Classic Ford

Classic Ford is rammed full of expert technical features, the best feature cars from across the world, a dedicated motorsport section plus all the news, products and information you'll need from across the entire classic Ford scene.

Please note: This digital version of the magazine does not currently include the covermount items or content you would find on printed newsstand copies

THIS ISSUE • Out and about with our band of Blue Oval-loving writers and photographers.

Welcome

DEEP FOCUS • Your projects: After a long break from mucking about with old Fords, Marcus Pearce has gone back in big time with this rear-wheel-drive, turbocharged Mk1 Focus project.

ARE YOU READY? • The Classic Ford Show is just around the corner

WE HAD ONE OF THOSE

SHOWROOM FRESH

RUSTY CORNER

WHERE TO GET CLASSIC FORD

BUFFED UP • Autoglym launches car care experience day

BACK IN THE DAY • FROM THE CLASSIC FORD ARCHIVES

COMING UP

CLASSICS IN THE COMMON

WHERE TO GO THIS MONTH

PRODUCTS • THE LATEST, GREATEST BITS FOR YOUR CLASSIC FORD

10 REASONS TO ATTEND FORD FAIR 2025 • Sunday, August 10 is the date, Silverstone Circuit is the location. Here’s why you need to be there.

UK’S BEST-SELLING MAGAZINE ABOUT PRE-2005 FORDS

LEARNING CURVE • Tony Taylor’s two-door Cortina is one of the stand-out builds of 2025. Not bad for something put together by a first-timer in a shed…

GENERATIONS • From traditional rear-wheel-drive to the front-wheel-drive future…we celebrate the now 50-year-old Mk2 and 45-year-old Mk3 Escorts.

THE 1975 • The Mk2 Escort may have followed its older sibling’s classic layout, but that only helped cement its status as one of Ford’s best cars of the 1970s.

PACKED AND READY • One of the best kept secrets in the classic Ford realm is a little-known Escort Rally Pack from Australia. This is the story of how a new-car-sales feud back in the 1970s saw it become a reality.

MK2 ESCORT MODEL GUIDE • From the pared-back Popular Plus to the positively-sumptuous Ghia, the Mk2 had all bases covered, literally.

AT THE FRONT • The Mk3 was Ford’s first front-wheel-drive Escort – and it was a hit from the start.

SERIOUS ONE • The product of Resto Squad’s obsessive attention to detail, this Series 1 RS Turbo is a restoration quite unlike any other.

MK3 ESCORT MODEL GUIDE • From the high street to the race track, like the Mk2 that preceded it, there was a Mk3 for every occasion.

BOOSTED AND BOOTED • Bought in 2007 as a standard 1.1L, Chris Noye always had big plans to turn this Fiesta into something special. Now boasting 270 bhp of lairy Zetec turbo power and a whole array of trick mods, the long wait has been more than worthwhile.

WHAT’S ON • Scottish Ford Live, May 25

YOUR CARS • THE BEST OF WHAT’S DROPPED IN INBOX THIS MONTH

MAILBOX • YOUR LETTERS, EMAILS & SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS

Next month • See all this and much more in your July 2025 issue of the world’s biggest and best-selling Ford magazine!

Classic Ford • June 2025/issue 355

CFTECH

How to MAKE A REMOVABLE CROSSFLOW FRONT COVER • Adjusting the cam timing via a vernier pulley is impossible on a Crossflow without first taking the engine out. We make our own removable cover to make the job ten times easier.

Simon H’s Escort Cosworth • The ex-rallycross Escort is road-legal again after a 30-year gap, but its circuit-based life is far from over…

Simon W’s Mk1 Cortina • After being ignored since last August, the Cortina’s back out with a list of jobs to sort ready for a summer of use and abuse.

IN THE WORKSHOP • The Classic Ford fleet: our projects and...