Corgi VA12609 Ford Escort Mk2 RS1800 Forest Arches Diamond White 1/43

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Because of the Escort Mk1's phenomenally successful competition career and consequent high-value publicity the Mk2 range of 1975 featured sporting models from the outset. However, although Group 2 motor sport homologation rules then required 1000 units to be made, Ford successfully claimed its Mk2 RS1800 was an update of the Mk1 RS1600, so it was homologated for rallying before production started! Thus only 109 RHD RS1800s were built between 1975-77 by Ford's specialist division in Aveley who took finished Sports (later Mexicos), removed the engine and fitted the complex but powerful all-aluminium Cosworth-designed BDA. At £2825 they cost a £1000 more than a Sport so most were bought as the basis for rally machines.

Only 3 Escort RS1800s were produced with forest arches from new as road cars and only two are extant. The example modelled is one of those and is owned by Ireland-based Ford enthusiast and specialist restorer Deane McClean, who has cherished it since 2008. He purchased it after it had been restored to a very high standard, and to its original specification, in the UK in the early 21st century. It is a matching numbers car with its original bodyshell; prized features in the RS world. With so many RS Escorts destroyed in motor sport accidents, values of original cars have sky rocketed as a generation of enthusiasts who grew up watching rallying on TV seek their childhood dream car. 

  • Engine: 1835cc DOHC 4IL 'BDA'
  • Power: 115bhp@6000rpm
  • Torque: 120lb.ft@4000rpm
  • 0-60mph 9 secs
  • Maximum speed: 111mph
  • Unladen weight: 2015lbs

 

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