Mk2 Cortina Savage
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quiraing said:
Anyone have info / pics of their Mk3 or Mk4 Savage saloon or (even better?!) estate? Don't think any Mk5 Savages were built but would like to be proved wrong..
1 Mk5 savage was built, an estate with leather int, i have a copy of a letter from Jeff Uren himself stating it 
Mk3
Fascinating. Thanks for posting.
I hadn't seen those reviews before.
My car was actually nice and quiet with the exhaust system I used...just a nice deep note, but no intrusion inside the car.
It was built to carry lots of heavy stuff in the boot but still perform well and reliably, which it did.
Also amusing surprising Beemers of the day etc at the traffic lights when I wasn't laden down with samples.
The handling was excellent, which I was particularly proud of as I'd set up the suspension myself.
A close friend had a Ferrari 308 GTB at the time and he was amazed at how hard it was to shake me off on the twisties. lol
I hadn't seen those reviews before.
My car was actually nice and quiet with the exhaust system I used...just a nice deep note, but no intrusion inside the car.
It was built to carry lots of heavy stuff in the boot but still perform well and reliably, which it did.
Also amusing surprising Beemers of the day etc at the traffic lights when I wasn't laden down with samples.
The handling was excellent, which I was particularly proud of as I'd set up the suspension myself.
A close friend had a Ferrari 308 GTB at the time and he was amazed at how hard it was to shake me off on the twisties. lol
I had numerous MK3s, plus MK4s and 5s (company and my own) of all models. One of the their best features I always thought, was their extremely comfy seats...great for long rides up and down the motorway which I frequently did.
Funny you should mention Tranny's, because that's another vehicle I put a 3 litre (Granada) engine into, using the matching manual box.
Just needed to shorten and re-balance the propshaft and put the gearbox transmission tunnel hole a bit further back. Easy job and then towed a big trailer no probs.
Funny you should mention Tranny's, because that's another vehicle I put a 3 litre (Granada) engine into, using the matching manual box.
Just needed to shorten and re-balance the propshaft and put the gearbox transmission tunnel hole a bit further back. Easy job and then towed a big trailer no probs.
The Richard Gramt Air Dam would slow that thing down, until it got onto the M4, at about a ton. The the laws of physics would have removed it, before being run over and miraculously turned into shredded wheat.
Believe me, that would have deffo been on the cards.
And now, how about this for the wrist for the trendiest of owners au savauge.
99p.
Thats right.
For ninety nine new pence this fine timepiece will be rushed to you, all the way from Kowloon.
No really.
It will.
>chortle<
Believe me, that would have deffo been on the cards.
And now, how about this for the wrist for the trendiest of owners au savauge.
99p.
Thats right.
For ninety nine new pence this fine timepiece will be rushed to you, all the way from Kowloon.
No really.
It will.
>chortle<
That watch has made my day. 
Won't there be another Uren built Ford along in a minute that's better and cheaper? There is a recession on and the economy isn't going to pick up anytime soon.
Did the Ford heads hear Saturday Live on Radio 4 on Saturday? It featured a retired police officer reunited with his former police car, a four door Lotus Cortina?
Won't there be another Uren built Ford along in a minute that's better and cheaper? There is a recession on and the economy isn't going to pick up anytime soon.
Did the Ford heads hear Saturday Live on Radio 4 on Saturday? It featured a retired police officer reunited with his former police car, a four door Lotus Cortina?
carinaman said:
That watch has made my day.
Won't there be another Uren built Ford along in a minute that's better and cheaper? There is a recession on and the economy isn't going to pick up anytime soon.
Did the Ford heads hear Saturday Live on Radio 4 on Saturday? It featured a retired police officer reunited with his former police car, a four door Lotus Cortina?
Somone missed out years ago, the 2.5 mondeo was screaming out for the 3.0 jag engine, what Won't there be another Uren built Ford along in a minute that's better and cheaper? There is a recession on and the economy isn't going to pick up anytime soon.
