Ok, Escort v2 is in the garage. Some study of the documentation and some educated guessing gives me kind of this timeline of the car:
It's actually a 1986 model, so between 1986 and 1989 it was probably someone's DD, where it most likely racked up most of it's 27000 miles. The Showroom stock logbook is a bit of a question mark for me, because it lists the car having a 1.6. It could be a typo since 1986 was the first full year of the 1.9, but I would expect that the owner would at least know what engine his car had, especially since he was racing it. Anyway, the SSC logbook only shows three events, all driving schools.
The ITB logbook seems to start with a different owner, but only shows record of the annual inspection and two races. Then it was sold again, and this time it was raced pretty consistently over a season and a half. The owner appears to have let other people us the car for driving schools, and then he raced in SARRC PRO IT events up until 5-28-94, when the logbook ends. I believe that the car was involved in an accident on the track and the owner decided to get rid of the car instead of fixing it. I have several receipts from 1997 that appear to be for new parts for the left front of the car. The center section of the grille does not match the one in the logbook photo, and the graphic scheme that the car wore in the photos in no longer present.
Since then, the car has changed hands several time, with no other discernible racing or street driving. Several owner made changes, with the last working to convert it back to an ITB car, at least until he lost interest. Now it's my turn, but I am pretty sure that I will have this on the road and on the track in May.
The car is a nightmare to determine what it has in it. The engine is a E7EE casting, which means that it was the '87 casting design. The head is an E3EE, which means it came off of a 1.6. Most of the EFI hardware does appear to '86, but the intake tube came out of an '89 mold. There are dozens more examples of mismatched part numbers, which makes me guess that this is definitely not the engine that the car was born with.
Anyway, here is what the car looked like in 1992:
Here is today:
It's clean under the valve cover:
It came with a few extra parts: