett39226 ай бұрын
Thought the Mk I was a 60's and 70's car.
@yorkshirecarrestoration6 ай бұрын
It is , my bad :)
@justinsimpson79345 ай бұрын
1974
@jakkimacneill19576 ай бұрын
I'm sure this was an icon of the 70's...not the 80's
With all the replacement metal, this is rapidly becoming a 2024 mk1 Escort!
@stevenbennett39226 ай бұрын
The GoPro must be an valuable tool in the process as you can demonstrate to customers the money pit they have purchased before bringing it to you.
@MrGroupA6 ай бұрын
When you repair and cut out sections, isn't the repair suppose not be visible? I mean seamless so that you really can't tell a repairs been made in the first place?
@ToreDL876 ай бұрын
He's got to save time somewhere or he'll be spending eon's on the simplest of strips of metal. On structural it just doesn't matter, add to that all the rust proofing & gravel/chip protection, this repair will be as good as invisible even if you know what you're looking for. Quick Edit: Another thing too, 40-50 years down the line when this car is being restored again, it's useful for the next guy stripping this down to bare metal, to see where work has been done previously, just like it is for Steve here 👌
@Kapparie6 ай бұрын
Whatdo you do for a living? Fighting rust....😄
@leofabbro4566 ай бұрын
sooooooooo easy.....to watch
@dacholl20096 ай бұрын
Might as well start from new panels and transfer in the good original parts
@fredygump55786 ай бұрын
now you need a laser that goes around corners. That'd be the ticket!
@karlglynn79746 ай бұрын
It’s mad how much 1970s cars Rot, must be the poor quality steel used or the painting process. Banging job though chap. 👍🏻
@Juntasification6 ай бұрын
Not much thought was given to rust prevention back then. Chassis where usually painted after assembly, so the insides never got any paint. I wish to live to see if the modern stuff do any better after 40+ years. 🙂
@guzziwheeler6 ай бұрын
@@Juntasification Best rust protected cars were built in the late 80s and the 90s.
@karlglynn79746 ай бұрын
@@Juntasificationvery true, just a shame as all the cars from the era have the most character unlike modern cars. The bonus is there a so few left so the value holds up. Skills like this chap has are absolutely fascinating.😊
@russellr16776 ай бұрын
Ouch! That fence post was cracking on Steve! Should the maestro of metalwork switch to metal fenceposts?
@desmondharney11856 ай бұрын
Can you show us some continuous bead weld at normal speed so as we can see how its done and the sound as well.. please
@ToreDL876 ай бұрын
It's just "zzzzt", it's not bead welding it's continuous tack welds. If you literally don't know how it's supposed to sound I recommend going to welding classes first and foremost, and get an idea how to adjust the welder (though now you can get welders from Kemppi and Esab where you just input steel thickness and off you go).
@PompeyMatt176 ай бұрын
sizzling bacon...and they're tack welds to reduce distortion..
@rambojazdude30236 ай бұрын
How come they tack weld plate on, then cut through some of the tacks? is it to relieve stress on the plate?
@guzziwheeler6 ай бұрын
They tack on the new part, which first overlaps the old metal. Then they cut through both parts to match the old part perfectly to the new part by removing excess material from the old part. Got it?
@ToreDL876 ай бұрын
A.k.a, "Cut'n butt".
@steptoeandson35546 ай бұрын
See: Fitzee's Fabrications "Cut n Butt"
@chrislewis48306 ай бұрын
COSMO COSMO COSMO we need it we crave it
@neilmchardy90616 ай бұрын
Would a new shell then modified be cheaper?
@alecfraser19286 ай бұрын
I don't like to think of the conversations with the client on this one .....
@kinross246 ай бұрын
Mk1 wax surely 1970’s, 1972-74 for the 2000. Mk2 came out 1975 to ‘77. 1980 to 1990 was the mk111
@stoveguy21336 ай бұрын
Got a car with subframe mount rust. Fixed motor issue. Sold car. Made $2200
@asmg256 ай бұрын
Funny how the previous repairman patched the car thinking no one is going to see what he did. Well, thousands of us are watching. 😅
@wayne95186 ай бұрын
True, but so many of those repairs were done on cheap used cars and were fully expected to go to the crusher. Almost everyone has a car they wish they never sold. Now you can’t find one or can’t afford one.
@gerryoneill88816 ай бұрын
The awful music(if you can call it music?) is a distraction. Good video though.