Classic Example...

[Kai]

...of British Motoring History.

I think this is absolutely gorgeous:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170198403228&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:GB:1123

Rare enough to be a 2-door, but even rarer to find one in almost showroom condition despite it being a daily driven car...

If only supra's were as well looked after

 

[johnathan1]

It's a FORD. How could it be British? LOL j/k

Strange that there aren't really any pics of the dash at all...

 

[Kai]

Because it's a British model, designed and built in Halewood, Essex and for 10 years won 'Britains best car' for Ford...over the span of 20 years, a million of them were sold, to the UK, mainland Ewwwrope & New Zealand....

It's an iconic example of motoring in the UK. Back in 1980 for example, almost every middle class, middle income family, had a Cortina or an Escort. Just like now those same group of people own a Ford Focus or Mondeo...

 

[Sawbladz]

Too bad it's about the blandest car in existence. Very surprising to see a car of little worth is such pristine condition.

Is there much salt put on the roads in the UK?

 

[Kai]

Yep - they're salted AND gritted. Sometimes sand too, depends on the weather.

Granted the Mk5 wasn't particularly good looking at the time but its very clean looking and inoffensive to look at. However, the real bad boy of the Cortina lineup was the Mk3....phwooooar!

 

[IJ.]

We shoehorned a 4.1L I-6 into those

 

[Kai]

Yeah i read up on that...3.3 and the 4.1's....those would have been far, FAR sweeter than the Cologne V6 they shoehorned into them. The essex V6 was alright as it had bags of torque and looked the part. The Cologne was a bit too....industrial for my tastes, even in L-Jet EFi form...

 

[Finnon]

Too bad it's about the blandest car in existence. Very surprising to see a car of little worth is such pristine condition.

Is there much salt put on the roads in the UK?

They put extreme amounts of salt down. my supras rear arches are totally fucked through the salt. all rotted :nono:

still i supose it is needed. i remember a young woman was killed on a dual carriageway close to my house about 5 years back now. the local authority didnt send gritters out to lay salt down one winters night. black ice formed. and she span her car and hit a lamp post.

there was untold hell on about that accident

 

[Finnon]

kai, what was the cortina in life on mars?

and incidentally are you on that life on mars forum? lol

 

[Kai]

Not on the forum, no.....but i can tell you that it was a bastardised version - It was a 2000E with some GXL goodies thrown in. So it was the 2.0 8v SOHC Pinto unit, breathing through a Weber Carb...

 

[Poodles]

I still see rust on that car...

Does that sticker on the back mean it's a disabled person? Probably wasn't driven in horrible conditions...

 

[Kai]

The sticker on the back does indeed indicate its being driven by a disabled person. Hence why its also an automatic.

I can't see any rust, unless you're talking about the patches on the spare wheel...?

 

[gtsfirefighter]

I like it. I like the straight lines. Fords comparison to that over here probably would've been the Escort or Fairmont.

 

[DonS1mpson]

No cozzy, no care

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1994-FORD-ESC...oryZ9844QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

:naughty:

 

[Kai]

Predictable response....i mean come on, your generation grew up with scooby's and mitsubishi's and escort cosworths....mine grew up with XR3i's, RS Turbo's, Cortina GXL's, Vauxhall GSi's etc...

Have more of a range man...

 

[DonS1mpson]

I'm just messing with you. I can respect the cleanness, but there is only one real cortina to me -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1965-FORD-LOT...ryZ29755QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

That's followed closely by the the Capri -http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1987-Ford-Capri-Tickford-Turbo_W0QQitemZ120187741048QQihZ002QQcategoryZ9844QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

And RS Sierra Cosworth http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-SIERRA-R...oryZ9844QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I also wouldn't mind a droop snoot Chevette

Why don't we make cars like these anymore? :cry:

 

[Kai]

That Chevette was okay but the saloon model looked a bit paper thin...

The old Mk3/4 Escort 3-door estate was a good one to transplant the RS-Turbo drivetrain into as well...

 

[Finnon]

haha ive never seen a chevette in years.

aye the lom cortina was cool. they put a glx grille on it didnt they? for the twin headlamps iirc. anyway it was a cool car.

so is the quattro in ashes to ashes though

fuck that is one old cortina like. but that sierra cossy is cool. Im a massive sierra fan. i got a 2 litre 4x4 saphire ghia in my back yard. but it is fooked with rust lol.

kai the main cars i remember growing up were apart from sierras

austin princess
datsun bluebird
opel manta
triumph herald iirc
lol austin montego
austin allegro
audi quattro (cant remember if it was same as the ashes to ashes one though)
austin healey sprite
all the older escorts ie mk1 and 2
late model capris
rover sd1
reliant schimitar (sp)

we only owned the princess (x2) and the bluebird when i was growing up. the others were either cars i remember from walking to school or that family owned

 

[Finnon]

renault 5 gt turbo and 205 gti were the cars i wanted when i was a bairn

 

[Kai]

The R5 never interested me...i was a solid Ford fan and at the same time a big Dubster....remember that Golf GTI i got?