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still remember it like it was yesterday,” says Adam Faver as he tells us where his Escort Cosworth obsession began. “I was 12 years old, walking in a local village, and all of a sudden the loudest and fastest car I’d ever seen came blasting past me. It literally stopped me in my tracks, and my mind was completely blown.” Inspired, young Adam found out that the car in question was called an Escort Cosworth, an Imperial Blue one to be precise, and from that moment on he embarked on a single-minded mission to own his very own. He says, “From that day onwards I started
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buying all the car mags religiously, and honestly my whole life has been geared towards achieving that boyhood dream. Young kids go through fads and phases of different hobbies and desires, but all through my childhood and adult life I was deadly serious and focused on what I wanted.” During these years of working and saving money, two things happened. First, Adam became heavily influenced by the modified car scene, the wilder and more unique the better. Second, Escort Cosworth values skyrocketed. Both of these factors played a role in his decision to think outside the box when it came to finally buying a car.
“I came across this as a completely bare shell,” explains Adam. “It was an affordable route into ownership and there was no point in me buying a really nice complete car for £50k just to strip all the parts off and replace them. It just didn’t make any sense to do that.” This Escort’s history is interesting. It was stolen and recovered in the 1990s, as many were, and a racing driver bought it from the police auctions as a spare shell for his rally car. He never used it, though, and sold on it to someone who sold it on... And that was the theme for the next few years of the car’s life. As it kept getting transferred to new owners, the already threadbare shell lost
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