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Escort MKI headlining bars .............................................. £40
Escort MKII RS2000 inner wings............................£250 each
Capri MKIII front and rear bumpers ..........................£60 each
RS2000 MK2 new outer headlights .........................£44 each
RS2000 MK2 new inner headlights..........................£44 each
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Escort MKII RS2000 nose cone brackets ............ £30 per pair
Escort MKII RS2000 rear bumper corner brackets..£15 per pair
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1600 Sport Recon Gearbox ...............................................£300
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4-branch RS2000 exhaust manifolds from .........................£50
X/flow 4-branch exhaust manifolds from.............................£40
38 DGAS carbs ...................................................................£85
Various K+N air filters, from ................................................£20
Various 32 DGV Weber carbs ...............................................£50
1600 Sport engine mounts, round rubbers ......................£50 pr
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X/flow and Pinto alternators ................................................£30
X/flow inertia starter motors ...............................................£30
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Mk2 RS2000 propshafts (2 piece) from ...............................£80
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4.4 English diffs ................................................................. £250
4.1 English diffs ................................................................. £150
3.7 English diffs ................................................................£250
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3.54 English diffs ..............................................................£250
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5-speed rose jointed quick shift gearlever...........................£45
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MkI + MkII RS2000 clutch cables .......................................£16
MkI + MkII RS2000 throttle cables ......................................£16
MkI + MkII handbrake cables..............................................£16
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MI6 calipers (exchange .................................................. £50 ea
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H4 halogen headlight kits ...............................................£40 pr
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50 CAPITAL ALL-FORD DAY 34
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54 HERITAGE: Lotus Cortina
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 AUSSIE RULES
Your projects: Ricky Ferris is back with
another Capri project — only this time he’s
gone to the land Down Under for inspiration...

Name: Ricky Ferris

Age: 29
Job: Commercial electrician
Location: Berkshire

Car: Mk3 Capri 1.6 Laser

Start condition: Running, driving car
Condition now:Tail end of dry build
Time taken so far: 8 months
Estimated time of completion: One year
from now

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R icky Ferris is a name that should be
familiar by now — we featured his
Zakspeed Capri build in February 2018
and what he’d built was a battleship grey pile of
insanity. It looked incredible running down the
street, despite the lack of traditional, ultra-
strong graphics that signifies a Zakspeed. It was
simply grey but no less mental.
When we featured it, Ricky was in a rush —
we had a couple of hours to complete the
photoshoot because of two things. Firstly,
Ricky had sold it! Why? He was off to Australia
for two years and he didn’t know if he was to
permanently return. Fast forward to now and
your projects: mk3 capri
he’s back in the UK — at least for now — and
perhaps for good because he’s kind of seen the
light. This isn’t such a bad country after all —
and it makes it even more so when you’re roots
and family are here, too.
The trouble was, Ricky was Capri-less – and
by his own admission, “I guess I was Capri
lovesick!” On a fleeting visit back here, he
righted that wrong by buying another,
complete and running car — alas, he was short
of time but full of trust. The Capri turned out
to be a bit of a mess, but that was a blessing,
because it’s got Ricky straight back on a radical
path, and there’s a ton of trick stuff planned.
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The car wasn’t as good as you’d hoped?
It was my own fault — I trusted what the car was
and bought it in a rush. It was supposed to be a
runner but it wasn’t, meaning we needed a trailer,
the tyre popped on that on the way home and the
Capri got shoved into the workshop to sort when I
next got back to the UK. At least I had a Capri. The
trouble was, it was anything but a good one —
when you look at the engine mounts and find they
were once part of a bed, you start to think. The tap
with the claw hammer was the final straw when
they simply fell off!
The engine came with it?
Actually, I inherited some good parts — a 2-litre
Black Top Zetec sat under the bonnet complete
with Retro Ford alloy sump, plus a set of bike
carbs, albeit mismatched. When the oil pump
broke, it was time to sort it properly — luckily, the
pump didn’t wipe out the rest of the engine.
Spaceframe front end was easy enough for
Ricky to construct after his previous build.
Suspension set-up is still work-in-progress.
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The shell is in primer for now, but will be painted Electric
Blue. The 15 inch Compomotives are staying, though.
What’s the plan?
I’m going to build another Zakspeed. Not from this
one though — this is the engine mule if you like,
the powerplant has to look correct — hence the
Retro Ford cam cover to replicate a Cosworth BD,
plus we’re working on installing a turbo at the
moment too — my mate has just finished TIG-ing
up the manifold to mount it. What I’ll do is get it
running, with all the bugs ironed out, then start
building another Capri. Once that’s at a point
where the engine can be installed, I’ll whip it
out of this one and slot in the intended powerplant
for this…
You love a V8 don’t you?
Yes, so there’s no guessing what’s intended for
this! Although Australia has seriously educated
me in the way forward — just stop mucking about
and fit an LS motor. Chevrolet simply make the
best, cost-effective V8s. The power potential for
Ricky can’t get enough of Zakspeed
Capris. Can you blame him?
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The early Mk3 interior remains for now, but Ricky’s

planning to go full-on track day spec with a rollcage.

“THE AUSSIES HAVE

EDUCATED ME —
STOP MESSING AND
FIT AN LS V8...”
LS engines now is simply insane and so sussed,
there’s simply no other viable route. It’ll be
manual too — I love a bit of track day action.
Dummy Zetec block and head proved ideal to fabricate the
What’s with the spaceframe front? turbo downpipe and manifold for the next engine build....
I did it all myself this time in 1.75 inch CDS
keeping the original chassis rails and working
off of that. The plan was to use original
components so they’re easily sourced when they
need to be upgraded.

And the rest?

The brakes are mostly OE stuff, using one of
Caprisport’s amazing kits, mostly using Mondeo
stuff. The back end will be swapped as well — a
bit more Aussie influence if you like, it’ll feature a
torque arm after the gearbox, and the current
Type-9 is going in favour of a T5.

What’s the theme this time — grey again?

It’s in primer right now, which we did at 2 am the
night before the Classic Ford Show, but it’ll be
BMW Electric Blue and yes, it will feature some
highlights in battleship grey! The car came with
banded steels but they’ve been outed in favour of
15 inch Compomotives fitted with 195/50R15
Toyo Proxes, so it’ll handle!

When do you hope to have it finished? The Zetec came with the car. Ricky’s building up a turbo version
at the moment, but the car will eventually get an LS V8.
By the end of the year. Just in time for winter!

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 Nothing to see here: Cortina can be charged up alongside
modern EVs, and currently has a range of around 90 miles.

CRYSTAL PALACE
SET TO RETURN
No, not the football club — Sevenoaks and District
Motor Club will once again stage its popular
Motorsport At The Palace sprint over the Bank
Holiday weekend of May 24-25.
The two-day, non-championship status Crystal
Palace Sprint event, which takes place at Crystal
Palace Park using parts of the former race circuit,
will be run along the same lines as previous years,
where classes are decided by year of
manufacture rather than engine size. This
attracts a varied entry of historic, classic and
modern competition machinery, as well as

AUSTRALIA’S FULLY road-going vehicles.

For more information on the event, see

CHARGED CORTINA www.motorsportatthepalace.co.uk.

Mk1 successfully converted to electric operation COMING UP

Inside the April 2020 issue!
ell, someone had to do it! Brisbane, housing. Pop open the boot and there’s another

W Australia-based Charged Garage has

successfully converted a Mk1 Cortina
to all-electric operation. The 1965 Mk1 1500
four-door is fully road-legal and has an expected
range of 150 km (93 miles) between charges
— though Charged Garage hope to extend this
as battery technology develops.
With assistance from Traction EV who supply
electric conversion kits, Charged Garage were
able to adapt the car to take the Hyper9 electric
motor, powered by batteries from a written-off
Tesla, relatively easily and without modifying the
bodyshell. The motor sits on custom mounts
and bolts up to the standard Cortina gearbox
using an adaptor plate and flywheel convertor,
while the batteries sit on top in a custom
battery box sat over the axle, while in place of the
original fuel tank and hidden under a hinged panel,
a custom housing has been fabricated to house
the motor and batteries’ control units. Our
favourite touches are the positions of the charging
point though — the standard charger plug sits in
the original hole for the fuel filler, while a fast
charger port is mounted where the exhaust
tailpipe once exited. Other than that, the car
appears completely standard.
Charged Garage are planning to convert other
models and offer the conversion service for
customers in 2020, too. Find out more at http://
chargedgarage.com or www.facebook.com/
chargedgarage. You can watch a video of the
Cortina in action at www.classicfordmag.co.uk.
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Batteries sit over the electric motor under the The electric motor bolts up to the
bonnet. A second set is mounted in the boot. standard ’box using an adaptor plate.

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PICTURE

WUMMAGING AROUND IN THE FACTORY

Almost 55 years ago, UK-built Transits started botanist and TV presenter, David Bellamy, who production of the 2 millionth van (a Mk2 lwb
rolling off the Ford production line at passed away last month at the age of 86, was Minibus). Ford has built some 7 million Transits
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WHERE TO GO
What’s On
All the must-attend classic Ford shows and events for February
and March — and a taster of what’s coming up, too.
IN FEBRUARY
Great Western
Classic Car Show
When: Saturday and Sunday,
February 8-9
JANUARY COMING UP Shorts Where: Royal Bath & West
Newark Autojumble Drive It Day Ace Cafe dates Showground, Shepton
January 26 April 26 The enduringly- Mallet, UK
Newark and Notts Showground, Various locations across the UK popular Old Skool
www.newarkautojumble.co.uk www.fbhvc.co.uk/drive-it-day What’s going on: Kicking off the show
Ford Drag Challenge
season, the Footman James Great
has just revealed its
FEBRUARY Simply Ford Western Classic Car Show is the biggest
2020 championship
May 3 and best of its kind in the South West of
dates, with all six
Small Ford Sunday National Motor Museum, the UK. Attracting thousands of classic
rounds taking place at
February 2 Beaulieu UK vehicle enthusiasts on their journey to
Santa Pod Raceway.
Deaf Children Australia, Melbourne, Aus. www.beaulieu.co.uk/events/simply-ford restoration completion, the halls of the
The series kicks
www.rsocvic.com Royal Bath & West Showground are filled
off on the weekend
Enfield Pageant Of Motoring to the rafters with specialist traders, parts
of March 28-29 at
Great Western Classic Car Show May 23-25 suppliers and jumble stands offering
The Fast Show, but
February 8-9 St George’s Playing Fields, Enfield UK missing pieces of restoration and
for full details of all
Royal Bath & West Showground, 020 8367 1898 maintenance puzzles at bargain prices.
the rounds and the
Shepton Mallet, UK whitewebbsmuseum@aol.com Tickets are £10 in advance with kids aged
series, go to www.
www.bristolclassiccarshows.com 15 and under free.
oldskoolford.co.uk.
Classic FordTour Find out more:
Classic Ford April issue on sale June 4-7 www.bristolclassiccarshows.com
February 21 Jersey, UK
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Race Retro Classic and Performance Car

February 21-23 Spectacular
Stoneleigh Park, Coventry, UK June 6-6
www.raceretro.com Tatton Park, Knutsford UK
www.theclassiccarshows.com
Small Ford Show
February 23 Classic Ford Show
National Motor Museum, Birdwood, June 7
South Australia Mallory Park Circuit, UK European Ford Capri Revival
http://rsownersclubsa.net www.classicfordshow.co.uk July 3-4
Weiswampach am See, Luxembourg
MARCH Bromley Pageant Of Motoring www.caprilux.eu
June 21
Is you
Techno Classica Essen Norman Park, Bromley, UK
not in r event Kent’s All-Ford Show
March 25-29 www.bromleypageant.co.uk Email cluded? July 19
Messe Essen, Essen Germany the de Aylesford Priory, Aylesford
classi tails to
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Classic Car & Restoration Show Starts River Dart Country Park, Old Ford Rally
March 27-29, EC, Birmingham UK Dartmoor UK July 19
www.necrestorationshow.com www.oldskoolford.co.uk British Motor Museum, Gaydon UK
www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/
events/old-ford-rally
WHERE TO GO IN MARCH Silverstone Classic
Techno Classica Essen July 31-August 2
When: Wednesday to Sunday, March 25-29 Silverstone Circuit,Towcester UK
Where: Essen, Germany www.silverstoneclassic.com
What’s going on: You could be forgiven for thinking ‘Not another
Ford Fair
indoor car show’ and, yes, that’s exactly what this is — but a trip
August 9
to Techno-Classica in the German city of Essen is never wasted.
Silverstone Circuit, UK
As well as the manufacturer and club stands you might expect — and
www.fordfair.co.uk
plenty that you might not expect, given that it’s a delightfully different
range than you’ll see at a British show — the vast marketplace area is
Oh So Retro
a treasure trove. Whether you hope to leave the show having actually
September 27
bought your next classic or not, it can be fascinating to simply wander
The Rec, Margate UK
around and see what rarities are on offer.
www.ohsoretro.co.uk
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hard line and braided hose. Available in
reduce vibration. They can also be bolted to a workbench to
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70 MM MESH AIR FILTERS

£43.14 pair Webcon
To complement its 56 and 63 mm mesh air filters, Webcon
can now supply a 70mm version. Manufactured in the UK, it
features the same three layer mesh technology as proven on
the previously introduced mesh filters. The 70 mm filter is
suitable for Weber 48DCO/SP and 48IDA carburettors, as
well as other 70 mm OD airhorns.
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GLOVEBOX JUMP START PACKS

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lead acid power packs and can be recharged more quickly.
They both come with a micro USB charging cable and feature
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 Join the club
Cortina Mk2 Owners’ Club
It’s always been, and always will be, the club that
welcomes all Mk2s, as Eddie Newman explains.
hen was the club founded, and why?
W The club was formed in 1988 by three
enthusiasts that found there wasn’t a club that
catered for the Deluxe, Super and GT variants of
the Mk2 that they owned.
Which models do you cover?
We were the first club to welcome all Mk2
Cortinas, from the Fleet and Deluxe models right
through to the Lotus and everything in between.
We also cover the aftermarket convertibles and V6s
from Crayford, the V6 conversions from Race
Proved (Savage) and Superspeed, and the
home-modified cars, too!
What does your club offer to new members?
New members get access to our extensive
members-only spares scheme and regalia, free or
discounted entry to many of the club show stands
including the NEC Classic Car Show, the excellent
quarterly club magazine ‘The Indicator’, discounts
from Hagerty Insurance, Ex-Pressed Steel Panels
and AldridgeTrimming, as well as a welcome letter,
club windscreen sticker and our latest spares list.
How many members do you have?
Just over 400, with over 4500 on our Facebook page.
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Can you describe a typical member?
Members come from all over the world these days
and include young lads restoring their first car as a
project with their Dad through to people that have
owned them from new with just about everything
in between.
Mostly it’s a broad spectrum of enthusiastic
members who have previously owned or have
fond memories of the Mk2 Cortina from their past.
Do you host your own show?
Our National Rally has been held in conjunction
with the Mk1 Cortina Owners’ Club for over 10
years now at Stratford-upon-Avon Racecourse.
Due to the venue’s popularity we’ll be back there
again in 2020 over the first weekend in August. All
classic Fords are welcome and there’s no need to
book — just turn up on the day.
What other shows does the club have a
presence at?
Our favourite is probably Cortina Day in June at the
Monmouth showground, but we do get out to all
sorts of shows and events right across the country
throughout the year. Many new shows are
currently being discussed within the committee,
including a possible club tour.
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Does the club run a spares service?
Very much so. One of the original aims of the
club was to keep the cars on the road through
sourcing the hard-to-get parts for our members.
We now have over 450 different lines available
to our members, all of them either brand new,
reconditioned, or remanufactured.
Our spares team are always working hard to
add new items and have recently come up with
the previously unavailable plastic rivets that
hold the rear lights together and also seatbelt
storage hooks.
There are many more new parts coming to our
members in 2020, hopefully including the
windscreen washer bottles fitted to the Lotus
cars and some export cars that just can’t be
found anywhere.
What are the club’s goals for the future?
To continue growing at the rate we have done over
the past few years and to help keep the Mk2
Cortina on the road — where it belongs!
Club Essentials
Membership costs: £29 per year (UK),
£33 (rest of world)
Club contact details: 07835 936073,
info@fordcortinamk2oc.co.uk,
www.fordcortinamk2oc.co.uk
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Your guide to the global classic Ford scene starts right here...
hey say travel broadens the mind, well this
T issue we’ve brought the world to you door
— well the pages of this magazine anyway.
Classic Ford has always acknowledged that
the old Ford scene extends far beyond the British
Inside
24 New Zealand: Mk2 Escort
Harrier-liveried Mk2 that likes it varied
30 World Events 2020
Where to go across the globe
32 Germany: Mk1 Fiesta
Ex-Group 2 XR2 transformed into a stunner
38 UK: Mk1 Escort
RS2000 getsYB turbo transplant
44 Ford’s Factories
From Saarlouis to Homebush
Isles, and is just as active in many, many other fine Fords from as far afield as Germany,
countries, and while we feature Fords from
outside the UK very frequently, ever so often it’s
Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. They’re all
stunning cars in their own right, but it’s great to
great fun to put together an issue dedicated to be able to champion the global classic Ford
our worldwide movement, with a selection of collective in one place.
46 Sweden: Taunus 2000L
One owner from new, and many stories
50 Capital All-Ford Day
Canberra’s all-welcoming show
78 World Cup Rally at 50
How Ford pulled off this 10,000-mile victory
84 Australia: Cortina TC
Mk3 with 800+ bhp that runs 8s...
112 Parting Shot
The 1968 LondonTo Sydney Marathon
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MK2 ESCORT

MIXED UP
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Photos Richard Opie
Words Simon Woolley

24 March 2020

t’s fair to say that 14 years ago, prices for
I early Escorts in New Zealand hadn’t quite
caught up with those the UK... Back in
2006 when David Christie was 16, he decided
his first car was going to be a Mk2, and
promptly went out and bought one for 500
Dollars — around £260!
“I didn’t come from a big Ford family, but a
few guys at school had Escorts, and they
appealed to me because they were easy to work
on,” reasons David. “I had that car for a couple
of years and did a few bits to it, then bought a
Mk2 van to do up.” The van served David well,
taking him all over New Zealand on camping
trips, and predictably, the Escort bug had well
CLASSIC FORDS IN
NEW ZEALAND
ON THE LARGER SIZE
Ford was massive in New Zealand from the
’50s to the ’70s — the big Zephyrs and
Zodiacs taking farmers to market and
families cross country.The scene there is
vibrant and diverse.
Preferred model? Zephyrs, Zodiacs and
Cortinas
Colours? All the bright and shiny ones
Engine choice? The big six please
Wheels? Cheviot mags

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MK2 ESCORT
The Pinto has been built to classic 2.1-spec with a Fast Road cam and 40s.
The engine bay was prepped and painted before the motor went back in.
Classic VDO gauges were mounted in the centre panel.
THE RD50
TWO-STROKE SCREAMER
We can’t feature David’s Escort without
mentioning the 1979Yamaha RD50 he
regularly tows behind it. “I’ve got a few old
bikes, but this one was painted white with
blue RD tank decals to match the Escort.
I’ve given it a ground-up rebuild, and like
the Escort, parts for it have come from all
over — I bought a big-barrel kit for it from
the UK, while the wheels came from
Thailand. Naturally, the trailer for it is as low
as the car —The Prez in our local moped
gang, Quake City Rumblers made that up.”
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and truly bitten by then. So much so that by
2009 he was on the hunt for another project.
“That’s when I came across this car,” he says
pointing to the Harrier-striped, split-rim shod
and impressively-low Mk2 you see before you
— a car that we’ve had our eye on for a few years,
and finally thanks to Kiwi photographer, Richard
Opie, have finally been able to bag for a feature.
“It was badged as a Sport back then, so as
you can see it’s changed a bit, though it had
already been fitted with a Pinto and LSD at
that point.”
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They say the best way to get to know a new
car is to do a long roadtrip in it, and with the
Escort up in Nelson on the far north of New
Zealand’s South Island, and David down in
Christchurch, he had a 5-hour journey home to
look forward to. “Driving back at night in the
middle of winter no heater shouldn’t have been
much fun, but I loved it. I didn’t get back until
2 am but I was so excited I drove round all my
mates’ houses and got them up to show them
the car.”
Let it be
With David’s girlfriend (now wife) lending him
the money to buy the car on the promise that he
wouldn’t touch it as everything had already
been done, he was good to his word — well, for
a few months, anyway.
“It wouldn’t start one morning. I found the
points had closed up, so I got it going, but it
really wasn’t right — it was making a
horrendous noise. I removed the engine and
took it down to the local reconditioners. They
found the cam guides were worn — the guy said
it was the worst he had ever seen, with around
10 mm of play either side. Also, the block had
been honed too much and the pistons weren’t as
tight a fit as they should have been.”
David left the engine with them, with
instructions to rebuild it — a wise choice as
further examination revealed the head to be
cracked. With the bottom end rebuilt with new
pistons and rings, the crank lightened and
balanced, and another good head sourced and
suitably ported, the Pinto was back to rude
health again. Before it could go back in the
engine bay though, David cleaned up and
repainted the underbonnet metalwork, and it
was at this point he decided to go to town on
the rest of the car, too — especially where the
ride height was concerned.
Go low
“I’d recently been to Japan and met up with a
load of car guys. They like their cars old and as
low as possible, so by the time I got home, I
decided I’d see just how low I could get the
Mk2 and still drive it.”
This involved getting a mate to help him
convert the Sport struts to coil-overs and fitting
Mk2 Golf inserts which are shorter than
standard Escort ones. These were then
machined down further, with the struts bolted
up to the car using adjustable top mounts which
another mate made up for him to wind in some
of the resulting negative camber.
At the rear, the original leaf springs were
decambered, and with some 1 inch lowering
blocks added, the look was complete. But just
how low is it? “It’s 40 mm from the sills to the
floor...” grins David, “and it drives surprisingly
well. The flange on the bottom of the exhaust
manifold quite often catches on bumps, but I’ve
not scraped the sump — yet!”
The Japanese influence extends to other areas
on the car too — like the Christmas tree lights
on the rear which double as reversing lights, the
carefully selected decals, and tiny details such as
the numberplate bolts which feature a tiny
flower inside. He also looked further afield
— finding a set of RS2000 window trims for sale
in Germany and shipping them home at great
 “HOW LOW IS IT? ABOUT 40 MM FROM
THE SILLS TO THE FLOOR... AND IT
DRIVES SURPRISINGLY WELL”

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MK2 ESCORT

cost, along with a pair of period Marchal

spotlamps — hugely popular in France at the
time, but David got his from New York of all
places. “Actually, hunting down all these rare
parts has been one of the most enjoyable aspects
of the build — even if it means I’m now broke!”
The interior is currently back to Sport spec,
after David ran pair of Recaros up front for a
while. With some period VDO gauges added to
the centre console, a clear gearknob for the
Type-9, sourced from Japan, and a radio fitted
for those long trips north to the shows, it’s a
fitting place to be.

