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Think of it as a '69 Camaro for blokes. It's the Ford Escort RS1600: a simple little car shoved full of the best engine Ford and Cosworth could devise. It's England's half-pint muscle car, but it's not that muscular. And it has a flying, memorable turn in Fast & Furious 6 with Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) at the wheel. It's the sort of appearance that only adds to the car's legend. Even though no one on this side of the Atlantic knows that legend at all.
"The guys in England built the sh*t out of these," reports picture car coordinator Dennis McCarthy about his British-based shop. "I couldn't get them to do much else, but they loved working on the Escorts."
Introduced in 1968, the Escort was Ford's European small car. Back before front-drive orthodoxy crushed the life out of all things, it was a rear-driver built around a few pieces of bent metal pretending to be a unibody chassis, a pair of MacPherson struts up front and a solid rear axle on leaf springs in back. Most of them came with microscopic four-cylinder, overhead-valve engines of 1.1- or 1.3-liter displacement. These were low-compression, low-horsepower engines and you could personally produce more torque than those engines did using only your tongue.
Ordinary? In its day the Escort was more common in England than crumpets or cricket. Pedestrians would walk into them because they were so easy to overlook. It made British Leyland's crap look like exotic delicacies.
The Greatness of an Engine
As ridiculously primitive as the Ford Escort was, its small size made it nimble and its simplicity meant it was rugged. That was enough, in the days before the Group B insanity of the 1980s brought along turbochargers and all-wheel drive, to form the foundation for a good rally car. All the Escort needed was power.
In the 1970 Ford Escort RS1600 that power comes from the Cosworth-designed, 1.6-liter twincam 16-valve BDA four-cylinder engine. Released in 1969 and based on Ford's iron "Kent" block, the BDA featured Ford's first four-valve combustion chambers and transformed the sleepy 1970 Escort into a robust athlete prepped to take on rallying. Even with its dual side-draft Weber carbs, the BDA only made about 113 horsepower. But the Escort weighed less than 1,800 pounds, and that gave it a power-to-weight ratio similar to that of the era's nominally more powerful sports cars.
Almost immediately, the blister-fendered Escort RS1600 and its close relatives (including the Mexico and RS2000) began racking up victories across the rallying world. And almost immediately, it became a symbol of what Britain still did well: build great racing engines and tune the hell out of small cars.
Five for Furious Six
Fast & Furious may be an American production, but it's an international hit. The appeal of the 1970 Ford Escort RS1600, though it was never sold in North America, is to that worldwide audience that appreciates Charger Daytonas and Mustangs, but loves the stuff they grew up with as well.
So the production bought five of the right-hand-drive RS1600s in Great Britain and completely rebuilt them in a British shop. That meant tearing the Escorts down to the bare shells and building them back up again. The engines were rebuilt, new five-speed manual transmissions went in behind them, new roll cages were fitted and each car was equipped with a pair of racing seats. The standard instrumentation was ditched in favor of black panels with Revotec gauges. Forget an ignition key. It's been replaced by a battery connector plug and individual switches for the fuel pump and ignition.
Sitting on 13-by-7-inch Compomotive Minilite-like bladed wheels and painted up in classic blue and white, this is a great-looking little car. The 205/60R13 Federal Super Steel 595 tires fill out the wheelwells, and all the connectors, mud flaps and tie-down springs look perfectly 1970-spec. This is a badass little car.
Flight Tested
Turn everything on, hit the start button and this twerp growls to life. It sounds as if it's ready to run away and win the London to Mexico rally. And during a short drive around Dennis McCarthy's shop near the Burbank Airport, it drove great. It was raw and a little beastly, but great.
But this RS1600's role in Fast & Furious 6 included a massive jump across a highway divider in the Canary Islands. And no matter how well the Escort seems to handle the epic leap in the film, in reality that's murder to any car.
So the two Ford Escort RS1600s that performed the big jump were destroyed. The first, reports McCarthy, wound up on its roof. And the second landed on its wheels but its structure was pretzeled up nasty.
