crankwalk (Forum Supporter)
crankwalk (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
8/27/22 3:42 p.m.

25 years after she died, I'm still hearing interesting things about Princess Diana. Can you imagine a First Lady with young kids driving herself around in a turbocharged hot hatch? 

Super cool.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11152259/Princess-Dianas-Ford-Escort-sells-650-000-Royal-used-drive-black-RS-Turbo-Series-1-herself.html

 

yupididit
yupididit PowerDork
8/27/22 4:20 p.m.

Those are so awesome

Noddaz
Noddaz GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
8/27/22 5:53 p.m.

I did not expect that.

CyberEric
CyberEric Dork
8/27/22 6:57 p.m.

ohh hell yes! So cool!

Datsun310Guy
Datsun310Guy MegaDork
8/27/22 7:32 p.m.

She was about age and I always thought was a beautiful woman.  That's her car? Man.....

GameboyRMH
GameboyRMH GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/27/22 7:46 p.m.

Apparently her security wanted a more discreet car than the usual bright-white Escort RS colors...so they had Ford paint it black, which instead meant that she was driving a car with a one-of-a-kind color combo laugh

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter)
Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
8/27/22 8:06 p.m.

I was a sixteen year old boy when she got that car.  She was smoking hot to us hormone drive kids, and I recall every one of those pics from the time.  

lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter)
lotusseven7 (Forum Supporter) Dork
8/27/22 8:46 p.m.

Back in the day mine did' t sell for 1/200th of that!

 

Pete. (l33t FS)
Pete. (l33t FS) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
8/28/22 2:27 a.m.

Hmm.....  I never realized that the UK version of the Escort had actual negative camber in the front, and not like 2 degrees positive like the US version.  Not that it is relevant anymore because the cars are so rare, but I wonder what the specific differences are.

 

That is the car, BTW, that is the reason why for a while people were fascinated with putting CVH heads on Zetec blocks.  Only the US got the 1.9 and 2 liter versions of the CVH, so the ability to have a 2 liter turbo CVH was a game changer.

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