Furrowed brow
So with the Mk2 finished and going down a
storm with his fellow Riverside members, as well
as on social media, what’s next for the car?
“I went to Malta recently and saw a lot of
their Escorts, so I’m keen to do the eyebrow Tech Spec
mod above the headlights next. The main thing Body
is to just keep it on the road, though. The 1980 Escort Sport, Mexico front and rear
spoilers, RS2000 quarter window trims,
exterior paintwork is getting tired — it’s what Mexico front quarter bumpers, FORD grille,
you’d call good from afar, but far from good 2.0 badges, Marchal spotlamps. Paint:
— so while it would be great to get it done at Diamond White with Harrier stripe kit
some point, I don’t want the car off the road Engine
for five years while the bodywork’s getting 2094cc Pinto, Fast Road cam, ported head,
Dell’Orto DHLA 45 carbs, four-into-one
sorted. Plus I’ve got plenty on at the moment manifold, RS2000 alloy sump
— I’ve just bought a 1970s house and am Transmission
doing it up. Will it be white with blue stripes? Type-9 five-speed, single-piece prop,
I’ve thought about it...” English axle with 3.54:1 final drive and plate-
type LSD
Suspension
Marchal spots and covers came from New York... Front: coil-over converted Sport struts,
machined Mk2 Golf inserts, custom
adjustable top mounts.
Rear: decambered leaf springs, 1 inch
lowering blocks
Brakes
Front: M16 callipers and solid discs.
Rear: standard Sport drums
Wheels and tyres
7x13 and 8x13 inch Halliday Racing
three-piece magnesium split-rims, with
A539 175/50R13 tyres
Interior
Sport cloth seats and trim, VDO gauges in
centre console, Japanese gearknob
Thanks
To my friends and family who all helped in
different shapes and forms
...while Japan supplied many of the unique decals.

SPLIT DECISION
THE HOMEGROWN WHEELS
Despite first appearances, the distinctive
three-piece split-rim wheels on David’s Mk2
aren’t BBS E30s, but a design produced by
Halliday Racing back in the 1970s.
“Brothers, Don and Rob Halliday used to
race a 2-litre Escort in the Shell Sport
championship over here, and they decided
to cast their own wheels in magnesium. I
picked these up for 150 Dollars but they
were only 6 inches wide, so I found a guy
who had the original moulds and he made
some new barrels for me — they’re now 7s
on the front and 8s on the rear. I may well
change them at some point — I love the
design of the original CompomotiveTurbo
split-rims, but they’re almost impossible to
The Mk2 is proving to be the perfect tow vehicle for
find in New Zealand.” David’s bikes — note the suitably-lowered trailer!

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MK1 FIESTA
COLOGNE
RANGER
Classic Ford heads to Germany to check out
the latest impressive project from serial car
builder, Guido Pitzen.
Words Jamie Arkle Photos Adrian Brannan
CLASSIC FORDS
IN GERMANY
RALLYE SPORT AFICIONADOS
Central Europe has a strong and active Ford
fanbase, but with strict modification laws
you often find well-restored, high-end
performance models.
Preferred model? Escort RS
Colours? Mild custom or standard
Engine choice? Pinto on IDFs
Wheels? BBS or banded steels
32 March 2020
t says a great deal that even in our modern,
I highly-connected, drastically-shrunken
world, we still find ourselves fascinated by the
regional specialities the Ford of almost half-a-
century ago deemed it important (in some cases
necessary) to bestow upon certain countries and
or continents. The internet has done much to
condense and homogenise the global old school
Ford scene, and yet – and maybe because of,
we’re still drawn to special editions, region
specific optional extras, or simply a different
nation’s approach to building classic Fords.
Enter stage left, Cologne-based Guido Pitzen,
the builder — but not the owner — of the
perfect, indeed, so perfect that it makes you suck
 “THIS XR2 IS NOW A LONG WAY FROM
THE GROUP 2 RACE CAR IT WAS
ORIGINALLY BUILT AS”
your teeth and nod your head involuntarily, Mk1
Fiesta you see here. A veteran Classic Ford feature
bagger of some renown, Guido’s old Ford CV is
beyond reproach, though it’s probably fair to say
this latest build (a car he’s creating for a Swiss
customer) is among his most ambitious to date.
Group 2 hero
First though, a look back at what made this
particular Mk1 so special in the first place, namely
that it was built as a Group 2 XR2 race car in
period. This meant that it was always as an
out-and-out race car, albeit one still firmly
grounded in real world practicalities, as demanded
by the carefully worded Group 2 regulations.
“That it was a Group 2 Fiesta was a key reason
why the owner decided to take it on some years
ago, but it was never at the front of his mind
when it came to how he — and later, I should
build it,” explains Guido. “It’s now a long, long,
long way removed from the carefully regulated
Group 2 car it was built as some three-and-a-bit
decades ago, but that’s not the point. He
wanted me to build him his dream Mk1 Fiesta,
and it so happened that the Group 2 car was the
best base for this.”
The owner of the car, known to all as Ziggy
(the man with his name atop the logbook of
another Guido-built Ford, the FujiFilm RS1600i
featured in the September 2018 issue), was first
drawn to the car thanks to its stunning, all-steel
arches. These had been beautifully fabricated by
hand by a previous owner, then artfully grafted to
the Fiesta in a manner seldom seen these days.
“I was impressed with that aspect of the build
right away; the arches were really well made
from high grade steel, hand fabricated and
expertly welded to the Fiesta. They don’t flex
one bit.”
While the arches were nothing short of
stunning in their application the same could not
be said for other areas of its build, which was
why Guido ended up taking on the project
mid-build some months back. Not that
‘finishing’ has involved anything as low level as
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MK1 FIESTA
GROUP 2 AND
APPENDIX J
THE FORGOTTEN RACE CATEGORY
Group 2 racing has all but disappeared from
the radar of anyone not involved with historic
motorsport these days, but the category was
at the centre of the vast majority of FIA/FISA
sanctioned production-based motor racing
for a good chunk of the 20th Century.While
the specific regulations evolved over time,
Group 2 cars were always grounded in
homologation, namely the need for at least
1000 production variants to have been
produced over a twelve month period.This
done, car makers were given a fair degree of
freedom to implement performance
enhancing alterations under Article 261 of
Appendix J.These included revisions to
suspension, induction and limited reboring of
heads, though more drastic steps such as
non-production forced induction and
doubling of valve counts were strictly
verboten. It effectively paved the way for
Group A, and we all know how well that went.
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merely bolting on running gear and calling it a
day, because that would be underselling Guido’s
engineering skills and involvement short by
several orders of magnitude.
Case in point, the suspension, the rearmost
section of which has now been thoroughly
re-engineered off the back of Guido’s
unmatched experience when it comes to making
front-wheel drive Fords handle in a manner
most would think impossible.
“The rear-axle is now completely adjustable
for caster and camber, while I’ve also made my
own dampers from a pair of Bilsteins originally
intended for a Puma with a spring adjuster and
race-spec springs. The axle itself has been
mounted in such a way that it camber and toe
can be easily adjusted.”
It’s a similar story at the pointy end of the
Fiesta, Guido having implemented his decades
of old Ford experience to create a front
suspension setup with a dizzying scope for
adjustment and micro-management. Think
Bilstein coil-overs, adjustable track-rods and
wishbones from Kustom Karl in the USA, as
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well as adjustable top-mounts, this time of
Guido’s own design.
Fully caged
You need only clamber inside the Fiesta to see
evidence of Guido’s commitment to chassis
poise, with the newly remade roll-cage (an area
where technology has come on a long, long way
since the mid ’80s) hard to avoid — literally. It’s
a welded in, fully triangulated affair, and snakes
its way throughout the Fiesta’s interior and out
into the engine bay.
The interior is especially lovely, what with the
mix of form and function married together
seamlessly. For the former, read lashings of
carbon fibre for the door cards, dash surround
and Momo deep-dish wheel. For the latter, you
can’t help but be drawn to the custom fuel tank
housing and one-off steering rack, actually a
Mk3 Escort item and reworked so as to gift the
Fiesta a straight, centrally mounted column.
A keen eye for detail — both in terms of pure
aesthetic appeal and performance enhancing
potential — has long been one of Guido’s
 8x13 inch three-piece split-rims Original 1980s Recaro seat fits the bill, but a retrim is on
were built specially for the Fiesta. the cards before the car goes to Ziggy, the owner.

Like almost all of Guido’s builds, the interior is sparse but immaculate.
Modified Mk3 Escort steering column gives more central driving position.

calling cards, and it’s in evidence in rampant Carbon surround houses top-spec
abundance under the bonnet of the Mk1. Stack dash — and oil light.
There’s something refreshing about seeing this
much carbon fibre sharing scuttle-space with
other, more old school fair, not least the throaty
twin Weber carbs and manifold, snaking its
(heat-wrapped) way towards the centrepiece of
the build, an all-steel Crossflow.
“The engine was supplied with the car but
separate, and as such I’m not entirely sure of its
speciation. I do know that it cost a good
five-figure sum, was built by Andy Belcher of
Tech-7, a UK-based Caterham specialist. It’s
been dyno proven at 160 bhp, meaning I’m
confident in saying it’s now a long way removed
from its original Group 2 spec,” explains Guido
with a chuckle.

Dialling in the details

Despite having moved a long way beyond its
original, strictly prescribed Group 2 origins this
car remains grounded in pure competition
Guido’s attention to detail means even the relocated Full cage stiffens the Mk1 shell
thinking, and as such it would have been only
switchgear is super-neat — and über-functional. nicely. Fuel cell is fully-sealed.
too easy for Guido to dispense with such

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MK1 FIESTA
“THIS ONE HAS BEEN A MORE COMPLEX
BUILD THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT”
fripperies as panel fit, polish and, at the risk of
infighting disquiet for deployment of loaded
word, ‘stance’.
The wheels — custom 8x13 inch splits from
MB Racing — are a key part of this, shod as they
are with Toyo 888s with the merest whisper of
stretch applied, just enough for their tread to fit
beneath the confines of the arch. It won’t be to
everyone’s cup of tea, but this they provide yet
more evidence of Guido’s ability to marry form
and function effortlessly.
It’s also clean, fastidiously, head-spinningly
so. Indeed, so clean is the pristinely painted,
gloss white underside of this Fiesta, that you’d
be forgiven for thinking that Guido has never
graced a gravel trap in his life — and you’d be
The 1600 Crossflow sat in the immaculate bay was put
together in the UK by Tech-7, and pouts out a solid 160 bhp.
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correct, at least in this particular car. But then it
isn’t finished, not quite.
“It’s been a more complex build than you
might have first though, what with it being
dropped off to me as a rolling shell. Getting some
of the Group 2 parts either rebuilt, replaced or
rectified has taken a while, as have the seats.
They’re original Recaro SPGs from the mid ’80s,
and they need to be retrimmed ideally.”
This done, Guido will be in position to drop the
Fiesta back to its lucky owner — another fabulous
old school Ford build added to his immense CV of
completed projects.
Who knows, maybe the next feature car Guido
builds will actually wind up with his own name
across its logbook!
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Tech Spec
Body
Group 2 Mk1 Fiesta XR2 with fabricated steel
wide arches, bolted front wheel arches,
Makrolon plastic windows, glass windscreen,
various contrasting black details including
quarter bumpers and mirrors. Paint: RAL9016
gloss white
Engine
Tech-7 all-steel Crossflow with custom four-
branch manifold, twin Weber 40 carbs, rebuilt
head with double valves and Kent 300 degree
camshaft, uprated fuel system
Transmission
Ford B5 casing with IB5 internals, short gearkit
from ST150, Quaife LSD
Suspension
Front: Bilstein coil-overs, Kustom Karl
adjustable pushrods and wishbones,
ProFutzemann adjustable ball-joints and top-
mounts, uprated track-rods
Rear: custom Bilstein with spring adjuster and
competition spec springs, modified rear axle
with adjustable camber and toe settings
Brakes
Front: Wilwood four-pot callipers with
standard, solid Fiesta XR2 discs, braided lines
with alloy fittings.
Rear: Fiesta ST150 set-up, balance bar with
master cylinder, braided lines with alloy fittings
Wheels and Tyres
8x13 inch MB Racing three-piece split rims,
185/60x13Toyo 888 semi-slick tyres
Interior
Full weld-in roll cage with custom fabricated
centrally mounted fuel tank housing, fuel
pump mounts and catch-tanks, battery and fire
extinguisher relocated to boot, Recaro SPG
bucket seat with Schrott harness, Momo deep
dish steering wheel with quick release, Mk3
Escort steering column assembly, various
carbon fibre details including door cards and
Autoflock dash surround
Thanks
Autoflock (07894 636707, www.autoflock.
co.uk), Bilstein (www.bilstein.com/uk),
Kustom Engineering (www.kustom
engineering.com),Tech-7 (01737 213277)
and MB Racing (01634 711801,
www.mb-racingwheels.com)
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38 March 2020
 South by
Southwest Conceived in Essex, reimagined in
Somerset, this RS2000 represents a
true best-of-British approach to
Escort modifying. Classic looks,
modern grunt — and just like
Britannia, it waives the rules…
Words Daniel Bevis Photos Andy Saunders

n the spectrum of a vast motor-car see page 78), and this all set the scene for the hot with the RS1600i in the 1990s,” he explains.

I manufacturer deeply rooted in America, the

legacy of our beloved RS Fords is uniquely
British. Back in the mid-1960s, Ford of Britain
was wholly owned by Ford US, but when an
alliance with the German arm created Ford of
Europe, an entity financially stronger and more
competitive was created — with more scope for
market-specific developments. Fast-forward to
1970 and Advanced Vehicle Operations (AVO)
was established in Aveley, Essex, with a specific
function to create exciting low-volume,
high-performance road cars. Its first product was
the Escort RS1600, which was a slow seller but a
press favourite; a proper little pocket-rocket. This
paved the way for the Mexico (surfing on the tide
of PR from Ford’s incredible success in the
London-to-Mexico World Cup Rally —
halo Escort in summer 1973, the RS2000. The
British public couldn’t get enough — initial sales
projections were 2500-per-annum, but the
figures far exceeded this: in its short production
run between mid-1973 to late-1974, over 5300
RS2000s were sold.
Ford-centric
All of this home-grown passion was interwoven
within the DNA of Steve Gibson, owner of this
particular RS2000, from the very start. Working
as a Ford tech straight out of school, he went on
to own a greatest-hits of RS Fords, including the
Mk2 RS2000, RS1600i, Series 1 and Series 2 RS
Turbos, and Sapphire RS Cosworth. “All my
other cars were put back to concours or factory
spec, and I won numerous concours awards
“This is the first modified car I’ve done.”
It’s certainly a bold move to radically modify a
genuine RS2000 in such a way, in today’s
collector climate at least. While the spirit of RS
Fords has always been to refine, rework and drive
as hard as possible, there’s a groundswell of
moneyed collectors who’ll pay top dollar for
all-original RS models, which makes it all the
more impressive to find a true enthusiast putting
together a build like this one.
The kernel of the concept came from the fact
that it was bought as a major project to begin
with — a shell in primer, acting as a blank canvas.
“I’ve had various different models of Escort and
RS, but never a Mk1 Escort RS,” Steve
continues. “I have always loved the look and the
heritage of the Mk1 and wanted to restore my

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MK1 ESCORT
“I DECIDED TO GO TO TOWN
AND BUILD SOMETHING THAT
WOULD ALWAYS SET THE PACE”
Atlas axle dominates the super-clean underside.
40 March 2020
Interior is specced for the track including a full roll cage.
Period rear lamp keeps it classic — on the outside...
Neat, original RS logo was formed into the rear firewall.
own. I bought this one as a solid shell; it was in
red oxide primer and had been patched up over
the years, but had very little corrosion. The
original red paintwork was still clearly visible
inside and also under some of the patches I
removed. There was no running gear or engine
with it, and it had been semi-modified already;
rear turrets and a larger transmission tunnel had
been fitted, but all in all I had a blank canvas to
create my own vision of how I wanted the
Escort to be.”
Different path
The idea of swapping Cosworth YB engines into
rear-wheel-drive Fords is an established path
(and, of course, the YB itself is also a vital part of
Ford’s British heritage), but this wasn’t actually
Steve’s plan to begin with. “I originally got a
standard RS2000 engine,” he says. “I wanted it
to have a highly tuned Pinto under the
bonnet… but when I was offered a Cosworth
200 block set-up, I decided to go to town with a
bubble-arched, caged track car! Something to
drive at the weekend that would always set the
 The interior’s a great mix of period touches
like the Contour seats and modern safety gear.
pace on the track.” And so that’s what he did,
building up the Cosworth engine himself with
Mahle pistons, a Turbosport dry sump kit, a
hugely uprated fuelling system and, the cherry
on the cake, a Garrett GT2860RS turbo. It’s all
run by a Link ECU and puts out a very handy
265 bhp. Of course, there was a little more to
do than simply stick an engine in the shell…
“The build from bare shell to what you see
here took around four-to-five years on and off,
and 90 per cent was done by myself in my
workshop with help from a few mates along the
way,” says Steve. “I fitted complete floor
sections, outer sills, a full set of steel bubble
arches and inner wing assemblies — and also cut
out the previous repairs and did them to a
higher standard!”
With the shell perfected, it was handed to
Charlie’s Classic and Custom in Somerton to
have the rollcage installed along with some
bespoke fabrications. A few dry-fits took place to
ensure all of the hardware was happy in situ,
before Charlie prepped and painted the body in
dazzling Diamond White. After much
The RS was largely rebuilt by Steve, and with the body
restoration taking four years, he wasn’t always this happy...
THE FAME
GAME
THE RS GETS TOOLED UP
Some of you may be looking at this Escort
and thinking ‘Hmm, I’ve seen that car
somewhere before’. And some may well
have a Snap-on toolbox in the garage… at
which point the pieces of the puzzle should
start to slot together. Steve’s day job is at
Snap-OnTools, and the company offers a
line of Classic Car Series toolboxes and side
lockers with pictures of various iconic cars
on them.You can order these with a 1967
Mustang fastback, or a Sierra RS
Cosworth… or Steve’s very own RS2000.
“It’s an awesome feeling seeing my
creation on so many toolboxes around the
country,” he smiles.
deliberation, Steve opted not to go with the
car’s original red and instead went for blue
stripes over white, simply because he’d always
loved the scheme — and since the RS was
already deviated from stock, there were no
qualms about building his dream vision. This
represented a marked shift in the way he’d
always done things, as this is all the very
antithesis of the concours approach, but the
freedom of this project proved truly refreshing.
“Charlie’s paintwork is second-to-none, I
wouldn’t have had anyone else paint it,” he
enthuses. “The results are stunning. He also
custom-made the bib spoiler, along with a
bespoke firewall panel with the RS logo rolled
on his English wheel.” It all adds up to a
bespoke creation which demonstrates Steve’s
keen eye for detail throughout. The parts-
sourcing alone entailed a worldwide search for
the correct bits; everything throughout the
rebuild is either a brand-new replacement or a
new-old-stock part, requiring endless hours of
searching, and parts being imported from Boost gauge replaces the clock in the centre console.
Germany and Australia and all over.
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MK1 ESCORT
Nod to originality: Steve’s kept a lot of the RS2000’s
specific parts like the combined fluid reservoir.
No room for shopping: it’s like a rally car in here with
the tanks, pumps and wheel dominating the boot.
42 March 2020
The YBT engine was largely built up by Steve based
around a 200 block, and is good for a solid 265 bhp...
Ultimate upgrades
“I also worked closely with Grant at Performance
Engine Solutions, and Andy at AC Service in
Bridgwater for tuning and brake system mods,”
says Steve. “This included the dry sump set-up
and all the pipework on the car. Grant fitted the
Link ECU and set it up on the dyno, and the car’s
currently running at medium boost around the
265 bhp mark. With a couple more mods to do,
it should ultimately result in around 290 bhp.”
And this is the crux of the matter — there’s
always more to do, such things are never finished.
Plans for the winter include a coil-on-plug
conversion, dump valve relocation and myriad other
tweaks, to arrive at a dyno figure within spitting
distance of one that begins with a three. Then it’ll be
open season for all manner of track days and fast
road hijinks. You see, that’s the very essence of the
RS models, distilled into one radically altered classic:
the AVO spirit of constant revision and refinement
to create ever more power and driver engagement.
There may be modern tech, but Steve’s very
much playing by the old rules.
CLASSIC FORDS
IN THE UK
THE ORIGINALS — AND BEST?
The spiritual home of the classic Ford, the
UK has the most varied scene in the world,
and the aftermarket parts industry here
keeps the world of old Fords running, too.
Preferred model: Take your pick from the
1950s to the 1990s
Colours: Factory period, please
Engine choice: We’re spoilt for choice, but
probably a screaming Crossflow or Pinto
Wheels: Superlights
Tech Spec
Body
1974 RS2000, steel works bubble arches,
Wingard mirrors, custom front bib spoiler,
quad up-and-over Cibie spotlights (9 and 7
inch), works-style sidelight/indicator lamps,
Lucas rear spot reverse lamp. Paint: Diamond
White with blue RS2000 decals
Engine
2-litre CosworthYB (200 block), Garrett
GT2860RS turbo, Cometic head gasket, ARP
head studs and con-rod bolts, Mahle pistons,
Turbosport dry sump kit, remote oil filter with
BMRS Pro Gold hoses, Grp4 Fabrications fuel
tank with high-capacity swirl pot, twin fuel
pump and filter set up, Link Monsoon engine
management system. Power: 265 bhp
Transmission
Borg WarnerT5 gearbox (from 2WD Sierra RS
Cosworth), hydraulic clutch conversion with
AP Racing clutch assembly, Fostek 48 inch
Atlas axle, limited slip differential, Quaife two-
piece halfshafts
Suspension
Front: Bilstein coil-overs, roller-type top
mounts, adjustable lower track control arms,
Twin Cam anti-roll bar, polybushed anti-dive
kit, World Cup crossmember.
Rear: GAZ coil-overs, Group 4 short four-link
set-up with Panhard rod
Brakes
Front: AP Racing Group 4 four-pot callipers, AP
Racing pads, vented discs with alloy bells.
Rear: Sierra RS Cosworth callipers and discs.
HEL brake lines and hoses, custom bias pedal
box, periodTwin Cam fluid reservoir to feed
brakes and clutch
Wheels and tyres
8x13 inch Minilites, with 215/50R13 Kumho
Ecsta V700 tyres
Interior
RS2000 dash withTwin Cam 140 mph clocks,
RS2000 centre console with boost gauge,
adjustable boost switch and power killswitch,
Contour seats with rolltop headrests,TRS four-
point harnesses, Custom Cages weld-in
rollcage, bespoke RS firewall panel
Thanks
Charlie Seward at Charlie’s Classic &
Custom (www.facebook.com/
charliesclassicandcustom/), Grant Baker at
GBE Performance Engine Solutions
(www.gb-ent.com), Andy Collard at
AC Services (01278 451465), Bilstein
(www.bilstein.com/uk), GAZ Shocks
(www.gazshocks.com), Grp4 Fabrications
(https://grp4fabrications.com), and lastly my
wife for her patience while I spent hours
building it to the standard you see today!
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FACTORY
FLOORED
Ford has built more than 100 factories
and assembly plants all over the world 6. VALENCIA
in its 117-year history. Here are some of Where: Valencia, Spain
Opened: 1976
classic Ford-relevant ones. Status: active
Classic Fords built:
Fiesta, Escort