Did the Ford heads hear Saturday Live on Radio 4 on Saturday? It featured a retired police officer reunited with his former police car, a four door Lotus Cortina?
a 3.0 V6 in a family ford, never 
I have great memories of a guy I worked with at my first job (British Car Auctions) in 1981 who had a Black manual gearbox Savage, (reg No. MRB 3J)
I remember helping him replace at least 3 snapped half shafts on it. There was also a Gold/beige automatic owned by another local guy at the time too. Ballistic. :-)
I remember helping him replace at least 3 snapped half shafts on it. There was also a Gold/beige automatic owned by another local guy at the time too. Ballistic. :-)
Edited by Mike Tuckwood on Saturday 17th November 00:41
Brings back happy memories of my miss-spent youth driving several Mk2 Cortinas - mainly 1300 Deluxe, but also a pre-x/flow D plate and the one I owned the longest, a 2 door 1300 Deluxe that had been converted to 1600 but with a crappy low compression engine for some reason. Bought a 711M block and had it re-bored +90 thou and an Emerald P3 cam fitted. Had to fit uprated valve gear as it broke the bloody lot on the rollers having it tuned!
Only pic I have of it online:
That would've been about 1994/5 after I'd ripped a front wing off it hitting a fence post in a car park after skidding on wet leaves!
It came to me with a mix of Mk3/4 Cortina wheels for that 'arse in the air' look that was popular in the 80s and after some buckled Rostyles I fitted these Capri Laser wheels which I seem to remember were a real ball-ache to get wheel nuts for as they had a different shape fitting to the older cars.
Exhaust was a one box Janspeed back box from a friend's Orion 1.6i Ghia which he'd written off - turned it upside down and made a mount for it and it fitted pretty much perfectly! Had a small cherry bomb silencer in there at one stage but it kept getting ripped off on speed bumps around Birmingham where I was living at the time so in the end I took it off and sleeved it. Used to have my ears ringing on the motorway flat out!
Reason for posting this in here is when I sold the car in about 2000 it went to live in Cornwall and the last I heard of it it'd been converted to V6 power and repainted white. Where are you now, VWD116H?
My dad bought a resto project 1600E which sadly never got finished - came with an electric sunroof and front windows fitted, laminated windscreen with top tint, lattice spoke wheels that actually looked OK on it, a strange mix of early bodyshell (umbrella handbrake fittings) but late trim and serious underbody rot to its Ermine White with black vinyl roof paint. My dad sold it without telling me, just as I was coming out the other side of being too skint to consider taking it on - would love to have finished the modern car feel it had with a 16v motor, rack conversion and a 5 link rear end
Loving the Savage - fantastic period bit of kit and would've cost an arm and a leg to restore back in the day - can well remember being quoted about £700 each for a wing, inner or outer, back in the 90s!
Adrian
Only pic I have of it online:
That would've been about 1994/5 after I'd ripped a front wing off it hitting a fence post in a car park after skidding on wet leaves!
It came to me with a mix of Mk3/4 Cortina wheels for that 'arse in the air' look that was popular in the 80s and after some buckled Rostyles I fitted these Capri Laser wheels which I seem to remember were a real ball-ache to get wheel nuts for as they had a different shape fitting to the older cars.
Exhaust was a one box Janspeed back box from a friend's Orion 1.6i Ghia which he'd written off - turned it upside down and made a mount for it and it fitted pretty much perfectly! Had a small cherry bomb silencer in there at one stage but it kept getting ripped off on speed bumps around Birmingham where I was living at the time so in the end I took it off and sleeved it. Used to have my ears ringing on the motorway flat out!
Reason for posting this in here is when I sold the car in about 2000 it went to live in Cornwall and the last I heard of it it'd been converted to V6 power and repainted white. Where are you now, VWD116H?
My dad bought a resto project 1600E which sadly never got finished - came with an electric sunroof and front windows fitted, laminated windscreen with top tint, lattice spoke wheels that actually looked OK on it, a strange mix of early bodyshell (umbrella handbrake fittings) but late trim and serious underbody rot to its Ermine White with black vinyl roof paint. My dad sold it without telling me, just as I was coming out the other side of being too skint to consider taking it on - would love to have finished the modern car feel it had with a 16v motor, rack conversion and a 5 link rear end
Loving the Savage - fantastic period bit of kit and would've cost an arm and a leg to restore back in the day - can well remember being quoted about £700 each for a wing, inner or outer, back in the 90s!
Adrian
mywifeshusband said:
Just spotted this with POA!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970-Ford-Cortina-Mk2-Sa...
That had been showing as sold!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970-Ford-Cortina-Mk2-Sa...
Somebody ring up and get the price!?
My guess is 20k+
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