Whats In A Word - Preamble to First Issue of Type 49 Racing the electronic magazine all things RWD Ford Escort

Whats in A Word??

Type 49 Racing – a publication to spread the gospel about the Ford Escort RS Series and derivatives and predecessors both in England and Europe but especially for home grown Type 49 freaks here in Australia. Type 49 Racing is a publication with a real Aussie twist and view on these amazing and successful little machines. But what is a Type 49? It was the designation given to the special competition derivatives of Ford’s venerable little Escort in England that had to be built to gain homologation for International competition in racing and especially rallying in late 1960’s Europe. The first and original Type 49 was the amazing little Lotus Twin Cam Escort. Little did they know at Ford when they wangled the little beast from thought bubble to idea to project, to living, breathing machine that the mighty little Escort would still be a source of pride and wonder to thousands of proud owners five decades later, still the leading contender and almost constant winner in International Historic Rallying. Still competing and winning in club level events both on dirt and on tar for thousands of proud owner drivers.

The Type 49 was the sporting Ford that ultimately launched the RS series and designation worn by Escorts and other sporting Ford’s through the 70’s, 80’s and beyond right up to the mighty Ford Focus RS AWD that has recently been announced as available to-day. Type 49 stood for the competition spec body shell with all the extra non garden variety Escort strengthening plates designed for export markets that come with the good struts, the good gearbox, the trick engine. We were lucky in Australia that all our Escorts were built from export knock down kits from Ford Europe and all Australasian Escorts are in reality Type 49 shells. But in essence a Type 49 is a trick and well modified and tuned road car or a competition machine, a racing car be it a full house tuned tar racing circuit special or an owner prepared forest racer/rally wagon. They were immensely popular in their day and they are still highly prized machines in the modern age nearly fifty years since they were envisaged and put into production. And here at Type 49 Racing we page homage to them down under.

To the Ford Mk1 & Mk2 Escort Owner and afficando:

Type 49 Racing  - an electronic magazine devoted to all things Ford Escort Mk1 and Mk2 performance vehicles with an Australian twist.

A limited run of hard copy issues are available of Type 49 Racing for the cost of $8.00 each plus postage and handling. Contact james@type49racing.co.au to order hard copy current and back issues

The Fourth Issue has been released

Fifth Issue Contains:-

-          The Gospel Part 5  – A  continuation of the History on Type 49 Escorts

-          Mikkola the Master – 2nd in a 2 part article on the rallying life and times of Hannu Mikkola

-          Demon Tweaks – Final in a 4 Part Series detailing favourite Escort Go-Faster mods

-          What Donk is That? – Ford Cosworth YB

-          Historic Road Test – Ford Escort Mk 1 RS 2000 review

-          Double Duty – The Callinan Motorsport BDG Powered Mk 2 RS 1800

-          Book Review/Websites of Interest

-          Race Report – Sydney Muscle Car Masters

-          Plus more

Issue Five out November 2016

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