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Mattie's Escorts
Hello there, I lurk here and on Octane, making the odd comment and asking the odd question. Can you tell me where the Robinson version Escort II is now, and who has it? I wonder if it will ever appear on the tracks here again (which I think it should!)? Also - do you have any colour reference photo's of the MK1 cars, particularly the 'SuperSize' version, as I am attempting to build a 1/24th scale model replica? If there are any copyright issues related to the photo's, I could have them sent to my email address. In this case, they are genuinely for research purposes! I posted a rather poor quality rear - three quarter photo of the MKII while it was in the ownership of Fintan Newport on Octane.ie, and can post it here if anyone is interested.
Matties Escorts .
The first escort, the red Amoco car was bought from John Young of Superspeed , it was a fully trimmed shell , fitted with an mae , which Mattie did not use , fitting instead a BDA supplied by Holbay, as I said earlier it was sold to rally driver Noel Smith, the second MK1, ran in white Amoco and then Churchman green red and white colours was built to order for Mattie by Jeff Goodliffe , still using an all steel shell, an FVA was fitted , latyer upgraded by Alan Smith to FVC spec .Mttie recalls the car was fitted with cast aluminium front struts and ,tca's, the rear suspenson (shocks) were monted on the bottom of the axle tube , on the top to the floor pan , and it worked very well .
The space frame MK2 was commisioned from John Robinson ,on a visit to his premises , not a cancelled order as suggested , the MK1 was traded in against it , MK2 sold to Fintan Newport at the end of 78, Fintan racecd it for a few years , before selling it to the manwho still has it today,[/QUOTE]
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