Reply to "The minature Pantera that Ford wouldn't sell you."

joules"Racing is Life, anything before or after is just waiting" - Steve McQueen

I remember seeing the RS200 on the UK rally circuit when I was younger; Ford has a great track record from early 70's Lotus Cortinas through the Escort and later Cosworth versions.

I remember the RS200 was competing with the Metro 6R4, which was basically a 4WD Mini with a V6 mounted where the rear seats used to be.... great times, before so many damn rules stifled inventiveness.

My first real car was a 1970 Ford Escort Mk1 Mexico, road going rally version 4 Cyl. 1.6 Ltr with twin webers.

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No, it was pricey. Around $40,000 in the UK.

When analyzing pricing it's not really valid to measure on a dollar conversion as a $20K car here is GBP20K over there. $40K (~GBP22K) in the UK really wasn't overly expensive compared against other cars for sale. A very basic low end car would have started around GBP10K and remember prices over there are all inclusive of sale stax etc. Car prices only came down when they were forced to by the ECC (EU Common Market)in the late 90's.

Julian

11/5/0610:22 AM

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