Did anyone own a Cortina?

[otk]

My first car was a '63 Mk.1 two door, with a Mk.2 1600GT lump in it and it went like the proverbial shit off a shovel

Cruising round town on Friday and Saturday night collecting 'producers' from the law and having burn ups with like minded boy racers

Now if I can find a shell to shoehorn a 302c.i. into, I might have to start my third childhood

 

[steward 433]

Yep a wedgewood blue mk4 2.0ghia

Shit car only paid £50 for it but it had a years mot so was cheap when i was 17.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

No, but I did have a Capri

 

[Bakesy]

First car was a 1970 Cortina Mk 2 1300....

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

First car was a 1970 Cortina Mk 2 1300....

but then again mate....you ARE a lot older than most of us

 

[Fazz62]

Never owned a Cortina.

My first car was one of these (you could drive them on a motorcycle licence).

Note this model is equiped with "spots" for late-night "off-road" rally stages!!

 

[Bakesy]

but then again mate....you ARE a lot older than most of us

T

 

[Rowdey]

A much loved Mk3 1600 L on a K plate, think it had the 4 headlights.
Was an auto but the box had gone, luckily a Capri GXL or sport crashed on the telscombe tye, so went up one night and had the g'box, prop and pedal box out of it - nice little short lever jobbie too thank you very much.

Also had a Mk5 2.0 GL Auto in beige. Crashed it coming coming out of a secondary road into a primary without looking, and a BT van T-boned me.. sure if i'd been in a less robust motor, think i'd have been a gonna..

 

[Rowdey]

Double post..

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

I had a Mk3 for a while (foot wells used to fill up with water when it rained)
Dad had an origional Mk1 (Mercedes tail lights !!)

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

T

is that all you got?
T?

 

[Taybha]

Had the 1600E wich was a beaut and much loved ,til i discovered the toyota celica 2000GT and stupidly sold it for a pittance really,as they say you dont know what you have till its gone.

 

[Uncle C]

I had a Capri Sport that I crashed on the Telscombe Tye.

While I was in hospital some bastard robbed the engine and gearbox out of it.

 

[Barrow Boy]

1975 Mk3 1300L (company car), most underpowered car I've ever driven.

 

[Taybha]

in red

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Oh yes. I owned a gorgeous Mk3

.

 

[Garage_Doors]

1971 Mk1 Escort was my first. 1300GL


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[Box of Frogs]

My first car was a 1973 MkIII 2000GXL in metallic brown with a black vinyl roof (just like the one in Life on Mars) with gold wheels, silver edge trims and red brake drums! Then I got an 'S' reg MkIV 1600GL Auto followed by an 'X' reg 1600 Ghia Auto. The MkIII was the best of the lot but some plank driving the wrong way up a one way street wrote it off.

 

[Superphil]

Hand painted black 1600E with grey fluffy seat covers and a 1300 rear axel, went like shit off a shovel.

 

[Rowdey]

I had a Capri Sport that I crashed on the Telscombe Tye.

While I was in hospital some bastard robbed the engine and gearbox out of it.

You were a shit driver then, because it was beached and stacked on a large lump earth...
Driver must have been escaping from the old bill..