cozzfather

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who was your favourite driver,group a or group n,international
or national,mine was gwyndaf evans,frank meagher,pete doughty
ari vatanen,malcom wilson, delacour ,and blomquist but the overall
best for me was european rally champion patrik snijers,that bloke was not only flamboyant but fast,a mate of mine did work for red and some
of the bastos escort cosworths went there for paint,what a car.
ladyees and gentlemen a bastos escort
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cossuesco

Tommi Makinen in Finland 1994

cozzfather

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i was thinking no one else was into rallying for a bit,has anybody else
seen a group a escort cosworth in full flight, i saw all the top
drivers in the works or ras prepared cars

cozzfather

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french bloke won the EUROPEAN RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP in 93
pierre CESAR BARONI in a delta and ESCORT COSWORTH
and good old PATRIK SNIJERS IN 94,
ok the escort didn't win the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP,
but hey it did the bizzo on the www.ercrally.com
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The man himself Patrick Snijers...

Mike Rainbird

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Certainly not Wilson, he was rubbish and the mechanics despised him, as he had the mechanical sympathy of an ape and they were lucky if the car ever finished a rally .

Delacour took the most famous win for Ford in 1994 (Monte Carlo - hence the limited run of Monte Escorts), and you mustn't forget Sainz - both a joy to watch behind the wheel of ANY car.

cozzfather

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so your not fond of big malc then mike ,he gets my vote
cos he was british champion in the michelin pilot backed escort.
have seen sainz in all manner of cars,looked good in the wrc
repsol escort,saw him in 04 right behind our hirecar,couldn't
believe the king was behind us,gave me the thumbsup.
and have seen delacour in many cars too, saw the one he
won the monte in, ford still own it or they deffo did a few years ago,
had a few battle scars on it

Mike Rainbird

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Malcom Wilson's car always had twice the work to do than anyone elses (and that's with the same car / same team ), others could make engine / transmission last several events - good old MW's was lucky to last a stage . If Malcom Wilson couldn't break something - no-one could .

Also Delacour was a fantastic development driver as well .

Simon Day

King Carlos! - A ford rally legend.

Fucking hell though Mike - what was MW doing to wreck all those engines / transmissions etc??? - too aggressive?

Mike Rainbird

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Fuck knows .

cozzfather

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right then, cossuesco, simon day, uncle mike and me
have a favourite driver of the escort cosworth,anybody else
ever been to a rally and seen a escort cosworth...
you gotta hand it to big malc ,works driver then team owner
the gp a escort cosworths he built cost Ł250,000 with no spares
malc was british champion,but Patrik Snijers was
1994 European Rally Champion in a Group A BASTOS Escort Cosworth

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ian sibbert

Not necessarily the best but the most spectacular drive of an esc cos I ever saw was Colin on the 1994 McCrae Stages rally...he was doing press runs in the afternoon in the family Grp'N' car and whipped Murry Grierson's times in a grp 'a' legacy'...

All the above were good in esc's as was Armin Schwartz and Bruno Thiery...and dont forget Stig Blomquist drove the esc in a few events....

cozzfather

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colin was a brilliant driver,saw him all over the place. murray grierson and jimmy mcrae did gravel noting for colin,
saw them together on many rallys.
mcrae junior drove a big malc escort
colin won the 95 wrc and alistair the 95 brc

Cozzie Bhoy

Frank Meagher was my favourite. A real legend here in Eire. Pity we'll never see him drive again. He nearly went bankrupt a few times over rallying, And it eventually killed him.
The escort was the ultimate rally car. Escort cossies are getting rarer on the stages these days.

cozzfather

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hi Cozzie Bhoy! Frank was so good on tarmac its no wonder he
was 1995 irish tarmac champion,in a duckhams escort cosworth
he had some amazing rs's from mk2 rs1800 to ex works wrc escort
his last rally car was a wrc focus.
sadly Frank's gone but not forgotten...

seand

It's great to hear Franks name again. one of the greats, always on a tight budget. also over here was Eamon Boland. back some years he drove R14 FMC. it was the loudest anti-lag popping car i ever heard. absolutely incredible. you would shit yourself when it passed.... even when expecting the bang. some great names mentioned above!!!



GREAT POST!!!!!!

Cozzfather you must have some stash of photos!!

cozzfather

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EUROPEAN RALLY CHAMPION PATRICK SNIJERS

Cozzie Bhoy

Frank was sound, Always had time for a chat. Even more so if you were a Ford nut. Used to call into him every now and again in fethard. Bolands escort was a mental yoke alright. Have pics of it somewhere, black with a big yellow "1" on the back of it. Looking forward to the round of the WRC in Ireland next year. The place will be jammers.

seand

IS THERE NO MORE RALLY FANS OUT THERE???

