This is a car that I find a little bit mysterious. This photo was taken by Mike Feisst, at Bay Park in New Zealand. I have an old ad for the car at around the same time, in which it is described as: "Mk2 Escort Super Sedan 0-6000cc. 3.4 Cosworth 4 valve, 440bhp engine. 5 speed ZF.HD gearbox. Atlas rear end, fully floating axles. 11" vented discs with 4 potters all round. 15" wheels. Zakspeed guards. Will split up. $14,000". The contact for the ad was Dave Honore.

The ShellSport signage on the door suggests it to be around 1977, but I could be wrong, but it wouldn't have raced in the 2 litre ShellSport series (from 1978) with the Cosworth motor obviously. So where did it come from and where did it go? Certainly has some exotic parts in it. I did wonder if maybe the running gear was taken from the Halliday Capri when Danny Lupp fitted with car with a Jag V12, but I spoke to John Osborne about this car from when he raced it, and he said it was still fitted with the Atlas rear the Hallidays had imported when he owned it and it burnt to the ground.

Maybe Bob Homewood knows something? Bob?

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