Author: Mike Moreton
Foreword by: Stuart Turner
The inside story of how Rallye Sport Fords were created by Ford in the 70s and 80s, enabling works and private teams to be fully competitive in national and international rallies and races, to win many championships, and, for RS cars to be bought by over 100,000 enthusiast customers.
Born in Birmingham, Mike Moreton studied at Wrekin College, Shropshire, before serving with the Army Infantry Commission in Korea, Kenya and Japan, acquiring a taste for speed and danger along the way. A Rootes qualified mechanical engineer, and always interested in cars, Mike ran the family dealership, and built and club-raced an MG TA and two quick Specials.
He later worked as a design/development engineer for Vauxhall in Luton before spending 23 years with Ford. It was during this time that he project-managed and planned the Ford Rallye Sport cars of the 1970s and 1980s.
Mike has also worked for TWR/JaguarSport (where he was project manager for the Jaquar XJ220), and has acted as operations director for Aston Martin. He is now Managing Director of KBD Design. In his spare time he is designing/renovating an old house in France, where he has lived since 2002.
With over 100 photos and illustrations, many previously unpublished, this previously untold story is brought vividly to life.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 160
Length: 8.125w x 9.8437h
ISBN-13: 9781845841157
ISBN: 1845841158
Catalog ID: 145971