4. AVELEY
Where: South Ockendon,
UK
1. CORK Opened: 1956
Where: Cork Ireland Status: closed (2004)
Opened: 1917 Cars built: Mk1 RS Escorts
Status: closed (1984)
Cars built: Prefect,
Escort, Sierra

7
12 8 1
1
3 4 2
5
6

2. COLOGNE
Where: Cologne,
Germany
Opened: 1931
Status: active
Cars built: Fiesta, Capri,
Granada,Taunus,
Scorpio, Puma
7. HALEWOOD
Where: Halewood, UK
Opened: 1963
Status: closed (sold to
Jaguar-Land Rover)
Cars built: Anglia, Corsair,
Escort, Capri, Orion
5. SAARLOUIS
Where: Saarlouis,
Germany
Opened: 1970
Status: active
3. SOUTHAMPTON Cars built: Escort,
Where: Southampton, UK Fiesta, Capri
Opened: 1972
Status: closed (2013)
Classic Fords built:Transit

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 8. LANGLEY
Where: Slough, UK
Opened: 1949
Status: closed (1986,
sold to Iveco)
Classic Fords built:
Transit, A-Series

10. GENK
Where: Genk, Belgium
12. DAGENHAM
Where: Dagenham, UK
Opened: 1963
Opened: 1931
Status: closed (2014)
Status: active (as an
Classic Fords built: Sierra,
engine plant)
Transit, Mondeo
Cars built: Anglia,
Prefect, Popular, Squire,
Consul, Zephyr/
Zodiac,Classic, Cortina,
Granada, Fiesta, Sierra

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13. BROADMEADOWS
Where: Victoria, Australia
Opened: 1925
Status: closed (2016)
Classic Fords built: CortinaTC/
TF, Capri Convertible
11. HOMEBUSH
Where: NSW, Australia
9 Opened: 1936
Status: closed (1994)
Cars built: Mk1 Escort,
Mk1 Capri

9. PORT ELIZABETH
Where: Port Elizabeth, South
Africa 14. SEAVIEW
Opened: 19 13 11 Where: Lower Hutt, New
Status: active (as an engine Zealand
plant) Opened: 1936
Cars built: Zephyr, Zodiac, 14 Status: closed (1988)
Anglia, Escort, Cortina, Sierra Cars built: Zephyr,
Zodiac, Anglia, Escort,
Cortina, Sierra

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TAUNUS 2000L
Lowlife
Owned (and modified) since new,
Ulf Kaijser’s Taunus 2000L has been all over
Europe with him, but now lives a quieter,
and lower, life in Stockholm, Sweden.
Words and Photos Ulf Kaijser
T
he evening of November 8, 1973 was
dark and foggy. In an apartment in the
centre of Stockholm, Sweden,
Ulf Kaijser was walking to the window every
2 minutes. He was waiting for his new Taunus
2000L 1974 to be delivered to his door. At
8.45 pm the two-door, Onyx Green car
appeared and Ulf set a new time record for the
stairs to the street.
In the beginning, Ulf used his new car as
much as he could. With the 2-litre Pinto, Atlas
axle and 5.5 inch 100+ aluminium wheels it was
great to drive and a bit faster than most other
new cars of the time.
In June 1974 he took the car on a long trip
along Europe with a friend. They managed
12 countries in 19 days, driving 6500 km to the
Alps, the Riviera, Venice and Yugoslavia without
a single problem. Then in 1975, Ulf spent four
months in the German city of Braunschweig and
there he had a roll cage built for it, and put in a
used Recaro seat together with the 13 inch
steering wheel and a Britax four-point harness.
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At night he often did top speed runs on the
Autobahn and later, in 1977, Ulf and his
wife-to-be took a trip to the Rhine and Mosel
rivers — taking in a few laps of the Nürburgring
Nordschelife on the way, with his girlfriend
screaming in the passenger seat.
Two years later the now-married couple set
off to Vienna in the Taunus, an even longer way
to go from Stockholm. After Vienna they
headed to Hungary and Budapest, as Ulf
wanted to see the Yugoslavian mountains and
one early evening they drove over a mountain
pass on the way back to Austria. As they were
close to the border and with darkness
approaching, Ulf found a shortcut on the map
— a small gravel road just 12 km long. After just
2 km the road narrowed to the point where
there was hardly room for the Taunus, and it
was so bumpy that Ulf had to drive slowly in
second gear. Now in complete darkness, his wife
wanted to turn back, but Ulf was stubborn.
Suddenly, as he took a first-gear turn there
was a bang underneath the car. Ulf stopped and
looked under the Taunus — a big branch was
stuck between the gearbox and the ground.
Then out of the corner of his eye he saw
something in the light from the headlamps — a
big grey dog looking straight at him. Dog? Here
in the middle of nowhere in the Yugoslavian
mountains? No, a wolf! Ulf crept back into the
car and shut the door firmly. The wolf looked at
the couple for a while and then slowly turned
back into the woods... they had nothing else to
do than to drive the rest of the way with the car
stuck in the first gear. An hour and a half hour
later they were finally at the border.
Fresh steels
Fast-forward to 1981, and by then Ulf had sold
on the 100+ alloys, and bought himself a set of
Italian-made Borrani steel wheels. He widened
them to 7.25 inches in the front and 8.25 at the
rear, and painted them white. Together with
some Swedish-made shorter springs for the
Taunus and specially-built Konis, the car handled
a lot better.
 Interior is in fantastic shape for a 45 year-old Ford, with Ulf
adding the Britax harnesses when the car was almost new.

It’s February 1974 and Ulf shows

off the new 100+ wheels, and
his period trousers...

The years went by and in 1989, after a few

more long trips, the daily driver had some
195,000 km on the clock and was getting tired.
On New Year’s Eve the same year, Ulf made a
decision — he would restore the car properly.
He took the car to a friend in Norway who did a
perfect job of the bodywork before another CLASSIC FORDS
friend painted the car. Today, some 27 years IN SWEDEN
later, the paint still looks new.
During the rebuild, Ulf looked for parts all SEASONS GREETINGS
over Europe. He went to Germany eight times The stronghold of export models, Sweden
to visit a Ford dealer in Koblenz, buying is dark for half the year so in-depth winter
thousands of new parts, from the smallest screws restorations often lead to crazy driving
to a new fuel tank. The engine was rebuilt and antics in the summer.
tuned in Sweden using a 205 bottom end,
Mahle forged pistons, a machined and ported Preferred model? Taunus Coupes
big-valve cylinder head, Weber 38 DGAS carb Colours? Mixed up standard and crazy race
and Janspeed exhaust manifold. car livery
Engine choice? Anything turbocharged,
Return to splendour though probably a BOA V6
That restoration took Ulf the best part of 14 Wheels? Period split-rims or skinny steels
years, but in 2004 it was ready for the road. The with studded tyres
Taunus now was in such a good condition that

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TAUNUS 2000L

The engine was rebuilt in 2005, and is now based Tech Spec
around a 205 injection block and worked head.
Body
1974Taunus 2000 L, new original front wings
and outer part of back wings, all steel, all glass
renewed, debadged, no outer mirrors.
Paint: Onyx Green metallic
Engine
2064cc Pinto, 205 block, 92 mm Mahle forged
pistons, reground crank, machined and ported
big-valve cylinder head (44mm inlets/37.5mm
exhaust), Nils Hedlund 206 camshaft, Weber 38
DGAS carb, Janspeed exhaust manifold,
custom stainless steel exhaust system
Transmission
Original four-speed gearbox, original Atlas axle
Suspension
Special-build Koni dampers and Lesjöfors
lowering springs front and rear (85mm front,
110mm)
Brakes
Standard discs and drums
Wheels and tyres
Front: 8x13 inch Revolution Classic Race with
Kumho Ecsta V70A 235/45R13 tyres.
Rear: 9x13 inch Revolution Classic Race with
Kumho Ecsta V70A 235/45R13 tyres (plus
Borrani 7.25 and 8.25x13 steels)

Ulf nearly did not want to use it. Thankfully, Interior

The Taunus has been around the clock Original seats and steering wheel, Wiechers
today, another 15 years later, Ulf has covered several times — and all in Ulf’s ownership. Überrollbügel custom roll cage, Britax four-
another 6000 km in the car. point harness, rev counter and light in
There’s always been one issue with the car, glovebox from 1974Taunus GXL 1974
though — the wheels. It’s always been difficult Thanks
Revolution Wheels (01623 860000, https://
to balance the wider wheels on the Taunus, revolutionwheels.com)
especially after Ulf fitted 235-section tyres.
Although every single part in the front end was
new-old stock, Ulf was not satisfied, and as the
old steel wheels had been welded many times,
the vibration just wouldn’t go away.
To remedy this, he bought a set of 8x13
Classic Race wheels directly from Revolution in
February 2019. To fill the arches better, the
rears were then widened 1 inch on the inside by
a company in Sweden. Expensive, but worth it.
So today, 46 years after it was delivered to his
door on that dark and foggy November night in
1973, Ulf can be nothing but happy with his
Taunus. It’s like a new, but tuned and heavily-
lowered car. And four years from now he can
celebrate their 50th anniversary!

Jägermeister decal is a 1970s original — kept

by Ulf all this time and only recently fitted.

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For sheer Aussie variety, the Capital All Ford
Day in Canberra is hard to beat.
Words and Photos Stephen Roser
he Capital All Ford Day is hosted by
T the Ford Performance Club of ACT
and while it is not the largest of the
All Ford Day shows held in Australia, it is an
event that is well worth attending. It always
brings together an impressive collection of
modern and classic Fords owned by
enthusiasts from the nation’s capital and
other States as well. Even more noteworthy
is the number of rare and very special cars
that can be found at this event each year.
Most models of the Aussie Falcon GT
were present on the day along with a range
of Mustangs. One particularly rare Mustang
was an imported 1971 Boss 351 — only
1806 of these cars were built and they came
off the US production lines with an
extensively modified version of the
351 Cleveland V8.
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www.fordperformanceact.com
There were plenty of original Fords on show
and there was also a handful of hot rods. One of
the most eye-catching was the early Anglia
(above) powered by a colour-coded Pinto.
In Australia you are more likely to see a
tribute Escort Mexico than a real one but the
red Mk2 on display was the genuine item. Bill
McKell had an info sheet on his car which stated
that he not only bought it in 2016 but that he
had also owned it from 1977 to 1986. Clearly
this is not one of the cars that got away.
There was plenty to look at whether you were
interested in Aussie manufactured cars or fully
imported Fords. There were also others that fell
somewhere in between such as the TC (Mk3)
Cortina which was sold Down Under with the
2-litre Pinto or a 3.3 or 4.1-litre six-cylinder
Falcon motor. This variety is just part of the
appeal of Capital All Ford Day.

Falcon ESP: like a Mk2 Granada only even bigger.
Mk2 Mex was brought over from the UK.
There’s lovely: XB Falcon GT.
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1962 XL FALCON FUTURA
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collection.The XL was the first facelift model of
the Falcon and it saw the introduction of the new
Futura model, which was effectively a Deluxe
with all the options added.The cabin was
particularly well appointed with bucket seats,
centre console, carpet and a padded dash top.
Paul’s on-line searches located two cars. One
would require an extensive restoration while this
A Saph Down Under? How about that!
car had already been restored to an exceptional
standard by its previous owner. However it had
been stored for some time so Paul was required
to complete some servicing to get it back on the
road and performing reliably. Paul’s Futura is
powered by 170ci six-cylinder, which was the big
engine option of the day. In 1962 its 101 bhp was
impressive and a Falcon with the 170 won that
year’s Armstrong 500 race the last time it was
held at Philip Island, before relocating to the
Bathurst circuit for the following year.
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ESCORT MKI
Front quarter rubber .......................................(a pair) £72.00
Front windscreen rubber ............................................£26.94
Rear windscreen rubber .............................................£26.94
Screen chrome trim ......................................... .£7.20 (each)
Rear quarter window rubbers.............................(pair) £35.00
Door seal (2 door) ........................................... (each) £18.67
Door seal (4 door) with moulded corners ...................£37.58
Boot seal ....................................................................£15.00
Door glass seal, original moulded shape..........(pair) .£46.20
Door glass seal (interior).................................... (each) £5.00
Door Glass Seal Fixing Clip............................... (each) £0.36
Window channel .........................................................£10.24
Roof gutter chrome trim .............................................£14.51
Headlining, moonstone, black or putty ....................£103.62
Carpet set..................................................................£156.00
Boot Mat..................................................................... £48.94
Vinyl roof kit (incl. 2 litres adhesive)...........................£122.00
Estate Rear Side Window Seals........................ (pair) £60.00
ESCORT MKII
RS2000 – original solid rubber – front ........................£40.50
RS2000 – original solid rubber – rear .........................£40.50
Front windscreen rubber ............................................£40.00
Rear windscreen rubber .............................................£41.48
Screen trim (chrome or black ........................... (each) £7.20
Rear quarter window rubbers.............................(pair) £45.00
Door seal with moulded corners ................................£37.54
Boot seal each............................................................£15.70
Door glass seal (exterior).............................................. £7.80
Door glass seal fixing clip.............................................£0.36
Door window channel...................................... (each) £10.24
Front Quarter Rubbers (2 door fixed) .........................£84.00
Roof Gutter Trim (black or chrome) ............................£14.51
Rear lamp seals................................................. (each) £6.68
Carpet set..................................................................£156.00
Boot carpet..................................................................£55.00
Vinyl roof kit (incl. 2 litres adhesive)...........................£122.00
Headlining (black or putty).........................................£103.60
ESCORT MK3/MK4
Front screen rubber.....................................................£40.07
Rear screen rubber......................................................£40.07
Door glass seal............................................................£19.99
Tailgate seal.................................................................£19.80
Carpet set..................................................................£162.62
Headlining..................................................................£103.60
Door seal .......................................................... (each) 18.50
Cabriolet boot seal Mk3/4 ............................................15.00
Window Channel .............................................. (each) 26.05
Rear Quarter Window Rubbers (pair) ......................... £55.00
Cabriolet Door Seal ......................................... (each) £21.82
CAPRI MKI
Front windscreen rubber ............................................£40.00
Rear windscreen rubber .............................................£51.80
Screen chrome trim .......................................... (each) £7.20
Door seal (with moulded corners) ..............................£37.54
Door window channel...................................... (each) £12.30
Door glass seal.................................................. (each) £8.40
Boot seal ....................................................................£15.00
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Rear opening quarter glass seal........................ (each) £8.87
Roof Gutter Trim (Chrome)..........................................£14.51
Carpet set..................................................................£162.62
Vinyl roof kit (incl. 2 litres adhesive)...........................£122.00
Headlining..................................................................£120.00
CAPRI MKII & III
Front screen rubber, solid type...................................£39.26
Rear screen rubber, solid type ...................................£50.53
Door seal with moulded corners ................................£37.54
Tail gate seal................................................................£19.80
Door window channel..................................................£12.30
Door glass seals original moulded shape ........ (pair) £24.00
Door Glass Seal Fixing Clip .............................. (each) £1.10
Door Glass Seal Internal ................................... (each) £7.50
Carpet Set (Capri 2)...................................................£158.68
Carpet Set (Capri 3) – Long Console.........................£174.24
Roof gutter trim (chrome or black) .............................£14.51
Vinyl roof kit, (incl. 2 litres adhesive).........................£122.00
Rear quarter seals .......................................... (each) £12.13
Headlining.................................................................£120.00
Screen Trim (Ext) ........................................................£10.82
Screen Trim (Int)..........................................................£23.02
CORTINA MKI
Front quarter seals (2 door) ...............................(pair) £87.58
Front windscreen rubber ............................................£41.38
Rear windscreen rubber .............................................£47.62
Door seal, 2 door model.................................. (each) £21.00
Door seal, 4 door model.................................. (each) £18.00
Boot seal ....................................................................£27.00
Door window channel.................................................£10.24
Door glass seal.................................................. (each) £4.99
Carpet set..................................................................£162.28
Lode Star Headlining.................................................£150.00
Door shut edge trim....................................................£20.86
2 door models rear quarter rubber ..................(pair) £109.18
CORTINA MKII
Front windscreen rubber ............................................£35.28
Rear windscreen rubber .............................................£47.62
Screen chrome trim ......................................................£7.20
Door seal, 2 door model.................................. (each) £34.20
Door seal, 4 door model.................................. (each) £29.93
Door window channel..................................................£10.24
Door glass seal (exterior)...............................................£9.00
Door glass seal fixing clips............................................£0.54
Door glass seal (interior)................................................£4.99
Door shut edge trim....................................................£20.86
Boot seal (original pattern) .........................................£23.88
Carpet set..................................................................£166.27
Headlining (off white or putty) - Series 2 ..................£150.00
Lode Star Headlining - Series 1................................£150.00
Vinyl roof kit (incl. 2 litres adhesive)...........................£122.00
2 door models rear quarter rubber ..................(pair) £101.25
CORTINA MKIII
Front screen rubber.....................................................£40.26
Rear screen rubber......................................................£40.00
Screen insert (chrome) .................................................£8.60
Door seal with moulded corner ..................................£37.54
Door glass seal (exterior................................................£9.00
Door window channel..................................................£10.24
Boot seal ....................................................................£19.80
Carpet set..................................................................£170.52
Roof gutter (chrome) ..................................................£14.51
Headlining..................................................................£120.00
Vinyl roof kit (incl. 2 litres adhesive)...........................£122.00
CORTINA MK4/5
Front screen rubberMk4 only .....................................£40.26
Rear screen rubberMk4 only ......................................£47.40
Door sealMk4 .............................................................£37.54
Door window channel..................................................£10.24
Door glass seal (exterior)...............................................£9.00
Door glass seal fixing clip.............................................£0.36
Screen insert (chrome) .................................................£9.00
Boot seal ....................................................................£19.80
Roof gutter chrome trim .............................................£14.51
Carpet Set ................................................................£187.20
Headlining.................................................................£120.00
Vinyl roof kit (incl. 2 litres adhesive)...........................£122.00
GRANADA MKI
Door seal with moulded corners ................................£37.54
Boot seal ....................................................................£19.80
Coupe Vinyl Roof Kit ................................................ £142.00
Door window channel...................................... (each) £10.24
Door glass seal.................................................. (each) £9.00
Carpet set..................................................................£192.95
Vinyl roof kit (incl. 2 litres adhesive)...........................£122.00
Roof Gutter Trim .........................................................£14.51
SIERRA
Door seal,Mk1 ............................................................£19.80
Door seal,MkII ............................................................£25.66
Sapphire Door Seal ........................................ (each) £22.85
Tailgate seal.................................................................£19.80
Bumper, self-adhesive trim.............................. (each) £16.45
Carpet set..................................................................£192.95
Screen Trim (Ext) ........................................................£13.80
Screen Trim (Int)..........................................................£26.30
FIESTA
Front screen rubber.....................................................£33.11
Door seal ....................................................................£19.80
Tailgate seal.................................................................£19.80
Headlining..................................................................£110.00
Carpet set..................................................................£156.00
Door glass seal............................................................£19.99
105E ANGLIA
Front windscreen rubber (with ears)............................£40.00
Rear windscreen rubber .............................................£40.42
Door seal (each)..........................................................£20.10
Boot seal ....................................................................£16.98
Door window channel..................................................£12.00
Door glass seal.................................................. (each) £4.99
Door shut edge trim......................................... (each) £18.72
Rear opening quarter glass seal........................ (each) £8.40
Bonnet seal...................................................................£9.90
Carpet set..................................................................£172.14
Headlining..................................................................£120.00
Lode Star Headlining.................................................£120.00
Rear Quarter Light Seals Fixed .........................(pair) £35.00
100E & 107E
Window channel .........................................................£17.76
Front windscreen rubber ............................................£46.16
Rear windscreen rubber .............................................£34.50
Rear quarter window rubber ............................(each) £23.33
Door seal, 2 door model.................................. (each) £16.06
Door seal, 4 door model.................................. (each) £16.06
Door seal, fitted on door.................................... (each) £8.87
Door glass seals ............................................... (each) £4.99
Boot seal ....................................................................£15.10
Carpet set..................................................................£201.61
ZEPHYR/CONSUL 1
Front screen rubber.....................................................£38.89
Rear screen rubber......................................................£38.89
Door seal ....................................................................£19.18
Door window channel..................................................£12.00
Headlining..................................................................£170.00
Carpet set..................................................................£183.25
Boot Seal.....................................................................£24.92
ZEPHYR/CONSUL II
Front screen rubber (hi line)........................................£45.89
Rear screen rubber (hi line).........................................£45.89
Front screen rubber (low line)......................................£46.80
Rear screen rubber (low line).......................................£43.87
Door seal ....................................................................£17.06
Door window channe .................................................£12.00
Door shut coloured edge trim ....................................£18.00
Headlining (low line and hi line) ................................£170.00
Carpet set..................................................................£179.12
Boot seal ....................................................................£19.80
ZEPHYR/CONSUL III
Front screen rubber.....................................................£41.23
Rear screen rubber......................................................£40.66
Rear screen rubber (Zodiac)........................................£45.89
Door seal ....................................................................£20.06
Boot seal ....................................................................£19.80
Door window channel..................................................£12.00
Headlining..................................................................£170.00
Carpet set..................................................................£186.29
Door Glass Seal............................................................£7.80
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 LOTUS CORTINA Mk2
Original classic Fords: With less than 25,000 original miles and a
famous first owner, this Amber Gold 1969 Cortina Lotus certainly has
a tale or two to tell.
Words Mike Renaut Photos Adrian Brannan

54 March 2020
 ften what makes a car truly special isn’t
O purely its rarity, increasingly today it’s
the originality and the history — what
auctioneers love to refer to as provenance —that
transforms a classic from merely unusual into
highly desirable. This 1969 Cortina boasts a big
tick in all three of those boxes. It’s a Lotus
Cortina, it remains virtually as the day it left the
factory and it once belonged to Colin
Chapman. The Cortina, chassis BA91JJ14893,
was built in September 1969 then gifted to
Lotus founder, Colin Chapman by Ford after
they bought the rights to the twin-cam engine
as part of Ford’s desire to improve the quality of
Cortina and Escort Twin Cam production.
Exactly why Ford presented this Cortina is open
to speculation. Having taken control of the Mk2
away from Lotus by moving the production line
to Dagenham it may have been a goodbye gift
or goodwill gesture. Although by then it would
have been clear the Lotus Cortina (now badged
Cortina Twin Cam) would soon cease
production and be replaced by the new
Escort Twin Cam.
Chapman’s Cortina came with Ford
accessory oblong spotlights and the optional
extra Rostyles. While Amber Gold was a
popular colour for the 1600E model it was
rarely specified for a Lotus, the Saddle trim
vinyl interior is another unusual choice.
Chapman personalised the car adding the boot
handle from an estate, fitted since he evidently
hated using keys to open the boot. Chapman
put 14,223 ‘enthusiastic’ miles on the car over
the next few years but wasn’t always the best of
drivers — he was known to crash into the
entrance barrier at the factory if guard on the
gate didn’t open it in time.
The car later became an exhibit in the Lotus
museum. In 1997 the museum was closed and
its contents sold at a 1998 Coys auction on
behalf of Lotus’s then-owner, the Malaysian
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 LOTUS AND FORD
THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Colin Chapman (above left, with Keith
Duckworth) founded Lotus Cars in 1952
aged just 22; a superb design engineer he
was obsessed with reducing weight on
his racing cars. Among previous Lotus
employees were Mike Costin and Keith
Duckworth — founders of Cosworth.
When in 1962 Ford released the five-
bearing 1498cc engine Duckworth aided
in tuning development of the engine that
was first used in a Lotus 23. Ford
subsequently asked Chapman to fit a
1558cc version to 1000 Cortina saloons
for Group 2 homologation and the Lotus
Cortina was born. Ford wanted to
continue the Mk1’s success with the Mk2
version but had concerns over build
quality. With Lotus moving from
Cheshunt to Hethel, Ford opted to move
Lotus Cortina production to Dagenham.
Chapman died of a heart attack in
December 1982 after producing over 80
Formula 1 race cars and being involved in
developing hundreds of road cars.
56 March 2020
Mike’s only owned the car for a year but he’s
keen to get it out and seen at the various shows.
company HiCom. Since the Cortina’s V5
registration was in the name of Group Lotus
rather than Chapman himself, it became one of
the auction lots. Despite being a low-mileage
example with an obviously excellent history, the
Cortina didn’t reach its £6000 reserve and failed
to sell.
Coming to America
Enter American automotive journalist, Jamie
Lincoln Kitman, a New York attorney and
manager of the band They Might Be Giants. He
learned about the car during a visit to the Hethel
factory and after contacting Coys bought the
Cortina for £4500. Although it looked
presentable enough in the museum, the Cortina
had been sitting unused since the early 1980s so
before taking it to New York Kitman had Lotus
specialists, Paul Matty recommission the car.
In the Paul Matty workshops the engine was
pulled and the engine bay stripped, detailed
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and painted. All the glass was removed and a
bare metal respray performed with all the
original steel panels retained. New rubbers
were added along with new tyres, new bumpers
and a brake rebuild. Other than stripping and
cleaning the Weber carburettors, Paul Matty
left the engine and drivetrain untouched.
Despite all those years sat in the Lotus museum
the engine only needed a new battery. The
total bill of £4408.33, even in 1998 money,
sounds like a bargain.
The Cortina was then shipped to New York in
1999 where Kitman slapped New York licence
plates on top of the original UK ones and had
no qualms about leaving the car parked in some
of the rougher areas. Indeed, the only damage
on the car even today is a dent in the front
offside trim above the headlight that Chapman
made driving into a workshop door. Kitman was
given a new piece of replacement trim by a
Californian enthusiast who had read about the
 heritage: lotus cortina

Colin Chapman used this car regularly for a few years, racking up the miles and adding a few dents in
the process... The car was later given a bare-metal respray but all of the body panels are still original.

