![]() 07/31/2018 at 17:49 • Filed to: Ford Escort Mk2 | ![]() | ![]() |
The late Pope John Paul II’s Mk2 Escort is up for auction and expected to go for hundreds of thousands.
However, if you want an Escort and have fewer monies I have news of one both cheaper and newer.
This one. I saw it on Sunday.
It’s a fancy one too, unlike his late Holiness’s. It’s a 1.6 Ghia, so you get the big engine and to go with it a vinyl roof, fancy chromed wheels, rubber inserts in the bumpers, a rubbing strip along the side, overriders and a passenger door mirror. It’s probably even got a cassette player. These were all fancy at the time. You’re still winding up your own windows, locking all the doors individually and steering without any assistance though.
On the other hand, it has an automatic gearbox, a rare thing indeed.
The owner
’s looking for €6,800 which is rather more than I’d pay.
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So priced somewhere between a courtesan and a strumpet. At least this one probably came from a good home.
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I’m not personally familiar with the prices of either of these items
so I’ll take your word for it...
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In terms of comfort it rests solidly between a Probe and a Homy Super Long?
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What’s that white car on the left? Some kind of Japanese coupe/sedan from the 90s?
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It’s an S14 Nissan Sylvia. Yes., a JDM one. T
hey used to be quite common.
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Not on the continent though, I didn’t even recognize it.
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Never sold there (or here, they’re
used
imports only).
![]() 08/01/2018 at 15:11 |
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There is this one purple 200SX in my birth town. Absolutely clean and most importantly not modified in any way .
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Us germans got the LHD 200SX, Turbo only as well.