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Rob the reason that all sounds a bit odd to me is that the AMR chassis 'formula' was not the one that survived the Law of Natural Selection, the Broadspeed version was.
Remember Broadspeed had been given several new body shells at the same time as AMR prior to the 68 launch and in the same registration sequence to race in the 1300 class with the old Anglia pre-crossflow engine..
Every Escort since then has been built to Broadspeed chassis design and the AMR cars were consigned to the 'scrap bin' and sold off.
The last chat I had with Gillian and later owners Alec Poole and Harry Watkins confirmed how bad the AMR cars were to drive.
So anyone ordering a 'cutting edge' Escort in 1970 would have preferred a Broadspeed car if given the choice.
All speculative!
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