Can you Identify these Flashy Cars from The '70s?

Codenamed "Erika", the third-generation Escort was launched in September 1980. Development work had effectively begun even before the MkII's launch in 1974 with the start of the CVH engine programme, with the final exterior styling and interior design being signed off in late 1977. The North American Escort introduced at this time was a distantly related derivative. Adding to the enigma is a painting of a woman, by one account found in an abandoned ship that floated into the waters off Nags Head, North Carolina, as this 1894 newspaper story details. When the munitions laden SS El Estero, burning at her pier, threatened the destruction of other ships and harbor installations, these captains and their courageous crews assisted in unmooring and towing the furiously burning ship into the bay where she could be safely scuttled. Convoy JW 51A was the first outbound Arctic convoy of the 1942-1943 winter season and began the sailing of smaller convoys twice-monthly to reduce the problems of controlling large groups of ships in the gloom of the polar night.