Cortina Lotus 4 Door / Police Accident

[neutral 3]

I wasn’t aware that a 4 door MK11 Cortina Lotus was built, or that the Police used them.
This one is said to have hit a wall, in Berkshire, between Aylesbury and Thame, close to the Bottle and Glass pub, in Gibraltar, in March 1972. The car also hit an electricity pole, leaving locals without power for several hours.
An Inspector was @ the wheel, hospitalised but not seriously injured.

Guessing that it was no less than 2 years old, in 72.

Edited by neutral 3 on Friday 13th November 22:08

[hairy v]

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

[Legacywr]

It has a Lotus badge on the rear wing.

[Pat H]

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

[OLDBENZ]

30 secs on Google has told me there were 2 x 4 door Lotus Cortinas used by the Thames Valley Police. The four doors were based on a 1600E body. The 2 x 4 doors were sequentially registered on a G plate (so 68/69) in a batch of 6 cars which included 4 x 2doors Its reg was FBH 46[ ]G.

Edited by OLDBENZ on Friday 13th November 18:00

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Pat H said:

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

I bought a job lot of car stuff for a tenner, didn't know what was in the box. amongst a load of stuff was four Cortina Lotus handbooks still sealed up in the original polythene. Went for £150 each.

[Pat H]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Pat H said:

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

I bought a job lot of car stuff for a tenner, didn't know what was in the box. amongst a load of stuff was four Cortina Lotus handbooks still sealed up in the original polythene. Went for £150 each.

Now that’s a result!

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Pat H said:

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Pat H said:

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

I bought a job lot of car stuff for a tenner, didn't know what was in the box. amongst a load of stuff was four Cortina Lotus handbooks still sealed up in the original polythene. Went for £150 each.

Now that’s a result!

...along with Jensen Healey handbooks & warranty cards!

[Escort3500]

Pat H said:

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

It’s a Ford Cortina Lotus surely?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Escort3500 said:

Pat H said:

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

It’s a Ford Cortina Lotus surely?

Ford always called it Cortina Lotus (for Mk2)

[StuntmanMike]

When I was a sprog I was in the passenger seat of a 1600E that had gone off the road and across a concrete drive spanning the ditch.

I still remember the front passenger wheel coming through the floor then the carpet flopping back.

Then the windscreen fell out.

No one was hurt but the car was destroyed.

Edited by StuntmanMike on Friday 13th November 18:40

[StuntmanMike]

Sorry, the point of the story is the car looked like that afterwards.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

StuntmanMike said:

When I was a sprig

Were you branching out?

[StuntmanMike]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

StuntmanMike said:

When I was a sprig

Were you branching out?

[Escort3500]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Escort3500 said:

Pat H said:

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

It’s a Ford Cortina Lotus surely?

Ford always called it Cortina Lotus (for Mk2)

I stand corrected I blame the motoring press

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

What do they know?

[Escort3500]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

What do they know?

Less than us

[aeropilot]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Escort3500 said:

Pat H said:

hairy v said:

So how do you know its a Lotus Cortina?

It’s not.

It’s a Cortina Lotus.

/pedant

It’s a Ford Cortina Lotus surely?

Ford always called it Cortina Lotus (for Mk2)

Actually they didn't always call it that, as after '68 Ford referred to it as the Cortina Twin Cam

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

aeropilot said:

Actually they didn't always call it that, as after '68 Ford referred to it as the Cortina Twin Cam

I've never seen that in their official literature. Pretty sure the handbooks I sold were later than '68.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

1970 brochure



Anyhoo, the argument was it was Cortina Lotus not Lotus Cortina.

How sad are we?