PARTING SHOT

LOOKING TO THE PAST ONE CLASSIC IMAGE AT A TIME

MAKING A SPLASH It’s slightly difficult for us to comprehend that Classic Ford launched the same year as the mighty Escort WRC — the now bona fide classic. Campaigned by M-Sport for Ford in the World Rally Championship, it was conceived to bridge the gap between the out-of-production Group A Escort Cosworth and the new Focus WRC which wouldn’t arrive until 1999. This superb image shows Juha Kankkunen in the mountains near Athens, Greece during the Acropolis rally of the same year, on the way to second overall behind teammate, Carlos Sainz.…

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Classic Ford (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2025

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