SERIES ONE RS TURBOparted ways! My first heavily modified car
was a black Mk3 Fiesta Si with a 2.0 Zetec
engine swap, smooth boot, Zetec S rear
bumper and Cossie front bumper. I wasn’t
really good with the tools at this point and
had others carry out my work, mainly my
younger brother Twigs.” It was around this
time that Nathan discovered his passion
for Mk3 Escorts, thanks in part to his buddy
Rumbol, and that’s when he started to
hone his own mechanical skills on his first
RS1600i. He went on to own pretty much
every variant of the Mk3 you can think of,
his skillset blossoming as he went, before
ultimately arriving at the Series One RS
Turbo twelve years ago.
“I didn’t really go out looking for one,”
he explains, “but my mate had this one for
a while and was always undecided as to
whether to build it or not, so it sat around
engine-less and interior-less for quite a
while. So one day a deal was struck and I
owned it! For me and my budget, I saw it as
the perfect opportunity to further strip it
and build a track car.”
And so, with a blank canvas and the kernel
of an idea, Nathan set about collecting a
list of parts which – he thought at the time- would have the car up and running in no
time at all. Things don’t always work out
HERO
“On the trip to Germany
and back, with five laps
of the ’Ring, four days
and nearly a thousand
miles after the head
gasket failure, the car
has proven testament to
Dave’s skills...”
DRIVER SPECNATHAN REA
AGE 34
JOB Self-employed landscape
KEVHIRIVɅɅɅ
FIRST FORD Mk2 XR2
BEST MODIFICATION
Carbon roof
WHAT’S NEXT The car has
already seen some upgrades
since the shoot, and is how I
envisaged it twelve years ago- so it’s time to book some
track time...
FAVOURITE FORD SHOW OR
EVENT? Classic Ford Show
TRACK DAY OR SHOW &
SHINE? Track day, I hate
cleaning cars!
LESSONS LEARNT FROM
THIS PROJECT? Concentrate
on one car at a time!
THANKS “ Thanks to my Mrs,
Becks – and to Twigs, Jordan,
Joey, Big Mike and Little Rob
of Boost Monkeys, Chris and
Dave of Allmotion, Glenn,
Shaun, Lee and Jörg for the
best steak in Germany (Comfy
Corner)!”
SEPTEMBER 2019 FAS T FOR DѴȭparted ways! My first heavily modified car
was a black Mk3 Fiesta Si with a 2.0 Zetec
engine swap, smooth boot, Zetec S rear
bumper and Cossie front bumper. I wasn’t
really good with the tools at this point and
had others carry out my work, mainly my
younger brother Twigs.” It was around this
time that Nathan discovered his passion
for Mk3 Escorts, thanks in part to his buddy
Rumbol, and that’s when he started to
hone his own mechanical skills on his first
RS1600i. He went on to own pretty much
every variant of the Mk3 you can think of,
his skillset blossoming as he went, before
ultimately arriving at the Series One RS
Turbo twelve years ago.
“I didn’t really go out looking for one,”
he explains, “but my mate had this one for
a while and was always undecided as to
whether to build it or not, so it sat around
engine-less and interior-less for quite a
while. So one day a deal was struck and I
owned it! For me and my budget, I saw it as
the perfect opportunity to further strip it
and build a track car.”
And so, with a blank canvas and the kernel
of an idea, Nathan set about collecting a
list of parts which – he thought at the time- would have the car up and running in no
time at all. Things don’t always work out
HERO
“On the trip to Germany
and back, with five laps
of the ’Ring, four days
and nearly a thousand
miles after the head
gasket failure, the car
has proven testament to
Dave’s skills...”
DRIVER SPECNATHAN REA
AGE 34
JOB Self-employed landscape
KEVHIRIVɅɅɅ
FIRST FORD Mk2 XR2
BEST MODIFICATION
Carbon roof
WHAT’S NEXT The car has
already seen some upgrades
since the shoot, and is how I
envisaged it twelve years ago- so it’s time to book some
track time...
FAVOURITE FORD SHOW OR
EVENT? Classic Ford Show
TRACK DAY OR SHOW &
SHINE? Track day, I hate
cleaning cars!
LESSONS LEARNT FROM
THIS PROJECT? Concentrate
on one car at a time!
THANKS “ Thanks to my Mrs,
Becks – and to Twigs, Jordan,
Joey, Big Mike and Little Rob
of Boost Monkeys, Chris and
Dave of Allmotion, Glenn,
Shaun, Lee and Jörg for the
best steak in Germany (Comfy
Corner)!”
SEPTEMBER 2019 FAS T FOR DѴȭ