New York permits just add to the car’s appeal.

Chapman had the original boot lock swapped for one

incorporated into a conventional handle, as he Saddle trim colour was an unusual choice for a Lotus at
apparently disliked opening the bootlid with a key! the time, but it makes this car all the more unique.

“KITMAN DROVE IT
660 MILES FROM NEW
YORK TO DETROIT”
car but he never fitted it. Kitman certainly
wasn’t afraid to use the Cortina; in 2003 he
drove 660 miles from New York to Detroit to
join in Ford’s 100th anniversary celebrations
where it was displayed in the Ford Racing tent
next to the John Whitmore Cortinas. On arrival
in the car park the engine began to misfire.
Fortunately, the mechanic looking after
Whitmore’s Mk1 Lotus Cortina quickly fixed it
by diagnosing a faulty Weber carb, which he
cleaned and tuned.

Home again The 1558cc twin-cam engine is largely untouched — hardly

Kitman eventually increased the mileage up to surprising since it’s only covered around 20,000 miles.
24,700 then in 2014 returned the Cortina to

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 An English Cortina in New York: journalist and attorney, Jamie Kitman bought the Lotus in the late
1990s and shipped it to the US where he used —and parked — it on the streets of New York...
the UK where it was auctioned by RM
Sotheby’s without reserve. Against an estimate
of £40,000-£60,000 on September 8, 2014 it
sold for just £22,400.
The owner of the car today is Mike Baroth.
“I bought the Cortina from The Hairpin
Company,” explains Mike. “I previously had a
large collection of cars that I sold off due to ill
health. One of those was a low-mileage Porsche
930 Turbo LE bought by Neil Dickens at
Hairpin. When I dropped off the Porsche I saw
the Cortina and ended up buying it.”
“Although he’d had a lot of offers worldwide,
including a number from Japan, Neil had been
particularly keen the Cortina should remain in
the UK. The car had been sold to Neil by
Rodney Timson, the husband of actress
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Penelope Keith — he had bought it from
another dealership, DD Classics, who had
bought it from the Sotheby’s auction.
“I like unusual cars,” continues Mike,
“I’ve always owned them. This one is
probably unique now with the colour scheme
and of course it’s still largely original, the
carpet and interior haven’t been touched, it’s
still got the original mat in the boot and still
has less than 25,000 miles on it. I like that
although it’s excellent, it’s not completely
concours. I’ve been asked by car clubs to
enter it in concours competitions and I won’t
— I’m not into that.”
“Obviously the fact that Colin Chapman
drove it adds to the appeal, but I remember the
Mk2 Cortinas from when I was a kid and I’d
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Rostyles were optional extras on the Mk2 Lotus,
and Ford specified these along with extra driving
lamps for Chapman.
always lusted after them. Although my
collection currently contains several Bentleys
and Jaguars I have owned Fords before — I had
a Mk2 RS2000 some years back and a Racing
Puma that I still regret selling.
“The Cortina needs a balljoint replacing and
the track rod ends are stiff from where it’s been
sitting, I’ll do those small jobs but I won’t alter
anything else. I certainly won’t remove that dent
in the headlight trim! One of the badges is
upside down and it too will remain that way. It’s
a car I intend to keep a long time. I’ve had the
Cortina for over a year but haven’t had much
chance to use it since it’s been in storage while
I’ve built a new house. It will be out next
summer though. I’m certainly not frightened to
drive it and use it as it was intended to be.”
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Paul’s Escort came from South Africa as a standard 1600.

Distributor replaced with cam sensor.

Sandwich plate houses injectors.

I have recently bought and restored a four-door
Mk1 1600 Ford Escort. It is a South African
export, so slightly different to the regular Mk1s
specifically because it has the 1600 engine. As
far as I can tell it is the original engine, as the
engine number and chassis number match.
I have restored the car to an original road
spec. I have decided to go down the route of
electronic engine management. Not the usual
thing of tuning to produce high performance
(multiple throttle bodies) instead I have used a
single throttle body, and made a four-injector
sandwich plate to fit between the head and
standard inlet. The distributor has been replaced
with a cam sensor. It also has closed-loop
lambda for accurate fuel control.
The result is a reliable smooth running engine
that starts first time, even after being left in the
garage for a month. At a glance it appears a
standard engine, with the original airbox on top,
but without all the carb issues. It also returns 28
mpg, an improvement of the original 22 mpg!
Despite a fair amount of research I can find
no record of a four-door 1600 Mk1 being
produced (apart from the Mexico derivative).
I was wondering if there are any other known
examples of this model?
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back in the day. Not long after he passed

his driving test in it, he drove down our
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and the brakes failed completely.
Fortunately, those ’60s estates had
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Wayne Courtenay: a belated Merry Christmas!

Ben
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Sweeney star
It was great to see The Sweeney
Consul GT at the Classic Motor Show
Colin S: been buying your mag for years and
in November. The Guvnor would be
now have my boy, Keenan to share it with.
proud to see the car finished — it’s
been a long time.
Ian Driscoll: the 1985 British Saloon Car Champion
Tony Allen (Bill Regan’s driver) would Escort RS1600i on Malvern Hill.
be chuffed as would Billy Murrey who
drove it in the episode ‘Stoppo Driver’.
Incidentally, January 2020 marks the
45th anniversary of The Sweeney first
being transmitted (January 2, 1975, first
episode ‘Ringer’) — is there going to be
a Sweeney special in a future issue of
Classic Ford featuring the Cortinas and
Granadas in the series? I hope so, The
Guvnor would be pouring himself a large
Scotch to celebrate.
Jonathan Esberger
UK

Yes, we’ll be marking the occasion

very soon!

Bring on 2020
So with my wife renewing my
subscription with Classic Ford for
Christmas, I can’t believe how quick time
has flown by. I have my Capri all
wrapped up for the winter in the garage
with more security then a bank so I
wonder what great events we will be
going to in 2020? I know my friend,
Mr Pinto Nick is booking the Deal and
Whitstable show with the Laser Forum Liam Tippetts: my 1988 Orion 1.4GL.
Group and he will be running with his
45s that Tickover in Dartford will be
fitting with other great bits and bobs on
his stunning Ford Capri Laser.
So here’s to next year’s great events.
Jason Marie
UK

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“This is my Dad’s 1973 Escort Mk1 RS2000 rep rally car,” says Alexander
Dziendziol. “I know it would make his year to see his car in your magazine as he’s
been a subscriber for as long as I can remember and is a proper classic ford nut.”
”The car was purchased in May 2018 from a local auction and is his absolute pride
and joy. The Escort was standard from 1973 until 2009 before being turned into a Type
49 clubman spec competition car by Silverstone Rally School. The car has only covered
around 1000 road miles since completion and has never been rallied as it’s just too nice.
Since the purchase my Dad has updated the graphics with original blue RS2000
decals, and has attended a few local shows and the car draws a massive smile every
time he drives it. It was even used as my sister’s wedding car when she got married
this year. It’s such a lovely car and the memories I make with my Dad while driving it are
priceless to me.”
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I picked up a rebuilt 2-litre Pinto for that one summer
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FUEL SYSTEMS
A decent set-up holds the key to a reliable performance
engine and, as such, needs careful consideration.
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ast issue we looked at how different
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However they’re not going to make any
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tank is removed and replaced with a performance fuel
cell.They are stronger and less likely to leak in the event of
a crash or roll over than a standard tank, can be almost
any size you require, and are often baffled, negating the
need for a separate swirl pot.
FUEL PUMP
The fuel pump’s job is to pump fuel from the tank (or swirl pot) to the injectors.
Modern fuel pumps are electric, although older cars and some race cars use
mechanical pumps — some RS500 racers used a back-up mechanical fuel
pump driven off the inlet cam. Most modern fuel injection pumps can cope
with the flow requirements of moderate power increases, but an upgraded
pump is usually needed to keep up with the fuel demands of highly tuned
engines. Upgraded pumps come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, some
capable of flowing over 1000 bhp worth of fuel! But don’t assume bigger is
always better, it’s not.You can actually have a fuel pump that flows too much
for your engine’s requirements.While an oversized fuel pump won’t over-fuel
the engine itself (the fuel pressure regulator prevents this), it will mean fuel is
pumped around the system too often, which can result in a loss of performance
and increased risk of detonation due to the fuel being heated up. Specific fuel
coolers are available to cure this, but are seldom seen outside of endurance
racers – it’s better to get the correct size pump in the first place.

A fuel cell guarantees a constant supply of fuel

to the pump, and won’t suffer from fuel surge.

“FUEL CELLS ARE SAFER In-line pumps are less prone to fuel
IN A CRASH OR ROLL” surge, so are preferred for track use.

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In-tankandinlinepumps Singleor
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We’re sure you’ll have guessed, but an in-tank pump is submerged in the fuel
tank, and an in-line fuel pump is placed within the fuel feed line shortly after the
fuel pump outlet.The majority of newer cars have in-tank pumps, and while
It’s not uncommon to add a second fuel pump to keep up
these are effective, cars with uprated in-tank pumps tend to be more
with the required flow of big power engines, but this
susceptible to fuel surge when cornering hard than in-line pumps.To solve this
creates a potential risk that you should be aware of. If one
problem, it’s usually wise to also install a fuel swirl pot feeding an external,
fuel pump fails, the single remaining pump will not be
in-line pump. A fuel cell with in-built baffles to prevent fuel surge should help
able to supply the required amount of fuel, so the
prevent the surge problem, but on standard fuel tanks at least, the baffles fitted
pressure will drop, the car will run lean, and the engine
may simply not be enough for hard track use.
will fail. A large, single fuel pump would be a safer option
because if the pump fails the engine will just stall. Oddly,
this is a situation where you’re better off with the car just
stopping completely, rather than driving around with a
lean running engine that will be causing expensive
damage. In reality, with new fuel pumps and good wiring
you’re unlikely to have a problem, but this is certainly a
factor worth considering.

Twin pumps double the fuel supply, but can

cause serious problems if one fails.

FUEL FILTER
As you’d expect, a fuel filter removes
foreign objects that may block carbs
or injectors or cause damage to the
engine. Most standard filters can
usually cope with most power
increases, just remember to change it
frequently enough — it’s a filter, by its
very nature it will become blocked
over time and, if unchanged, could
potentially cause a lean-running
engine! Larger race items are
available for big-power engines and
those running more exotic fuels, but
aren’t really needed for fast road cars.

“STANDARD
FUEL FILTERS
CAN USUALLY
COPE WITH
MODERATE
POWER Few non-injection classic Fords came with a filter as
INCREASES” standard, but they’re essential for tuned engines.

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Fuelfeedline
The fuel feed line connects the main fuel pump to the fuel
rail, and is usually made of metal or reinforced rubber
hose. It’s important that any hose used is capable of
handling high-pressure fuel, as normal rubber hose will
degrade and can even burst under the pressure! For big
power engines larger diameter fuel lines are often
needed, but you’ll be surprised at just how much power
can still be achieved with seemingly small diameter fuel
feed lines.
Injectors
Fuel injectors are small electronic solenoids controlled by
the car’s ECU.They open at precise moments, and for
exact amounts of time, to supply the correct amount of
finely atomised fuel to the engine.There are countless
injector options available so finding the right ones for your
engine’s requirements isn’t too hard. Most factory-fit
injectors have room for mild power increases, but for big
power hikes larger injectors are a must. Larger injectors
can deliver more fuel, but can be harder to control at low
pulse widths, especially with less sophisticated ECUs,
making for less refinement at low rpm, so getting the right
injector can be somewhat of a balancing act.
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FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR
The pressure regulator usually sits on the outlet side of the fuel rail, and
maintains a set pressure at the fuel rail by allowing excess fuel pressure to
‘bleed off’ into a return line back to the tank. Regulators are generally simple
spring-loaded valves that open at a particular point, typically 3.5 Bar, and all
aftermarket regulators (and some standard ones too, such as the Sierra and
Sapphire Cosworth unit) are fully adjustable to enable fine-tuning of the static
fuel pressure at the fuel rail. Many regulators also reference boost/vacuum
from the engine too (usually via a small pipe from the inlet manifold) and
automatically adjust the fuel pressure to increase or decrease in parallel with
the manifold pressure.
Most aftermarket regulators are
adjustable to allow for fine-tuning.
Injectors are small solenoids
controlled by the ECU.
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 FuelRail
The fuel rail is where the injectors are mounted. In essence it’s simply a
solid metal bar with the fuel coming in one end and going out the other, “THE FUEL RAIL IS A METAL
with outlets for the injectors along the way.The pressure regulator is
often mounted on the fuel rail too. Performance fuel rails generally
BAR WHERE THE INJECTORS
feature a larger bore size and a higher flow rate, and on some ARE MOUNTED”
applications they even have inlets at both ends and a central outlet, to
provide a more consistent fuel flow under extreme use.

Necessary for injection systems, the return line

Fuelreturnline sends excess fuel back to the tank or swirl pot.

A fuel return line allows the excess

fuel bled off from the regulator to
return back to the fuel tank (or swirl
pot if one is fitted).The fuel here isn’t
under pressure, so you must make
sure the return line is of a suitable size
to cope — if it cannot flow enough
fuel, it will become a restriction and
cause increased fuel pressure.

Swirlpot
Highly modified cars often have a fuel swirl pot installed
between the fuel tank and the main fuel pump. A swirl
pot is a small capacity, tall, and baffled tank, usually
around two litres in capacity. It’s used to prevent
fuel surge and supply a constant supply of
fuel to the main pump. Swirl pots are
generally fed by a low-pressure
secondary pump or lift pump, as
well as the excess fuel
returned via the fuel
pressure regulator.

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Ben’s Mk1 Cortina
Fire in the hole! Well, there will be when the new powerplant is
What’s been
installed and running in the Cortina’s unsuspecting engine bay.
done this he Cortina is home once more, and
month:
Chosen the engine
and gearbox,
T sat up on axle stands level awaiting
its new powerplant.
After some deliberation, I’ve gone for a
made up some Honda F20C engine — these are found in
engine mounts, the S2000; mine being from the earlier,
fabricated a new more powerful AP1 version from 2001 and
transmission chosen for a few reasons: I’ve enjoyed
tunnel loads of success with these engines in
both normally-aspirated and boosted form
Next on the in a previous cars, and I feel it’s well suited
to-do list: to the Mk1 Cortina race car idea I have in
Weld the new my head.
tunnel section in
place, decide on
These engines are all-alloy in design
with a steel crank and rods, and forged
the axle pistons from the factory. They deliver
Thanks to:
240 bhp in standard unstressed form, and
I know they love a bit of forced-induction
Gary Martin with very little work. A massive bonus is
Motorsport, they come with a beautiful all-alloy (albeit
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tall) six-speed gearbox. All that’s left then is
to make the engine go in the hole!
I’ve fitted one before in a previous build,
so I knew there was some heavy sump
surgery to be done to allow the engine to
sit as low and as far back as possible in the
Cortina’s surprisingly spacious engine bay,
so as seems to be the norm recently, out
came the grinder!
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Mounting pressure
Nothing is available off-the-shelf in the
way of a chassis mount kit for a Mk1
Cortina, so I set about fabricating some,
first ordering a tube and bush kit, then
simply fabricating the rest up using heavy
gauge steel plate.
“I’VE FITTED AN
F20C BEFORE SO
KNEW THERE
WAS SOME
HEAVY SUMP
SURGERY”
This always feels like a huge milestone
in a car build, getting an alien engine to fit
nice and on its mounts, but once this was
in, offering up the gearbox soon showed
me that getting the propshaft down under
the tunnel, and back up again was going to
be very tight. This is down to the sheer
height of the Honda gearbox, and the fact
the axle is so high up in the car due to its
low ride height. So after bolting the
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F20C engine is strong, all-steel.... and
destined for the Cortina’s engine bay.
gearbox up and supporting the rear of it
with an axle stand, once again out came
the grinder and in true Gary Martin fashion
the car was cut from the bulkhead to the
boot floor right down the middle.
This seems quite excessive, but it will
allow me to raise the entire tunnel to make
room for the taller gearbox, the larger and
higher propshaft, and the incoming larger
diff/axle set-up and in a way that it will be
shaped to keep it sympathetic to the lines
and shape of the Cortina.
Out came the sheets of steel, and I set
about fabricating and shaping up a set of
new tunnels. After playing around and
experimenting for a few hours I was left
with a new gearbox, propshaft and diff
tunnel with the same shape and curved
radius as the Cortina originally had — just
much more accommodating. Time to fire
up the welder, and start closing up some
of the holes in the old girl!
Another busy month, but it’s moving in
the right direction, and next time I’ll aim for
all the tunnel to be welded in, the gearbox
mount fabricated, I’ll decide on an axle and
start thinking about what seats — as I’m
not sure the 50 year-old ones are going to
hold me in too well!
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IN THE WORKSHOP
The Classic Ford fleet: our projects
and rolling restorations
Simon
Woolley
Mk1
Cortina
Will the Mk1
finally see
the road
again in
2020? Find
out next
issue

Ben starts to mark out the steel, ready to cut

Bulkhead needed some TLC to fit new engine. and form for the new tunnel.

Below and left: Chassis-mounted engine

mounts fabricated from a tube and bush kit.

