Escort 1-2-3 covered not just the glamorous RS and XR sports models of multiple generations, but also the basic Escorts that sold by the million to head the top ten sales lists, inhabiting so many British households. Both original rear drive and front drive models are described in what was an exhausting depth since this title dates back to the typewriter stone age! Most useful today--I'm told-- are the specification and performance figures, along with production details. Some readers--and there were a lot as libraries and book clubs flourished in this era--like the rewind back to the 1960s and some of the outrageous characters who inhabited the tuning/race prep companies of the day. My favourite was Ralph Broad of Broadspeed and the ride with him in a modified 1300Gt has been known to make even the most cynical of the hardened hacks break into involuntary chuckles. Essentially a serious book, lightened by the lack of PR interference as I was not popular at Ford of Britain when it was written.
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