Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Where have the years gone! - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2132227/Ford-Cortina-market-30-years-rolled-production-line.html

A proper cortina :-

the CROWN PRINCE of bahrain as just spoken what a nice person .
i hope that this now shuts up the BBC . it is the bbc that should be shut down

I use to drive a 1600 E automatic

Whats that piece of junk? :-))

A cortina

A what ? 0 - 60 in half hour. lol only joking

http://youtu.be/NyAZENFGKaM



Nothing like the Capri 2.8 injection, listen to that roar.



http://youtu.be/XTarbjPwA0A

i swap it for my passat only 7 months old

The capri or cortina ?

Fred
I have had a blow out at approx 100mph and there was no problem. The car behaved perfectly and I just slowed down to an orderly stop. It depends on what you are driving.

To many youngsters speeding on the roads around here. All their parents have in memory is a bunch of flowers at the road side. There must be half a dozen atleast
around here. One very sad with a football shirt and the parents have to live with this.

Absolutely right Dreamcatcher.
Everyone should imagine the situation before turning on the car.

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Ahoj, As they say you never know whats ahead. 30yrs ago I lost a friend on a motor bike . Came around a corner and a 10 ton tractor was coming out of a field.
I suppose the speeding driver thinks nothing will happen to them, Then something out of the blue happends. I feel very strong on this, as we lost a cousins 2 daughters 3yrs and
8yrs old through a speeding driver 15 yrs ago. Overtaking and hit head on.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Lol. nice sound.

I owned 2 1600E's - both manual, one was one of only 12 specified with the lotus twin cam (1558) engine.

Nice cars skinny.Bet that seems like yesterday the way time goes. :-))

The were excellent cars in their day, but to be honest, the twin cam was superb when it was running well - otherwise a bit of a pig with a mega penchant for oil.

I preferred the 1601cc BDA twin cam engine as seen in the MK1 RS1600 escort - which I used to rally and sounded superb.

Was that Escort Early 70's ?

The engine does look dated, done the job though. You could do your own repairs then.
Would not know where to start on a modern car. lol