Simon Holmes Mike Johnson

Mk2 Fiesta Mk1 Sierra

Mike Johnson Gavin Hutton

Mk1 Fiesta Mk1 Cortina

Gavin Hutton JJ Gallagher

Mk1 Cortina Estate Mk2 Escort

Adrian Brannan Adrian Brannan

Mk3 Escort Mk2 Granada

Mike Johnson Ben Szanto

Anglia 105E Mk1 Cortina

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Q I own a 1970 Cortina 1600E. I’m
changing my dynamo to an ACR
alternator, and the problem is that the
control box has four wire connections
— two black wires on the E terminal
spade, two brown and yellow colour
wires on the D terminal spade, one
brown and green wire on the F terminal
and one brown wire on the B terminal.
Which terminals do I bridge together to
make the alternator work?
Brian Jeffs
UK
A Most dynamo control boxes have five
terminals, either A1, A, F, D and E or E,
D, WL, F and B. Sometimes the B is
duplicated to avoid bunching wires
together. You don’t mention a WL
terminal, which usually connects to the
ignition warning light. However, you
don’t need to bridge any terminals
together, you just need to disconnect
three old cables and put in two new
ones. The wires from the D and F
terminals on the dynamo control box go
to D and F on the dynamo so remove
them, or undo and tape them up.
As you don’t mention a WL terminal
on the control box, we would play safe,
remove the ‘live’ wire from the ignition
warning light and tape that up. Leave
the connections to E and B on the
control box as they are.
On the back of the alternator you
should have two spade terminals,
usually to take a block connector,
labelled IND and +. There are often two
+ terminals — if there are, take a cable
from each and run them in parallel.
The first step is to take a new cable,
(at least size 14/010) from the IND
terminal on the alternator to the
ignition warning light. Then take
another cable from the + terminal on
the alternator to the starter solenoid
where it will connect with the cable
from the battery and the cable from B
on the dynamo control box — this
needs to be a heavy one to carry the
full alternator charging current, 80/012
is the minimum size you should use.
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Noisy exhaust
Q I have a Mk2 Escort with injection
Pinto, four-branch manifold and a
twin-box exhaust. It sounds great but I’ll
be using the car for long journeys and I
need it to be a lot quieter. I was thinking
of fitting the standard RS manifold — do
you think it will make a difference? What
can I do to keep the noise down on the
car? What sound deadening do you think
would be best?
Harry Barnes
UK
A Four-branch manifolds don’t usually
make any difference to the exhaust
noise level inside a car, as the noise
Lower Consul Capri
Q I have a 1962 Consul Capri, which I’m
slowly restoring and adding some
era-correct modifications to. I’d like to keep
the front struts — I’ve lowered the rear
2 inches and have to do the front as it sits
too high. Can I buy new springs, or do I
chop a coil out?
Paul Jackson
UK
A Do not chop the coil springs. It alters
the poundage of the spring but more
importantly, the springs are flattened at
both ends so they sit in the cup properly.
Cut these off and there’s a danger that
the springs will jump out of the cup. For
safety’s sake, it would be better to go to
2.25-inch coil-overs as, when lowered,
the springs cannot become detached
from the leg - you can buy an abutment
kit from Rally Design to convert these
yourself, or send them to GAZ who can
do the job for you.
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Fruity 1100?
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1100. It has a genuine mileage of 24,000
miles and the engine is sweet.
I don’t want to change such a low-
mileage engine but acceleration is awful.
Are there any upgrades I can make
without going up in engine size?
Simon Everett
UK
A You can do quite a bit on the intake and
exhaust to improve the 1100 Crossflow’s
acceleration, but don’t expect miracles.
You won’t get 1600 performance out of
an 1100 whatever you do to it.
Without altering the engine you can fit
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Timo Makinen and Gilbert
Staepelaere shared FEV 4H, to
finish fifth in the World Cup rally.
UP FOR
THE CUP
When the World Cup Rally was announced, Ford needed a car they could
rely on. 50 years’ on, it’s arguably still the Mk1 Escort’s greatest victory.
onths after the pioneering London to
M Sydney Marathon in 1968 had made
the headlines, a much more ambitious
event — London to Mexico City — was
launched. Dubbed the World Cup Rally, to link
up with the football extravaganza, the route
aimed to join the 1966 venue (London) with
the 1970 venue (Mexico City).
The title provided a good excuse for a
marvellous motorsport event, and attracted the
Daily Mirror as main sponsor. The route wound
east to Sofia in Bulgaria, then back through
Words Graham Robson
Yugoslavia, Italy, France and Spain to Lisbon. After
crossing the Atlantic by boat, the competitors then
tackled a complete South American circuit,
through Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile,
Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, before being ferried
to Panama for the dash through Central America
to Mexico City itself. It was going to take six
weeks, and there were few overnight halts.
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Tough choice
Ford was one of several frontline teams who
decided to enter cars. But what cars should Ford
use? The London to Sydney Marathon proved
that Lotus twin-cam engines didn’t like poor
petrol, while Lotus Cortinas were already
obsolete. Was the Escort too small for a 16,000
mile event? Should larger cars be tried?
Bizarre experiments took place in 1969.
Roger Clark drove a Taunus V6-engined Escort
in the French Alpine, and a Mk4 Zodiac in
eastern Europe (“Just like driving an aircraft
carrier,” he commented), while a German-built
Taunus had already won the Safari.
It took a day-long meeting to settle it —
Escorts with enlarged pushrod Kent engines
would be used. But two-man or three-man
crews? What about driver endurance at high
altitude? This led to an exchange of telegrams
from Stuart Turner in Boreham to Roger Clark,
surveying the route in South America. “Test
your stamina by making love at 17,000 feet,”
sent Turner.
Roger, Turner insists, replied: “Regret, could
not find girl at 17,000 feet. Made love to 17 girls
at 1000 feet instead. No problems reported!”
The testing, engineering and car-build took
six months. Engineer, Bill Meade eventually
settled the specification of the cars, which
included 1.85-litre Kent engines, the new
five-speed ZF gearbox, the meaty Atlas axle, a
much-reinforced bodyshell, bars linking front
struts to screen rail, stiffening tubes across the
rear window aperture, and three linked fuel
tanks. Four cars (FEV 1H to FEV 4H) were
prepared at Boreham, with three others
(FTW 46H/47H/48H) prepared by Clarke
and Simpson, British Vita and Clark’s of
Narborough, all mechanically identical.
Ford took a big gamble — BL, for instance,
Top mechanic Mick Jones, looking tired but elated, Above: football star Jimmy Greaves was paired up with Tony Fall, and
hitches a ride from Rauno Aaltonen (driving) and they took the World Cup very seriously. Here they are with Stuart Turner,
Henry Liddon into the final control of the World Cup at Boreham, sizing up the European section of the event.
rally at the Aztec Stadium.

The World Cup Rally

of 1970 covered a
phenomenal route
— both in Europe and
South America.

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took a different strategy, using big, heavy
Triumphs, some with three-man crews. Even so,
Stuart Turner was relaxed at the Wembley start
— when asked about his plans, he quipped:
“Well, first I’m taking my child to the zoo,
and after that I’m off to Munich, Vienna,
Dubrovnic...”
Early weakness
After only one week, the Escorts wilted under the
strain, because the rear axle tubes were beginning
to break away from the diff casings. Worse, they
were being outpaced by Rene Trautmann’s
Citroën DS21. Mikkola’s car was second,
Makinen was fourth and Aaltonen lay ninth.
Colin Malkin’s machine had already been written
“AVERAGE SPEED TARGETS WERE HIGH,
ROADS MAINLY UNSURFACED, AND THE
BATTLE BETWEEN FORD AND BL INTENSE”
off, and there were engine and transmission
problems to worry about too — Sobieslaw
Zasada’s car had even suffered an engine blow up
on the way to pre-event scrutineering.
The axle problem was solved in just two
weeks. While the 71 surviving rally cars were
sailing from Lisbon to Rio de Janiero, Bill
Meade, Roger Clark and Boreham’s mechanics
devised a crude but effective axle brace which
cured the overload problem. That brace then
became part of the standard works-car
specification for several years to come.
For the crews, it was tough. Average speed
targets were high, roads were mainly
unsurfaced, the battle between Ford, BL/
Triumph and Citroën was intense. Though
Trautmann soon crashed his Citroën, Hannu
Mikkola had to drive flat-out to outpace the
Triumphs, while Roger Clark’s car retired when
co-driver, Alec Poole drove into the back of a
non-competing car.
By Montevideo, Ford was in command, with
Rauno Aaltonen’s arrival enlivened when police
Time to chat: Roger and Paddy Hopkirk pull each other’s
legs at Wembley Stadium, before the 1970 World Cup rally.
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commandeered him to chase criminals on the way Three happy crews at the end of the Daily Mirror World
downtown! This was a genuine Marathon, all Cup Rally. Left to right: Rauno Aaltonen. Henry Liddon,
16,000 miles of it, but there was no cruising — at Gunnar Palm, Hannu Mikkola, Gilbert Staepelaere and
all the controls I manned, the Escorts stormed in Timo Makinen. FEV 4H was Timo’s Escort, in which he
had finished fifth.
like the end of a 10 minute special stage.
Naturally there were problems, for the
extensive Boreham service operation, master-
planned by Bill Barnett, could not cover
everything. Rauno Aaltonen’s car needed a new
cylinder head, Hannu Mikkola’s car almost hit
an ambulance head-on in an Argentinian Prime,
and Timo Makinen’s car suffered broken wheel
studs. At one point, Zasada’s car needed a new
front strut, but had to make do with one from a
standard car for a time: that car only had drum
brakes, so here was a three disc-brake rally car...
Wherever I saw the Ford mechanics at work,
it was amazing to see what could be done in an
hour. Engines, gearboxes and axles could not be
changed — the regulations forbade this, and
casings were marked with radioactive paint to
enforce them — but everything else could be,
and usually was.
Crucially, the five surviving cars kept going,
and going. 71 cars had restarted from Rio,
52 reached Montevideo, 43 left Santiago, and
30 arrived at Lima in Peru. After Brazil, Ford
lost no more works cars. Not only that, but
Rauno Aaltonen completed a remarkable
charge, up from ninth at Lisbon to third.
Miles of stress
It was an enormous strain for everyone
connected with the event, particularly the
drivers who had to live with each other for
16,000 miles. Patience wore thin, tempers
flared, and self-control sometimes wobbled.
Some people complained, but the professionals
gritted their teeth, dug in, and looked forward
Even though the official start was at Wembley
Stadium, the Daily Mirror ensured maximum publicity,
working part of the route through central London.
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“IT WAS AN ENORMOUS STRAIN FOR

EVERYONE — PARTICULARLY THE DRIVERS”
Boreham began testing for the 1970 World Cup many months in advance. Roger Clark
and a brave mechanic thrashing ETW 882G through the rough road course at Bagshot.

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to the end. Not even the Mikkola-Palm

relationship was serene at times. Hannu tried
much too hard at first, so Gunnar once opened
the car’s door in mid-stage, threatening to jump
ship if he did not calm down. Fully paid-up
professional wild-men like Makinen and Fall had
to detune themselves a lot.
As the rally wound its way up the west coast,
exhaustion set in for nearly everyone, but the
Escorts seemed to be as strong as ever. Mikkola
and Palm, in particular, always seemed to be as
fresh as daisies: Hannu did all the driving,
Gunnar all the co-driving — and Gunnar did all
the talking at interview time, too!
By the time the cars passed through Costa
Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala,
before reaching Mexico itself, the battle
between Mikkola’s FEV 1H and Brian
Culcheth’s big Triumph was won. For either
team, so much rode on this victory, and at 5000
miles range the Daily Mirror trumpeted every
little incident for all that it was worth.
When all 23 surviving rally cars (seven of
which were Fords) drove in convoy from Fortin
to Mexico City on the last day, it was party time.
Police and official cars led, cleaned-up rally cars
formatted two and sometimes three abreast
behind them. At one time Timo Makinen thrust
a fizzing fire extinguisher in through Rauno
Aaltonen’s Escort window. Rauno Aaltonen and Henry Liddon at the Wembley
When F1 Champion Graham Hill met start — they kept their cool to finish third overall.
the convoy at the Aztec Stadium, there were
huge celebrations.
That was the moment when I heard Stuart “AT ONE POINT, MAKINEN THRUST A
Turner say: “This cost me more than £100,000.
Thank God Ford won, or I might just have been
FIZZING FIRE EXTINGUISHER IN THROUGH
out of a job by now.” AALTONEN’S ESCORT WINDOW”

Although Hannu Mikkola’s Escort did not lead all the way, it
was always competitive. Co-driver, Gunnar Palm is wearing
a helmet at this point, but Hannu himself is bare-headed.

THE FINAL RESULTS

PENALTIES (HOURS-MINUTES)
1 Ford Escort 1850 (Mikkola/Palm) 9.07
2 Triumph 2/5 PI (Culcheth/Syer) 10.25
3 Ford Escort 1850 (Aaltonen/Liddon) 10.46
4 Triumph 2.5 PI (Hopkirk/Nash/Johnston) 12.26
5 Ford Escort 1850 (Makinen/Staepelaere) 14.31
6 Ford Escort 1850 (Greaves/Fall) 19.31
7 Citroën DS21 (Vanson/Turcat/Leprince) 22.03
8 Ford Escort 1850 (Zasada/Wachowski) 23.59

96 starters, 23 finishers
Ford entered seven works Escorts, driven by Hannu Mikkola, Rauno
Aaltonen,Timo Makinen,Tony Fall (with Jimmy Greaves), Roger Clark,
Colin Malkin and Sobieslaw Zasada.

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Natural Capable of stellar

8.3-second quarter-

Born
mile runs, Shadi
Tobaji’s naturally-
aspirated Cortina
represents a
thoroughly

Thriller
Antipodean
approach to old-
school muscle…
Words Dan Bevis Photos Ben Hosking

84 March 2020
 volution occurs in intriguing geographical
E pockets. While many species have evolved
in a fairly uniform way across the globe
— human beings, cats, mosquitos, things that
are basically the same wherever you go — there
are quirks that occur when ecosystems exist in
relative isolation.
Look at the Galapagos Islands, with all the
freaky stuff that’s going on there. And Australia
— it’s renowned for its peculiar florae and
faunae that have developed in the loneliness of
the trade winds; they still have living
stromatolites there, which are essentially living
rocks from 4.5 billion years ago.
“AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC FORDS HAVE AN
IMMEDIATELY IDENTIFIABLE AESTHETIC”
As the ecosystem of Australia has uniquely
developed, so has the constantly shifting
automotive scene. Modified Australian cars have
a distinctive and immediately identifiable
CLASSIC FORDS IN
aesthetic that’s unmistakable alongside European AUSTRALIA
or American counterparts; big Detroit-
influenced power, oversized chrome wheels, a THINK BIG, THEN GO BIGGER
stock body stuffed with a usable interior, the The showcar scene is massively popular, so
approach essentially caricaturises classic and retro incredibly detailed builds with wild
cars’ very essence, presenting something paintjobs, crazy engine conversions and
flawlessly finished and capable of astonishing huge budgets blow us away. And they do
performance. The Cortina you’re seeing here is, love a good window louvre
in effect, the ultimate evolution of Australian
modifying culture. This go-big-or-go-home Preferred model? The Escort — or Mk3 and
Mk4 Cortinas
Colours? Bright and with graphics
Engine choice? V8 or Mazda rotary
Wheels? Big
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WELD splits are an impressive 12 inches wide at rear.

It’s not really a family car, but even the kids share Shadi’s passion for Aussie Fords.

Shadi felt it was important to retain the original chrome.

Shadi’s kept the interior as road-friendly as possible, with the

Kirkey’s easily swapped for Recaros when he goes out cruising. Retrimmed rear bench fights for space with roll cage.

nature demands cars clean enough to eat your I built the Cortina to have fun in.” Fair enough Having built up his Falcon himself, Shadi
supper off, yet sufficiently muscular to detonate really, you can’t argue with the logic. And the was well-versed in the relentless heartache that
tyres on demand for a society in which burnouts Mk3 (TC) Cortina he chose as a project base classic bodywork can bring, so the opportunity
are a national sport. wasn’t just any old car plucked at random from to acquire a perfected and painted shell felt like
the classifieds… this one had a story behind it. a no-brainer. With such a strong base to work
More and more “It was originally a mate’s project car,” he from, he handed the Cortina to local outfit,
Impressively, Sydneysider Shadi Tobaji built this explains. “It started out as a one-owner car with JT Performance to finish up; the tubs were of
car because his 600 bhp Falcon course already in situ, but JT took
wasn’t powerful enough, which
basically tells you all you need to
“SHADI BUILT THIS CAR care of the rest of the fab work,
with the list of jobs including the
know about Aussie tuning. BECAUSE HIS PREVIOUS rollcage, parachute mount, brake
Nicknamed ‘RAW GT’ for its Raw setup, custom anti-roll bar and
Orange paint, the Falcon was a 600 BHP FALCON NICKNAMED Panhard rod arrangement, as well
well-known entity at the iconic ‘RAW GT’ JUST WASN’T as creating custom mounts for the
cruise events, the Summernats and engine and transmission. Because
Powercruise and so on, but its POWERFUL ENOUGH...” this is Australia, and those
original build focus as being a particular elements were destined
streetable car that could also act as family original keys and logbooks, and it was fairly to be pretty sizeable.
transport meant that it was, unfortunately, straight. I loved it from the start! I saw the With the plan being to run 12x15 inch rear
inherently compromised. Cortina getting tubbed and painted, and after wheels and fat double bead-locked tyres, the
“I didn’t want to have to chop it up and the paint and chassis work was done he had a tubs ended up getting massaged yet further, as
rebuild it,” he reasons, “as the money I’d have change of heart and decided to put the running did the chassis rails, and as part of the
to spend bringing the Falcon up to the level gear into another car, so it was sold to me as a undercarriage makeover the leaf springs were
I wanted could fund a whole second car — so rolling shell.” junked and replaced by double-adjustable

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Strange Engineering coil-overs and a bespoke
four-link setup.
Stock it’s not
With the nuts-and-bolts of the project falling
neatly into place, Shadi set about planning out
the aesthetics. As is the style Down Under,
coupled with the fact that the body was so
straight and original, he’s gone for a relatively
factory-look approach — all the gleaming
brightwork remains, and you could almost fool
yourself that the car’s relatively stock… if, that
is, you’re able to overlook the colossal rear tyres
and the whacking great air filter that’s climbing
out of the bonnet.
The pure-and-simple philosophy continues to
the interior, where we find everything tastefully
trimmed in perforated black vinyl in an OEM
style. Yes, it still has a rear bench, and a full dash
with a stereo; while this car was built for
performance, Shadi’s playing the long game.
“The Kirkeys in the front are for racing, but
I have a pair of Recaros to go in once I’m
done with that,” he grins, “and while it has
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tubs, we just about managed to squeeze the
rear bench in!”
So there are plans for the future, but in the
here-and-now this Cortina’s all about grunt, and
the beating heart of the project is its 443ci Dart
Windsor V8. The hook here is that there’s no
massive blower sitting on top, nor a pair of turbos
flanking the block; this build, by Bill at BK Race
Engines, is naturally-aspirated. “I love engines
like this,” Shadi beams. “You have instant power
under your foot, no lag — the power is always
there.” And the spec is formidable: the huge
displacement and 13.3:1 compression ratio are
attributable to a 4.1 inch Callies DragonSlayer
crank, Oliver rods and custom Diamond pistons,
while Bullet Racing solid-roller cams lurk beneath
CHI Pro Series heads. A boot-mounted fuel cell
full of ethanol sluices improbable quantities of
juice through the huge APD 4500 Series
four-barrel carb, and when the car’s running on
C85 (a specific mix of race fuel that provides up
to 4 per cent more power than the better-known
E85) the motor puts out 889 bhp and 695 lb.ft.
Which is quite a lot.
mk3 cortina
xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xx xxxx xxxx xxx
IN THE 8s
GOING FAST — WITHIN THE RULES
Shadi’s very happy with his 8.3-second run,
which is what the car was built for. And it’s
interesting to note that drag times run in
brackets when it comes to build regs; there
are a lot of safety regulations around drag
racing, as you might expect, and if you’re
planning to run a car that can smash the
quarter-mile in 8.5-seconds or under, there
are certain things you have to do or they
won’t let you play. Regulations demand the
rollcage be fabbed from 1 5/8x0.118 inch
mild steel or 0.083 inch chromoly tubing,
and you’re not allowed to grind your welds.
So is Shadi happy at 8.3, or will he push for
more? Only time will tell…
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Super-smooth boot houses fuel cell and not much else.
Naturally a brawny motor needs a beefy
transmission, so this is taken care of by a TH400
’box built by Al’s Race Glides, going back to a 9
inch rear end with a Strange Engineering centre,
and 4.11 gears. Impressive tech indeed, and the
results speak for themselves: Shadi recently ran
an 8.3-second quarter-mile at the Sydney
Dragway. “I was so happy!” he laughs. “It didn’t
take us long to get the 8, but I’m impatient
when it comes to this stuff. I almost wheelied
the car onto its back bumper a couple of weeks
ago when we ran 9.01, so we made a couple of
tweaks to the front end and got it done.”
Perfect package
The Cortina was built to run 8s, so it’s
reassuring to know that it can do so with
aplomb, and that’s worth a lot of kudos at the
Powercruise — a street-driven and naturally-
aspirated car running the sort of numbers that a
lot of turbocharged efforts struggle to crack.
And given that this is a pure-bred Australian
build, these astonishing dragstrip figures are
wrapped up in a flawlessly finished and
beautifully presented machine, with a full
interior. It’s the pinnacle of Aussie evolution.
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Tech Spec
Body
1972TC Cortina, tubbed rear end, custom
bonnet, parachute. Paint: original white by
Rydalmere Prestige
Engine
443ci (7.3-litre) Dart Windsor small-block V8
built by BK Race Engines, APD 4500 Series
four-barrel carb, CHI Pro Series heads, CHI inlet
manifold, Bullet cams with BAM lifters, Oliver
con-rods, Diamond pistons, 4.1 inch Callies
DragonSlayer crank, MagnaFuel fuel pump,
fuel cell in boot, Moroso oil pump, custom
sump, custom PWR radiator, custom 3 inch
Ford Windsor-based Dart engine is a work of art with some exhaust system with 2 inch primaries, MSD
serious work and spec having gone into the internals — 875 distributor, MSD Power Grid ignition.
bhp from a naturally-aspirated engine is not to be sniffed at. Power: 875 bhp, 686 lb.ft (X85 fuel), 889 bhp,
695 lb.ft (C85 fuel)
Transmission
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BUYING AND RESTORING A CLASSIC FORD MADE SIMPLE
How to
Fold and form sheet steel
Last issue we showed you how to make folded metal by
spending a bit of money, so here’s the DIY way — only with a
I
n a previous episode we explored the
various ways you can fold sheet metal
to make your own panels — to patch
areas or, once you get more adventurous
and practised, you can make whole
sections. Most of what we covered entailed
buying equipment — both cost effective
and stuff that’ll set you up forever. But
there are other ways to bend sheet metal –
not only do they entail minimal cost but
they can do things some machines can’t.
Simply going right back to basics, all you
need are formers and a hammer – well, you
need a bit more if you want to go beyond
the basics but it’s amazing what you can do
with two sheets of MDF board to act as the
formers, some clamps and something to
hit the metal with. To start off, we’ll show
Words and Photos Jon Hill
how you can make a simple fold — the
only restriction with this is, how long your
piece of board is — from a small bracket to
a long length, it can all be done simply.
The good thing about using a board as a
former is, it doesn’t have to be straight —
put a curve in it and you can follow that
shape. As an exercise then, we’ll show how
we made both a male and female panel
section that, if you’re careful, will fit
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together perfectly. Start thinking, and you 1
can even put curves in — but the other
way — using a shrinker/stretcher machine.
But that means buying something and is
the subject for another day.
There are a few downsides to forming
panels with this method — it’s slow and
prone to hammer marks, although there are
ways in which you can overcome this by
using a face side and joining side. The latter
means it won’t necessarily be seen — it just
takes a bit of planning and practise, because
you will mess it up and end up making the
section you’ve already got or, put the
hammer marks in the wrong face! But then,
the person that never made a mistake hasn’t
actually made anything!
Additionally, the forming medium, in this
case MDF, is soft and only really suitable for
one or two formings as it damages easily. As
we’ll see, extreme curves tend be tricky to
form — if you want it perfect, or repeatable,
you can make a former in metal, but that
takes a lot more fabrication; longer than Simple Flange Forming
making the panel in the first place. But it can If you don’t have one of those new-fangled fancy bending
be very accurate! For now, let’s look at how machines, you can still make folds in sheet metal by simply using a
we can make cheap, one-off panels with couple of bits of board material — in this case MDF. It can be cut to
minimal tools. any length and curved too as we’ll see later.
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CLASSIC ALIVE
Expert tips to restore
or maintain your Ford
for a long life.
2 3
First off, we need some sheet steel to form a flange
into. In this case, we mark out our desired fold
section in a piece of 18-gauge sheet steel using a
sliding square and a Sharpie. It is always best to
make your folded section longer than you need,
you’ll see why in a second, then cut it to length.
5 6
You can use as many as you like across the top too
— this is good and flexible because you can move the
clamp along as you form the flange.
8 9
That centre clamp can be moved along as you go,
giving greater control of the flange forming.
11
Out of the forming boards, the show face — the bit
you haven’t hit - still looks nice and damage free
— which is why it’s the face/show side but…
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Once marked out, we slide the steel in-between the
two sections of board. Note that I’m lining up the two
pieces with my thumb; so they are flush. In truth, you
could simply screw the two pieces together Using clamps, you need to nip up the two ends.They
beforehand to give some location. need to be tight.
7
To form the fold, you start by gently tapping the steel
at the outer end of the flange, with a soft-faced
hammer. Mine is fitted with Nylon ends, while the
inner is filled with heavy metal, giving it some weight As you work along the fold, you can bring the
behind the blows.You need the face as clean as hammer closer to the fold edge. It’ll take quite a lot of
possible — any marks will be transferred to the steel. effort and it isn’t a quick process either!
10
The fold is worked until it’s nicely folded into the …until it looks nice and neat — you’ll see a
edge of the former — now hitting with the hammer reflected line along where you fold, indicating where
along the folded edge… it’s straight.
12 13
You can use an ordinary hammer although it’s best to
invest in a proper body hammer; the face of which
you need to keep as clean and blemish free as
…the actual flange shows a fair degree of hammer possible. I’ve given the hammer face a quick wipe
marks — don’t panic, we can dress these out now. with some fine abrasive paper.
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You want it really tight.There tends to be a slight
radius to the fold normally, which you can tighten up
as much as you like.
17
Using sections of MDF again, I marked out a simple
ellipse shape using French Curves. It’s best to make
the shape oversize too — you’ll see why in a minute.
20
In the same way as the straight flange, the two
former pieces are clamped together and the process
of folding can begin — with the hammer forming the
outside edge first.
23
Again you work from the outside towards the in/the
folded edge, and don’t worry too much about
excessive hammer marks.You can clean them up
and dress them later — this is not the face edge!
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15
Using this method, I always make the folded section
longer than necessary and then trim it to width;
trueing it up, with a pair of tin snips.
18
If you screw the two panels together, you can cut
them out with a jigsaw and a fine blade, meaning the
formers match each other!
21
Since the hammer’s face is flat, you can only
effectively form the straight — flat-ish sections.
24
Alas, there are downsides to the hammer method;
especially using MDF as the former — it’s soft and
a tight curve can be a bridge too far.The metal
simply cuts into the board material and refuses to
form — hence the merits of making the section
longer than you need!You could make the section
from bent steel bar, welded together to form an
L-section and hammer into that but it takes a lot
more fabrication work.
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Forming curved panels
Female (inner) curves: So far we’ve made simple
straight folds but the beauty of the hammer
method is that you can make curved sections —
again simply with curved formers cut to shape.
19
Then with the 18-gauge sheet steel prepared as
before, we slip it in-between the two formers and
mark out the curve plus the flange we want to form
— only longer as before, then cut that out — again
you can use a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade.
22
The curves in the corner need a round-shape to the
face of the hammer. I have a curved body hammer
but at a push, you could use a ball-peen hammer too,
though keep it clean!
25
The same can be said of the face — it won’t
necessarily form properly and you may need
to dress the face with a body hammer and a
dolly behind.

