Has anyone else spotted a white MK1 RS1600 around pine rivers shire? It's got pretty rough paint, with the large bronze coloured sections down the sides. From the outside it looked like an original. Had the RS1600 badges, 1/4 bumpers & round headlights.

Where is Pine Rivers? as I do know of a Copper Bronze RS16 that came over here many years ago but haven't yet seen it in the fleash, would be good to track the guy down.

Pine Rivers Shire is on the Northern outskirts of Brisbane.

Have a look around the remote control track. It should be parked near a workshop.

I thought you may have seen it, being a fellow local & all

Yep, the driver looked like tradie. Had his work shirt on etc. So do you know if it's an original RS Mark?

Yep. And turbo charged.
Only kent stuff. Pintos are a heavy truck engines.

Wowser! it sounded pretty nice. Kent block with Cosworth head right?

Lotus twin cam.

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Originally posted by maxrs

Lotus twin cam.

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Not lotus Twink....16v Cosworth BDA.http://paultan.org/2008/07/03/1970-ford-escort-rs1600-with-cosworth-dohc-engine/

Yeah this had me confused aswell until I read wikipedia a bit more carefully. After 1971 in Australia, the lotus twin cam escort was renamed RS1600. I think the BDA engines came out of the AVO factory in South Essex and weren't featured in Australian models? Please correct me if I'm wrong

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Wikipedia

The Mk I was produced by Ford Australia from 1970 to 1975 in 2 door sedan, 4 door sedan and 2 door panel van body styles. 1100 cc and 1300 cc engines were offered, as was the 1558 cc twin cam unit. The latter was offered only in the Escort Twin Cam model, which was renamed to Escort GT 1600 in late 1971

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_(Europe)