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Originally Posted by Dan Rear
Pedants alert, and God knows I'm the last person to get technical...
But the car isn't a Hart Escort/Escort Hart is it? That implies it was powered by a Hart engine, ie a 420R or similar. I recall it was fitted with a BD series engine of some sort, albeit fettled by Mr Hart??
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This Ex Geoff Wood Escort had the Hart 1850 unit, which was the BDA, fitted in this case with the ultimate Lucas fuel injection system and delivered approx 270 bhp. Pete at Spec-R confirmed the engine numbers that verify it was an original Hart engined Escort. Hart made many racing engines before the 420R which was a later development of a Hart engine.
Many engine builders, such as Burton and Ron Harris, SBD, Vulcan, Swindon all use their names as legitimate named engine builder descriptions.
I believe in this case, they even know who the original Hart engineer was, who bench built it, in around 1973.