26
With a bit of care, we’ve formed a female curved
panel that’s over-long — you can use this method to
make a wheelarch repair section. Make it over-long
and trim it to shape.
29
Now the tricky bits — the corners — simply
because the metal needs shrinking to form
properly. As you can see, there’s folds that want
to form. We want a flat flange and there’s a few
methods to achieve that.
32
Of course, there’s always the spend money option
too — a shrinker stretcher machine will help too.
Using the shrinking jaws, you can gather up the
metal, working locally where the jaws will fit.
35
Cleaned up — we used a Roloc disc in an air sander
for speed — the flange has been cut to width as
before with tin snips, and we have our male section
of formed panel.
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Male curves: we can make the section that fits into
the female by using the waste piece of former we cut
out earlier – you need to be accurate if you’re going to
do this. We prepared our 18-gauge steel and again
we made it longer than we need.
30
Again, if you want to spend money, you can buy a
shrinking hammer, which gathers the metal up —
although it won’t do a complete job as there’s a lot of
metal to shrink!
33
This highlights that you can only use this as an aid to
the whole job because the jaws to the machine can
only be so narrow. Naturally, you can use the
shrinker/stretcher and you can curve the whole
panel, but that’s another story!
36
Grabbing the female we formed earlier, we laid the
two onto a flat surface and with welding clamps, we
clamped the two together — you could plug weld
these, screw them, whatever but…
how to: fold sheet steel
28
Like the flat flange, we clamped the steel between
the two formers and began the process of folding the
metal over, working it with several hammers.
31
You can form dart-shaped V-cuts in the return edge;
so it folds in on itself — it’s amazing how much metal
you’ll need to remove but keep working it and the
flange will curve round.
34
You can true-up the flange you’ve formed by taking
the panel out of the former boards, laying it face
down and dressing the edge with a curved body
dolly, or at a push, you could replicate the curve in a
small section of MDF and hammer into that.
37
…turn it over and the two should fit nicely together
— all with simple DIY materials!
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It’s no secret that old Fords like to rust!They all have their
particular favoured areas where they like to crumble – Mk3
Escorts like to go in the battery tray, sills, door bottoms
and boot corners; Sierras rot in the chassis legs,
transmission tunnel and footwells, Mk2 Fiestas rust out
their fuel tanks, inner wings and pillars… but essentially
you shouldn’t be surprised to find rust anywhere on a
old-school Ford.
This is by no means a problem though – it may take time
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Replacement panels are readily available from companies
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comes to body restoration too. Andy’s Auto Body is a great
place to start. With over 30 years’ experience in restoring
and repairing old Fords (even back when they weren’t so
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Transmission
The health of your gearbox will depend on a number of
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over the last thirty-something years, but a tired
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cars running aType 9 gearbox (that’s Capris and Sierras),
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if you need replacement driveshafts, companies like
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that will be stronger than stock and surprisingly affordable.

Brakes
Unless you’re after concours points for originality, let’s be
honest and say that some updated brakes wouldn’t go
amiss on any older Ford. Check out the range of
performance brake pads and discs available from
specialists like EBC — their range of fast-road brake pads
are a direct replacement for the OE parts, and won’t affect
originality or appearance.
Reconditioned callipers are readily available (try Burton
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Suspension
On an old school Ford, it’s fairly likely that the chassis will
be a little bit tired. Interestingly, unlike in days gone by, it’s
far easier to source uprated aftermarket replacements for
shocks and springs than it is to find OE-spec standard
items. Not everyone wants their car to be low and stiff of
course, and if you want to retain your car’s original feel,
you can – standard springs for models such as the XR3,
XR2 and RS Cosworth are still made by Bilstein. Similarly
you should find OE-spec dampers available from Bilstein
or GAZ.
If you’d rather fit uprated dampers and shorter
springs to optimise the car’s performance, Burton Power
have a whole catalogue of options on the shelf and ready
to despatch.
You’ll almost certainly need to replace your various
bushes – Superflex stock a huge selection of these, all
engineered to the appropriate ‘shore’ ratings of hardness.

Wheelsandtyres
Alloy wheel refurbishment is big business these days, and
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refinish, which is fine if you’re on a tight budget, although
if you’re keen to do things properly then a company like
Lepsons is often preferable, with their six-stage
refurbishing process.
Sourcing tyres can take a bit of consideration.You’ll
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you’re a stickler for originality it’s sometimes possible to
find original-spec rubber. LongstoneTyres are the experts
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Interior
It’s only natural for interiors to degrade over time; seats
trimmed in natural fibres and stuffed with foam will
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What’s far harder to deal with is the endless fiddly little
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it once was. Companies such as East KentTrim can supply
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 “LAUNCHED IN APRIL
1990, THE FIESTA
RS TURBO WAS LAUDED
AS A FOCUSED
PERFORMANCE CAR”
BUYER’S GUIDE
FIESTA
RS TURBO
Ford’s early 1990s pocket-rocket is now seriously sought-after, but that
shouldn’t stop you tracking one down. Here’s what to look for.
Words ChristianTilbury Photos Matt Woods
ith the XR2i receiving a
W lukewarm reception
from the motoring
press, Ford hedged its bets on the
RS Turbo to uphold the new
Mk3 Fiesta’s honour in the hot
hatchback sector.
Launched in April 1990, the Fiesta
RS Turbo was lauded as a much more
focused performance model than its
milder XR brethren, Ford going so far
as to relate their level of hotness to
differing curries. However, if it wasn’t
for the XR2i’s media reviews and
Ford’s engineers running back to the
drawing board for last-minute tweaks,
then the RS Turbo wouldn’t have
been half as spicy.
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mk2
In fairness, they hadn’t done a bad
job in the first place, especially as they
had to address a significant number
of issues before the Mk3 Fiesta could
accept turbocharged CVH power.
To the uninitiated, blessing the Fiesta
with the RS Turbo engine might
have involved little more than
craning in the Escort RS Turbo
motor, but the application was
actually far more specialised.
Granted, the block, crank and
compression ratio were shared with
the Escort, but there were the
additions of the XR2i’s cylinder head
and Ford’s own EEC-IV engine
management system. There was also
the small issue of limited space. So
tight a fit was the blown CVH that
the manifolds had to be
redesigned, a slimmer radiator
added and, most notably, the
turbocharger was swapped for a
more compact Garrett T2. The
smaller turbocharger worked
wonders for driveability though,
contributing to the Fiesta’s
near-flat torque curve.
Ford’s technical bods also went
all-in with last-minute suspension
revisions, fitting much stiffer springs
and dampers, a quicker steering
rack, revised castor and camber
angles and a 20 mm rear anti-roll
bar. All that clearly exhausted the
manufacturer’s coffers though, as
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other than some fancy Ferodo pads
the brakes were pure XR2i and the
Escort’s limited-slip differential was
noticeably absent.
Priced at £11,950, the Fiesta was
no fast Ford bargain, even when you
took in to consideration such
luxuries as Recaro front seats, chunky
three-spoke leather steering wheel
and leather gearknob, but it proved
popular until its premature demise in
1992. Today, the very best examples
sell for upwards of its original list
price, but it’s still possible to get
cheaper examples. Better still, if it’s
blown CVH power that floats your
boat, then the Fiesta is the cheapest
way to own an RS Turbo.
 buyer’s guide: fiesta rs turbo

BODY
Areas to check for rust are the bulkhead, sills, A-posts,
floorpan, rear top mounts, around the fuel filler cap,
edges of the doors and tailgate, rear arches, scuttle,
front panel, valances and the sunroof channels.
Bonnets are often dented from where tired engine
mounts have caused the motor to twist under
acceleration, leading to the charge carrier pipe
coming into contact with the metal. Replacement
pattern panels and repair sections are available and
relatively inexpensive, but genuine NOS is sought
after and carries a big premium. Unique bumper
inserts and rubber side mouldings are near
impossible to replace — a used set of rubbing strips
recently selling for £300 — but more of an issue is
that it’s very hard to actually get them back on a car,
the rubber having a tendency to curl when removed.

BRAKES
Most issues stem from
inactivity or enthusiastic use,
but replacement parts are
cheap and readily available.
Discs are prone to warping if
asked to repeatedly slow the
RS down from high speed,
while rear wheel cylinders
often seize if a car’s been stood.
Respective signs for each
problem are a juddering
through the steering wheel
INTERIOR under braking and an
inefficient handbrake or poor
Benetton Ascot door cards, Recaro front seats, bad. Recaros are most likely to have wear on the braking performance.
leather steering wheel and gearknob are unique to side bolsters, while the chunky three-spoke Problems with the rear wheels
the RSTurbo, with decent replacements being steering wheel’s leather is prone to perishing. locking up under braking point
scarce and increasingly expensive.The cloth of the Reckon on a refurbished steering wheel costing to failure of the often faulty bias
door cards is susceptible to going baggy and upwards of £200 and good, second-hand Recaros valve. If fitted, check the ABS
coming away from the plastic, particularly if the costing upwards of £300. As an extreme example, with a simple emergency stop
interior’s got damp from standing, but a half one pair out of an 18,000-mile car recently sold for — it’ll be harsh in operation
decent DIY fix is possible if the damage isn’t too over £650. and give a pulsing feeling
through the pedal.

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ENGINE
Signs of a terminally-worn CVH are blue
exhaust smoke, knocking bottom end, high oil
consumption and a tendency for the dipstick or
oil filler cap to become dislodged after a run
due to pressure in the crankcase. A rattling top
end is a sign of sludged-up hydraulic lifters and
heavily worn camshaft.White smoke is either
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head gasket failure or a blown turbo, the
former usually accompanied by an oily film in
the header tank and the latter possible to check
for by removing the air filter to turbo hose and
inspecting the end shaft for play. Stock,
rectangular outlet exhausts are sadly
long unobtainable.
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ELECTRICS
Cleaning corroded or dried-out
connections usually rectifies most issues,
although it’s not unusual for the relays to
melt. In particular, an overloaded ignition
relay can be behind a multitude of
problems, including the boot opener,
reversing light, heater blower and
radiator fan. Faulty stalks can cause the
rear lights to fail, although replacing
them isn’t too taxing as much of the
switchgear is shared with cooking Mk3
Fiestas. Likewise, the vulnerable front
foglights are shared with the XR2i.The
150 mph speedometer is unique to the
RS, but it’s rarely a cause for concern.
 buyer’s guide: fiesta rs turbo

“SO TIGHT A FIT WAS THE BLOWN

CVH THAT THE MANIFOLDS HAD TO
BE REDESIGNED AND THE TURBO
SWAPPED FOR COMPACT T2”

TRANSMISSION
Any rumbling or whining and
there’s a strong chance that the
B5 ‘box’s output shaft is
damaged. If only fifth gear is
affected, then the problem lies
with the input shaft. Be aware of
a wobbling speedometer needle
as it can be a sign of the
differential bearings breaking
up. Issues with engaging gears
are usually down to the often
worn gear linkage or wear in the
plastic adjuster ratchet, a click
when you come off the clutch
being a sign of the latter. Judder
when pulling away points to
worn gearbox mounts. Any car
NEED TO KNOW running over 170 bhp needs an
uprated clutch.

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SUSPENSION
A well-sprung Fiesta on
OE-specification suspension
will ride firm and have a
slightly nose-up stance. A
bouncy, unforgiving ride
points to worn dampers and
springs, while vague steering
coupled with any knocking
over bumps is a sign of
perished bottom arm bushes.
If the back end feels loose then
the common cause is tired rear
beam bushes.
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March 20202017
ONE TO BUY
1991 Fiesta RS Turbo is a
two-owner car that has
covered only 47,000 miles. The
lowly mileage is substantiated
by plenty of history, which
includes all its previous MoT
certificates. The Mercury Grey
Fiesta is standard, even down
to the factory radio cassette,
but the hard-to-find side
On sale at: mouldings look to be missing.
internet auction site Having been dry stored, the
Price: £15,995 Fiesta is described as being in
For: originality, history, ‘outstanding condition’ and
low miles comes with an advisory-free
Against: Strong price, missing MoT that doesn’t expire
side mouldings until August.
“TODAY, THE
VERY BEST
EXAMPLES
SELL FOR
UPWARDS OF
ITS ORIGINAL
LIST PRICE”
TECH SPEC
Body
Three-door hatchback,
pressed steel monocoque
Engine
1596cc, four cylinders,
transverse, two valves per
cylinder, single overhead
camshaft driven by external
toothed belt, Ford EEC IV
engine management, Garrett
TO2 turbocharger.
Power: 133 bhp @ 5500 rpm,
135 lb. ft torque @ 2400 rpm
Gearbox
Five-speed manual, all-
synchromesh
Suspension
Front: independent by coil
springs, MacPherson struts, 16
mm anti-roll bar and
telescopic dampers
Rear: independent by trailing
arms, torsion beam, coil
springs, telescopic dampers
and 20 mm anti-roll bar
Steering
Unassisted rack-and-pinion,
3.75 turns lock-to-lock
Brakes
Hydraulic with vacuum servo
assistance, optional ABS
Front: 240 mm ventilated discs
Rear: 203 mm drums
Wheels and tyres
5.5Jx14 three-spoke cast
alloys, 185/55VR14 tyres
Performance
Maximum speed: 129 mph
0-60 mph: 7.9 seconds
Price when
launched
£11,950
NEXT
MONTH
SIERRA
RS500
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ANGLIA
105E
£24,000 ONO. 5 speed TKO 600 MAN. 8''
Ford mustang axle, LSD full cage, dyno
300 bhp, 340 ft and MoT. Please call
07867 476282.
11973
CAPRI
CAPRI
1983, 100,000 miles, £19,900. Stunning
X-Pack wide body, 3.5 v8, Stainless
Perform. Exhaust, MoT May, immaculate
inside/out and not a scratch. Please call
CAPRI
1976, 76,977 miles, £7,500. 3.0 litre,
GHIA, automatic 1976, MoT and tax
exempt in Miami blue with black vinyl
roof, private plate, alloy wheels, fabric
seats and rear spoiler. Runs and drives
well. Recent stainless steel exhaust
system and brake callipers. Comes with
car cover and painted spare bonnet.
Please call 01273 589558, Sussex.
11887
2.8i
1986, 109,000 miles, £12,000.
Fantastic investment opportunity ,
Finished in best colour combination.
Fantastic car throughout needs nothing.
Full MoT, Looks and drives fantastically.
Please call 07768 823289, Norwich.
11660
2.8i
ESCORT
CORTINA
MKI
1965, 29,000 miles, £13,500. MKI, 2
door, historic rally car, non x flow, 2000E
gearbox minilites, LSD English axle full
cage bucket seats, 4 full harness owner
retiring from motor sport. Please call
01206 564872, Essex.
11863 1971, £22,995. 2 door MKI in Nordic
blue. Please call 01274 831205, West
XL Yorks.
1971, 96,715 miles, £10,000. Original 11903
engine and interior. Left hand drive, doors
x 4, RWD, good/excellent condition, well ESCORT
maintained, kept in enclosed parking and
only 1 owner. Please call +30210
8324834, Athens.
11574
ESCORT
ESCORT
1998, 90,000 miles, £3,500. Rare
5-door Ford Escort GTI in Radiant Red.
One owner from new, full respray, fully
serviced, 12 months MoT on completion
of sale, garaged, all receipts and car
1975, 3,000 miles, £12,995. Harris cover included. Please call 07528
engine, 126HP, sounds awesome, big list 212753, Stafford.
of mods, thousands spent, tidy usable 11338

07307 659357. classic and no time wasters. Please call

12409
CAPRI
1985, 67,000 miles, £21,995. Special
Turbo Technics. Superb Mineral Blue.
Unmarked Recaro Leather. Single TT
Stainless Exhaust. Original X Frame. Big
Brakes. FSH. Full MOT NO Advisories.
Immaculate. Please call 07721 690681.
12464
CAPRI
1986, 119k miles, £8,000. Track day
prepped lowered polyfused, rear location
brackets. Willwood fronts discs rear,
braided hoses. Rebuilt engine with
tubular headers and Capri sport 3”
system. New fuel tank/pump/filter/brake
pads/battery. Mot 7.10.19. Please call
07783 580653, Surrey.
11688
CONSUL
MKI
07883 679772. ESCORT
11246 54,000 MILES, £2,995. Ford Escort 1.8
Ghia Injection with full service history and
ESCORT full service history full T/belt kit and water
pump just fitted in excellent condition
Please call 07988 560994.
11059
ESCORT MKII 1600 SPORT
£15,000. Full classic ford for sale in
Greece 2,200cc forged motor, about
1979, £12,250. Complete engine rebuild,
350hp at 1.5bar, power steering,
new Webber carb, body work and interior
hydraulic parking brake Please call
in very good condition. Please call 01189
+30694 5978917, Corfu.
12473 621851, Berkshire.
12306

ESCORT
MKI

1981, 71,000 miles, £8,495. Totally

original, timewarp, lovingly restored Mk3
Capri. Unmolested and original, drives
superbly. Real head turner. Interior totally
original and in excellent condition, dry
stored and loved. Please call
07887479068, Suffolk.
11685
1954, 59,000 miles, £10,900. Previous
owner spent £30,000 on full restoration
photos and paperwork available Black/
Red upholstery stunning example must
be seen to be appreciated. Please call
07549 105170.
11422
68,000 miles, £2,499. Long MoT, old
MoT's, service history, finished in white
with blue trim, very nice example, body
work is excellent and drives very well.
Please call 02380 766870, Southampton
(T).
11490
POA. , 2,000 pinto, twin 45’s 5 speed
box, LSD, 4 spots alloy tank, fuel pressure
regulator and OMP seats with seatbelt
harnesses. Please call 07505909309,
Stoke on Trent.
11221

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MKI GHIA 16V

FALCON 67,000 miles, £500. All original needs
MONDEO
XR8 UTE some welding on sills for MoT due MONDEO
03/11/19 with good alloys and wheel
used daily until then. Please call 07860
323055, Harefield.
11696

MKI

1974, 11,450 miles, £12,500. Two

owners from new, same family. Original
bill of sale, newly covered seats, welding,
carpets and resprayed. New track end
rods, tyres, heater motor and genuine
mileage. Please call 07971 935127,
Barnstaple.
11129
RS COSWORTH
1995, 63,000 miles, £31,250 Ovno. 4x4
Lux Model. English Reg. Fully Serviced.
Please call 00353(0)872576013 or
00353(0)469246606, Ireland.
11313
RS TURBO SERIES 2
1998, 19,262 miles, £17,995. RHD,
manual, LSD, ulta-rare 1/22, unused bed,
excellent condition and drives as new.
Please call 077388 33551.
11879
FIESTA
GHIA 1.3
1997, 80,000 miles, £80. Non runner,
ideal for restoration, project or spare
parts comes with spoke alloy wheels.
Please call 07546 591353, Kent.
10937
FIESTA
1976, £5,000. MKI drag car 2L turbo
pinto and twin 50's with Holbay parts
400-500bhp quaife SCCR dog gearbox
9'' axle with history and many spares
unique. Please call 07931 743005,
Nottinghamshire.
11992
ZETEC
1999, 35,000 miles, £990. Two previous
retired owners last lady for fourteen
years, documented service history from
new all old MoT's and current MoT
September 2020. Please call 07877
318977.
12248
GRANADA
GRANADA
2000, 1234,567 miles, £1,500. 1 year
MoT, loads of history and paperwork and
receipts and test reports. In lovely
condition with much money and pride put
in to this lots of extra spare parts
including the price. Please call 07798
936081, Essex.
11522
MKI
1995, 90,000 miles, £695. Totally
original example, never welded, nice
original interior, metallic blue and blue
cloth interior, 12 months MoT on sale.
Please call 07881 461123, Northants.
11419
KA
STREETKA

1975, 150,000 miles, £35,000. I have

1987, 68,000 miles, £10,500. White,
MoT'd until June 2020. Recent cam belt
and steering Rack. Owned since 2009.
Please call 07814 176347, Ilmister.
11752
XR3i
the only American Ford Granada Hot Rod
1998, 77,900 miles, £500. 1.2 Zetec. 2005, 69,000 miles, £1,299. Finished in
that is in show quality condition in
Service history. MOT until August 2020. 2 jet black metallic, black trim, black hood,
America. It has a new 408 stroker engine
owners. VGC. Please call 01245 380892, alloy wheels, stereo, manual box, service
with dual quads and much more. Please
Essex. history, MoT and bills. Please call 02380
call 206-327-5739, USA.
11424
12461 766870, Southampton (T).
11495
FIESTA MKII
SIERRA
1.8 LX HATCHBACK