At least the pair will live on for this summer in the movie. And they'll live on in the Blu-Ray disc... and on iTunes... and Netflix... and in an infinite number of reruns on every cable channel forever.
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Listing Details Chassis: Gbadky95696 99k Kilometers (~62k Miles) 1.3L Kent Inline-Four 4-Speed Manual Imported from Finland Repainted circa 1998 15" Painted Steel Wheels
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This 1970 Ford Escort Wagon is a German-built example that was originally delivered to Finland and shows 99k kilometers (~62k miles) from new. The seller imported the car from Finland a few months ago after driving it for 2,000 trouble free kilometers while on vacation there, and describes it as a versatile and largely original driver. The previous owner purchased the car in 2014 and returned it to good running order. It is powered by a 1.3L inline-four paired to a 4-speed manual transmission and was repainted in its factory color in Finland. The car is essentially stock apart from a set of 15″ steel wheels and is sold with a clean Virginia title in the seller’s name.
The repaint was performed 18 years ago and still shows quite well for a driver, with some defects such as stone chips and minor peeling visible in photos. The previous owner fitted the 15″ wheels and had the speedometer re-calibrated to compensate for the larger rolling diameter.
The bodywork is straight and the car is said to be rust free. The seller believes that the car was originally equipped with a driver-side door-mounted side mirror, as there is evidence of touchup near where it would have been mounted.
The seller has provided photos of areas prone to corrosion such as the door bottoms.
The interior is unmodified and has never been fitted with a radio. The black vinyl upholstery and rubber floor covers are in good condition, and the dash is free of cracks. The stock speedometer has been re-calibrated for the new wheels, and per the seller it is accurate.
The rear cabin area appears little used, and the headliner is taut from front to back.
Some light wear is apparent on the painted surfaces in the cargo area. There is no spare tire, but the original jack and warning triangle are still with the car.
The 1.3L Kent inline-four is unmodified and backed by a 4-speed manual gearbox. To get the car back into good running condition in 2014, the previous owner rebuilt the carburetor and adjusted the valves. Some records are included, though they are in Finnish.
Undercoating was applied in Finland, and it appears to have been effective at keeping the rust at bay. Polyurethane bushings are fitted at the leaf spring mounts.
The Ford data plate is pictured above.
The original maintenance book is included and was last stamped in 1987 when the car had 85k kilometers. The second owner is believed to have acquired the car in the 1990s, and performed the repaint before placing it in storage until the third and previous owner purchased it two years ago.
A selection of spare parts is included with the sale, and includes an engine gasket set, oil filter, a few ignition caps and rotors, and an extra cooling fan.
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MkI 70' bodywork done with gearbox tunnel, rear turrets and front brackets and front arms, all refurbished. Mechanics Pinto coated to 2.200cc with Cosworth crankshaft, connecting rods and pistons high compression, camshaft, cylinder head made with big valves, manifolds and exhaust to measure preparation, Quaife gearbox synchronized straight teeth 4-speed, threaded damping adjustable hardness with adjustable cupels, miniatlas axle with axle shafts and self-locking discs, adjustable uniball front arms, water and oil radiator, hoses, spal, bridge blocks and hard engine, Compomotive rims.
ALL UNUSED.
-Bodywork sanded
-Sanded engine parts and miscellaneous
-Fenders, bonnet, boot and dashboard from fibres.
-Carbon interior
-Handbrake pump
-Electric steering
-Damping, webber carburation, trumpets, omex rev limiter, fuel tank, fuel pumps, etc.
-Bodywork and paintwork
Missing:
- Electrical installation
- Rear lights
- Front fender
- Glass and tyres
- Gauges
- Seats, harnesses and fire extinguishers
-(Portuguese vehicle)
Gearbox
Quaife 4 velocidades H dientes rectos
Year of production
1970
Date of last rebuild
2022
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