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1973 FORD ESCORT TWIN-CAM REPLICA

SOLD BY COLLECTINGCARS.COM, £24,250

During the two years that I scraped a living buying and selling classic cars in the 1980s (giving up just before the ‘boom’), a dealer friend bought a superb replica of an RS2000 works rally car for £500, sold it for £850 – and was threatened with court action by the buyer when he realised ‘it wasn’t

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