1988, £1,995 Ono. Comes with RS turbo
body kit , been standing in a garage a few
years , dry stored , all complete apart
from fuel injection and manifold missing ,
comes with V5C logbook, becoming
more sought after as years go buy, 1 not
to be missed. Please call 07494 626118.
12321
1996, 55,000 miles, £2,795. Three door
hatchback as new condition a true
collectors piece but must be seen to be
believed. Red with contrasting trim 1995
N reg, original stereo, alloys with new
tyres, carpet and trim as new. Please call
07383 984627,
11715
1983, 5,000 miles, £3,500. In excellent
condition for year, new clutch, brakes,
radio, cassette, grey interior, 1 years MoT
and another speed motor was fitted
before I bought the car 14 years ago.
Please call 01224 636874, Scotland.
12394
1991, 124,000 miles, £1,400. Engine
rebuilt at 99,000 miles, wax oiled 2014,
no rust and used daily. Please call 07772
721010.
11362

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P100
1993, 2,500 miles, £4,900 ONO. 2.0i
DOHC EFI restored just over a year ago
lots of new parts fitted electric windows
power steering starts off the button every
time. Please call 07896 053554.
11146
SAPPHIRE
1989, 48,000 miles, £POA. MoT
18/7/20, SORN. Good un-restored
condition. Interior good, needs some
attention to door bottom edges and wheel
arches. Please email SS1dinosaur@
hotmail.co.uk, Birmingham.
11042
XR4I MKII
1991, 67,800 miles, £10,000. 2.0 DOHC
efi, vey rare, restored and original
condition as featured in classic Fod mag,
only 7 left on the road in UK and Ireland.
MoT with no advisories. Please call
07846 299492, Stockton on Tees.
12491
THAMES
300E
1956, 37,067 miles, £13,995. Finished
in spruce green with willow green interior.
Presented in show condition with its
correct 1171cc side valve engine and 3
speed gearbox. Fitted with a period steel
sun visor colour coded to the van. Please
call 01437 760760, Pembrokeshire (T).
12047
ZODIAC
MKI
1956, £28,750. Finished in Dorchester
grey over Winchester blue with matching
hide interior, manual with overdrive this
car has been correctly stored for over 50
years not a restored car but an excellent
original example, stereo system, steel
period sun visor, fitted hunting lamp,
badge bar with badges original twin spot
lights, only three owners drives good,
very difficult to find another like this one
fine investment. Please call 01322
669081/ 07836 250222 or Please visit
www.peterjarvis.net, Kent (T).
12498
OTHER MODELS
TUDOR
1935, £4,750. Unfinished project, Y type
with chopped roof and sub frame, power
unit is a 3.5 litre reconditioned Rover
engine complete with SS exhaust
systems etc. Please call 07973 957456,
Derbyshire.
11458
PARTS
1.8 TURBO DIESEL ENGINE
£POA. Good working order, when
removes some brackets, powder coated
and ali parts polished. Please call 07799
554408, Worcs.
12504
100E EXHAUST MANIFOLD
1954, £30. Please call 01179 793350,
Bristol.
11970
DI VAN ALTERNATOR
£50. Very good condition. Please call
01262 488672, East Yorkshire.
12154
ESCORT
£30. Four 1986 to 1990 front indicator
and side light clusters and new old stock
unused. Please call 01372 383002,
Surrey.
12074
FOR A QUOTE CALL 0800 085 5000
FIESTA MKII XR2
£50-£60. 5 speed gearbox, good order
with gear change, £60. 5 pepper pot
wheels, £50. Please call 07908 264314,
Cheshire.
11911
MONDEO ENGINE
50,000 miles, £350. 2.0L silver top
engine, turns over freely, good engine for
RWD conversion, XR3i Efi at extra cost.
Please call 07725 797752, Tyne AND
Wear.
11329
SIERRA SAPPHIRE PARTS
1987, £500. Carpet, sound ins, rear seats
complete, drivers seat, blue, all in very
good condition. Passenger seat damaged
in side impact dismantled. Please call
075219 13394.
12460
SIERRA TYPE-9 5-SPEED
GEARBOX
£2,875. Suitable for many sports and
saloon. Car upgrade conversions. Please
call 01313 432574, Scotland.
12111
TRANSIT CONNECT PARTS
1957, £495. Needs attention, Ford
escort, van rear doors, transit bonnet and
assorted spares. Please call 01538
753086, Staffs.
12296
ZETEC CRANKSHAFT
£85. 2 litre crankshaft standard size
journals low mileage. Comes with set of
new big end and main bearings if required
for £30 extra. Please call 01513 530953,
Cheshire.
11980
ZETEC CYLINDER HEAD
£125. Zetec 2 litre "Blacktop" cylinder
head complete with valves and followers
low mileage ideal for straight
replacement or basis for ported head.
Please call 01513 530953, Cheshire.
11979
VARIOUS PARTS
£25. A pair of new rear mud Ford flaps
with fixing kit as new and still in bag hard
flat rubber which can be trimmed with
very vibrant Ford Motif pick up. Please
call 01803 850097.
12252
VARIOUS PARTS
£20-£350. Rear wheel near side arch for
Granada/Scorpio £20. Set of new unused
roof rack bars for Granada hatchback
£50. Rare 1991 Ford RS sports
leather-rim 3 spoke steering wheel as
new with boss and original packaging,
suitable for XR cars etc, £350. Please call
01276 65823, Surrey.
11336
PARTS WANTED
FORD D SERIES O/S FRONT
MUDGUARD
1965, Wanted. Without the spray
suppression and exhaust pipe which goes
from the manifold to the back box, the one
that crosses the chassis Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Also for sale CWPs
(Crown Wheel Pinion). All Open to offers.
Please call 07738 002984, Cheshire.
12289
MKII RS 200 PARTS
POA. A pair of front lights/assembly for
MKII RS 200. Please call 07802 908227,
Newcastle.
12084
MISCELLANEOUS
FORD USA MANUAL
POA. Workshop manual for Tempo,
Mercury and Topaz. 1984-89 all petrol
engine models and good condition.
Please call 07985 691137, London.
8624
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MARATHON
MISSION
The World Cup Rally (see page 78) wasn’t the first trans-continental endurance rally
that Ford threw everything into. In 1968 they fielded a team of nine cars (three Lotus
Cortinas, threeTaunus and three Falcon GTs) on the monumental LondonTo Sydney
Marathon, which took in 10,070 miles with no scheduled rest halts between the
London start and Mumbai in India.There a ship would took the surviving cars to
Fremantle near Perth, in Australia to start the final 3000-mile dash to Sydney.
Pictured here, an enormous crowd gathers at the Crystal Palace circuit to greet the
cars which started the rally including Eric Jackson’s works Cortina.

