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How many actual 'works' Cowley/Computervision cars were there?

I reckon on these:

A pair of 'B' registered cars used mid-1985 for the launch of the car and a couple of national events before homologation- B196XUD, B197XUD.
Four cars registered in the 'C8xxEUD' series:- the 1985 RAC pair for Pond (C869EUD) and Wilson (C867EUD), and two debuted on the '86 Monte- C868EUD (Pond) and C870EUD (Wilson)

One car- C818FFC- debuted in Portugal for Pond

Five cars with 'C9xKOG' registrations- 2 debuted in Portugal with Pond (C95KOG) and Wilson (C96KOG), one (C97KOG) debuted on the Scottish for Wilson, and the remaining two in San Remo- C98KOG for Pond and C99KOG for Wilson

Any more?

The works team made its international debut on the '85 RAC, and then did a partial World Championship season in '86- missing the 'fly-away' events outside Europe, (Safari, New Zealand, Argentina, Ivory Coast and Olympus), plus the Acropolis, but taking in a couple of European events outside the WRC- Hunsruck and the Scottish.

Apart from the obviously more specialist events (Safari and Ivory Coast), was the original intention always to skip the 'fly-aways', or was the programme cut back in light of the reliability problems experiences on other events plus the axeing of Group B- I've got a vague memory that the Acropolis entries were cancelled because of the reliability troubles, in favour of a test outing on the Scottish for Wilson?

I'll have a dig through my photos- mostly rallycross from 1989 onwards, but should have a few rally pics as well- Nothing from the RAC or other internationals though