Mk1 Ford Escorts

ESCORT 1100L (1970-1974)

espite the impression given by the sort of Escorts you normally see at car shows in 2021, the 1970s were not full of hotted-up small Fords with screaming engines, big exhausts, spot lamps and go-faster stripes hanging their tails out around roundabouts. The immense success of the Escort was founded on Dagenham churning out hundreds of thousands of ordinary 1100 and 1300 models, pottering around the country taking people to and from work, going to the shops, taking the family on holiday and doing all