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 MK2 CENTRE INSTRUMENT PANEL.....................£40
ALLOY SWIRL POT FUEL1LTR...........................£110
FUEL PUMP BRACKET, TWIN FACET....................£35
MK2 DASH BINACLE INSERT..............................£40
RS2000 GEN FORD TRACK ROD END.................£40 1 LITRE CATCH TANK 2 x 1/2 FITTINGS...............£53
GRP4 CAST STEERING JOINT SHORT..................£43 1 LITRE CATCH TANK WITH BREATHER ...............£65
GRP4 CAST STEERING JOINT LONG ...................£60 2 LITRE CATCH TANK 2 x 1/2 FITTINGS...............£53
2.8 CAPRI VENTED FRONT DISCS .................PR £58 RT30 BATTERY TRAY FLAT BLACK.......................£77
SUSPENSION TO BODYSHELL 2.8 CAPRI VENTED GROOVED DISCS.............PR £95 RT30 BATTERY TRAY VERTICAL BLACK................£90
WORLD CUP X-MEMBER FULL GRP4 SPEC .......£395 MK2 ESCORT BRONZE BUSHED H/D GEN FORD REAR MK2 ALLOY BOOT SPOILER ......................£80
WCXM CLUB STD OR LRM CROSSMEMBER .......£220 QUICK RACK..................................................£295 CO-DRIVER ALLOY FOOT REST...........................£40
WCXM BASE FULL GRP4.................................£325 WITH NEW LONG RACK ARMS FITTED ..............£340 DRIVERS PUNCHED HEEL PLATE........................£26
NEW FABRICATION AND SUSPENSION WCXM BASE CLUB STD OR LRM ......................£145 FACET + FILTER KING BRACKET .........................£30
MK2 ESCORT ALL NEW H/D QUICK RACK RHD / LHD
PARTS MK1 AND 2 ESCORT WCXM MOUNTS OGC/X-FLOW INC BOLTS ...........£65 K//
K/C...............................................................£360 NAVIGATOR TRIP DASH POD BLACK ...................£53
“OVER A 30 YEARS”, IN MOTOR SPORT WE HAVE ANTI DIVE KIT ..................................................£50 SIERRA REAR DISC BRAKE KIT .........................£395 GEARBOXES
MANAGED TO BRING TOGETHER THE FINEST DOUBLE WIDTH KIT..........................................£50 SIERRA CONVERSION HANDBRAKE CABLE .....£29.50
GRP4 TENSION STRUT KIT TARMAC..................£325 5-SPEED ZF DIRECT TOP FULL SPEC GEARBOX C/W /W
W
SELECTION OF HIGH QUALITY FABRICATED ELECTRIC POWERSTEERING KITS
GRP4 TENSION STRUT KIT GRAVEL ..................£400 TOWER + LEVER £6,500+VAT................£7,800
COMPONENTS, YOU WILL BEH APPY WITH USING VAUXHALL CORSA MOTOR ALL
T/S ANTI ROLL BAR KIT 5/8 ....... £130….3/4…£150 5-SPEED TYPE 9 TRACSPORT STRAIGHT CUT 2.2 1ST
CLUBMANS OR WORKS SPEC PARTS. ALL BRACKETS TO FIT FORD ESCORT MK1 + 2
COMPRESSION STRUT KIT FIXED......................£130 .................................................................£2,100
PARTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED, TRIED, TESTED RHD + LHD…£850 5-SPEED TYPE 9 TRACSPORT SEMI HELICAL 2.48 1ST
REPRESENTING TRUE VALUE FOR MONEY. COMPRESSION STRUT KIT IN-SITU ADJ.............£155
16V ASTRA CHASSIS ENGINE MOUNT KIT ALSO OHC / SUSPENSION AND MOUNTINGS .................................................................£2,200
BODYSHELL, GRP4 CLUB SPEC X FLOW ..........................................................£72 ALLOY 2 ¼ SPRING SEAT 1” TALL ......................£12 5-SPEED TYPE 9 TRACSPORT ROAD SPORT HELICAL
4 LINK KIT REINFORCED BODY BOXES 5/8 2.752 1ST...................................................£2,000
TWIN CAM ANTI ROLL BAR ..............................£140 ALLOY 2 ¼ SPRING SEAT 3” TALL ......................£17
4-SPEED TYPE E TRACSPORT H/D STRAIGHT CUT 2.2
JOINTS BUSHES, SPACERS & BOLTS ................£275 ALLOY 2 ¼ LOCK RING.......................................£8
TRACK CONTROL ARMS TCA’S 1ST NEW MAINSHAFT....................................£2,700
4 LINK KIT HEAVY DUTY, BIG BUSHES, ALLOY 2 ¼ D SHAPE TOP CAP ..........................£10 MORE RATIOS AVAILABLE, ALLOY MAINCASE H/D
5/8 JOINTS M14 BOLTS TO SUIT ESCORT IN-SITU ADJUSTABLE TCA’S INNER RUBBER ALLOY 4” SPRING SEAT SHALLOW .....................£29 MAINSHAFTS & LAYSHAFT PINS
RUNNING COIL OVERS....................................£324 BUSHED .................................................. £195 ALLOY 4” SPRING SEAT TALL .............................£33
BODY BOXES 3/8 REINFORCED ....................PR £80 NEW ATLAS AXLE CASINGS
IN-SITU ADJUSTABLE TCA’S 5/8 R/JOINTS + RS2000 BILSTEIN STRUT CASINGS
4 LINK TO CHASSIS SKIDS ...........................PR £16 PREPARED TO THE HIGHEST GRP4 STANDARD FULLY
GRP 4 THREADED ADJUSTABLE LONG
PANHARD ROD KIT ADJ 5/8 COMPLETE..............£89 FITTING KIT - PAIR..................................... £195 FLOATING GRP4 ATLAS AXLE CASING, THICK TUBE WITH
OR SHORT…£200
PANHARD ROD KIT FIXED TOWER ......................£80 RUBBER BUSHED ADJ TCA’S HISTORIC ........ £210 STUB AXLES, DOUBLE PINNED AND BREATHER .....£525
PANHARD ROD TOWER L/H ADJUSTABLE............£40 R/JOINTED ADJUSTABLE TCA’S HISTORIC ..... £195 BILSTEIN FRONT INSERTS 2-DIAMOND 4 LINK BRACKETS. WELDED ...........£65
ANTI TRAMP BAR KIT MK1 ..............................£105 IN-SITU ADJ FABRICATED TCA’S FOR COMPRES- 260/60…300/70 LONG.................................£120 2-GRP4 DAMPER BRACKETS. WELDED ..............£48
ANTI TRAMP BAR KIT MK2 ................................£97 300/70 SHORT..............................................£125 2-SPRING SADDLES, HEAVY DUTY. WELDED .......£65
SQUARE TALL REAR TURRET BOXES ..............PR £48 SION STRUT OR TENSION STRUT ................ £510 300/100 LONG .............................................£125 1-GRP4 PANHARD ROD BRACKET. WELDED .......£33
TURRET AND ANTI TRAMP AXLE BRACKET... EA £3.50 WATTS LINKAGE KIT ATLAS ......................... £300 2-AP CALIPER BRACKETS. WELDED ...................£48
LARGE GEARBOX TUNNEL .................................£45 WATTS LINKAGE KIT ENGLISH .................... £260 BILSTEIN REAR DAMPERS FULL SPEC CASING WITH GRP4 BRACKETS.......£784
SMALL GEARLEVER TOWER WITH GAITOR PLATE .£25 PTFE SLIPPER KIT ....................................... £52 GRP1 MK2 ESCORT STD FIT.......................PR £215 2 F/F LOCK RINGS............................................£32
ALLOY SURROUND GAITOR PLATE ......................£16 GRP4 TURRETED 220/110 ........................PR £200 GROUP 1 THICK TUBE ATLAS AXLE CASING WITH
4 LINK CROSS BRACES (BODY BOXES) .........PR £17
SHORT REAR SPRING SHACKLES .................. £45 GRP4 REAR COIL OVER 220/110 ...............PR £375 ORIGINAL ENDS DOUBLE PINNED AND BREATHER ANY
FUEL TANK PLATFORM TO SUIT SHAPED ALLOY TANK U BOLT PLATES .......................................... £32 ESCORT FRONT TOP MOUNTS
LENGTH ............................................................ £468
/W
C/WW STRAPS....................................................£89 MULTI LEAF FOREST 5 LEAF SLIPPER SPRINGS ANY BRACKETS WELDED AS ABOVE LIST
DRY SUMPTANK MOUNTING PLATFORM..............£25 TAPER .................................................PR £250 RUBBER ROLLER BEARING TOP MOUNTS....... EA £85 (BABY 48 1⁄2 2 NARROW 49 7⁄8
⁄2, 8 WIDE 52 INCH)
⁄8,
GROUP 4 MK2 FIREWALL KIT. FITS WITH TURRETS GRP4 2 PIECE CONCENTRIC ALLOY BLACK.... EA £85
SINGLE LEAF SLIPPER SPRINGS .............PR £240 ECCENTRIC OFFSET ALLOY TOP MOUNTS....... EA £68 DRIVESHAFTS AND FLANGES
INC BOOT INFILLS ............................................£80
ALLOY BLACK RBTM TYPE............................ EA £80 TOP QUALITY GRP4 FULLY FLOATING AND GRP1
MK1 + 2 NON TURRET ALLOY FIREWALL ............£49 MKI TWIN I SINGLE LEAF SPRINGS..........PR £223
CONCENTRIC ALLOY FLAY TOP MOUNT.......... EA £65 HALFSHAFTS
SPRING HANGER SKIDS...............................PR £10 CD6 MKI 4 LEAF TWIN I SPRINGS ...........PR £235
ESCORT ADJ SLIDING TOP MOUNT............. EA £126 740-770 F/F INC NUT ....................................£150
BOTTOM RADIATOR CUT OUT £12 + GUSSETS.....£18 MK2 SINGLE LEAF TWIN EYE 14616 .......PR £230 790-820 F/F INC NUT ....................................£165
HIGH ANGLE TOP MT NUT + WASHER ........ EA £6.50
TOP RAD MK2 GUSSETS PANEL .........................£28 740-770 F/F SPECIALS INC NUT......................£243
MK2 MULTI 3 STD RS2000 ....................PR £264 PLASTIC DUST COVERS RBTM.......................PR £11
BODYSHELL, GROUP 4 WORKS SPEC GRP4 FULLY FLOATING FLANGE .........................£68
2 LEAF SLIPPER SPRINGS ......................PR £150 FRONT HUBS STUDS + NUTS
GRP1 2 PIECE SHAFT BABY, NARROW OR WIDE
4 LINK BODYSHELL KIT INC BRACKETS COVERS, GRP4 ALLOY FRONT HUB..................................£65
STERING AND BRAKES 18 TOOTH & 16 TOOTH..................................£155
SKIDS, LONG LINK BOLTS + TUBES AND CROSS (ALL PEDAL BOXES HAVE GENUINE GIRLING GRP4 FRONT WHEEL STUD............................£4.75 GRP1 FLANGE .................................................£70
BRACES ........................................................£160 MASTER CYLINDERS) GRP4 WHEEL NUT ........................................£2.75 HALF SHAFT RETAINER PLATE.........................£6.50
4 LINK ROD GRP4 SPEC ½ BUSHED..................£42 GRP4 WHEEL INSERT....................................£1.75 DRUM SPACER PLATE....................................£5.50
4 LINK ROD GRP4 SPEC ½ BUSHED..................£48 MK2 BIAS ADJ PEDAL BOX CABLE ............... £370 ALLOY HUB CAP STD £8 B/B ......................£9.00 18 TOOTH ZF ATLAS SIDE GEAR.........................£70
MK1 GRP4 SHORT LINK BODY BOX KIT............£150 MK2 BIAS ADJ PEDAL BOX HYD .................. £430 GRP4 WHEEL INSERTS ..................................£2.50
GRP4 MK2 4 LINK KIT COMPLETE ...................£500 QUAIFE BIG BEARING HUB KIT BOLTS ON TO
MK1 BIAS ADJ PEDAL BOX CABLE ............... £355 GRP4 MACHINED WHEELS PACER ..................£9.00
GRP4 PANHARD ROD KIT L/H OR R/H TOWER ENGLISH / ATLAS AXLE C/W 16 SPLINE, 18 SPLINE
STD M12 WHEEL STUDS LONG ......................£1.20
COMPLETE ....................................................£150 MK1 BIAS ADJ PEDAL BOX HYD .................. £420 SHAFTS £890
OPEN END M12 WHEEL NUT .........................£1.00
GRP4 PANHARD ROD TOWER MULTIPIECE L/H OR GRP4 THROTTLE PEDAL ............................... £40 RS2000 + GHIA WHEEL NUT .........................£1.15 FULLY FLOATING T/T /TT METRIC REAR HUB..............£65
R/H WORK SPEC..............................................£58 TUBE DASH ADJUSTER MK2 ......................... £33 GRP4 TO STD M12 CONVERSION NUT.............£2.00 GRP4 F/F REAR STUD, INC BOLT...................£11.50
GRP4 ROUND REAR TURRETS ....................PR £102 METRIC REAR F/F HUB BEARINGS ......................£25
FLEXIBLE CLICK DASH ADJUSTER ................. £33 COIL SPRINGS TOP QUALITY
ZF GEARBOX TUNNEL COMPLETE.....................£105 STEEL O RING CARRIERS ..................................£12
BULKHEAD PLATE 1 PIECE................................£13
AP RESOVOIR + BRACKET PUSH ON.............. £25 FRONT BILSTEIN WELD ON STRUT ADJUSTER KIT STEEL SPLIT F/F LOCK RINGS LH/RH ..................£16
BULKHEAD PLATE 3 PIECE................................£19 COMPLETE CAR SET 2 1/4 ................................£70 F/F HUB AXLE SEAL KIT.....................................£15
GENUINE AP DISC & CALIPERS
ATLAS LONG DIFF TUNNEL ................................£20 REAR BILSTEIN 2 1/4 SLIP OVER KIT C/W /W
W ALLOY REAR F/F ALLOY AP DISC BELLS ........................£30
BULKHEAD GUSSETS 1 x SHAPED.................PR £32 MONTE CARLO ESCORT CALIPER ................ EA £725 SPRING SEATS + TOP CAPS ..............................£75 ZF ATLAS 18 SPLINE MOTORSPORT LSD .........£1350
MONTE CARLO AP BRAKE DISC .................. EA £185 RS2000 FRONT ALL RATES ................ FROM £50 PR GRIPPER ATLAS 18 SPLINE LSD......................£900
FRONT CHASSIS SKIDS ................................PR £20
FOREST AP ESCORT CALIPER ..................... EA £625 RS2000 FLAT GROUND ALLRATES....... FROM £50 PR ZF ATLAS LSD PLAT KIT ...................................£180
CHASSIS TO SILL SKIDS ...............................PR £20
FOREST AP VENTED BRAKE DISC ................ EA £145 2 1/4 ALL LENGTHS + RATES ............. FROM £45 PR ZF ATLAS WAVY PLATE EACH .............................£25
GRP 4 STRUT TOP PLATES ...........................PR £58
GRP4 2383-2382 REAR CALIPER............... EA £545 2 1⁄4 PROGRESSIVE 12” & 14” VARIOUS.................. ZF ATLAS STEEL LSD END PLATE......................£140
REAR INNER MK2 ARCH INFILLS ...................PR £16
GRP4 AP SOLID REAR DISC...............................155 ....................................................... FROM £65 PR ZF ATLAS STEEL LSD HOUSING ........................£300
SEAT SUB FRAME MOUNT KIT (WELD IN)............£38
AP2577 REAR TWIN POT CALIPER WITH CABLE BLUE 2 1/4 HELPER SPRINGS 4”..................PR £30 ZF ATLAS DIFF FRICTION PLATES ........................£30
WELD IN FRONT CROSSMEMBER CHASSIS INSERTS
HANDBRAKE MECHANISM FITTED ....................£350 LOWERING BLOCK KITS, 1”-2”. .........................£24 ZF DIFF THRUST WASHER .................................£12
SET OF FOUR...................................................£24
13” AP GRP4 FRONT DISC BELL ........................£22 5.3, 5.8, 4.9 ATLAS C.W.P .............................£485
15” INNER REAR WHEEL ARCH TUBS ..........PR £225 ALLOY PRODUCTS
NEW AP RADIAL 13” FRONT BRAKE KIT 4.4, 4.1, 3.7 ATLAS C.W.P .............................£485
MK1 WORKS STEEL ARCHES.................... SET £550 ESCORT SHAPED PETROL TANK, BAFFLED WITH
FITS WITH 13” WHEELS ONTO MK2 ESCORT 4.6 ATLAS C.W.P ..........................................£275
ROLL CAGE TUBE 2 METER 38mm................ EA £30 TWIN TAKE OFFS AND SIGHT GAUGE, C/W /W
W FILLER 5.1 ATLAS C.W.P. (BEST AVAILABLE) ................£320
GRP4 WATTS CHASSIS TOWERS MULITPIECE FROM C/W VENTED DISCS, ALLOY BELLS MOUNTING
NECK + SPLASH TRAY. ...................................£205 SALIBURY ENGLISH 22 SPLINE LSD .................£570
BOTH SIDES .............................................PR £114 BRACKETS, PADS AND PIPES…£1,150
ESCORT SHAPED INJECTION TANK WITH LH OR RH SALIBURY ENGLISH 16 SPLINE LSD .................£580
GRP4 WATTS BARS GOLD BUSHED ...............PR £81 AP 15” RADIAL FRONT ESCORT BRAKE KIT 305 DISC, SUMP C/W /W
W FILLER NECK + SPLASH TRAY .........£280 18 SPLINE ENGLISH LSD ................................£750
JACKING POINT KIT 20/25mm x4......................£28 PADS + PIPES COMPLETE............................£1,495 TARMAC ALLOY ARCHES MK2................... SET £325 SALIBURY ENGLISH PLATE KIT .........................£115
AP MONTE CARLO GRP4 ESCORT FRONT HISTORIC FOREST ALLOY ARCHES MK2 ................... SET £318 SALIBURY ENGLISH END PLATE .......................£125
STRUT BRACES
BRAKE
COMPLETE
................................
KIT
£2,200 WIDE TARMAC REAR ARCHES MK2 ...............R £208 SALIBURY ENGLISH LSD HOUSING ...................£205
GRP4 STRUT BRACE KIT WITH WELD ON BRACKETS AP FOREST GRP4 ESCORT FRONT HISTORIC BRAKE ALLOY FRONT SPOILER GRP4............................£75 16 SPLINE SALIBURY SIDE GEARS EACH.............£85
AND STEEL PLATED BAR ...................................£48 COMPLETE
...........................................
KIT
£1,900 ALLOY FRONT SPOILER HIGH LEVEL...................£85 4.4, 4.7, 4.9 ENGLISH C.W.P SETS .................£300
WITH ALLOY BAR .............................................£69 10 1/8 X 22mm VENTED DISCS TO USE WITH DRY SUMP TANK, BASE MT .............................£125 3.54, 3.7, 5.3 ENGLISH C.W.P SETS ...............£300
WITH OVAL STEEL POWERCOATED.....................£76 PRINCESS CALIPERS PLAIN ..........................PR £98 DRY SUMP TANK, 6R4 TYPE BREATHER............£210
MK1 WORKS FLAT TYPE “BOLTON” STRUT BRACE OR WITH GROOVES...................................PR £130 ALLOY CRANK CASE BREATHER BOX ..................£49 NEW ALLOY BELL HOUSINGS
/W
W BRACKETS................................................£48
C/W PRINCESS 4 POT CALIPERS SPACER KIT .............£40 ENGINE ALLOY UNION. .......................................£7 16V ASTRA TO FORD STRAIGH ................... £185
BOLT ON ADJUSTABLE STRUT BRACE KIT STEEL OR GRP1 CALIPER SPACER KIT M16 .......................£35 REAR MK2 LAMP PROTECTORS .........................£19 RS2000 .................................................. £180
ALLOY BAR......................................................£80 GIRLING MASTER CYLINDER 625 ETC ................£55 ALLOY BATTERY TRAY(240X175).......................£42 RS AND 5SPEED TYPE9 HYD ...................... £255
2000E CABLE .......................................... £220 RS2000 ALLOY SUMP PAN RHD ......................£275 *CABLES & LINKAGES* HANKOOK TARMAC TYRES
2000E HYDRAULIC .................................... £265 RS2000 ALLOY SUMP PAN LHD.......................£300 WEBER ALLOY TWIN CABLE LINKAGE KIT ...........£60 195/530-13 T91 softft.....................................£135
t
BORG WARNER TO PINTO .......................... £260 GEAR REDUCTION STARTER MOTORS DELLORTO TWIN CABLE LINKAGE KIT.................£50 210/530-13 Mounted Rally Slicks ...................£135
DURATEC TO TYPE 9 CABLE ........................ £285 PINTO RS2000 ..............................................£200 BLUE THROTTLE CABLE 1 METRE.........................£5 190/580-15 T71 Med....................................£165
DURATEC TO TYPE 9 HYD ........................... £325 BDA + X-FLOW 185 & 110.............................£200 BLUE THROTTLE CABLE 3 METRE.........................£6 200/580-15 All Compounds Available .............£168
TOYOTA 4AG TO TYPE9 .............................. £295 HIGH OUTPUT ALTERNATORS................. FROM £200 RS2000 CLUTCH CABLE ...................................£17 NEW CARBON PRODUCTS
SIERRA T9 SINGLE STARTER ....................... £234 PINTO ALTERNATOR KIT C/W /W
W POLYVEE PULLEYS, RS2000 CLUTCH CABLE WITH HEAT SHIELD .......£24
ZF/BDA HYD WORKS TYPE ......................... £264 RED PULL CABLE 6FT .......................................£10 MK2 ESCORT BONNET....................................£525
BRACKET & BELT 90AMP ................................£390 MK2 ESCORT BOOT LID WITH SPOILER ............£525
ZF/PINTO HYD LH STARTER ........................ £265 RED PULL CABLE 12FT .....................................£12
MK1 & MK2 ESCORT CLEAR H4 WIPAC HEADLIGHT MK2 FRONT QUARTER BUMPERS................PR £100
ROCKET/T9HYD RH STARTER ...................... £275 RACETEC 8000 RPM TACHO ...........................£130
KITS ....................................................... MK1 £82 MK2 REAR BUMPER .......................................£100
INLET MANIFOLDS TWIN CARB STACK ST200 10500 RPM TACHO...................£240
WITH MK2 BARE H/L BOWLS .................. MK2 £115 MK2 REAR RS2000 BOOT SPOILER .................£125
16V ASTRA RED TOP ................................. £155 TERRATRIP 303 PLUS TRIPMETERS........ FROM £250
PIAA
AAA PA80 MK2 CLEAR LIGHT FITTING KITS & BARE TERRAPHONE INTERCOMS ...................... FROM £96 MK2 TOP PARCEL SHELF REAR........................£160
RS2000 PINTO 45-48 ............................... £150
PIAA
AAA HISTORIC PR80 SPOT LAMPS .........EACH £138 MONIT TRIP METERS G100 + G200....... FROM £430 MK2 REAR FIREWALL PLATE............................£200
TOYOTA 1600 4AG ................................... £162
MK1 & MK2 MOULDED SHAPED ESCORT MUDFLAPS, MK2 DOOR FLAT DOOR CARDS (VAC...........PR £250
N/A COSWORTH ....................................... £155 STILO INTERCOMS................................ FROM £190
BLACK, BLUE OR RED POLY ............................£145 MK2 RALLY BOOT LINER .................................£130
COMPETITION CLUTCH AVANTI MAP LIGHTS .........................................£30
MK2 WIDE TARMAC MOULDED SET..................£155 MK2 RALLY DOOR MIRRORS ......................PR £135
7 1/4 AP LUG TWIN PLATE ......................... £590 *SEALED HIGH OUTPUT BATTERIES* ATLAS REAR DIFF COVER...................................£70
7 1/4 AP A RING TWIN PLATE ..................... £500 MUDFLAP MATERIAL 4mm RED/BLACK/ K/BLUE.........£6
/
RT25 PC680 185 x 79 x 192mm ...................£100 CORNER ARCH GUARDS MK2.......................PR £50
7 1/4 AP 3 BLADE PADDLE PLATE ............... £140 MUDFLAP MATERIAL 5mm BLACK/ K/BLUE....
/ FROM £15 RT30 PC950 250 x 97 x 156mm ...................£175 CARBON ROOF VENT KIT.................................£175
7 1/4 AP 4 BLADE PADDLE PLATE ............... £170 ALLOY MUD FLAP BRACKETS......................EACH £3 RT40 PC1100 250 x 97 x 206mm .................£190 REAR MK2 LAMP PROTECTORS ....................PR £32
RS2000 EXEDY HD ORGANIC CLUTCH KIT ... £195 RT35 ANTI VIBRATION.....................................£130 NAVIGATOR FOOT REST TRS ............................£135
QUARTER MASTER 7 1/4 PADDLE CLUTCH KIT .. £680 MK2 ESCORT ALLOY GRP4 RADIATOR PVR DRY CELL BATTERY CHARGER ....................£52 DRIVERS FOOT HEEL PLATE...............................£85
C/W SENDER BOSS AND FAN BRACKET SUIT TRS NAVIGATOR + DRIVERS FOOT PLATE SET .... PR £200
WINDSCREENS
COMPETITION EXHAUST MANIFOLDS MOST ENGINE TYPES £270 TRS CARBON ROOF VENT................................£275
MKI ESCORT LAMINATED...................................£75
RS2000 GRP2 3 PIECE 21⁄4 AND 21⁄2 2
⁄2............£190 12” BLOWER FAN WITH BIG MOTOR...........£98 15” UNIVERSAL SPARE WHEEL TRAY “ANY CAR .£170
MK2 ESCORT LAMINATED .................................£75
N/A COSWORTH 3 PIECE 21⁄4 AND 21⁄2 2
⁄2..........£235 FAN SENDER SWITCH................................£15 MK1 ESCORT HEATED ....................................£225 NEW FIBREGLASS PRODUCTS
16V ASTRA INTO MK2 ESCORT ........................£245 MK2 ESCORT HEATED ....................................£220
BDA SILICON RAD HOSES .............................PR£70 FORD ESCORT MK1 & 2 BONNET WITH INTERNALS .. £130
X-F 4 INTO 1 RALLY........................................£175
POLYCARB WINDOW KITS CLEAR OR BRONZE BONNET CARBON LAYER INTERNALS................£220
DURATEC INTO MK2 ESCORT...........................£235 BDA HEATER HOSES...................................PR£709
MK2 ESCORT 7 PIECE KIT...............................£200 BOOT LID PLAIN MK1 + 2.................................£95
16V ZETEC RWD INTO MK2 ESCORT ................£195 PINTO RAD HOSES ......................................PR £73
PINTO HOSE KIT SUIT TWIN CARB............. SET £115 MK2 ESCORT 5 PIECE KIT WITH SLIDERS .........£220 BOOT LID WITH RS2000 SPOILER MK2............£145
FAST ROAD COMPETITION 2” MANIFOLDS VAUXHALL RAD HOSES .................................PR£90 MK1 ESCORT 7 PIECE KIT...............................£305 BOOT LID WITH RS1800 SPOILER MK2............£155
RS2000 4-2-1 OHC .......................................£175 ZETEC BLACK TOP HOSE KIT ...........................£185 MK1 ESCORT 5 PIECE KIT WITH SLIDERS .........£340 BOOT LID CARBON LAYER RS2000 SPOILER .....£210
1300/1600 X-FLOW 4-2-1.............................£150 FACET RED TOP PUMP KIT ................................£87 BODY PANELS FORD ESCORT MK1 & 2 BOOT LID CARBON LAYER RS1800 SPOILER .....£240
ABOVE MANIFOLDS IN STOCK, ASHLEY MANIFOLD MK1 FRONT WING STD...................................£285 MK1 WORKS BUBBLE ARCHES SET..................£100
FACET RED TOP PUMP ONLY.............................£76
OTHER MODELS TO ORDER MK2 FRONT MEXICO WING .............................£350 MK2 ALLOY PATTERN ARCHES SET ..................£100
ALLOY FILTER KING LARGE BOWL ......................£58
MK1 WING WITH BUBBLE ARCH......................£400 GRP4 FRONT SPOILER F/GLASS.........................£40
COMPETITION EXHAUST SYSTEMS FILTER KING GAUGE .........................................£14 MK2 FOREST 76 SPEC ARCHES SET.................£100
MK1 FRONT PANEL ..........................................£78
PINTO 21⁄22 RIGHT HAND, SINGLE BOX.............£175 ALLOY FILTER KING BLACK - 6...........................£70
⁄2 MK2 FRONT WING ...........................................£85
RS2000 BOOT SPOILER....................................£46
PINTO 21⁄22 RIGHT HAND, TWIN BOX ...............£190 SOLID STATE COMP FUEL PUMP KIT...................£48
⁄2 MK2 FRONT PANEL ..........................................£71
RS1800 BOOT SPOILER....................................£48
PINTO 21⁄4 RIGHT HAND, SINGLE BOX.............£150 FULE INJECTION PYRAMID TWIN FUEL PUMP & MK2 DOOR SKIN..............................................£56
MK1 ESCORT CHIN FRONT SPOILER...................£60
PINTO 21⁄4 RIGHT HAND, TWIN BOX ...............£160 FILTER KIT .....................................................£370 MK2 FULLY DRESSED RS INNER WING ........ £275
MK2 ZAKSPEED BODY KIT ..............................£295
IF CROSS OVER SYSTEM L/H ADD ..................... £20 BONNET PINS S/S .........................................PR £8 MK2 MEXICO FRONT SPOILER ...........................£46
MK2 STEEL REAR BUMBPER TWIN HOLE ..........£178
RS2000 RH 21/2 REAR BOX ONLY ..................£130 BONNET PINS ALLOY...................................PR £10 MK2 REAR BUMPER .........................................£36
MK2 FRONT STEEL Q/
Q/BUMPERS
/ ................... EA £72
BOOT SPRINGS S/S OR BLACK........................PR £8 MK2 REAR BUMPER CARBON LAYER..................£46
FAST ROAD COMPETITION 2 INCH SYSTEM MK1 CHROME FRONT Q/ Q/BUMPERS
/ ............... EA £75
MK2 FRONT QUARTER BUMPERS..................PR £46
RS2000 MK2 SINGLE BOX..............................£125 HARNESS EYE...............................................£1.50 MK1 CHROME REAR BUMPER .........................£300
MK2 FRONT Q/ Q/BUMPERS
/ CARBON LAYER ......PR £65
RS2000 MK2 TWIN BOX.................................£135 HARNESS EYE3 BACK PLATE ...............................£1 MK1 ALLOY FRONT GRILLE .............................£400
MK1 REAR BUMPER .........................................£42
ESCORT MK2 X-FLOW SINGLE BOX..................£115 ALLOY PEDAL PLATES................................ SET £12 ABOVE IS JUST A SMALL SELECTION OF STOCK MK1 FRONT QUARTER BUMPER.........................£46
ESCORT MK2 X-FLOW TWIN BOX.....................£125 LIGHTWEIGHT 19MM R ALLOY WHEEL BRACE ON MK1 ESCORT BOLT IN SAFETY DEVICES MK1 FRONT QUARTER BUMPERS CROME ...........£98
ESCORT MK1 TWIN BOX SYSTEM 3 PIECE ........£135 BRACKET WITH SPIN HANDLE ...........................£64
ROLL CAGE, SINGLE DIAGONAL, HARNESS BAR.£565 MK1 TWIN COWEL DASH TOP .........................£120
X-FLOW 21/4 SINGLE BOX..............................£150 ALLOY SPARE WHEEL POLE SINGLE ...................£20
MK1 DOOR BARS SHAPED ...................... PAIR £120 MK1 TWIN COWEL DASH TOP FLOCKED...........£165
X-FLOW 21/4 TWIN BOX.................................£160 ALLOY SPARE WHEEL POLE DOUBLE..................£32 MK1 6 DIAL DASH TOP FLOCKED ....................£130
MK2 ESCOT TURRET MOUNT MULTI POINT SINGLE
21/4 REAR BOX ONLY ....................................£110 Q/R Q// PLASTIC CONE CLAMP................................£33 MK1 WORKS CENTRE CONSOLE........................£80
DIAGONAL, HARNESS BAR ..............................£650
ABOVE EXHAUST SYSTEMS IN STOCK. ASHLEY DO A TRS Q/R
Q// REMOVABLE WHEEL STRAP..................£36 MK2 DASH TOP RHD WITH MOULDE DDASH CLOCK
MK2 DOOR BARS SHAPED ...................... PAIR £120
FULL RANGE FOR MANY MAKES AND MODELS SPOT LAMP STEADY BARS ...........................PR £10 BINICLE + BLACK FACE PANEL ........................£115
MK1 ESCORT X DIAGONAL, HARNESS BAR, X DOOR
BOLT ON SAFETY AND SERVICE PARTS BATTERY CUT OFF SWITCH FIA...........................£28 BARS X 2 ......................................................£822 MK2 DASH TOP FLOCKED...............................£150
STD BATTRY BOX ............................................ £34
5-SPEED R/JOINTED QUICKSHIFT ......................£59 SAFETY STICKER SHEET ......................................£2 MK2 ESCORT MULTI POINT CROSS DIAGONAL
HARNESS BAR, X DOOR BARS, TUNNEL BAR + DASH MK1 + 2 FULL SIZE KEVLAR UNDER FLOOR GUARDS
4-SPEED R/JOINTED QUICKSHIF LEVER ..............£59 TRS HELMET HAMMOCK MESH..........................£32
BAR............................................................£1075 ................................................................ PR £440
ROCKET TO ATLAS H/D PROPSHAFT .................£200 NAVIGATOR4 NET DOOR POCKET SMALL ............£10
MK1 S/D WELD IN CDS ROLLCAGE C/W /W
W ALL EXTRAS MK 1 + 2 FLAT CARBON DOOR CARD..........PR £125
ZF TO ATLAS H/D PROPSHAFT..........................£225 NAVIGATOR NET DOOR POCKET LARGE ..............£12
MK 1 + 2 CARBON INNER QUARTER PANELS ..PR £100
....................................................................£750
2-PIECE PROPSHAFTS FROM...........................£400
MK2 S/D WELD IN CDS ROLLCAGE C/W /W
W ALL EXTRAS MK 1 + 2 BLACK PLASTIC DOOR CARDS ORIGINAL
ATLAS AXLE 10MM ALLOY BRACE ....................£115 FIA • COBRA BUCKET SEATS • FIA
TYPE PATTERN............................................PR £64
....................................................................£835
ATLAS WIDE STEL DIFF SKID..............................£57 IMOLA PRO LOW SIDE STD GRP...............£395
MK1 & 2 POWER STEERING KIT ......................£850 MK 1 + 2 BLACK PLASTIC INNER R/Q CARDS.PR £48
BACK COVER HALF MOON SPREADER PLATES.....£15 IMOLA PRO GT LOW SIDE LARGE .............£435
OMP CORSICA SUEDE STEERING WHEEL ..........£140 COMPOMOTIVE WHEELS
FIRE EXTINGUISHERS LIFELINE SUZUKA PRO HIGH SIDE STD GRP ...........£440
MK1 &2 ALLOY STEERING WHEEL BOSS ............£45 FORD ML AND MO RANGE
4.0 LITRE MECHANICAL PLUMBED IN...............£260 SUZUKA PRO GT LARGE GRP ...................£480
PINTO ELECTRONICX DISTRIBUTOR KIT.............£285
MONACO PRO STEEL FRAME....................£190
4.0 LITRE ELECTRIC PLUMBED IN ....................£580 LUCAS WORKS BDA IGNITION KIT ....................£500 6X13 ML ET18 ..............................................£120
2.4 HAND HELD ..............................................£80 ALLOY SIDE MT SEAT FRAME KIT................£50 7X13 ML ET0 ................................................£125
LUCAS IGNITION MT PANEL KIT..........................£40
MK2 ALLOY Q/Q/R
/ LAMP BRACKETS..................PR£50 8X13 ML ET-12 .............................................£130
MK1 ALLOY Q/R
Q// LAMP BRACKETS..................PR£65 ZF DIRECT TOP GEARBOX PARTS 7X15 ML ET10 ..............................................£147
3 WAY LAMP BRACKET ADAPTORS.................PR£36 TRS MOTORSPORT HARNESSES FIA SET BRASS FORKS SET OF 3 ...........................£650 8X15 ML ET0 ................................................£155
BILSTEIN TALL QUICK LIFT JACK.......................£140 APPROVED MAGNUM 3 INCH 75MM Q/R Q// BELTS BRASS GUIDE RAIL .........................................£100 9X15 ML ET-12 .............................................£180
6 POINT MAGNUM .........................................£138 STEEL ZF GEAR LEVER ....................................£120 STD AND GRP4/A FITMENTS STD M12 TO GRP4
GRP4 CHASSIS MOUNT SUMPGUARDS
6 POINT MAGNUM SUPERLITE .........................£170 ABOVE SMALL SELECTION OF ZDF PARTS IN STOCK CONVERSION NUTS ................................. £2.50 EA
WITH 1/4 PLATE TARMAC ....................£175 *PRICES INCLUDE VAT*
WITH 5/6 PLATE TARMAC/FOREST .......£195 6 POINT MAGNUM SUPERLITE HANS ................£174 MINTEX BRAKE PADS M144, M155
WITH 3/8 PLATE FOREST ....................£210 6 POINT MAGNUM ULTRALITE HANS.................£233 AP MONTE CARLO (1201) 1144 .......................£78 AGENT SUPPLIER FOR DUNLOP HANKOOK PIRELLI
NEW LONG GRP4 CURVED CHASSIS MT 6 POINT NEW PRO S/L QUICK ADJUSTER .........£193 AP FULL FOREST (1864) 1144 .........................£70 AND KHUMO TYRES
GUARD WITH SKIDS .............................£290 6 POINT NEW PRO S/L Q/ADJUSTER
Q// HANS .......£203 AP GRP4 2383 REAR (1202) 1144 ..................£55 UK DELIVERY FROM £12
ZF GEARBOX ALLOY GUARD ....................£65 FULL RANGE IN STOCK WORLDWIDE EXPORTS
ROAD CLUB 3 POINT ........................................£50
ROAD CLUB 4 POINT ........................................£55 PIRELLI P7 CORSA 225/45-13 RALLY .............£195
NEWMAN CAMSHAFTS PROVEN RESULTS MSA WIRE TOW EYE LOOP ENDS.......................£15
FORD PINTO OHC ..........................................£155
HARNESSES COME IN MANY COLOURS. STOCK BLUE,
X-FLOW CAMSHAFT........................................£150
BLACK & RED, 4, 5 & 6 POINT AVAILABLE
PINTO CAM FOLLOWERS SET ............................£75
PINTO VERNIER CAM PULLEY ..........................£100
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