Some projects can take a while to get going and we know that very few builds don’t hit a stumbling block or two along the way, but it’s down to the determination and love of Mk1 Fiestas that Neil Shore and his clean-cut, turbocharged XR2 ever made it back on the road.
“My first car was a Mk1 Fiesta Super Sport but it was rotten even back then,” remembers Neil. “But I loved it and with a set of twin 40s and a cam, it was faster than all my friend’s Vauxhall Nova SRs. I then owned another Mk1 Fiesta that was full rally-spec car, but that was a nightmare on the road so I sold that.”
Bitten by the Fiesta bug early on, Neil wanted another more usable but capable example and so went on to buy this genuine XR2 after seeing it featured in a magazine 20 years ago. “At the end of the feature
