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Historic specification MK2 Escort RS2000. PHF 356T.

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Rally car preparation. MK2 Escort specialist

This is the car in its current colour scheme for the 2009 season being driven by Guy Woodcock.

This car started its life as an RS2000 Police car used by the Merseyside Police. In 1981 it was purchased by rally driver Keith Lay who converted it into a Group 2 rally car & competed with the car up until 1994. As you can see from the list of events this car has competed on International Rallies, 2 Lombard RAC Rallies & various Hillclimbs/sprints. And still with its original bodyshell.

1982

Tour of Flanders (Belgian Int Open Rally Championship)

Bramshill Forest Rally (shakedown for RAC)

Lombard RAC

1983

TAC Rally (Tielt - Belgian Int Open Rally Championship)

24 Uren van Ieper (24 Hours of Ypres - European Championship)

Tour of Flanders

1984

12 Heures de Marche (Marche en Famenne, Belgian Ardennes)

Azimghur Stages (Colerne Airfield)

Lombard RAC

1985

Rallye de Wallonie (Namur, Belguim)

Limburgia Rally (Valkenburg, Netherlands)

Stanta Rally (Only rally ever at Stanford military training area Norfolk)

1986

Millbrook Stages (First ever rally at Millbrook testing ground)

Devils Tour (SPTA - Salisbury Plain Training Area)

Solent Stages (SPTA)

1987

Somerset Stages

South West Stages

Pines Rally

Ringwood Stages

1988

Somerset Stages

Bath Festival Rally

Autocross & Hillclimb events

1989

Hillclimbs & Stage Rallies at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park

Great Western Rally

Avon Park Stages

1990

Major programme of Hillclimbs/Sprints in South West

Local tarmac rallies

1991

Major programme of hillclimbs/Sprints

1992

Hillclimbs/Sprints

Stage Rallies at Cricket St Thomas

1993

Hillclimbs/Sprints

Stage Rallies at Cricket St Thomas

Azimghur Stages (Colerne Airfield)

1994

Hillclimbs/Sprints

Stage Rallies at Cricket St Thomas

Patriot Stages (First ever Caerwent Rally)

1982 RAC

1982 Lombard RAC Rally. Harewood

1982 RAC

1982 Lombard RAC Rally. Scarborough

TAC Rally

1983 TAC RALLY Belguim.

YPRES

1983 24 Hours of Ypres.

1983 Flanders

1983 Tour of Flanders

Will Onions then bought the car from Keith in 2007 & gave J T MOTORSPORT the task of rebuilding the car to compete on the 2007 Roger Albert Clark Rally ( RAC ), marking its 25 year anniversary from when the car first competed on the Lombard RAC rally, & then to compete in the 2008 British Historic Rally Championship.

The colour scheme you can see the car in is that of when it competed on the 1982 Lombard RAC Rally as part of Team CSMA.

The rebuild started by stripping the bodyshell of all paint & body sealer. This then showed how good the shell actually was considering all of the stage miles it had done. Every part of the shell was still original even the floor pans and inner wings. Basically the bodyshell was as it was when it left the factory but now with a bolt in rollcage and a flat front as opposed to the heavy, expensive RS slopping front. We then took the shell to O'GORMAN FABRICATIONS to have rear turrets,diff tunnel,exhaust tunnel,P/H rod tower,4 link boxes & full weld in rollcage etc fitted to a very high standard.

PHF on spit