Absolute hero car for me. I watched these live on the RAC Rally in Gt Britain back in the day. Full works spec spitting flames etc. Must be even rarer in Australia than GB.
Im a 35yr old automotive engineer i love these motors mate i remember "Borrowing" sierras as a kid and escort LXs cheers for the vid and greetings from england! 😃
@@ThatCarGuy1983 I meant I loved the escorts in the collection and the cossies..a friend had a sapphire cosworth turbo etc he is an engineer and rebuilt the motor that was such a beast tho. That was quite a few years back ever since then I loved the 4x4 turbo sapphire always wanted one his looked stock as a rock it was in grey.he sold it for $15k NZD.i almost cried because I wanted it and knew it had been looked after no rust at all. But yeah cosworths go hard as Fukk👍
These cars are rare and sought after in the UK, I can only imagine how rare they are in Aussie land!? Can probably count all of them on one hand. Prices are heading up over £40k now so he's wise to avoid track days.
I got 2 tamiya cosworths one is the MICHELIN Pilot 1 which is original from 1993 and the other one is a tt-02 tiger stripe with spotlights and a side exhaust 👊😎👍
Mad to think that such an iconic car was made on the back streets of Essex angin its true and it was meant to have 2 of them spoilers so glad he didn't do that because it looks much better with one 👍
Awsomme cars dude. I grew up as a child in the days of mk 1 and 2 escorts and cortinas. I always wanted one at some point but they are worth so much these days I have had to make do with remote control cars instead lol. Top stuff buddy 👍🏻👍🏻
One of the few "old" cars I saw in Germany kept on the road. Mean little machines. I had a US GT way back when. Not a Cosworth but no slouch by a long shot.
If I had this there's no way I would be using it on a track the prices of these are going up all the time I've just seen 2 go for 100.000 and 90.000 very collectable I'm hoping for a sapphire in the next year or two fingers crossed
@@GrassRootsGarage no worries, www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-5073013/amp/Time-capsule-Ford-Escort-RS-Cosworth-sells-91-000.html
My first new car was an '88 American Ford Escort GT. I soooooo wanted to make a clone of the awesome British version. Back then there was no internet resources to easily gather the parts. I couldn't even find mild tuning parts. Today gearheads have anything at their fingertips.
It was actually Alf Stewart. The Escort was unfortunately deemed to be "too small" by Bishop due to the lack of room for his tuba and various other wind instruments, and the driving position was uncomfortable for his belly. Alf also has a P100 with a Cosworth lump under the bonnet as his daily driver. Surprisingly his Sister Morag is also a petrolhead, she currently drives an R32 GTR. My kind of gal!
"Self made millionaire that feels the need to be-little other people’s opinions". You’re exactly what Grassroots Garage isn’t about, so pop off and play with your London millions 👌🏻
Love the car one of my all time favourites. But the escort cosworth. Was originally a mk4 escort with the Sierra floor pan. & then ford put wider front wings on it. Then after that they made the mk5 escort cosworth. Not what he said by putting the floor pan of the Sierra in a mk5.
The escort cosworth had almost nothing in common with the mk5 escort and shared almost all of its structural design and drivetrain from the sierra sapphire cosworth 4x4 You want to build an accurate replica, there will be about half of your donor sierra in the finished car and about 1/3 from the donor mk5 escort (such as the dashboard which requires modification to fit to the brackets on the bulkhead which are identical to the sierra dashboards mounts, the door hinges will be from the sierra and you'll need to modify the doors to suit, you'll need escort cosworth specific bonnet and hinges as the mk5 escort ones wont fit the sierras hinge mounts fitted to the escort cosworth, the engine mounts are from the sierra cosworth like the gearbox mounts, notice the longitudinal engine and gearbox opposed to the mk5 escorts transverse setup with no transmission tunnel, the suspension is all altered sierra suspension with almost nothing in common with the mk5 escort. The escort cosworth is a swb sierra in an escort costume, the mk5 escort is a completely different car that from a distance looks similar and has the same rear lights, windows and roof panel.
