At this year’s Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show from 7-9 November at the NEC, we’ll be on Stand 595, Hall 3 doing what we do best…..reuniting not one, two or three but FOUR famous Ford Escorts that took part in what has become regarded as the toughest and most challenging rally of all time….the 1970 Daily Mirror London to Mexico World Cup Rally.
Leaving London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday 19th April 1970, 106 entrants headed South towards their anticipated finish on May 27th, after travelling through ten European, eight South American and seven Central American countries, with four water crossings thrown in to the mix. Over 16,000 miles (25,750kms) in just over 5 weeks, 17 of the longest, fastest, highest and most demanding special stages ever laid out, with the promise of making every competitor more tired, more exhilarated, more downcast and yet more satisfied than on any event they had ever tackled.
FTW 48H, a ‘Works’ Escort driven on the 1970 event by Colin Malkin and Richard Hudson-Evans…..still competing today and with us alongside three other surviving World Cup Escorts on STAND 595, HALL 3, 7-9 November. Fifty five years separates these two photo’s, the first taken at a Passage Control in Germany on April 20th 1970, the second taken more recently before the same car competed on the 2025 Pearl of India rally, in the hands of private owner Simon Spinks. He and co-driver Jim Grayson finished 3rd on this year’s event, a remarkable achievement in a car originally built in 1969!
Over the coming days leading up to the NEC Classic Motor Show, we’ll be bringing you daily snippets about the most challenging rally of all, together with more insight into the ‘Famous Four’……the Escorts that we’ll feature on our Show Stand, together for the first time in fifty five years!
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