Mk1 escort continuation

[911MRP]

In rallying some years ans some events the 911 drivers didn’t even see which way these went

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/f...ort-68-edition

The mk11 saw more success on World Championship wins but I prefer the mk1

Steve

[Simonjjb]

In rallying some years ans some events the 911 drivers didn’t even see which way these went

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/f...ort-68-edition

The mk11 saw more soccers on World Championship wins but I prefer the mk1

Steve

Love the RS. I’ll take one please.

[Chuck Miller]

I've post this before, but I always keep this Alan Mann / Frank Gardner pic close at had...

In the 90's I picked up this VHS and couldn't stop watching it ... It has a lot of Alan Mann / Frank Gardner stuff
One race it has Gardener's Escort racing Dennis Hobbs in a BIG BLOCK falcon on a tight track... (I think the Escort had a 2lt this time)
The race is epic !!!!

[911MRP]

As posted before Gardner’s book is worthwhile addition to any bookshelf about saloons in era
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https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...omative-artist

Run into Doug Nye at my club from time to time, he is arguably the most knowledgable journalist on motorsport history since Jenks. In 2022, for his work over more than 5 decades the Royal Automobile Club Motoring Book of the Year panel presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Doug is still knocking them out this is an absolutely stunning book documenting the very early days of motorsport from 1902 to 1914:
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https://porterpress.co.uk/products/t...ectors-edition




Steve

[uai]

Didn't really read the full article, but I really hate it when they write only BS in a lot of words.
"Think computer-aided design-engineering based on laser-scanned original blueprints; modern tolerances; wildly evocative, neo-analogue powertrains that capture the fierceness of yesteryear, only with today’s high precision, high output and, of course, reliability."
You won't laser scan Blueprints and there's a lot of other nonsense.
The Car itself may be nice (although I am not a fan of restomods) but it seemed to me the author got paid by the word...

[911MRP]

Fair point Uli.

Thought to be the world’s oldest car magazine first published on 2 November 1895 when, it is believed, there were only six or seven cars in the United Kingdom.
With that heritage the writers and editors should do better.
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Having said that this is quite a sentence from the first edition of 1895 …

“The enthusiastic, if at times erratic, wheelman has in his own vile body, and at first for his own amusement only, proved to a steady-going and conservative nation the immense advantages of and economic gain obtained by the application of self contained power as a means for the propulsion of rolling bodies upon ordinary roads, and the cycle maker, in catering for the wants of the many headed, has achieved a mechanical triumph in the combination of great strength to withstand internal strains with extreme lightness, and the successful overcoming of the vibrations and obstacles of the road surface,
so that whilst the bicycle
rider has accustomed the public mind to the sight of
wheeled vehicles without horses,
and convinced even the
dense bucolic brain that such
things have nothing uncanny in their composition, and can be as well controlled as the erstwhile equine steed, the manufacturer has brought science of road-carriage construction to a point of perfection which enables the power develop a motor to the fullest
and best advantage.”

One day I might just pull the original bound copy from the library (we have them all dating back to the that first) to skim the original edition.

I don’t like restomods etc either and not sure aboiut the continuation thing generally however I suspect it would be fun. I’m too young to have had one new. Used to go to watch rallies with my father when escorts were the thing to have. A rally or motorsport mk1 escort was my ideal car at age 17 but I got mk1 Capri a Daytona yellow with black vinyl roof at 18 instead.

Mk1 Escort harrassing Nick Faure in 1969 Brands Hatch, Race of Champions meeting
https://www.mikehaywardcollection.co...-and-alan-peer

Steve