What make of car is this pls?

[Heat14]

Hi all,

I hope someone will be able to identify the make of the car in my drawing. The registration number from memory was made up, so I can’t search for it on DVLA website.



TIA

Regards,

Nicola

[BrettMRC]

Ford...Cortina or Granada maybe?

[Scrump]

Ford Cortina mkV
Aftermarket grill with spotlights. RGA used to make stuff like that.

[J4CKO]

Scrump said:

Ford Cortina mkV

Yeah, think the front is a bit wide so looks more like a Granada, and the additional lights in the grille look a bit MK3 Escort.

[bristolracer]

Roofline,wheels and mirrors say Cortina MK5, the perspective is slightly wrong on the front.

Great drawing btw

[cerb4.5lee]

J4CKO said:

Scrump said:

Ford Cortina mkV

Yeah, think the front is a bit wide so looks more like a Granada, and the additional lights in the grille look a bit MK3 Escort.

At first glance I thought it was a MK3 Escort, until I saw the wheels and the boot.

[Heat14]

Thank you so much for your replies. Did the Cortina MK5 come in a weird paint colour that was kind of silver with a hint of pale green in it?

[Scrump]

This colour?

[anonymous-user]

Probably. Late 70's cars came in many dodgy colours, most looked like metallic bodily secretions.

[motco]

Granada of the same period

[Scrump]

Granada has a rear quarter light, the boot line remains level with the window line, front bumper over riders are spaced widely and more usually came with front headrests. I am not 100% on this but think that design of steel wheels did not come on that shape of Granada.

The drawing may not be accurate and we will never know whether it is a cortina or a Granada but it says Cortina to me because of the lack of rear quarter light, the ‘shape’ to the line of the boot, the wheels and the front overriders being close to the number plate.

[Glosphil]

OpulentBob said:

Probably. Late 70's cars came in many dodgy colours, most looked like metallic bodily secretions.

Just compare that range of colours with what manufactures offer now. Now lucky if 3 colours are not black, white or some shade of silver/grey.

[Dapster]

Glosphil said:

Just compare that range of colours with what manufactures offer now. Now lucky if 3 colours are not black, white or some shade of silver/grey.

1983




201x

[anonymous-user]

German and grey/white/black = "Neighbours will be impressed" = 1.5 x premium on lease payments.

[/stir]

[generationx]

Definitely Cortina 5 - see the swage lines around the wheel arches.

[nicanary]

Plus there'll be a standard basic colour. and any other option will cost more. Last time I bought new there was £500 to pay if you didn't want black.

[bristolracer]

Curiously my wifes new Toyota had the one non cost paint option of red. White was a cost option.

[aeropilot]

Scrump said:

This colour?

Crystal Green IIRC.

[Bomma R1]

Very strange coincidence here to do with the reg number on the drawing; a girl I knew back in the 1980's, her father had a new Granada at the time which I'm sure was MRP120V.

I've checked and MRP120V was indeed a silver Granada. The reg number on the drawing, MRP122V, was a silver Cortina which I'm pretty sure would have been a Mk5.

Anyhow, It's a lovely drawing by Heat14. Nice work

[aeropilot]

Dapster said:

Glosphil said:

Just compare that range of colours with what manufactures offer now. Now lucky if 3 colours are not black, white or some shade of silver/grey.

1983




201x

That just sums up nicely the depressing monochrome world we live in today.....grim isn't it