Ford Escort RS2000 : Stumped by the amount of work on the inner wheel tub.

[@mattkubler5740]

There's nothing like sitting back after work having a beer and watching a very satisfying episode of Yorkshire restorations.

[@101088Albert]

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

[@petesmith1924]

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!

[@nicholasviney5975]

The RS has come a long way, the amount of hidden rust is just incredible.

[@justinsimpson7934]

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 😮

[@nicholaslittle2312]

Is it easier to build a new car sometimes? 🤐

[@mikeburke603]

Bringing cars like this back to life must be the most satisfying job ever!!

[@MrNurdiboy]

the metal working skills here is just next level, its a kind of thearapy watching these videos :-)

[@jeffhammond8969]

Love the explanation and close ups of grinding and removing old panels to get back to original metal.

[@Stigsens1]

This is a craft that is fast dissapering, it is only very special cars where it make sense to do this level of work.

[@jesscourt9068]

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!

[@johnvaluk1401]

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

[@davidbarnsley8486]

I just love watching skilled artisans do their craft It is so impressive And the paper template that is just gold

[@bramvermaat1453]

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.

[@SFXfrank]

Although the laser did not appear for a long time, it left a deep impression on me! It's so coooool ! !

[@AndySomogyi]

I understand those lasers are like $75,000 USD

[@SFXfrank]

@@AndySomogyi Your idea is so outdated, the laser in the video only $23,000 !

[@russthebiker]

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

[@georgeclements2742]

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.

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

1970 RS 1600 powder blue ! was my twin cam escort ! round headlight!

[@marciabaldwin2506]

Absolutely brilliant Steve totally awesome video and craftsmanship the Rs is in amazing hands.you never leave any stone unturned fantastic work as always ❤

[@Rathom]

That Laser cleaner is going to be the mvp of your shop.

[@karenmurray3098]

wow , that laser thingy is a cool bit of kit steve !!

[@mattcurtis6481]

Good, clear and decisive instructions, great job Steve easy to follow 👍👍😎

[@JoesephBidon]

Superb welding skills.....a joy to watch.

[@Nathanmorganmk1escort]

I’m doing all this to mine but you make it seem so easy top quality work

[@JackNZer]

Impressed by the work you are doing to restore this fabulous car. Impatient to see the finished car.

[@7732147]

Nice one Dad. Lovely work as usual.

[@jimmcfee3488]

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.

[@philjones3079]

Superb craftsmanship. Wish I could afford to get my old Volvo restored.At the moment it has "patina".

[@justinsimpson7934]

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 👍🏼

[@paulchurchuk]

Great job and nice to see the RS2000 back again ❤

[@jagracershoestring609]

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_Yhou]

The easiest way to spot an AVO shell is look in the boot for the axle hump 👍

[@allanrichards3752]

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!!!

[@boydsargeant7496]

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!

[@jonnenne]

Glad to see you using the laser!

[@stephenyoud6125]

Steve you're an artist indeed - outstanding work as usual.

[@melwilliamson8208]

nice bit of explanation on panel removing big help for people starting to learn keep up the great video's

[@colinritchie1757]

What a Brilliant job Steve

[@noenlunde7028]

The skills are from another world

[@blimpism]

Very impressive work

[@msearlam]

Great video as always! I'd be quite happy to watch these if they were hrs long.

[@Braveheart7914-idfl]

This will be one solid shell when your finished Steve! Crackin job there bud 👍🏻😉🇬🇧

[@tl4ever262]

Man that's a lot of work for such small area. Love your work guys.

[@chrisstokoe3169]

AHH the rs2000 simpler times

[@NicholasTerry-p8g]

Love watching you guys,so talented brilliant team.

[@pip5461]

Steve, your skills & craftsmanship are most commendable...!

[@schrauberkonigsolingen2463]

Hello, very nice work. Greeting from Germany City Solingen.

[@matthewgrice6902]

Thanks for the video. Great work Steve.

[@dirkbosse1786]

A pleasure to watch. Thank you!

[@danielwatson2910]

Nice work

[@philippestrickler3461]

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) .

[@danijelcar5184]

Great work👍👍👍😎

[@samperras]

Love your work

[@davidmckinney6577]

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

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

Hi David. I will tell him :)

[@Chiller19902008]

very nice smoth soft skills ;) need you for my VW T4 chears, grettings from Germany ;)

[@levelcrossing150]

Lovely work.

[@DanRoper-ex2vy]

Top work Steve

[@davefrench3608]

Fabulous fabrication and weLding Steve.

