First time in a classic

First time in a classic

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Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Saturday 29th August 2015
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Back in 1976 I passed my driving test and bought a 1967 MkII Cortina 1500. Lagoon blue with 20,000 miles recorded on the clock (so 120K or 220K in reality).

Vinyl seats and rubber mats on the floor BUT a 1600E wooden dash, so I had to buy it!cool

2 cross-ply tyres and 2 radials so handling was exciting / frightening depending on how close obstacles were! You could almost watch it rust (inner wings had been plated already) and a nice water feature in the nearside rear footwell when it rained (cured by taking out the rubber bung in the floor).laugh

It was a total POS and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, although now it would probably be thought of as a classic! rofl

But still a piece of cr*p to me!

TwigtheWonderkid

43,248 posts

149 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Mr Tidy said:
Back in 1976 I passed my driving test and bought a 1967 MkII Cortina 1500.
Did they do the MkII Cortina in a 1500?

Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Yes for the first year or so, after that they became a 1600 with the Kent X-flow engine which was a million times better but that was way out of budget at the time!

thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Sunday 30th August 2015
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Tango13 said:
I had to move a Morris Minor around a car park the other day. it was so old it had traficators and get this...

A knob you had to pull too start the engine! (Stop sniggering at the back!!)

The seat was fixed so at 6'2" I struggled to get in and out of it, the brakes were marginal even moving it about a small car park and the rim of the steering wheel was only just thicker than a paperclip.

It was, in a single word...

ste
Sounds familiar. My first car was a 1957 Morris Minor 1000. I was born in 1974, so it was quite a bit older than I was. I wish I still had it.