Speedscene, March/April 2022 Warning! Sprinting is addictive and expensive… 2021 British Sprint Champion Steve Miles shares the story of his journey so far. Around 1997, I decided to purchase and build a kit car. At the time, a Caterham was around £9k, a Westfield £5k but my budget only stretched to a Robin Hood at […]
Pacenotes, September 2019 Developing more power! SBD has been developing the 1.6L Ford EcoBoost engine over the past few years for all forms of motorsport including circuit racing, sprinting, hillclimbing and more recently, rallying… As soon as the company started work on the engine, they discovered how good it was. Even in standard form, it […]
Retro Ford, February 2019 (NOT SO) PEACEFUL WARRIOR ORIGINALLY DESTINED FOR DIRTY BOY RACING ON THE SHORT OVAL, TONY PAXMAN’S SPA-SMASHING MK2 ESCORT HAS COME A LONG WAY Words: Ben Morley, Pics: Bob Button If a Mk2 Escort is good at anything, it’s being good at anything. The humble 70’s saloon is actually fairly […]
Speedscene, August/September 2017 Introducing Trevor Willis. The 2012 British Hillclimb champion, who has also won six Midland Championship Top Ten Challenge titles, had a commanding lead in this year’s British series at the time this interview took place at Wiscombe Park in July. He’s 54 years old, single, lives at Menith Wood, close to Shelsley […]
Westfield World, Summer 2017 The Legend of the Vauxhall C20XE By Craig Moffat The legend of the C20XE can still hold its own today against modern engines. When I bought my unfinished Westfield SEi Widebody project from a neighbour in 2010 it came with a C20XE engine that he had sourced for the car. […]
Retro Ford, April 2017 The Devil is in the Detail Powered by a 2-litre Vauxhall XE, and featuring some of the most incredible attention to detail we’ve ever seen in Retro Ford Magazine, Dave Pask’s Anglia will simply blow your mind. Words:Luke Wood, Pics:RB Photography Here at Retro Ford magazine, we like to think that […]
RallySport Magazine, February 2017 RallySport Magazine relishes the opportunity to showcase a special rally vehicle that is different to the mainstream, and which reveals a true passion associated with innovation and engineering excellence. Long time competitor and ex-NSW Rally Panel Chairman, Col Fletcher, unveiled his newly built Gemini RS in the NSW Championship division of […]
Retro Ford, November 2015 Best Things Come To Those That Wait. It might have taken 10 years to complete, but Paul Torkington’s Mega Group 4 inspired Mk2 Escort is proof that patience rally is a virtue. Words Luke Wood, Photos Gary Hawkins (Reproduced with permission of Retro Ford) “It’s been ten years in […]
Complete Kit Car, May 2015 Malcolm Smith was all geared up to build a Rover V8 powered Hawk 289 — until a spur-of-the-moment decision to fit a Ford 302cu in V8 made the build altogether more complicated. Adam Wilkins met him. Malcolm Smith had intended to embark upon a kit car build as a retirement […]
Performance Ford, March 2014 Evolution of the Beast As it sits overlooking the legendary Au-rouge, Tony Paxman’s Mk2 has come a very long way from the short ovals it was originally heading to. Words:Ben Morley Pics:RB Photography If a Mk2 Escort is good at anything, it’s being good at everything. It shouldn’t be, yet […]