mk2 escort rs2000,s in 4dr bodys are Australia only I was lucky enough to own one in late 80s early 90s and many idiot rs owners constantly sneered and called it a build up id the group1 spec engine with high lift cams twin 45 dcoe webber carbs and it was a fast fucker the ppl who sneered hated it when I left there standard rs2000s in my smoke to this day ive seen 2 real 4dr rs2000,s here in uk one here in Scotland one in England mines was signal orange and had custom spec interior black fishnet recaro seats ,clock pod/cointray custom centre consul and series X 4spoke steering wheel and green tinted glass and factory fitted sunroof I ended up swapping it for a sierra cosworth that had crash damage which I reshelled using standard 3dr shell NOT XR4I shell 6window 3dr and built a copy of the black eggenberger Texaco race car which I wrote off as car was a hooligan compared to escort and twice the power I crashed it and rolled it 6times landed in field upside down bought it off insurance took engine etc added them to mk1 escort 1300e made a scarier car lol if you chopped my arm off it,d say ford thru centre like a stick of seaside rock (candy to those who don't know I now escort cosworth too a tour mallard green pearlessant big turbo model last year of big turbo 92 b4 emissions strangled it with smaller turbo ill never sell it 10yrs ago during recession I paid 16k itd 26k mileage now its on 30k and estimated value of 50k and prices keep rising your collections stunning love all your cars and keep the faith of the fast ford in aus from your uk cuz brian
Ciao io ho avuto coswort sierra 2000 turbo colore bianca berlina con 2 centraline cavalli 280 velocità 270 km e scarico diretto ok Bay Bay un mostro della strada ⛥⛤⛦⛧⛥⛥
It's funny become looks become dated. It's usually about 10 years and then the entire look changes. This car was the teenage fantasy in the UK back then. Either this or the RS Turbo S2. I remember them looking so much better than they do in 2017
Yeah I'm glad you didn't take offence to that. I searched this car after a funny argument about how Russian cars look like 1989 Ford Escorts. I wanted to remind myself of this car as I'm a bit like you in that I don't always like the look of the new stuff and I was a little surprised to find I now find the looks dated (even though I shouldn't be I guess). I'm a biker so I don't know much about cars but from what I do know, they still use the Escort chassis to this day so with a bit of love, care and modding, I presume the Cozy would still be competitive to this day.
Half the wins it got, was because other teams had dropped out. It won 8 events in 5 years, and not a single wrc....so really it did appalingly. The only thing that keeps the dream going, and the value of these up, is ford fanatics. Absolutely nothing to do with its efficiency or prowess as a real hardcore homoligation car. It looks the part, but that's about it.
Why didn't these cars get released in America? If ford had released this model escort in the U.S. it probably wouldn't be in financial trouble now. Hell release this escort and the escort 2000 sport in the U.S today I bet it would turn slumping car sales around
They didn't get released in the States because Ford feared it would kill off the demand for the Mustang as the Cossie was by far the superior performance car.
@@fredatencio16 our escorts were crap, but the cosworth shares more components with a base model sierra than any escort, because its a sierra cosworth in disguise.
I love the escort cosworth definitely MICHELIN Pilot one from the wrc ps look on UA-cam and put in the word's cosworth graveyard but be prepared as it will bring tears to your eyes I don't even drive and I was absolutely gutted to see them that way the worst thing is it was 2 things that killed the Cosworth it was .2 over on a ignitions and 0.2 over on the desa bells from the exhaust after the brought the law with it that's what killed it sad but true 😪😪
GrassRoots Garage there's only one person else other than Gaz in Birkenhead who has them on a Monte Carlo got these and it's Doug 2laps.. I'd personally fit Rondelles and start Baaaa' ing ...
In my eyes one of the best fords ever made.
Ours too!!!!
most of these ended up smashed or rotten away in the UK's salt soaked winter roads. Good ones are high value and a pleasure to look at. 👍
Any in France, Germany or rest of Europe?
Love anything high powered Ford from the 90’s especially here in UK !
