ESCORT EVOLUTION

The story of Sebastian Sundfors’s epic Escort starts way back in the early 2000s, when he was still at school and used to walk past this Mk2 sitting unloved in the back yard of a house in his hometown in Finland.

“I’d always seen it from a distance, and even as a school kid I knew I wanted something like that one day,” says Sebastian.

That day came in 2006, when Sebastian was just 17. “The plan was to build a winter car to use on ice tracks and, of course, the road. I bought it in the middle of winter and it looked to be in good condition; almost standard but with an uprated