RM.

“Your goat’s made a mess on the carpet”

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I had a Ford Pubic for a short while – I think it was an old Corsair 🙂

My grandad had a mk5, ghia I think, brilliant car. Can’t find any pics of the right colour green though.

I sure miss mine…

I grew up on a farm so started driving on the the tracks and fields from about 12, always inheriting my dad’s cast-off bangers when they inevitably failed their MOT.

My dad LOVED Cortinas, so they featured a lot. He drove one as a taxi for a while which was painted like the car from Starsky and Hutch, complete with massive bendy aerial.

The first of these was a rusty white Mk III with a black vinyl roof. Like this one, but with rust holes in the floor you could fall through.

I virtually broke that one in two after a low speed impact into a dry stone wall with 5 mates in it.

Later he passed on a yellow Mk III Ghia estate – like this one:

…but with a brown vinyl roof (what was it with Vinyl in the 70s?). It was similarly afflicted with rust and looked gopping – like driving around in an over-ripe banana. But I loved it.

I almost rolled that one on the beach. Later swapped it with a mate for a Morris Minor!

We later had a Mk IV Ghia in metallic brown which was a keeper. Loved that car.

zippykona – Member

Those are very good looking Cortinas. I like!

Can easily fit Toyota 4AGE engine in them …

I was conceived in a red cortina with a brown vinyl roof.

I had one of these for 1 week:

It was knackered, so got a Triumph 2000 instead. 🙂

I’ve spent time in the other Cortina, in a slightly better car….. 😉

Zim zimmer who got the keys to me Cortina?

My old man had 1976 last run Mk3 Cortina 2000 E automatic in British racing green.

Immaculate and low mileage. Used to get lots of attention at classic car shows till someone pinched it and wrote it off.

Vinyl roof, British racing green, auto, square head lamps and all the Ford extras except rust lol.

Never saw one like it again and the joy rider made sure of that!

maxtorque – did you blend in with the locals and do the passiagiato in your felt trousers and leather waistcoat?
😉

Picture of my Mk3 2000 GXL in the link below. Had a full strip back and rebuild over the past 7 years

ElShalimo
maxtorque – did you blend in with the locals and do the passiagiato in your felt trousers and leather waistcoat?

No.

But i like to think a brought a suave and notably English air of reserved sophistication to the town, much like James Bond himself.

(other than the near fight with the hotels Valet Parking, whom i could not let drive the car, as being a prototype it could only be driven by authorised persons, even if just to park the thing!)

I’d prefer a Mk1 Lotus Cortina to that Aston. I’ll get my coat …..

They have a classic car rally every September and yes it does feature 60s & 70s Ford namesakes

Not a Cortina, but my OH has a 1965 Zephyr 4. It went pop on boxing day on the way to see my mam and is now having a 3L Essex V6 fitted 😀

I remember seeing a mk3 Cortina in Newcastle a good few years ago, it was dark metallic pink (like a rasberry sort of colour) with a white vinyl roof and slots.

Meh the Aston

Too fussy/heavy round the front.. Looks like an old Marcos GTO

Still love one though

failedengineer
I’d prefer a Mk1 Lotus Cortina to that Aston. I’ll get my coat …

Me too actually………..

Got some cash, bought some wheelsTook it out, ‘cross some fields

Learnt to drive in a mk3. It was aweful. Not as aweful as the mk1 escort I had ( I’d have another one of those though).

Wish I had a grey Cortina
Whiplash aerial, racing trim
Cortina owner – no one meaner
Wish that I could be like him 8)

Colleague at work has a Mk 3 with a Cosworth v6 24 v, with uprated cams, custom ecu and looks totally standard as a 1600 GXL in yellow with a black vinyl roof. Currently having new old stock doors, front valence and front wings fitted and a repaint. Cost him £800 just for the wings !!

How about a MK1 2 door estate, thats right a 2 door estate. Fitted with a 3.5l Rover V8. As owned by my dad and used as his wedding car

How tidies that engine bay, it looks standard

Mmmm, MkI/II Cortinas, lovely cars, especially the MkI. Proper racing heritage, too.
The III/IV were horrid things, same as Capri’s; first modification on buying the car was putting a bag of cement in the boot to try to keep the tail-happy POS from reversing into a hedge at speed.
A distant relative of mine had a Lotus Cortina, which is now owned by Lotus, after it was confiscated by the police.
Something to do with a theft involving HM mail, I believe.
Was on Top Gear a few years back, IIRC.
Bookwyse, that two-door MkI estate is just breathtakingly lovely, I truly covet that car!

Cheers Count

The Cortina is really nice but for stunning it has to be the Thames van he is currently fitting out. 1961, under 780 miles and first registered in 2014!!!!!

Along with his other Cortina and Spartan kit car

I ‘ad a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina.

I got a loan of a mates Mk2 1600E Wilment and I just felt like the dogs nob driving up railton road in that.

UAY 992H. My 1600E, Fern Green, Rostyle wheels, Lucas 20/20 spotlights & Fiamm triple tone air horns. I loved that car! Will post a photo If I can find one.

A proper car: rally car……

DezB – Member
I had one of these for 1 week:

as a kid in the mid sixties our first car was a Corsair with that colour scheme, I remember my dad nearly killing himself and my older brother knocking down a big old wooden shed so we could have a concrete garage put up for the new car

my first Cortina experience was early eighties – had a company Bedford HA van and one weekend the company accountant asked if could swop his Cortina for my van for some reason – anyway middle of saturday night I get called out – Leeds to Sheffield and I believe it was a 2.8 Ghia – my first thought was bet this can easily do a ton – yep! my next thought was as I nearly lost it on the final A61 bends

bookwyse, that’s an Isle of Wight number. You a caulkhead ?

sprocketjockey –

I virtually broke that one in two

I DID break mine in two ! And as for the estate, we had 11 in one once, getting to a party…

Flapjack,

Sorry not a caulkhead, wish I was at times though.

Wish I still had my old MK2 1600E CGT708H from my youth. Was scary fast with the 2ltr Pinto engine we put in. Just oddly didn’t like going around corners 😆

Just had a look on DVLA site and it seems it’s still alive but maybe not kicking somewhere. Not taxed since 1990, but not showing as scrapped.