ish

a lot of ford owners who never got to see/experience Martin H's Reyland Escort Cosworth in action wanted to see a proper video to give them an idea of what it was capable of.

so i have put a new video on www.drivetoish.co.uk which was filmed at bruntingthorpe in 2003

although not shown on the video this was the day the escort did the following times on lower boost and not the best of road tyres:-

0-60 mph - 2.88 seconds
0-100 mph - 6.06 seconds
1/4 mile - 10.66@139.95 mph
100-150 mph - 6.97 seconds
top speed - 194.7 mph

having been lucky enough to go in the escort many times i will never forget it as it was a missile on 4 wheels. brought a MASSIVE grin to my face everytime i went in it. everything about it was spot on. N56 KVS/L70ONY is an absoloute LEGEND

hopefully this video will give people who never got to see it in action a small idea of what it was about

Scuba

Anyone heard of a certain 'Kevin Sharp' from up here in bonny Scotland?



His escort ran 10.3 at crail (el sh*ty surface), should be interesting against reyland at TOTB3 thats if reylands cossie is repaired in time...(hope so)

Autocar

Nice

sti555

I was there when this video was recorded, the car is uttlerly mental & Martin is crazy as well.

Was an great expeiance watching the cossie eat everything on the track that day, it sounded awesome too

The top speed run started from about 10m away from me, it's incredible seeing it go, looks like a rocket.

Anyway hope Martin & car get sorted soon

beamer

good grief

mn_angrybeats

I was at Brunters recently when Autocar were doing their 0-100-0 challenge, Dermot Carnegies Focus did 0-100 mph in under 5 secs....

On full power on tarmac it was an amazing sight...

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Amazing stuff !

Just a couple of questions,

I appreciate the fact that the car has been crashed/damaged but what were the circumstances and was Martin ok ?


What was the guy spraying into the front of the car, I am assuming it was some kind of cooling mist for the IC.

How does that car fare against the Rocket Ronnie Skyline ?

beamer

must be "dry ice"?

jjones

crahsed taking part in a rally i believe.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

must be "dry ice"?

Why, were Ultravox making a video ?

beamer

http://www.fastandstupid.co.uk/Uploa...essreyland.jpg

Wonder Wagon

lol @ the link

Scoob99

iTrader: (1)

Superb!!!!!

Redkop

Excellent video Ish and lmao at Marco and Andy at Dono, not seen that one before

C

They were in the Gumball 3000 Eupoean thingy

They were down in Morocco (africa) for that stretchmost people seem to say they were doing 160 mph plus (unconfirmed though) & the car rolled approx 4 times.

Apparently the passenger was thrown from the car mid crash & was quite badly hurt requiring 100 stitches

They are out of hospital now, trying to get the car back.

Thats all I know.

How does it compare to Rocke Ronnie? Well, Ronnies has done a 10.4 or 10.3 1/4 gone on to do 209 mph so in a straight line its 'pretty' even (power to weight & all that).

On track I would expect the Reyland car to have the edge (as thats what it'e designed for)

supersarbs

Great car - hope they are OK and get the car back with the minimum of fuss.

Pete

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Scary stuff, thrown from the car at 160. Would imagine the car is just bits, hopefully they will come back faster than ever.

scooby_si

pikkies


Si

Think the site has removed the pics now

Brun

Can that be re-built? or is it a case of starting again with a new car?
Shocking pics

scooby_si

there were sum tasteless comments about the only way to tell anything was wrong was by the fact a wheel wasn't attached but i dont think that comment was written by a fan of the normal cossie bodywork
Si

Type R

Thank god he had a roll cage and Harnesses.

That car is truely fecked, very sad to see.

Saw this car at the Ring, fantastic motor, hope you get well soon.

ish

the escort WILL be back..better than ever

Type R

Can't wait to see what Martin comes up with. Credit to him for bouncing back, I know for sure it would **** me up alot.

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

I find it so hard to believe that only days after an accident like that there is already talk of the car coming back Martin is a real loon (as most will already know) if he achieves this

If anyone knows how to build a car or cossie for that matter then it's Martin

RichWalk

Ish; Does/ did Martin have a unit down in Digbeth in Brum ?? If so I used to trade (via a 3rd party) with him and have been out in one of his Escort cossies, think its the same bloke as I used to see a Ryland cossie in K.Norton quite frequently a year of two ago.

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

Sounds like Martin.

ish

richwalk yes he used to have a unit in digbeth years ago..he has moved unit since then though.

definatley him you saw in kings norton as well

RichWalk

Cheers mate, thought it was him, he took me up the A435 bypass in one of the cossies, and we got it wheel spinning clear through to 120mph+, with the biggest line of tyre marks Ive ever seen