SEARCH AND RESCUE
Like many of us Robert Delaney’s love of classic Fords began when he was a child. “I’ve been into rallying my entire life,” explains Robert. “Around 1976 I saw my first RS2000 — there weren’t many of these cars in Ireland. I was 11 years old and my dad was delivering building materials to a guy in Cork who had an RS2000 on his driveway, I got to sit in the car then had wanted one ever since. During the 1980s the insurance was too high; it was 2008 before I finally owned one.
“I was after a project car,” continues Robert, “and spotted this 1980 RS2000 in the Irish equivalent of Exchange & Mart. The seller imported it from England in 1996 then it sat untouched in
