Back in the day!

[ashleyb4]

Hi

I need soem help i want to know about what time did number plates change from black background and white writing to the white and yellow background with the black writing??? Also which one would you find on a escort mk1 mexico??

The reason i ask is im making a replica rally shell for my mardave and i want it to be as realisitic as possible, ive got cibies and red mudflaps. ive got minilite wheels on the way.

Also if anyone knows any other details about the old mk1 rally cars all information would be very much apretiated to make it more authentic im a bit to young to remember them lol.

and if anyone's got any pictures of one in action it would be ace.

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[DCM]

Traditional plates for vehicles constructed before 1 January 1973
Vehicles constructed before 1.1.1973 may display traditional style “black and white”
plates i.e. white, silver or grey characters on a black plate.

You will have to work out the rest

[ashleyb4]

Black and white it is then.

I had a feeling you would know lol.

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[mark christopher]

not hard to find pics
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=mark+1+rally+escort&meta=


or info on plates

[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_car_number_plates&action=edit&section=1)] Colour and dimensions (United Kingdom)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Number.jpg/200px-Number.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Number.jpg) http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Number.jpg)
Black number plates with white or silver characters are permitted on vehicles manufactured before 1973.


Current plates have black characters on reflective white PVC (for the front plate) or on reflective yellow PVC (for the rear plate). These are the colours used in the common EU plate format (though not all other EU states use the two background colours in this same way).
Older plates had white, grey or silver characters on a black background. This style of plate was phased out in 1972, and is now legal to be carried only on vehicles built prior to 1 January (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1) 1973 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973).
Front number plates are 520 mm x 111 mm (20.5" x 4 3/8") in size. Rear plates may be 520 mm x 111 mm (Standard), 285 mm x 203 mm (Square),[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)] 533 mm x 152 mm (large).
Motorcycles formerly had a double-sided number plate on top of the front mudguard, curved to follow the contour of the wheel and visible from the sides. The requirement for the front number plate was dropped in 1975 because of the severe danger these presented to pedestrians in the event of a collision

[ashleyb4]

Thanks mark

im not going to go for a proper numbe ron thr plate

im going to have

mk1 mex

Ive looked htough all the google links im just wondering if anyone had any pics they had taken if they had gone to rallys. I loved it when i used to go and watch them when i was younger it was ace dont go anymore got to much racing.

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[DCM]

why don't you do some diggin and do a proper FMC number plate from that era.

[neiloliver]

Whatever you put put on im gonna ram it up the arze anyway with my vintage jag.

http://www.huntersystems.co.uk/acatalog/JAGUARSS.jpg

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[ashleyb4]

I could do but it seems lots of work. Im strugerlign to find sibbies as ive lost one and the shop i bought them from dont do them any more. so i may have to have two working ones and two with the covers on and try and make something that looks like it.

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[ashleyb4]

Just cus i beat you at the weekend.:D:D

And im going to tell james you are selling his tt01 to fund it.


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[ashleyb4]

Just printed the number plates its ace i can get Oswestry Radio Control Car club on the bottom in little writing.

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[ashleyb4]

Ok ive done some digging lol well i actually found it by accident ive got the number plate of roger clarks winning mk1 escort from the rac rally. LVX942J

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[ashleyb4]

Ive now found out the proper name for it i knew it wasnt a mexico just wasnt sure what it actually was. But with alot of help from paul worsley he said its a ford escort mk1 twin cam so at least now i cant call it by its proper name.

The only thing i dont like it i cant get the correct blue line down the side due to the wheel arches ive currently got im pondering over getting some blue vinyl and making my own.

This is what ive got at the moment:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.forddesktops.com/gen/edesktopsescortmk1_rs2000_1280.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.forddesktops.com/v1/search.asp%3Fs%3DEscort%2BMk1&h=80&w=100&sz=3&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=jhylgASau32XeM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=82&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmk1%2Brs2000%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26 hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

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[ashleyb4]

Work in process...

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still got alot to do tidy the wheel arches up
put the minilite wheels on
get rid of the little black mark on the rear right heel arch
sort the sibies out
put numberplates on
Put stickers on
possibly change the blue lines down the side but i think the line swill be to difficult.
make front mudflaps and change the rear ones to blue.

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[DCM]

Why didn't you spray it!

[ashleyb4]

What spray it white when it is already white and the paint just gets knocked off.

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[DCM]

no, white primer, then automotive white, then blue, then lacquer, they look ace then!!

[DCM]

plus you don't get grubby marks on the ABS either!

[jimmy]

you definitely should have painted it ash - even if you want it white.. it just looks a lot better painted.

[DCM]

I am tempted to get one, then I can show you how well they look... painted...

[ashleyb4]

Now you tell me.

I may get a new shell and start again. So then i dont have a problem with cibies and i wll paint it first. The last one i painted i used tamiya paint that had like a laquire in it so it was shiny.

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[ashleyb4]

Ans maybe i can paint on the proper blue lines down the side.

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[DCM]

either way, polycarb paint don't cut it, just go down to your local autofactors, and buy some flex primer, white, blue and then lacquer, they look ace after and make the shell a lot more resillient, as long as you spray it right.

The ABS is a biatch to clean grubby marks off.

Also, mount the shell and do all the wheel arches first before you spray, the spray around the lip and under the shell.

[ashleyb4]

Thinking about it my local model shop does like trim lines for cars like tape that you use for trims and lines down the side of shells.

So cut wheel arches out.
Spray with white flex primer.
then laquer on top.
then put the line tape stuff on.

or

Cutwheel arches out
spray with white flex primer
mask blue section
spray with blue flex primer
then spray with laquer

Yea?

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[DCM]

no, primer, then white paint, then blue paint.... then lacquer!

[ashleyb4]

I think i may just leave it for now and possible do something diffrent. As it looks ok so ill see how it goes.

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[mole2k]

Ok ive done some digging lol well i actually found it by accident ive got the number plate of roger clarks winning mk1 escort from the rac rally. LVX942J

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As a little completely unrelated sidenote, that car is currently sitting about 10 miles away from me in a friends private collection :)

He restored it from near ruin, he used it himself this year at a small event with lots of classic escorts.

[ashleyb4]

Yea i was watching this video last night the restored car is at the end

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsJ8A1Zi1I

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