http://www.influx.co.uk/wordpress/blog/ford-cortina/ Cars, Bikes, People, Culture Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.influx.co.uk/wordpress/blog/ford-cortina/comment-page-1/#comment-2184 Anonymous Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:48:00 +0000 http://www.influx.co.uk/wordpress/?p=552#comment-2184 One of the best Fords ever made. I had a 1965 Cortina GT. Goodwood Green, 51/2Js factory fitted. Changed the gearbox to the Corsair 2000e at about 15,000 miles. I was 19 when I bought this car and was living in Stanmore but working in Liverpool so I did about 750 miles a week in it for about a year. When I sold it,it had done 129,000 trouble free miles and believe me this car was thrashed and crashed, twice. Only thing I replaced in the 3 years apart from exhausts, tyres and brakes was the dynamo, that was rescimmed. One of my favorite memories, was racing to work, from Southport to Aintree, with a bloke who worked at the same place and had a Sunbeam Rapier, I never lost out to this bloke but arrived at work in a bit of a state and would need a couple of Fags in order to be able to start. One of the best Fords ever made.
I had a 1965 Cortina GT. Goodwood Green, 51/2Js factory fitted. Changed the gearbox to the Corsair 2000e at about 15,000 miles.
I was 19 when I bought this car and was living in Stanmore but working in Liverpool so I did about 750 miles a week in it for about a year. When I sold it,it had done 129,000 trouble free miles and believe me this car was thrashed and crashed, twice. Only thing I replaced in the 3 years apart from exhausts, tyres and brakes was the dynamo, that was rescimmed.
One of my favorite memories, was racing to work, from Southport to Aintree, with a bloke who worked at the same place and had a Sunbeam Rapier, I never lost out to this bloke but arrived at work in a bit of a state and would need a couple of Fags in order to be able to start.

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