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…But buyers definitely like it, paying well over the odds
A Ford Escort RS 1800 that sold at auction in July for a record £276,848 is evidence of the growing appeal of modern classics to the Gen X and millennial generations, who now have the money and desire
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Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.
If anyone had suggested 20 years ago that a Mk2 Ford Escort would sell for more than a quarter of a million pounds, they would have been laughed out of court. Times have changed and the RS1800 has bec
IT’S FAIR TO say that we’ve all become a little desensitised to extraordinary auction results, but sometimes they still catch us off-guard. A weekend message from James Elliott, showing a picture of a