Reyland Mondeo - Reborn!

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I know there was a post about this already but it's easier fro me to start this one and add the pics as well.

This car was originally built in the late 1994. It's a cossie powered mondeo with the cossie 4wd running gear. It started off with a 400 bhp bhp engine and then progressed onto the 512 bhp powerplant.

These are some pics of the original build from '94.

 

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After returning from DJM it was time to start building it...

 

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some pics from it's early life..

At Donno

 

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At a 0-100-0 day (can't remember which mag) with martin's old Skyline to the left.

Cosmo did 0-60 in 3.8 that day !!!!!

 

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Martin was invited to have my car featured on a Men and Motors programme but this happened the day before. They still filmed the car around the damage

At The Clarkson shoot, he's shaking martin's hand because his cars were wasted by a humble Mondeo..

 

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The car was then de-tuned to about 330 bhp ready to sell

De-tuned and ready to sell...

 

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April 02 the car is sold but while the buyer is sorting the money out the decision is made to just do just one more
track day, what could possibly go wrong..

 

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Some old mag articles including a photo of the mondeo wasting some supercars at a clarkson video shoot

http://www.reyland.co.uk/projects/mondeo/resizable-viewer-show.htm?pic=images/fastcar1999.jpg FAST CARM MAG 1999

http://www.reyland.co.uk/projects/mondeo/resizable-viewer-show.htm?pic=images/fastcarpics.jpg PIC FROM CLARKSON VIDEO SHOOT IN FAST CAR

http://www.reyland.co.uk/projects/mondeo/resizable-viewer-show.htm?pic=images/revs2000.jpg REVS MAG TOP SPEED DAY

 

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5 years pass and it's time to rebuild the car!

It's a road car so no cage or anything but it will have 'more than 500 bhp' and with it being such an aerodynamic shape some good sprint/top speed times are on the cards

 

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Roof is replaced

 

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Car is prepped for paint

 

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freshly painted in the original snot green!

 

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That's it so far. I'll update this post as the build progresses. The car is not to everyones taste but it's 'different'

 

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The car belongs to Martin who owns Reyland. I'm a friend of his.

All the work on the car is done by Martin

 

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Yay Ish is back!

Missed reading these, keep it up.

Slightly O/T - Whats the latest on the Cossie? It went **** up in the Gumball then I don't know what's happened to it. I seem to remember reading something but can't remember sorry.

The new escort has had all the teething problems sorted and had done numerous track days. It's now been mapped to 2.4 bar boost. No official times for it yet but watch this space!

I don't quite think it was '94 because that car is on an N plate, but still it's an awesome car, a 512hp 4wd mk1 mondeo which looks like its straight out of the local council estate would most certainly give you the element of surprise

The build was started in '94 and by the time the car was completed it was registered on a n plate.

I didnt know you could get mondeos that old


That is the worse colour in the world

I'm not that keen on the colour either but since the car was originally painted green everywhere:- boot/bonnet/underneath/arches etc a colour change would have been too much work.

I've seen this car a few times and it's blisteringly fast. My face was the citrine yellow Escort Cosworth though, that thing looked like it had been fired out of a catapult when it took off.

That car is still around in Malta.

 

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It's a great car but why NHS green?

You have to remember this car was painted in this Green back in the mid 90's when they colour may have been 'ok' and it's too much work to change it now!!

damn, you got balls .... and skills...

Martin @ Reyland is building the car, I'm just posting the pics here