Look at this Escort

"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12) 10/04/2018 at 18:33 • Filed to: None

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I have no idea what’s with it. But painting the name on the front bumper? Sick. 

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Nauraushaun 10/04/2018 at 18:47

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The backwards name is so the person in front can see the name of what’s following them in the rear view mirror.

Otherwise, sweet little van...they were fun.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > Nauraushaun 10/04/2018 at 18:47

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It’s the Drof Trocse, duuuuh.

Svend > Nauraushaun 10/04/2018 at 18:49

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Nice Escort Mk2 van. The side windows look odd, like they were added later on.

vicali > Nauraushaun 10/04/2018 at 18:52

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Sick? should we maybe call someone?

Chariotoflove > Nauraushaun 10/04/2018 at 18:52

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The world needs more cars that color.

Nauraushaun > Chariotoflove 10/04/2018 at 18:55

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Yes! Yes. 70s are dead :(

Nauraushaun > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 10/04/2018 at 18:56

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Yep, like an Ambulance. Very cool.

Nauraushaun > Svend 10/04/2018 at 18:56

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How strange!

Nauraushaun > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 10/04/2018 at 18:56

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Love me a drof trocse

Chariotoflove > Nauraushaun 10/04/2018 at 18:56

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Orwell was right about the future; he just didn’t realize how right.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Svend 10/04/2018 at 19:10

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Ford often pro vided the windows as a dealer fitted option. So did other manufacturers. Happens a lot in Australian spec vans even now...

Svend > Nauraushaun 10/04/2018 at 19:18

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It wasn’t an un common thing to give small vans like the Escort van, side windows later on in the vans life so the work van could be utilised for taking the family out on trips and save the cost of buying, maintaining, etc... an additional vehicle.

Seems (looking at Google images) that Australia had their own style of adding windows.

There was the Mk2 3 door estate which had a single side window.

But it was cheaper and more economical to take a used van and add windows for above said reason.

Svend > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 10/04/2018 at 19:31

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Ye’, as I said to Nauraushaun, it wasn’t uncommon for people to convert a work vehicle to be able to take families out rather than buy a second vehicle.

The Aussie one looks like a common thing as looking around they seem relatively common in appearance. So as you say these may of been the dealership options rather than the single piece U.K. estate version or the after market ‘done by a mate’. 

Nauraushaun > Chariotoflove 10/04/2018 at 20:09

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I’m literally reading 1984 for the first time at the mo. Watch that thought-crime matey

pip bip - choose Corrour > Nauraushaun 10/05/2018 at 07:22

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i thought it might have been  part of the Sundowner pack (Ford’s version of the Sandman) but alas no.