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Ford Escort RS 1800 Allied Polymer #1 T. Makinen / H. Liddon Winner RAC Rally 1975 Minichamps 1:18

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Ford Escort RS 1800 Allied Polymer #1 T. Makinen / H. Liddon Winner RAC Rally 1975 Minichamps 1:18 100758401 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford Escort RS1800 reproduces the #1 Allied Polymer car Timo Makinen and Henry Liddon drove to victory on the 1975 RAC Rally, a home win for Ford's works team on British soil. Sharp livery registration and the Escort's boxy Mk2 arches capture a genuine slice of UK rallying history. A natural centrepiece for a British motorsport or works Ford shelf.
Ford Escort RS 1800 Allied Polymer #1 T. Makinen / H. Liddon Winner RAC Rally 1975 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Ford
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
100758401
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About the Ford Escort RS 1800 Allied Polymer #1 T. Makinen / H. Liddon Winner RAC Rally 1975 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford Escort RS1800 reproduces the #1 Allied Polymer car that Timo Makinen and Henry Liddon drove to victory on the 1975 RAC Rally. Built on the Mk2 Escort's boxy arches and BDA-engined works specification, it captures a genuine home win for Ford on British soil.

A RAC Rally winner on home ground carries a different weight for a British shelf than an imported rally legend, and this Escort earned its number honestly.

Reproducing the #1 Allied Polymer Livery

The Allied Polymer sponsor graphics wrap across the Escort's bonnet, doors and rear quarters, and getting that registration right matters enormously on a rally subject, since sponsor decals are usually the first thing a knowledgeable buyer checks against period photographs. Minichamps lays the white, black and sponsor-colour panels down with sharp edges rather than soft, printed-looking boundaries, and the number 1 roundel sits correctly positioned on the doors and roof as it ran on the actual event. The Mk2 Escort's boxy wheel arches, flared to cover wider rally rubber, are proportioned correctly rather than smoothed over, and the diecast construction gives the model enough weight to feel substantial despite the Escort's genuinely compact real-world footprint.

The BDA-Engined Works Escort and Ford's RAC Pedigree

Ford's works Escort RS1800 ran a Cosworth-developed BDA engine, a four-cylinder with a 16-valve head that gave the Mk2 body far more power than its road-going siblings ever saw, built specifically to compete at the front of European rallying through the mid-1970s. Timo Makinen and co-driver Henry Liddon took this exact car to victory on the 1975 RAC Rally, one of several RAC wins Makinen collected for Ford across the decade, and a result that mattered enormously to a home crowd watching a British-built car win Britain's own round of the world championship. That home-soil context is part of why this livery resonates more strongly with UK collectors than a comparable continental rally subject might.

A British Rallying Centrepiece

Displayed beside other works Escorts or period Ford rally liveries, this car anchors a story about Ford's dominance of British rallying through the 1970s rather than standing as an isolated curiosity. At roughly 22 centimetres in 1:18, it sits comfortably among other rally-scale diecast without needing extra shelf allowance, and the sealed, correctly-liveried bodywork rewards close inspection under direct light where the sponsor colours should hold their saturation evenly across every panel. For a collector building a British motorsport theme, this is as close to essential as this era of rallying gets.

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