[@as3cs3]

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

[@steveworth544]

Brilliant

[@tomswindler64]

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.😎😎😎👍👍👍

[@mclark3874]

New subscriber love your work

[@paulwortman483]

Good old British Steel!!! How did any cars survive over there???

[@isopepe108]

Great video and car, ihave 3 mk1 escort mexico. What is that silver paint what you use?

[@justinsimpson7934]

Weld through zinc primer

[@lrcb40]

Metal wizards!

[@jasperdemann5936]

Yorkshire Car Restoration: sponsored by Safety Squint Welding Accessories and The Invisible Ear Defenders Co Ltd. 😄

[@scottcallis3491]

As soon as I heard the word 'Laser' I'm like... Ok...I'm in 🙂

[@TastierBackInThe80s]

Thanks for sharing, thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@grahamdavies22]

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 😢

[@ToreDL87]

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! 💪

[@wazzazone]

Masters at Work thanks Steve.

[@peterbockholm3176]

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.

[@JsyJames]

This is like Trigger’s broom! What will the proportion of original metal be by the end?!

[@AndySomogyi]

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 ?

[@hoggmotorsport]

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? 🤔

[@justinsimpson7934]

I should of also sent those to him, but it was too late by the time I realised

[@hoggmotorsport]

@@justinsimpson7934 hindsight is a wonderful thing mate, still be an awesome car when it's finished 👍

[@justinsimpson7934]

Yeah exactly

[@davidbarnsley8486]

I am surprised by how much you have to work with they were tissue paper to start with and no rust protection 👍👍🇦🇺

[@terrypugh3029]

Are there any updates on this?

[@stevensmi1167]

Loving that laser ooohh suit you sir

[@LilYeshua]

Nice BGM selection

[@stevenbennett3922]

Thought the Mk I was a 60's and 70's car.

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

It is , my bad :)

[@justinsimpson7934]

1974

[@jakkimacneill1957]

I'm sure this was an icon of the 70's...not the 80's

[@EnglishTurbines]

Delightful metalastic surgery....again....Very satisfying.....🤔😏😏😀🇬🇧

[@ragnarironspear1791]

I want one 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@colnemac]

Mk1's were up to 1976, mk2's from then to 1981

[@justinsimpson7934]

It’s a 1974 Mk1 RS2000

[@yorkshirecarrestoration]

You are correct. My error :)

[@kjeldlarsen912]

Thank you

[@johnturner4400]

With all the replacement metal, this is rapidly becoming a 2024 mk1 Escort!

[@stevenbennett3922]

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.

[@MrGroupA]

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?

[@ToreDL87]

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 👌

[@Kapparie]

Whatdo you do for a living? Fighting rust....😄

[@leofabbro456]

sooooooooo easy.....to watch

[@dacholl2009]

Might as well start from new panels and transfer in the good original parts

[@fredygump5578]

now you need a laser that goes around corners. That'd be the ticket!

[@karlglynn7974]

It’s mad how much 1970s cars Rot, must be the poor quality steel used or the painting process. Banging job though chap. 👍🏻

[@Juntasification]

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. 🙂

[@guzziwheeler]

@@Juntasification Best rust protected cars were built in the late 80s and the 90s.

[@karlglynn7974]

@@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.😊

[@russellr1677]

Ouch! That fence post was cracking on Steve! Should the maestro of metalwork switch to metal fenceposts?

[@desmondharney1185]

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

[@ToreDL87]

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).

[@PompeyMatt17]

sizzling bacon...and they're tack welds to reduce distortion..

[@rambojazdude3023]

How come they tack weld plate on, then cut through some of the tacks? is it to relieve stress on the plate?

[@guzziwheeler]

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?

[@ToreDL87]

A.k.a, "Cut'n butt".

[@steptoeandson3554]

See: Fitzee's Fabrications "Cut n Butt"

[@chrislewis4830]

COSMO COSMO COSMO we need it we crave it

[@neilmchardy9061]

Would a new shell then modified be cheaper?

[@alecfraser1928]

I don't like to think of the conversations with the client on this one .....

[@kinross24]

Mk1 wax surely 1970’s, 1972-74 for the 2000. Mk2 came out 1975 to ‘77. 1980 to 1990 was the mk111

[@stoveguy2133]

Got a car with subframe mount rust. Fixed motor issue. Sold car. Made $2200

[@asmg25]

Funny how the previous repairman patched the car thinking no one is going to see what he did. Well, thousands of us are watching. 😅

[@wayne9518]

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.

[@gerryoneill8881]

The awful music(if you can call it music?) is a distraction. Good video though.