We’re no stranger to motorsport inspired cars here at PVW. Over the years we’ve featured everything from ultra-lightweight Mk2 Golf sprint cars, to super-trick, allwheel-drive Audis with power outputs into the four-figure range. But there’s a pretty simple formula that almost everyone sticks to; no estates, and no Skodas. We say almost everyone, because apparently Andy Cowley didn’t get that memo.
The story all starts a fair few years ago, when the now 38-year-old was gifted a car by his godfather. Apparently, this guy was all kinds of awesome, as he decided that the then 16-year-old needed something a bit different for his first car, chucking him the keys to a 3.1 V6 powered Dutton Sierra kit car. Fair enough. Apparently it was a “big, ugly, boxy thing, which probably started my love of all things boxy wagon shaped. But it was very fast and did great rolling burnouts!” Unfortunately, it was far, far too unsafe for Andy’s first car, and he ended up with a Mk4 Escort 1.3, which was, as he describes it, “a rusty hand me down from my sister.”
As you’d expect from someone with something as ridiculous as the car you see on these humble pages, it didn’t stay standard for very long, and quickly became an RS Turbo replica, with north of 200bhp in its final form a couple of years later. Alas, it didn’t last, and Andy blew his baby up, putting it in storage, where it still resides.
You see, deep down, Andy is