Thanks for watching mate
The Escort RS Cosworth is the only car I drive on Horizon 4.
SAAAAAAAAAAME!
Omfg soo relatable!
The /
unnaki i just. Fing doing it
Me too man!!
Lovely specimen. Australia is truly blessed to have this on there patch.
*BMW* has left the chat
They forgot their taillights
This guys selection of classic fords is unreal.
Fair fucking play mate. 👍
I may be from the US but I still love foreign cars, especially the ones from Britain or Japan!! Plus, my favorite car is the escort cosworth!
Absolute hero car for me. I watched these live on the RAC Rally in Gt Britain back in the day. Full works spec spitting flames etc. Must be even rarer in Australia than GB.
Mine is in the driveway...
This has to be the best garage selection I've seen in a while!
The Escort Cosworth was my Unicorn, I ended up with a Subaru Impreza. lol
What a beauty and such an amazing collection.
Im a 35yr old automotive engineer i love these motors mate i remember "Borrowing" sierras as a kid and escort LXs cheers for the vid and greetings from england! 😃
That collection is the nuts!
Sure is!!!!
The ONLY car I would ever trade in a Subaru for, gosh this car is gorgeous. Looks amazing in white. I would love to have one
💯 spot on!!! Such an awesome special car. Cheers for watching
what a collection!!! i love escort cossies!!
ALL cossies!
@@ThatCarGuy1983 I meant I loved the escorts in the collection and the cossies..a friend had a sapphire cosworth turbo etc he is an engineer and rebuilt the motor that was such a beast tho. That was quite a few years back ever since then I loved the 4x4 turbo sapphire always wanted one his looked stock as a rock it was in grey.he sold it for $15k NZD.i almost cried because I wanted it and knew it had been looked after no rust at all. But yeah cosworths go hard as Fukk👍
Had a sapphire in the 90s …. Like most, it got robbed off my driveway …. Had m3s m5s since but it was still the best car I’ve ever had, a keeper.
These cars are rare and sought after in the UK, I can only imagine how rare they are in Aussie land!? Can probably count all of them on one hand. Prices are heading up over £40k now so he's wise to avoid track days.
You sed all wot I was going to mate
Haha! Just met one right now here in Norway
Luxury edition 100.000 and standard escort cosworths 60.000 now here in UK
beautiful car
John M thanks for watching mate!
Dream garage right there. 👍
100% mate!!! Thanks for watching 👌🏻
Nice motors i especially love the sapphire cosworth they were the ultimate bad Boy cars wen i was a kid! G
Quality RS Cosworth respect *Grassroots Garage* 4 this 1 - Dave Liverpool England 👍🏼👊🏼
Thanks mate,
Ryan and Pete
had the saphire cossie, yeah, freaking amazing motor...
One more Ford would make that collection perfect, a nice Mad Max Falcon.
Seen our ep with “nan’s gt” yet?
Very nice car collection the cosworth is very clean and rare in red
Beautiful line up.all my fav Ford cars from the days.👍👍
Make sure you check out all the episodes in our playlist
Thanks for watching mate 👌🏻
The king is dead. Long live the king!!!!!
I have '91 escort but cossie is my dream car
Mine too!!!
Thanks for watching mate
“Ya know?”
"ya know what i mean?"
Incredible, very beautiful, amazing🇪🇸
Victor Nicolas thanks for watching mate!!! 👌🏻
👍😆
have to admit the green datsun 1200 ute that drove past had to be the best
Mitch ! Hahah 👌🏻
Love this guy and he knows his onions too
Amazing collection, you know what I mean
Sure is!!!
Thanks for watching mate
Cheers
Ryan and Pete
would love to own one of these for rallying at targa very envious mate
Nice I had a blue one !
Same❤
I got 2 tamiya cosworths one is the MICHELIN Pilot 1 which is original from 1993 and the other one is a tt-02 tiger stripe with spotlights and a side exhaust
👊😎👍
Mad to think that such an iconic car was made on the back streets of Essex angin its true and it was meant to have 2 of them spoilers so glad he didn't do that because it looks much better with one 👍
beautiful...my unicorn too!
