Friend of mine hauled out from where someone left it at his camp, a little European import from the '60s or maybe the 50's, a 2-door wagon - Ford maybe, the hood reads "Escort". Flat 4, manual trans, unibody, front end looks a lot like the boxier later Anglia which I saw an example of in a junkyard years ago. Anyways, the thing fell apart, so I was sawing off the pieces he wanted and noticed some nice things on it - Heater - compact, 12V fan, trapdoor outlets to blow air on your feet, hose outlet that can be run to defroster ducts. Has to be ideal for something like an A coupe or pickup - the whole thing is like 10"x14" or so. I saved that for me, it needs a little cleanup but the fan works fine. Pedals - little gas pedal that bolts through the firewall with a ball on the linkage side. I haven't measured the travel but it might be enough to run and it would fit on anything. Will probably save that too. The clutch and brake had a neat aluminum bracket that needs one side welded back up. They ran to a pair of cylinders something like the '62 Chevy truck setup, as this had a hydraulic clutch. Saved the pedals/bracket/cylinders and the under-dash brace, will probably put them in the classified. Gauges - this had gauges marked AC - a speedometer (only reads to 80 and probably still overly optomistic for this car), and a gas/temp with idiot lights for Gen and Alt in the same size round bezel. Although mounted in a plastic pod, they'd come out and mount on a flat dash pretty easily. Used a normal screw-on speedometer cable. Steering - manual cross-steer box, short pitman arm - might be too small to run in anything short of a T or a Bantam, or the like. The one neat thing is the turn signal on this is integrated in the center of the wheel, and the switch seems to be in the end of the steering box - at least that's where the wires come out. I plan on posting a photo of it when I get about 65 new pictures uploaded from the camera. Unfortunately this one's a bit bent up, but it's not like it's worth a fortune. I want to post a shot of the roof, too - he wondered if it might be good for filling the top on a coupe or pickup. I sawed out the T-handle from the rear hatch, too, might make a good trunk handle. The engine in it looked a lot like an A or maybe T, but I think it was actually smaller. It's so small it would fit under the hood of a large garden tractor. I don't know if it was worth saving or not, but he seemed to think it would make a good motor for a quarter-midget or something like that. Anyways, the point is I see these cars in yards now and then and 9.9 times out of 10 they are so rotted they fall apart if you move them 6 inches - but I wouldn't be surprised if things like the seats as well as the stuff I mentioned would work nice in an early car. The taillights on this one were ugly, they reminded me of smaller versions of '70's VW lights, but I'm sure others have better looking ones.
possibly an Escort MKI or MKII?? they used to be big for rally cars..and do well too. Model car: Real car: http://www.rafmsa.co.uk/gallery2/13.jpg i don't know if they got produced in north america though. That is my best shot, there is different body styles in that era of it. edit: Mark II was late 70s - early 80s Mark I was 60s - 70s but I highly doubt that i'm right, after some research these cars were only in Europe.
ok i was way off, but when I looked up the name "Escort" for Fords it was only dated back to the 80s for North America.. bah i suck.. good job lol
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