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£6500. 
What a bucket of s
t these were, when the R/T specs come off. I used to buy and sell them in the eighties and most were rotten at 6 years old. The ones that weren't had FORD WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT AG on the VIN plate. The panel fit on that one is laughable, but I'm not sure they were that great anyway. That must have had a lot of welding and panels by now.
I love the Chinese HiFly tyres, guaranteed to compliment the Cortina's legendary* roadholding.
£6500. You'd want your head feeling to even consider that.
What a bucket of s
t these were, when the R/T specs come off. I used to buy and sell them in the eighties and most were rotten at 6 years old. The ones that weren't had FORD WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT AG on the VIN plate. The panel fit on that one is laughable, but I'm not sure they were that great anyway. That must have had a lot of welding and panels by now.I love the Chinese HiFly tyres, guaranteed to compliment the Cortina's legendary* roadholding.
£6500. You'd want your head feeling to even consider that.
iSore said:
£6500.
What a bucket of st these were, when the R/T specs come off. I used to buy and sell them in the eighties and most were rotten at 6 years old.......
So they're pretty rare these days - Hence the asking price.What a bucket of s
t these were, when the R/T specs come off. I used to buy and sell them in the eighties and most were rotten at 6 years old....... iSore said:
The ones that weren't had FORD WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT AG on the VIN plate. The panel fit on that one is laughable, but I'm not sure they were that great anyway.
The font end of the car is all over the place! The bonnet/wing gap/alignment, and the front bumper alignment are pi$$ poor to say the least (and the more you look at it, the worse it gets!), and the passenger side front wing looks like it's either taken a smack at sometime and has been straightened out, or a poor quality pattern wing has been fitted at sometime:
1) The gap between the bonnet and the grill is larger on the drivers side than the passengers side.
2) The bumper is sitting lower on the drivers side compared to the passengers side
3) the gap between the drivers side wing and bonnet is larger than the passenger's side gap.
And, the wing on the passenger's side has a couple of alignment issues:
iSore said:
That must have had a lot of welding and panels by now.
Maybe, maybe not, it all depends on how fastidious the previous owners have been, along with a lot of other factors.iSore said:
I love the Chinese HiFly tyres, guaranteed to compliment the Cortina's legendary* roadholding.
Can't say I'd be happy with a car on those tyres, but this car is hardly going to be bought by someone looking to push it to it's limits any more, is it? (I'd still swap them out for some better tyre though!)iSore said:
£6500. You'd want your head feeling to even consider that.
Agreed! 
The market for good MK4~MK5 Cortina's seems to be @ £4K t0 £5K at the moment, and this car looks to have some question marks around it's front end, so I'd say it is over-priced by at least a couple Grand!
I do recall reading an Autocar or Motor in the late seventies where they'd taken a Cortina on as a long term test car - the bonnet fit was atrocious and they photographed the widely differing gaps side to side.
At 10 years old, most of these were well and truly knackered. However, in 1991 during a time when finances were...'tight' I bought a 1979 Mark V 1.6L, Fjord blue iirc. I put two new wings on, did the cam belt and ran it for a year. It was a good car - it sang along at 80 on the m'way and apart from a humming rear wheel bearing and an alternator that seized on the M18, it was reliable. I fitted a used half shaft with a good bearing - 30 minutes and 10 quid, and a recon alternator was about 25 quid and....30 mins to fit. So easy to work on.
The reg was KOO1V iirc, so naturally I plate raped it before firing it through the auctions. :-) I was sad to see it go. The plate is on a Skoda, so DVLA tell me.
A good solid old bus but not one I'd have now. Most Cortina pilots back then wanted something a bit better.
At 10 years old, most of these were well and truly knackered. However, in 1991 during a time when finances were...'tight' I bought a 1979 Mark V 1.6L, Fjord blue iirc. I put two new wings on, did the cam belt and ran it for a year. It was a good car - it sang along at 80 on the m'way and apart from a humming rear wheel bearing and an alternator that seized on the M18, it was reliable. I fitted a used half shaft with a good bearing - 30 minutes and 10 quid, and a recon alternator was about 25 quid and....30 mins to fit. So easy to work on.
The reg was KOO1V iirc, so naturally I plate raped it before firing it through the auctions. :-) I was sad to see it go. The plate is on a Skoda, so DVLA tell me.
A good solid old bus but not one I'd have now. Most Cortina pilots back then wanted something a bit better.
They're taking the p*** with that price. They're available for far less if you're happy to risk an auction, although a 1.6:
https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/results/re...
I owned a 1980 2 litre GL in 1988 - 1990. Completely rotted out through the sills at only 10 y.o. Jacked it up one day and the jack just kept going.
https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/results/re...
I owned a 1980 2 litre GL in 1988 - 1990. Completely rotted out through the sills at only 10 y.o. Jacked it up one day and the jack just kept going.
I suspect modern cheap tyres are at least as good, probably quite a lot better than the tyres it come with from new 40 years ago.
