New Cortina for sale with only delivery mileage

[Roadrunner23]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132227/Fo...

[anonymous-user]

Roadrunner23 said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132227/Fo...

Horrible looking cars. Please just leave it where they found it.

[kedaha]

Thanks billybob, people like you are what make PH such a pleasure to read.

[Dave Hedgehog]

billybob69 said:

Roadrunner23 said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132227/Fo...

Horrible looking cars. Please just leave it where they found it.

to me this cortina is a bland box, the equivalent of a motorway rep car of the era

it is not an iconic ford, or even and interesting one, it cant hold a candle to the early lotus cortina's

[standardman]

Much Rather drive that around than a BMW or an Audi.

Is it great car ? No not really but its something different.

[Dave Hedgehog]

standardman said:

Much Rather drive that around than a BMW or an Audi.

Is it great car ? No not really but its something different.

what's it going to sell for 10-20k? and if you used it you would kill its value

far far more interesting and usable classics out there for those who don't want a euro box

[Dave Hedgehog]

Dave Hedgehog said:

standardman said:

Much Rather drive that around than a BMW or an Audi.

Is it great car ? No not really but its something different.

what's it going to sell for 10-20k? and if you used it you would kill its value

far far more interesting and usable classics out there for those who don't want a euro box, and for less money

[lookatmypussy]

What's the crack for registering it with DVLA then? It's 30 yrs old, but never registered. Would it go on a new '12' plate?!

I reckon it would need to visit an approved MOT place and be certified roadworthy?

[mercfunder]

billybob69 said:

Roadrunner23 said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132227/Fo...

Horrible looking cars. Please just leave it where they found it.

Couldn't agree more, there are better looking Cortinas out there, why would you want this one?

[Megaflow]

lookatmypussy said:

What's the crack for registering it with DVLA then? It's 30 yrs old, but never registered. Would it go on a new '12' plate?!

I reckon it would need to visit an approved MOT place and be certified roadworthy?

I am curious by this to, surely it is a 'new' car? AFAIK there is nothing in the registration process that asks when a car was made, just when it is registered?

A MkV Cortina on a 12 plate, now that's funny...

[Erijaso]

My dad had one of those and I can remember when I drove it 25 years ago. 2 litre version, I loved it.

Then my brother turned it into a bananna by wrapping it round a lampost.

I think the mark 3 is a better looker, much smother lines.

[Mr Happy]

The only bit of that article that made me think "oh, really?!?" was the paragraph where he talks about pulling it on a trailer with his other cortina "which is actually older than this one"...

Being that the one up for sale was the last off the production line, I'd say that every single other cortina ever built is older than that one!!

[Rawwr]

Did I just hear the sound of Garlick's wallet opening?

[Hub]

Trouble is, if you buy it and drive it the unique value of being an unused example will be lost. Hence it will forever be a museum piece!

[TheTurbonator]

lookatmypussy said:

What's the crack for registering it with DVLA then? It's 30 yrs old, but never registered. Would it go on a new '12' plate?!

I reckon it would need to visit an approved MOT place and be certified roadworthy?

A car can't be registered and appear newer than what it is. If the age of the car can be verified it would be registered as the old style 'Y' reg. If the age can't be verified I would have thought it would be given a 'Q' reg. I think that's how it works anyway and how it works when cars are imported and registered here.

[pulliptears]

I like it, but thats my heart ruling my head a little. My Dad had the Mk3 when I was a kid, one of the first cars I recall (the numberplate was possibly HON 53V), it was red with a black vinyl roof and the ghia. I loved that car.
He chopped it in for the Mk4, again another red one. Whilst it didn't make the same impression on me it is still a car I remember with fondness from days out and family trips etc.

I did debate buying myself a MK3 some years ago and then Ashes to Ashes pissed on my bonfire and prices went up :/

[Mr2Mike]

Mr Happy said:

The only bit of that article that made me think "oh, really?!?" was the paragraph where he talks about pulling it on a trailer with his other cortina "which is actually older than this one"...

Being that the one up for sale was the last off the production line, I'd say that every single other cortina ever built is older than that one!!

And surely a Cortina is not rated to tow the weight of a car trailer with another Cortina on top?

I was never a fan of the Mk4 and Mk5 Cortinas, boxy blandmobiles that seem to give an image of decrepit council estates to me.

[Graebob]

I have a secret love for these. Dad had an immaculate 2.0 (possibly) one which was brown with a brown interior. We spent ages hunting around scrap yards (this was before t'internet) for the grille which had foglights built in.

[s m]

TheTurbonator said:

A car can't be registered and appear newer than what it is.

Logically there's a few cars that break that rule. Why did people leave their cars at dealers before registering them so they could get the new plate?

[james28]

billybob69 said:

Horrible looking cars. Please just leave it where they found it.

plus 1 here
horrible ugly square in the year everything had to be brown just horrid