Rare car puzzle!

[Buckman]

The other day I was travelling behind an old white Ford Escort Mk1 from the sixties / seventies. It looked to be in very good condition and driven by someone in their twenties. On the rear of the car it had a name Cosworth, but I thought this was only for the nineties Escort. I am aware that the Escort Mexico had a Cosworth engine and also the Escort Perana. Not sure about the RS2000, but thsi Escort had a nice throaty roar about it although he did not accelerate hard from the lights. He seem to care about the car?

 

[RogerL]

The other day I was travelling behind an old white Ford Escort Mk1 from the sixties / seventies. It looked to be in very good condition and driven by someone in their twenties. On the rear of the car it had a name Cosworth, but I thought this was only for the nineties Escort. I am aware that the Escort Mexico had a Cosworth engine and also the Escort Perana. Not sure about the RS2000, but thsi Escort had a nice throaty roar about it although he did not accelerate hard from the lights. He seem to care about the car?

The early mk1 Escorts used the Lotus Twin Cam engine in their performance version, while the later mk1 used the Cosworth BDA, badged RS1600.

The mk1 Mexico didn't use a Cosworth engine, just a tuned version of the Kent 1600 - the RS2000 used the Pinto 2.0 engine from the Cortina mk3/4/5. The mk2 Mexico used the Pinto 1.6 engine.

The Ford Escort Perana was built by a South African tuner, Basil Green Motors - based on the RS1600 but with the engine swapped for the simpler Pinto 1.6.

 

[Buckman]

Thanks as it seem it was the RS1600 that had the Cosworth cross flow engine and not the Mexico. I saw the Perana racing at Killarney race track outside Cape Town way back in the sixties. The Perana was also a name used on the Capri with the V8 engine.

 

[RogerL]

Thanks as it seem it was the RS1600 that had the Cosworth cross flow engine and not the Mexico. I saw the Perana racing at Killarney race track outside Cape Town way back in the sixties. The Perana was also a name used on the Capri with the V8 engine.

Basil Green Motors seem to have done engine swaps on all Fords of that era, adding Perana to their model names in most cases.

Basil Green Motors - Wikipedia

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