My old Mk1 Golf GTI came fitted with a mixture of tyres from various parts of Eastern Europe. I did a sprint on them then changed them for a set of Yokohama A539s and did another event at the same track. Improvement was tiny! Disappointing as they were 3x the price. Of course, there were other factors which could have made a difference either way but conditions were very similar. I had hoped for more.
My old Mk1 Golf GTI came fitted with a mixture of tyres from various parts of Eastern Europe. I did a sprint on them then changed them for a set of Yokohama A539s and did another event at the same track. Improvement was tiny! Disappointing as they were 3x the price. Of course, there were other factors which could have made a difference either way but conditions were very similar. I had hoped for more.
ianwayne said:
They're taking the p*** with that price. They're available for far less if you're happy to risk an auction, although a 1.6:
https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/results/re...
I owned a 1980 2 litre GL in 1988 - 1990. Completely rotted out through the sills at only 10 y.o. Jacked it up one day and the jack just kept going.
That's identical to my old one. I though the 1.6 was a nicer car - didn't have the grunt of the 2.0 but the 1600 was a much smoother and more pleasant engine.https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/results/re...
I owned a 1980 2 litre GL in 1988 - 1990. Completely rotted out through the sills at only 10 y.o. Jacked it up one day and the jack just kept going.
£1900 isn't a bad deal.
My elder brother bought a mk4 gold V reg (79/80?) manual (4 gears!!) 2.3 Ghia, same alloys (gold) topped off with a chocolatey brown coloured vinyl roof. Pretty sure it covered the pillars too.
I think it would have been late 80's when he purchased it for the grand sum of £899! Whoever previously owned it had looked after it. Had a lovely dark wood steering wheel. It had the newest model Ford radio cassette with a separate Kenwood equaliser subwoofer head unit, must of had at least 8 up and down sliding switches and a pair of twisty knobs!
Electric door mounted mirrors were standard iirc, as were keep fit windows, definitely not standard were the electrically operated front windows! The wiring looked a bit of a Frankensteinish, they worked reliably and looked OEM. I can remember the manual winders still situated but at a guess, not functional? Why they were not removed is strange?
While it may have just been an old Cortina, more often than not visits to the petrol station always involved someone pulling out a fair sized wedge of notes and offering usually double what was paid for it!
For the 12 months it spent on the driveway at home, I spent many many hours fetching, passing, holding spanners wrenches or other tools I've never used since! Learning how to set or change points/timings and all that stuff wasn't of much future use but despite freezing cold nights it was always my preferred choice rather than playing out or watching TV!
Funny how a picture can conjure up happy memories.
:-)
I think it would have been late 80's when he purchased it for the grand sum of £899! Whoever previously owned it had looked after it. Had a lovely dark wood steering wheel. It had the newest model Ford radio cassette with a separate Kenwood equaliser subwoofer head unit, must of had at least 8 up and down sliding switches and a pair of twisty knobs!
Electric door mounted mirrors were standard iirc, as were keep fit windows, definitely not standard were the electrically operated front windows! The wiring looked a bit of a Frankensteinish, they worked reliably and looked OEM. I can remember the manual winders still situated but at a guess, not functional? Why they were not removed is strange?
While it may have just been an old Cortina, more often than not visits to the petrol station always involved someone pulling out a fair sized wedge of notes and offering usually double what was paid for it!
For the 12 months it spent on the driveway at home, I spent many many hours fetching, passing, holding spanners wrenches or other tools I've never used since! Learning how to set or change points/timings and all that stuff wasn't of much future use but despite freezing cold nights it was always my preferred choice rather than playing out or watching TV!
Funny how a picture can conjure up happy memories.
:-)
I bought a 1981 1.6 ex-Abbey National fleet car. it was fine for a family runabout but the dreadful VV carb had to be replaced eventually, and after several years the area below the windscreen rusted through - from the inside!
i was wondering how to fix it but someone rear-ended me (with family) and that was the end of it. I still have the plates.
i was wondering how to fix it but someone rear-ended me (with family) and that was the end of it. I still have the plates.
W124Bob said:
At that price you can get a good Merc 190E and have the pick of the best, know where my money would go!
Here's a challenge - take your imaginary £7k and see what saloon car you can get from the early 80's for that. Here's the result of my 10 minutes on it....
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C973522
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C969434
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C962735
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C975593
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C869826
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C967969
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C976370
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C964452
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C333725
iSore said:
fking hell, a lot of yellow chalk on this thing a while back........
Rotten as a carrot.
TBF, when new it was a (comparatively) cheap family/company car that was built to a budget, with a 5~10 year life expectancy - Ford were not looking to make it a 28 year old classic car one day.king hell, a lot of yellow chalk on this thing a while back........ Rotten as a carrot.
Added to that, you can find a lot of much higher end, prestige cars from that time, that are supposedly better built cars, that are equally as rotten (BMW, Mercedes, Jaguar - Hell, even a 1980's Rolls Royce can be that rotten!)
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