I had a few escorts myself. Was given a MK2 4 door that was smashed as my first car. Transplanted everything from that into a rolling shell that I bought from Racetune for $250.
Older brother fucked the rear suspension so I bought a 2 door for $450 and swapped the worked 1600 into that and put the stock 1300 from the coupe into the sedan and sold that on for $1000.
If only they were still that cheap...