...simply clever
Powerful wee car
Sure is!!!!
Awsomme cars dude. I grew up as a child in the days of mk 1 and 2 escorts and cortinas. I always wanted one at some point but they are worth so much these days I have had to make do with remote control cars instead lol. Top stuff buddy 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for watching mate
One of the few "old" cars I saw in Germany kept on the road. Mean little machines. I had a US GT way back when. Not a Cosworth but no slouch by a long shot.
So sweet rides.But you don’t want it bending on track days,but risky undertaking ute & trailer.
If I had this there's no way I would be using it on a track the prices of these are going up all the time I've just seen 2 go for 100.000 and 90.000 very collectable I'm hoping for a sapphire in the next year or two fingers crossed
Im sure you know in the UK these have appreciated steeply £30 - £50k easy for a good one more for a shelf queen
Thanks for the info mate! 👌🏻
@@GrassRootsGarage no worries,
www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-5073013/amp/Time-capsule-Ford-Escort-RS-Cosworth-sells-91-000.html
The best rally car ever made. Escort RS coswort 💪💪💪
My first new car was an '88 American Ford Escort GT. I soooooo wanted to make a clone of the awesome British version. Back then there was no internet resources to easily gather the parts. I couldn't even find mild tuning parts. Today gearheads have anything at their fingertips.
💯 correct mate!! the internet has definitely made it easy!!!!!!
Awesome collection 🤙
Sweet I had one
Lucky! such a cool car
My dad had one
Lucky boys,, nice vid good job👍
Mo Ali cheers mate thanks for watching
My pleasure, I'll be savouring your vids for break times at work, keep doing your thing man !
Имел честь владеть. Дерзкий- как пуля резкий! Только приятные воспоминания.
my dream car
The best rims ever
The black top dream
One of the hottest British cars ever made!!
Would love to get one and put a Ford barra engine in it
Must be nice to have this ford car ;-; i wouldnt know because i live in the US
They’re absolutely beautiful!!!
@@GrassRootsGaragethey really are
I regret selling my escort cosworth for £13k 😢 …. It was by far one of the best cars I owned ❤
Wow 13k 😟 they are so goood!!!
1:34 thanks i chocked in my spagetthi
Escort Cosworth, Sierra Cosworth, Capri mk3 brooklands.
did Harold Bishop have one of these ?
short and random not sure mate.
Username checks out but!! Haha
It was actually Alf Stewart.
The Escort was unfortunately deemed to be "too small" by Bishop due to the lack of room for his tuba and various other wind instruments, and the driving position was uncomfortable for his belly.
Alf also has a P100 with a Cosworth lump under the bonnet as his daily driver.
Surprisingly his Sister Morag is also a petrolhead, she currently drives an R32 GTR. My kind of gal!
This tickled my funny ball🤗
Thanks for watching mate
Cheers
Ryan and Pete
I do know what you mean mate! I know what you're talking about!
Lucky guy..... so jealous of his collection! 😭
100%
Tim Ogle he’s not lucky if he’s worked hard enough to afford nice things. You should try it
@@e36racer44 OK u belive the self made man crap do u
Yes you fucktard. I’m a self made millionaire in London property
"Self made millionaire that feels the need to be-little other people’s opinions".
You’re exactly what Grassroots Garage isn’t about, so pop off and play with your London millions 👌🏻
Very Great car where is This Place in UK or Australia?!
jovan sremcevic straya mate
Definitely not here in the UK... The sun is shining too much!
Love the car one of my all time favourites. But the escort cosworth. Was originally a mk4 escort with the Sierra floor pan. & then ford put wider front wings on it. Then after that they made the mk5 escort cosworth. Not what he said by putting the floor pan of the Sierra in a mk5.
