Lisa Cowley and Tony Blackham - Ford Focus Roadrunner RS
The car has had many looks over the years from a simple Tasmanian devil sticker sitting on the back bumper through to Collins performance stripes and decals along the side of it and finishing up with a large Taz Devil wrap done by Blueprint in Nottingham which helped pave the way to its final look now for us.
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Lisa Cowley - Tony Blackham
Ford Focus Roadrunner RS
Instagram: @lisac1980
Designer: Tony Blackham @tbarb01
Photographers: @lc.visuals_
The car scene … to some it’s about having the most powerful and fastest cars out there and trying to be the best on the scene. To others, it’s about the people behind the cars and the journey they take them on which is where we come in you see we believe it doesn’t matter what car you have and what you do to it as long as it makes you happy. Every car and its owner has a story and the reasons why they work so well together.
For us it’s about the closure on a project we started 10 years ago, this is the Roadrunner RS and is the final chapter for us in the life of a fairly well-known car known as Taz to many people.
The car has had many looks over the years from a simple Tasmanian devil sticker sitting on the back bumper through to Collins performance stripes and decals along the side of it and finishing up with a large Taz Devil wrap done by Blueprint in Nottingham which helped pave the way to its final look now for us.
Car wraps tend to fall into 2 main categories the racing look which a lot of people have and looks stunning on all of the cars we have seen or the character car look which takes owners to love of a certain character be it cartoon or film and adds them in some way to the car to make it look unique which we love as well.
The problem we have is my partner Lisa Cowley who drives the car most of the time is a massive racing fan be it touring cars or rallying and Tony Blackham who designs the look and pays for the car is a huge retro cartoon fan so how do you make us both happy … you design a retro cartoon rally racing car that is totally unique and there is nothing else on the scene quite like it. We started with the Taz character going from a full-on Taz devil down the side and back of the car to a WRC rally design we called the Taz Racing Division again all with the help of Blueprint and also Monkey Wrench who designed some amazing custom lights for us to go with the wrap.
The only other thing we insisted on keeping was a Collins Performance logo on the car as it is the first development MK2 RS they had worked on and sold to the public. All while this was going on we watched and waited for a roadrunner look to come out on a car which it didn’t and when we made the decision last year that our time with the RS was starting to come to an end we thought about the perfect way for it to go and there was only one.
When we started the project we had 2 characters in mind we had taken the Taz look as far as we could so there was no way this journey was going to end without us seeing if we could pull the character racing look off twice but this time with the roadrunner and Wiley coyote as they were there at the start. The car is all about fun and as long as it puts a smile on people’s faces we are happy.
The car came to us with the Lux Pac 1 & 2 already installed on it and below are just a few of the other modifications we have added along the way with a few more to come to finish the look in the coming months. The car is running a Collins CP420 map with an Airtec stage 3 intercooler, Autospecialist plenum, 750cc plugs and a Collins dump valve just for the good old retro sound as well as quick shift. We also added a KMS Section 18 exhaust system just for fun and lowered the car using H&R lowering springs so it could sit on its Limited Edition White 9 x 20” Team Dynamic Pro Race 1.3s rims.
Like all car projects we have had a few hiccups along the way from ECU blow-ups to breakdowns in the middle of nowhere but that’s all part of the fun of being in the car scene and we wouldn’t change it. We have met some amazing people who we call friends through this journey who we will stay in touch with when it finally ends for us.
For now, the car will be on show with Ford-mania and we hope to see you all at the shows and meets and we hope you enjoy the car as much as we have built it.
Roadrunner RS Full Spec
- 2009 59 Plate 2.5 MK2 RS
- Lux 1 & 2 Pack inc Seat
- CP420 Map Stage 3
- Airtec Stage 3 Intercooler
- Autospecialist Plenum
- 750cc Plugs
- Uprated Fuel Pump
- Collins Dump Valve
- AS Blue Hoses
- Pipercross Airfilter – soon to be replaced with a Ramair
- Collins Quickshift
- Bonnet lifter Kit
- Blue interior Footwell lighting and RS Door Strips (Autobeam)
- Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.3’s 9 x20 Pearlescent White (change coming soon )
- KMS Section 18 Exhaust
- H&R Lowering Springs (25mm Front / 35mm Back)
- Monkey Wrench Bespoke Headlights
- Full Blueprint Roadrunner wrap.
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