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Okay here we go again with the record of who owned which one etc!
Schanche sold his to john Smith in the UK at the end of 86, who used it for a bit before it was sold to Barry Squibb. Squibby converted it to run on larger wheels etc as Martin could only run 14's. I think it later was bought by Endean and run as a demo car, probably now in a museum or with him somewhere
John's was subtley different, always ran bigger wheels. Was sold to Kjetil Bolneset who ran it for years, widening the wheel arches. I think it was later broken for parts, not sure. Maybe 4wd system as used by someone cant remember.
Then the interesting bit. I recall there were two more but Eddi always disagrees.
Seppo Nittymaki had one, big rear wing, ran on 14's, won a ERC round at Lydden in 86. I am sure initially it was used by a guy called Palmo Laine, before Vidar Sauthon got hold of it. Vidar used it for a few years, converted it to run on 15's real late on, then it was bought by Sven Lestander, painted red and was used at the IN Cup in 1990, no idea where it went.
The car that always confuses me is Terje Schie. It was an Xtrac always sounded like it used a Zakker, he used it in 86 when it was blue and white and 87 when it had Seppo's wing on the back and was sponsored by Dunlop.
In 88 a guy called Ragnar Forsberg ran an Xtrac in a Scandy ERC round, and also a guy called Frank Jensen ran one, but they both ran in Sweden, so it cant be the same car and it wasn't Schies! I don't know what happened to Terje's car. This might have been the car Sauthon used before he bought it from Laine.
Similar cars were run by Orjan Wahlund, his was a lovely car but BDT powered. ANd Terje Morstad ran a 4wd Escort in the IN Cup in Germany 92, not sure of that cars origin.
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