Thanks so much for your insight and knowledge mate. Hope you enjoyed the episode, thanks for watching
The escort cosworth had almost nothing in common with the mk5 escort and shared almost all of its structural design and drivetrain from the sierra sapphire cosworth 4x4
You want to build an accurate replica, there will be about half of your donor sierra in the finished car and about 1/3 from the donor mk5 escort (such as the dashboard which requires modification to fit to the brackets on the bulkhead which are identical to the sierra dashboards mounts, the door hinges will be from the sierra and you'll need to modify the doors to suit, you'll need escort cosworth specific bonnet and hinges as the mk5 escort ones wont fit the sierras hinge mounts fitted to the escort cosworth, the engine mounts are from the sierra cosworth like the gearbox mounts, notice the longitudinal engine and gearbox opposed to the mk5 escorts transverse setup with no transmission tunnel, the suspension is all altered sierra suspension with almost nothing in common with the mk5 escort.
The escort cosworth is a swb sierra in an escort costume, the mk5 escort is a completely different car that from a distance looks similar and has the same rear lights, windows and roof panel.
mk2 escort rs2000,s in 4dr bodys are Australia only I was lucky enough to own one in late 80s early 90s and many idiot rs owners constantly sneered and called it a build up id the group1 spec engine with high lift cams twin 45 dcoe webber carbs and it was a fast fucker the ppl who sneered hated it when I left there standard rs2000s in my smoke to this day ive seen 2 real 4dr rs2000,s here in uk one here in Scotland one in England mines was signal orange and had custom spec interior black fishnet recaro seats ,clock pod/cointray custom centre consul and series X 4spoke steering wheel and green tinted glass and factory fitted sunroof I ended up swapping it for a sierra cosworth that had crash damage which I reshelled using standard 3dr shell NOT XR4I shell 6window 3dr and built a copy of the black eggenberger Texaco race car which I wrote off as car was a hooligan compared to escort and twice the power I crashed it and rolled it 6times landed in field upside down bought it off insurance took engine etc added them to mk1 escort 1300e made a scarier car lol if you chopped my arm off it,d say ford thru centre like a stick of seaside rock (candy to those who don't know I now escort cosworth too a tour mallard green pearlessant big turbo model last year of big turbo 92 b4 emissions strangled it with smaller turbo ill never sell it 10yrs ago during recession I paid 16k itd 26k mileage now its on 30k and estimated value of 50k and prices keep rising your collections stunning love all your cars and keep the faith of the fast ford in aus from your uk cuz brian
I've got a 5dr 1.3 crosflow
Mibt bad ass car pal mi dad got 1 i use it at weekends wen a can lovely car tho look aftr it
He needs to take the dump valve off so it flutters through the group a filter instead
RS-Mike nope. That sound is Cosworth dynasty. It’s like drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
Idiot..
And knacker up the turbo? Smart.
22b stole the show.
Pete would agree with you mate!! But I’m still with the escort!! 👌🏻
Thanks for watching!!
Ryan and Pete
Missed the 3door sierra
Man, they start here in switzerland at 45000 Francs goddamnit
We don’t even want to convert that to Australian dollars 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for watching mate
🍻
@@GrassRootsGarage its 64000 AUD
Lol
64k is still scary for us 😂
E o diamantes da Ford só fã do carro ele e sonho
I’ve a pair of those cossy t34 big turbos on a 5.7 chevvy!
Best car about
Cossie are awesome but I’ve gotta love a Ford Focus rs
You know what i mean!
Yes! Rs power
Ciao io ho avuto coswort sierra 2000 turbo colore bianca berlina con 2 centraline cavalli 280 velocità 270 km e scarico diretto ok Bay Bay un mostro della strada ⛥⛤⛦⛧⛥⛥
It's funny become looks become dated. It's usually about 10 years and then the entire look changes. This car was the teenage fantasy in the UK back then. Either this or the RS Turbo S2. I remember them looking so much better than they do in 2017
Hey mate thanks for watching 👌🏻!!!
To a point I 100% agree with you, bit is there a particular car/model for you that just gets better with age????
