Ah, the Cortina. Not too many of them running around restored!
Yeah, it’s German/UK ford. Tho it was released in a slightly naffer iteration as the Mercury Capri in the States (as was the sierra XR4i)
Bonus awesome Ford Capris.
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I’d love a MKII 'Tina. Had a Gold MKI Granada, proper Sweeney-style back in the 90s. We used to drive it around going ‘Ba da da dah, bah da dada, ba-dah bada ba-daaaa!’ at the top of our voices everywhere. Lovely thing.
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They started off with Triumphs, but apparently BL were somewhat unreliable at providing cars that were the same colour (or occasionally, you know, the same type of car), so they switched to Ford, who clearly knew more about product placement than BL (to add to the litany of things BL knew sweet FA about when it came to getting people to buy things they made. Like making them function correctly and not fall apart, f’rinstance). My Xmas present to myself is a slush-fund account to buy a Capri. It’s what Bodie would have wanted.
It is, what Bodie would have wanted. And you’ve seen what happens to people who did not do what Bodie would have wanted.
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Chivalry such as this should not go unremembered. I shall buy a pointless, impractical old motor-vehicle as a fitting tribute.
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Working-Class Fast. I love 70s Fords very, very much.
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15 years ago or so I had the chance to buy a Lotus Cortina, with the steering wheel at the right side (which for me on the continent is the left side, of course), white with the green stripes and in very good condition at a very reasonable price - but not the cash. This still haunts me from time to time. Ah well, water under the bridge, etc.
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Working-Class Fast.[/quote]
I really like that as a slogan.
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Good name for a specialist tuning shop, innit?
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Yup. There is a particularly 70s-brown Escort Mexico from this one time that still makes me sad. Half-cage, 2.0 OHC, gas shocks, rally-spec brakes… (sniff. aaaah, Rosebud…)
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Remarkable.
Yep. They … er … lost their way in the 80s. Drove decently, but looked like Mr. Bubble the Design Trubblemaker got a job at Dagenham.
I dunno, I kinda like the Sierra. Especially the estate version. A nice sierra estate with Cosworth bits? Awww yeah.
That’s exactly it - anything with Cosworth bits is pretty cool. The Sierra benefitted a lot from their addition.
Remember the 1st Mondeo?
I used to work in a club up here of some reknown (Newcastle Riverside), and the taxi firm used for staff rides home (back when places gave a fuck about their staff getting home safely at stupid-oclock in the morning) boasted a cossie-tuned mondeo. You got home in a hurry.
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Gotta 3rd or 4th the recommendation for heated grips. My r12C had them, and they made a world of difference. I’ve spent a dozen years wearing a First Gear Kilimanjaro http://www.firstgear-usa.com/kilimanjaro.html It has a liner for when it gets cold. I also put jogging pants on under my jeans. I’m too large for most motorcycle pants, or I’d add those, instead. That and Held “Steve” gloves are mostly what I ride in. Oh! another thing. When it gets cold, I add a neoprene / fleece mask under my helmet. It looks like this one on eBay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cold-Weather-Face-Mask-Neck-Warmers-Neoprene-Thermal-Fleece-/330826527912 Hope both those links go through ok, and HTH, Beth
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Did Cosworth tie themselves exclusively to Ford?
A bit, yeah. Ford bankrolled them massively.
