Originally Posted by massivewangers

All WRC Escorts have the cradle. If it doesn't have rear cradle/McPherson struts, then it isn't a proper WRC shell, as these were a fundamental part of the upgrade to WRC spec from the previous Group A semi-trailing arms.

I'm not sure if the Escort WRC had three active diffs. Centre would have been active though as far as I know. Just don't think they always ran an active rear in this era as not all drivers thought it was needed.



You could try contacting M-Sport to see if they have any record. I don't know if they built all of the WRC cars, or still sold shells to people like Mike Taylor and Mike Little who had run Group A cars. If they could even give you a clue as to the first owner, you might be able to work it out from there. There is quite a bit of knowledge around about them still.

Good move on keeping it original. Nice, original Group A and WRC cars are now fetching big money and are only going to become more collectible as their historic eligibility looms on the horizon. I would be making sure I was very sympathetic to the shell and using as many pukka parts as possible.