Yeah I'm glad you didn't take offence to that. I searched this car after a funny argument about how Russian cars look like 1989 Ford Escorts. I wanted to remind myself of this car as I'm a bit like you in that I don't always like the look of the new stuff and I was a little surprised to find I now find the looks dated (even though I shouldn't be I guess). I'm a biker so I don't know much about cars but from what I do know, they still use the Escort chassis to this day so with a bit of love, care and modding, I presume the Cozy would still be competitive to this day.
@@Dave-rm1mb an escort cosworth isnt really a ford escort, its a short wheelbase sierra cosworth in an escort costume.
@@Dave-rm1mb lol, it wasn't competitive the first time round .......
Half the wins it got, was because other teams had dropped out. It won 8 events in 5 years, and not a single wrc....so really it did appalingly. The only thing that keeps the dream going, and the value of these up, is ford fanatics. Absolutely nothing to do with its efficiency or prowess as a real hardcore homoligation car. It looks the part, but that's about it.
Where's the 4 door Mk2 RS video? Can't find it in your list,thanks
Its live now!!!!!
Thanks will watch it later as watching Goodwood live stream on youtube at the moment.
No probs hope you enjoy!!!!
I"m sure I will as I used to own one (2Door) in the UK, Wish I still had it 4 doors and flat fronts were only Australia I think.
How much to import RS COSWORTH? Any idea anyone?
Ford Angular? I'm sure it doesn't say that on the badge.
I’m sure it doesn’t either mate, what’s your point?
We'll try not to embarrass you right away Mr yanky ~Julia and Julie~
Joyriders dream
💯
Loving that our Aussie cousin's are big on fast ford's but please stop importing them from the uk we will have none left
Haha yep Mate we certainly love em!!!!
Thanks for watching 👌🏻
I'm open for offers for mine. But the steering wheel is on the left side, which is actually right....
There was i guy i in sweden who put out like 800hp in his Cossie
Why didn't these cars get released in America? If ford had released this model escort in the U.S. it probably wouldn't be in financial trouble now. Hell release this escort and the escort 2000 sport in the U.S today I bet it would turn slumping car sales around
💯 It’s such an amazing iconic car!!!!!
Thanks for watching mate 👌🏻
Cheers
Ryan and Pete
They didn't get released in the States because Ford feared it would kill off the demand for the Mustang as the Cossie was by far the superior performance car.
@@almighty151986 damn that sucks. I will say this, i did not like the way their headlights set. Not very good here in the Colorado Rockies
We had a watered down escort. No kind of power
@@fredatencio16 our escorts were crap, but the cosworth shares more components with a base model sierra than any escort, because its a sierra cosworth in disguise.
They didn’t do mk2 rs2000 in 4 door
In Australia they did
Rs2000 in 4 door is wrong mate
No
I love the escort cosworth definitely MICHELIN Pilot one from the wrc ps look on UA-cam and put in the word's cosworth graveyard but be prepared as it will bring tears to your eyes I don't even drive and I was absolutely gutted to see them that way the worst thing is it was 2 things that killed the Cosworth it was .2 over on a ignitions and 0.2 over on the desa bells from the exhaust after the brought the law with it that's what killed it sad but true 😪😪
Bruh my dad have it
Thanks for watching mate
Ford cosworth sleeper car
Glenmore park stand up.
Series 1 rs turbo
Levaaahhhhhh = Leather.
Deixem meu escort europeu do Brasil igual a este 🙏🙏🙏
You know what I mean
Which donut ruined it bunging on oz supa tourers ??
Kev the Rammer that would be me mate, RG sorry I ruined it for you I do love to bung on don't I. 😂
GrassRoots Garage there's only one person else other than Gaz in Birkenhead who has them on a Monte Carlo got these and it's Doug 2laps.. I'd personally fit Rondelles and start Baaaa' ing ...
Awesome!!!!!
These where one of the wheels used on the rally cars... I think they look good and are from the right era.
Nicky Nicholas not on works escort cosworth they weren't , seriously try finding pics of one and I'll buy you a escort cosworth..do it
As a teen i stole many of these piss eazy these an EFI XR3i RS2000 LXI LUX Many many HX2Joyrider UK