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14-06-2005, 04:57 PM | #1 | |||
No longer driving a Ford.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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While doing research for my Escort Information web site, I found the information required to understand what is printed on the compliance plates. So I went out and had a look at mine, wrote down the information printed on them and came inside to look it all up.
Here's what I discovered. The car was manufactured in 11/76, but was not a 2.0 GL when it left the factory. Nor was it the colour it is now. Originally it was a "E" engine (1.6L 4cylinder 1V Low Compression), and it's not a GL, it was a 11636 - in other words, an XL Sedan 4 Door. From what I've read, the GL didn't exist until 6/1977. Oh, and it was originally white, not blue. So, somebody has pulled out the 1.6L kent and replaced it with a 2.0L pinto, they've also changed the badges, adding the Ghia badges on the front 1/4 panels and changing the 1.6 XL badges on the rear to 2.0 GL. They've also removed the XLs boring dash and instrumentation, replacing them with the Ghias wood veneered dash and Ghia instrument cluster, including the tacho. They also replaced the round headlights and front grille with the square lights and later model grille with the round blue oval in the middle. So now I know why the radiator didn't bolt straight in easily when I was first putting it all together again.
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