mattk
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Went to pick my Kx250 up today, the lad lived on a council estate and had a number of Fords on the drive, he had a battered sierra cosworth and a tattyish escort with a 2.0 turbo out a mondeo in it
he also has an escort cosworth which from my limited knowledge looked to be fake but he says it wasnt, it was a bit tatty too
but it had no spoiler and made a point about it being a rare one with no spoiler
Shit or Truth? he was a sound lad though 
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ShEp
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No shit and not truth
On the later models the whale tail was an optional extra,
And without it it made 3mph iirc more than with it 
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Corsa_Sport21
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Wasnt in Essex was it
Did it have the lower part of the spoiler on the boot??Like a bubble shape??Or was it completly bare??
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DannyB
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As far as I know, they all came with the whaletail, although you could buy a wrc kit with smaller spolier, or simply just take the spolier off and keep the lower half, not too sure tbh.
Cue Robin or jr.
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mattk
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it was a 1995 M reg, It was probably real, Im just not used to seeing tatty ones
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mwg
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http://www.rsownersclub.co.uk/car_info/esccos.htm
says on there later models came with a smaller spoiler but whether that was over here and what it looked like I dont know
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mattk
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Did it have the lower part of the spoiler on the boot??Like a bubble shape??Or was it completly bare??
Had a little boot spoiler yeah
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DJMartin07
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The Escort Cosworth never came without a spoiler, there where two choices Whale-tail, or the WRC spoiler. So he was telling crap, it's proberly a 1.3 Cossie look a like.
(Got beaten to it all, I had to spend time searching for the other one.)
[Edited on 11-10-2008 by DJMartin07]
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DannyB
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Did you notice what the wheels looked like, as in the offset etc, did they fill the arches ok?
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mattk
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yeah they looked ok, thinking back it did look like it had the longer 3/4 panels too, its just how much of a deal he made about it not having the whail tale
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big eck
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The whale tail was an optional extra on the later models as said
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Demo
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quote:
Originally posted by DJMartin07
The Escort Cosworth never came without a spoiler, there where two choices Whale-tail, or the WRC spoiler. So he was telling crap, it's proberly a 1.3 Cossie look a like.
(Got beaten to it all, I had to spend time searching for the other one.)
[Edited on 11-10-2008 by DJMartin07]
sorry man but thats fiction
whaletail was an optional extra as eck has stated
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Corsa_Sport21
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Did it look like this.......
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Jozza_and_Roza
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Its true that the later small turbo models that the whale tail was an optional extra. Without the whale tail you just got the lower piece. Having grown up with cossies i should know. Will get pics of my dad's cossies if i find some
The picture above is correct
[Edited on 11-10-2008 by Jozza_and_Roza]
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Adam_B
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That looks so much better without the gash spoiler
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Rick Draper
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I believe the whale tail was not a optional extra, it was a option you could choose to remove from the spec sheet of the later small turbo models when ordering, but it was not a extra.
Also i dont know where all this WRC bollocks is coming from, they were never available with a WRC spoiler as the WRC spoiler was not a production part.
[Edited on 11-10-2008 by Rick Draper]
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Ian
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Later cars had the option to delete the spoiler.
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Rick Draper
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Ian is late!
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mattk
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yeah thats it, that proves me wrong, shame to see a tatty one though
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jr
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ricks covered the point to stop be ranting about a WRC option
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Ben G
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i prefer it with the whale tail, true essex styley 
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mattk
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the whale tail is fantatsic, I love the fact they sit quite high too
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jr
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does anyone know the way of telling the diffrence externally between the early big turbos and late small turbos btw 
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Corsa_Sport21
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The registration??
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jr
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genius, but no
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