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It's very nice I grant you but I can think of loads of mint/resto cars I could get for that money, and a fifth of a small house! Not in the case of the Mexico but for what was a very very common car, the demand and scarceity of MK1 Escorts went crazy since the early 2000's, I couldn't even contemplate thinking to ever want one, Mantas are hard enough and even the best ones go for half the cost of a crap MK1 scort!

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It's very nice I grant you but I can think of loads of mint/resto cars I could get for that money, and a fifth of a small house! Not in the case of the Mexico but for what was a very very common car, the demand and scarceity of MK1 Escorts went crazy since the early 2000's, I couldn't even contemplate thinking to ever want one, Mantas are hard enough and even the best ones go for half the cost of a crap MK1 scort!

Try and find a Manta in the condition that Mexico is in and it will cost a lot, or try building a Manta to that standard and it will cost a lot plus loads of man hours, Escorts can be expensive but in a lot of cases there has been serious money spent on them.

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Love it....

Maybe he would swap for the 400 + the odd £k

Got to say Rick thats not alot for that car if it is true concours condition I would have expected it to be a bit more with the following they have at the moment.

It was only the other year a std mk1 fiesta pop sold for that money mind it did have very low miles.

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Sure, I wasn't saying or suggesting this Mexico is over priced, just for that money that I would rather buy a mint condition/resto Manta Exclusive coupe (ooooh!), a mint condition pre 1985 GTE hatchback (aaaah!), get my 1.8S hatch professionally painted and have the engine rebuilt (oooooooo!), get a solid early B shell with a rebuilt Rover V8 and all the tools I'd need to throw it all together (:wacko: coming!) and I've still got enough left to put down as a deposit on owning my own house again. That's four Mantas in a condition close to this Mexico plus a few bricks of a two bed semi against just the Mexico, you'd have to be either quite wealthy or a serious MK1 escort fanatic to buy this.

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