Heres One To Make Your Toes Curl.

[Bluesman]

http://imageshack.us/a/img24/926/cgarages13arse.jpg

[Cotswold Pete]

I think the colour makes me sick well before the toes curl.

I am not so sure about the bodged look with the exposed rivets, but then maybe this is Redneck engineering at it's best!!!

[Bluesbreaker]

Blimey! Is that colour real? I had a Mark 1V Cortina that colour,back in the Seventies........Mmm....maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that.....( having the Cortina,that is)

[IHgs300]

Blimey! Is that colour real? I had a Mark 1V Cortina that colour,back in the Seventies........Mmm....maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that.....( having the Cortina,that is)

That's as bad as admitting i had an austin allegro....oops.

[Malc]

My Mk1 cortina ( in the '60s ) was very conservative .... my Mk1V, in 1981 was a wolf in sheep's clothing ....... a 2.3 Ghia ........ nearly as quick as the LS400 but oh so much thirstier though !!!!

Malc

[steve2006]

Mark 3 Cortina 2.0 GLX more or less the same colour, wish I still had it in the same condition!

[mikeyv]

Nowt wrong with Cortinas...............Allegros however

[Cotswold Pete]

All this talk about Cortinas, I remember once having a brand new 2.0 GLX Mk3 hire car, all was going well until a dog ran out in the road - I was doing about 20mph. Slammed on the brakes and the metal trim under front bumper hit the road with a vengeance, thought I'd dug a trench with emergency stop, but merely removed all the paint.

That was when I realised that they absorbed bumps well because they had been built on the 'Detroit Dustbin' principle of soft ride naff handling, and horrible seat covers.

So went back to the good old solid Vauxhall Cavalier - those were the days, 72000 miles a year, wish Lexus had been around in early 80's

[Bluesbreaker]

Sorry Bluesman:-it wasn't my intention to cause havoc on your original thread topic,by mentioning the dreaded Dagenham Dustbin, please accept my humble apologies for polluting the LOC Forum , with 'Ford talk'...

[Bluesman]

Sorry Bluesman:-it wasn't my intention to cause havoc on your original thread topic,by mentioning the dreaded Dagenham Dustbin, please accept my humble apologies for polluting the LOC Forum , with 'Ford talk'...

No worries, I love to see a thread take on a life of its own. Mike

[cleverdick]

Actually, I'm still trying to identify this vehicle. Can anyone enlighten me?

I don't think it does any harm to discuss our cars of yester-year; it helps to remind us how far we've progressed (although I don't believe that the motoring experience as a whole is any more fun now than it was then).

The Cortina MkIII colour would have been Daytona Yellow, the MkIV being Signal Yellow. The former was more commonly seen on the GT than the top-of-the-range GXL.

For the record, I had the MkIII 2000E (two of them in fact), plus a MkIV 2.0 Ghia. If ever there was a Friday afternoon job, the MkIV was it!

Of course, versions for other markets were better specified in terms of engine capacity and options like air-conditioning, although the Australian ones were a bit crude. The South African Cortinas were probably the best, especially in Perana form!

[bigegg]

could be a calibra?

[ambermarine]

To be taken in context the cars that we remember with so much nostalgia were in fact competing with each other on how long they lasted before they rotted away.I had company cars for 22 years and because the first company I worked for owned several ford franchises in the south they supplied our cars to the other non motor related operations in the Group.This meant whatever colour you asked for you got a white one because that was the least popular colour with joe public and the franchise had to take a set number of different colours including white.So we were palmed off with the white mark 1 ford escort. To be fair it was a super little four door 1.3 and after 3 years looked like new they asked for it back and gave me the dreaded 1.1 white ford popular which would not run when it was raining because so much road spray got into the unprotected cavenous engine bay.It once took me 8 hours to get to Bristol from Manchester to attend a head office course and I used 2 cans of WD40 in frequent motorway stops to get the engine running again.I eventually abandoned it on the east Lancs road after an artic nearly wiped me out from behind when the engine died, again because of spray ingress.Head office gave me another one which was just as bad.I do beieve the chances of an accident in a white car are dimminished because they stand out against most backgrounds so I suppose I might still be here because they gave us those white cars.