Please welcome a new member to our family

Team Bear Patrol is happy to announce an addition to our racing family, the #82 Fjord Cosworthless Escort. It's a 1982 Ford Escort that has been racing it's entire life, in SCCA ClubRally until 2001 and with some ice racing in Canada since. It's been sitting in a field since waiting for it's next phase, and we are happy to report that it will soon be running with other old race cars in the ChumpCar World Chumpionship.

The car is still set up as a rally car and will be converted to ChumpCar rules this winter.

Side view sitting on old Michelin Rally tires on 14" Tempo wheels:

The interior. The Escort has a fuel cell that will probably need to be modified to meet the ChumpCar rules, and the belts are very out of date. The passenger seat will also need to go for ChumpCar.

The windows were replaced by plexiglas or polycarbonate a long time ago, and it did not hold up very well.

That's mold on the side window. You can just see the names on the window from it's previous rally life.

Wow, that's a real Momo steering wheel! Note the codriver side gauges.

The Cobra seats are a little narrow for us wider guys, the belts are out of date, and the window net is not SFI, so most of this will need to be removed or replaced.

Mostly stock, but with extra cooling in the bumper and a fancy louvered hood. This car originally had a well built carbureted 1.6L CVH engine, but now has a stock MFI 1.9L.


It came down to the Cities on these 13" steelies with Michelin studded ice tires.

Looks mostly stock out back.