JAMES CULLEN ALSO HAD A NICE ONE

Cozzie Bhoy

Only for Rallying we wouldn't have any escort cossie's on the road ! Cullen went on to drive a subaru didn't he ? Saw hiw win in it at Donegal a few years back.

cozzfather

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HELLO LADS!! i remember BOLAND driving a mwm escort cosworth
big malc built the car and was sponsored by HERTZ.
CULLEN drove a TONY KELLY 4 LANTERNS blue escort cosworth
both were good,but in equal cars i would bet my dog on FRANK
out performing them...
FRANK MEAGHER the Best Escort Cosworth driver in Ireland




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cozzfather

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for Cozzie Bhoy... James Cullen
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and for Seand... Eammon Boland
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seand

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that's it!!!!!

LEGENDARY CAR!!

wonder where it is now. how do you know so much about rallying and where you getting all the pics????

brilliant to see again. years since i saw a pic of the hertz backed car!!

cozzfather

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glad you like the pics Sean!!
have allways liked Irish tarmac rallying, just the best rallying
to watch,and the drivers have some proper cars
bit like this fella Finlay
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and just incase you didn't think Stephen Finlay could fly



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Cozzie Bhoy

LOL Fairplay cozzfather you have them all lad. The last i saw Stephen Finlay was in Killarney a few years back. He had a Focus WRC. One of the first in Eire at the time. (Joe)? McGurk had Bolands black WRC after him. Don't know where it is now. Boland always had loadsa dosh, if he had as much skill he'd be a legend too. An Irish rally driver was caught with his pants down recently (literaly), His wifes family was his main sponser and they pulled the plug on him.

seand

what's that all about then!!
looking through pace notes this morning. noticed bolands old flame R14FMC. can't remember who was driving it. will check it out later!!

cozzfather

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[quote="Cozzie Bhoy"]LOL Fairplay cozzfather you have them all lad.
cheers matey,but i wish i had a pic of MOTORING NEWS TARMAC
CHAMPION Pete Doughty,oops i have

pete was a great driver of 3dr cosworths, escort cosworths and
wrc escorts, he was also a precision engineer,owner of DPE ENGINEERING
and built reliable rally transmissions ,no wonder he went to
Ireland to show his skills off,thats him on the rally of the lakes...



What about Golden Boy Stephen Murphy, no one would ever tell
me why he was nicknamed The Golden Boy
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maybe it was because he could afford to rally cars like this

seand

just on the subject of ford rally cars, this day 21 years ago Ari Vatanen crashed in argentia in a ford. He nearly died twice as a result of that accident. his worst ever accident. hard to believe its that long ago.

Cozzie Bhoy

Don't want to name names if you know what i mean. He was only a subaru driver anyhow. Think of a fella who had a top subaru works car , renting a shit box subaru now ?? He had a fairly "cool" sponser'

Cozzie Bhoy

[quote="cozzfather"]Stephen Murphy... Now thats a blast from the past Where did he ever go, He was the bloke with the moustash? think he owned Statoil in Ireland too. He was like Boland, Lodsa bobs, If Meagher only had the same money god knows he could've been a world champion.

seand

I HAVE 2 IN MIND . PM ME!!!!!!

cozzfather

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Stephen Murphy... Now thats a blast from the past Where did he ever go, He was the bloke with the moustash? think he owned Statoil in Ireland too. He was like Boland, Lodsa bobs, If Meagher only had the same money god knows he could've been a world champion.[/quote]

have seen Stephen Murphy, rallying a nearly new PRODRIVE subaru WRC. recently, looks very expensive,but i,m sure he can afford it

ian sibbert

cozzfather,

good thread, where abouts in the northwest uk are you?

Ian

cozzfather

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Hello Sibster!
I'm from sunny Chester,the place that used to host
the R-A-C rally.
Am glad you like my thread
thing is i can't help myself, what with pics like these

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seand

KEEP THEM COMING. I THINK GEORGE ROBINSON OWNS R14 FMC NOW.

cozzfather

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YOU WANT MORE!!
WELL HERE IS TOMMY GRAHAM
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and just about keeping it on the black stuff
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and it wasn't just Pete Doughty that went to Ireland in a Escort Coz
this is Cheshire driver Jim Harrison doing the bizzo in a
MIKE LITTLE PREPARATIONS example
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cozzfather

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Back in the day,when Boreham stopped rally preparing the
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and this is the Kings Escort



King Carlos Sainz, El Matador car built by M-SPORT

seand

jim still coming over in his impreza with harvey. carlos's escort looked lovely. did he win any / many rallies with it??

Dan

Some awesome rally pics there guys!

Andreas

Have to say Delacour too. Had a big poster on the wall with his escort on it when i was younger (some 13 years ago )

Didnt he drive the Q8 Sapphire back in the days?

cozzfather

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here is a nice action shot of Stephen Hendy,some of you will
know of his family firm HENDYS FORD


can't remember who this geezer is,looks under control though