'72 Escort "Superspeed 2000GT" Invoice + Papertrail

[storminnorman]

After seeing that Capri invoice the other day I thought this might interest some folks. This was one of my Grandfather's work cars - interesting because it seems to be fitted with a Cortina engine and supplied by tuner 'Superspeed' - all of which is new to me. Hopefully someone can fill in the gaps.

A quick search of the reg/C.N suggests it has long since perished. No photos of the car have been found... yet!




Apparently it was not unknown for my Grandfather to dismantle new company cars for fun. There are many similar letters regarding other cars that he'd found faults with.




Nonetheless, it seems engine faults did not prevent him from making good use of the car:


(it was 50 in a 30)

[storminnorman]

S0 What said:

Great bit of history to a rare ole car
There were a few firms that beat ford to the RS2000 (oct73), superspeed, race proved and Basil Green, although all were more famous for thier V6 conversions.
It doesn't surprise me in the least to hear of oil delivery problems on the early pinto, it's exactly those early problems that earned them the tag of a cam eater (well that and the fact the early cams were soft and ford used a differant casting technice to cure it), it still haunted them well into the sierra production even though by then it was totaly untrue.
Any pics of the car ?

No pics of the car - yet - still plenty of drawers and boxes to go through mind you! however there's enough ford-stamped bits of metal in the basement to recreate at least one escort
I'm going to keep browsing through the papers because I'm pretty sure he moved to an rs2000 in 73 or 74. Basil Green rings a bell! thanks for the info.

[storminnorman]

Small update, finally happened across a picture of the car! Seems he put the engine back together long enough for it to get up north (lakes or scotland?)

Dated 1972. The photo is actually a lot better but i put the flash on to bring out the details.