Works Escorts In Detail Ford’S Rear-Wheel-Drive Competition Escorts Car By Car

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Between 1968 and 1981 the Ford Escort became the most successful family of rally cars in the world, at all levels. During that period rallying became progressively faster, tougher, more glamorous and more popular as a spectator sport, while the teams and the drivers became more famous and the cars grew more colourful. European, then World, Championships were set up and prospered. This is truly the most in-depth study of the legendary works Escorts that has ever been published, and only Graham Robson, with his long rally experience, his decades of rally analysis, half a lifetime of accumulated information, and an intimate personal knowledge of the personalities, the cars themselves, and the workshops which developed the machinery, could possibly have compiled it. It sets a standard by which all future competition histories will always be measured. Every individual car is illustrated in its principal liveries using contemporary photographs, and several of the more important cars, which survive to this day, have been specially photographed for this book to enable enthusiasts to study them in great detail.