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Title: New Cortina!
Post by: Amigo on 07 October 2012, 19:19:38
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/DSCF0181-1.jpg)
Gateshead. Just getting light.
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/DSCF0182.jpg)
Over the border.
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/DSCF0184.jpg)
Dumfermline.
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/DSCF0187.jpg)
Back over the forth.
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/DSCF0188.jpg)
Ice cream break!
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa42/dogsdinner44/DSCF0190.jpg)
Home at last!
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: bertie1.8vectra on 07 October 2012, 19:21:36
that looks a nice example of a cortina there mate....... :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: jonnycool on 07 October 2012, 19:22:09
Cool  8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: tunnie on 07 October 2012, 19:28:09
Like that, looking forward to some more pictures  :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: hercules on 07 October 2012, 19:40:11
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Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 07 October 2012, 20:07:10
That's a beauty!!  8)
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Nick W on 07 October 2012, 20:11:36
Nice.
Now it needs a 2.3 crossmember/engine mounts/rack/exhausts and a 2.9 from a Scorpio.
Which is fun in a Capri, and sneaky in a Cortina.
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: omega3000 on 07 October 2012, 20:27:43
Nice.
Now it needs a 2.3 crossmember/engine mounts/rack/exhausts and a 2.9 from a Scorpio.
Which is fun in a Capri, and sneaky in a Cortina.

Wont that just light the back wheels up  :-\ Nice car  :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Murph on 07 October 2012, 20:33:18
I'm not jealous!

No................







Not at all!     ::)
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: The Red Baron on 07 October 2012, 20:54:50
very nice indeed Guy, Daytona yellow. ooooohhhhh yesssss. :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: alfie on 07 October 2012, 20:58:06
Used to drive one just like that one,it was a company car (british steel) It wasn't until it's MOT came due it failed because the front and rear number plates were different. No one noticed that for 3 years,
                                                 Alfie.
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: paul.lovejoy on 07 October 2012, 22:15:50
yes very nice brought back some memories :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Del Boy on 07 October 2012, 22:18:29
That's very very nice  :y :y.
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Vamps on 07 October 2012, 22:45:51
Very nice Guy......Always liked the shape of the Mk3....... :y :y

I liked the Idea of dropping a V6 into it, we did this with a couple of MK2's many moons ago, leave the original diff in and a great 'sleeper'..... :D :D

What you doing with the Triumph?
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: dbug on 07 October 2012, 23:56:35
We had a Mk3 2 Lit GXL as a pool car many years ago (also in Daytona yellow).  Not a bad motor to drive but not a patch on my 3 lit Mk1 Ghia Granada (a company car)
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Turk on 08 October 2012, 08:23:41
 :y

I had one a kind of reddish orange colour.   



Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: albitz on 08 October 2012, 08:43:18
:y

I had one a kind of reddish orange colour.

That was rust Turk.most of them were that colour after a couple of years. :y :D
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: markrnorton on 08 October 2012, 15:37:29
I loved my old cortina, Mk3 2000E (so flat dash model and the square/oval headlights). Best cortina shape the Mk3's
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: r1 on 08 October 2012, 16:20:54
i had a 2 door mk3
went well in 2 heats and won the destruction derby in it.
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: markrnorton on 08 October 2012, 16:49:57
Mine went well too !, had a stage 3 head, kent cam, twin choke weber and K&N. great cars
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Steve Brookman on 08 October 2012, 16:52:31
I had a 4 year old beige 2.0GL mark 5. Turned out it was full of rust-got written off by a lorry outside the house-replaced it with a Granada 2.8Ghia auto.

Steve
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Turk on 08 October 2012, 21:03:26
:y

I had one a kind of reddish orange colour.

That was rust Turk.most of them were that colour after a couple of years. :y :D

 ;D

Tho' in all fairness to it, from what I recall, mine was pretty good.   
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Guinney1971 on 08 October 2012, 21:08:18
thats a nice Cortina, always liked the Mk3, but have a real hankering for a Mk1 as we had one as a family car in the late 70's early 80's and I have fond memories of it.

RIP EYY723C  :'(

Claire
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: albitz on 08 October 2012, 21:09:19
Fords Dagenham dream is on BBC4 at 10pm for those who havent seen it. :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Guinney1971 on 08 October 2012, 21:55:42
thats a good programme that, seen it a couple of times   :y

Claire
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: albitz on 08 October 2012, 22:05:18
Me too,but Im watching it again now.Its just started. :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: dazzerM on 08 October 2012, 22:08:18
Is it just me or the older you get the more you appreciate Cars like this  ;) :y

Or is it that you know that in 30 years there wont be many cherverlot matizs taking pride of place in someones car collection  :D
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 08 October 2012, 22:10:45
nice pictures Amigo.. But 4th is  :y :y :y :y
 
centering, light, colors,sky- clouds flowing.. very good shot.. :y :y :y :y
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: 78bex on 09 October 2012, 01:16:36
I prefered the coke bottle lines of this model to the boxy shaped car that replaced it
Title: Re: New Cortina!
Post by: Amigo on 09 October 2012, 19:23:54
thats a nice Cortina, always liked the Mk3, but have a real hankering for a Mk1 as we had one as a family car in the late 70's early 80's and I have fond memories of it.

RIP EYY723C  :'(

Claire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Ae1TlArWM My Mk1 estate i sold about 18 months ago. Somewhere in London now. I've kinda got a thing for Cortinas!!! Guy.