YouTube Cortina video

[Nick177]

This video ‘Everyone’s dad has owned a Ford Cortina’ on YouTube is, Clarkson May and Hammond at their best.
I learnt to drive in my dad’s Ford Cortina Mk2 Estate, and years later I owned a Daytona Yellow Ford Cortina Mk3 1600 GXL.
https://youtu.be/tifJ3BriD6w

 

[Mr Tidy]

Thanks for that great clip.

Even if it does make me realise I'm getting old. :roll: My first car was a 9 year old clapped-out rust-bucket 1967 MK2 Cortina with vinyl seats and rubber mats on the floor! But it did have a 1600E wooden dash. :lol:

 

[Nick177]

Thanks for that great clip.

Even if it does make me realise I'm getting old. :roll: My first car was a 9 year old clapped-out rust-bucket 1967 MK2 Cortina with vinyl seats and rubber mats on the floor! But it did have a 1600E wooden dash. :lol:

My mate had a red Mk2 1600 GT. I was so jealous because it had 4 dials on the dashboard!

 

[maxman]

I’ve had a few Cortina,s. (2 )Mk1. (1)Mk3 Estate. (2) Mk5. They were ok cars for there time.

 

[Chris_D]

me old fella had a red mk2 1600 with black vinyl seats.
they used to proper sting if you sat on them on a hot summers day if wearing shorts.
one of those 'childhood traum....i mean, memories'

 

[GAZA62]

My neighbour had the mk2 1600e gold with a black vinyl roof and spot lights thought it was the dogs at the time.

Remember the pain from the vinyl seats Chris our family car was a Viva remember coming off the beach in Cornwall my sister and i standing up behind the front seats as it was to hot to sit down what a relief when my dad upgraded to a VX490 with cloth seats we could sit down again

 

[Woodrow]

Very good. Enjoyed that. And brought back memories of my mum wrapping ours around the bus stop at the top of our road. Who’s ever heard of tyres blowing out

 

[jabber]

I had 3 mk1 cortina gt’s in the early to mid 70’s and very nearly bought a 1966 gt last year. I was once offered a lotus cortina without an engine as a swap for my gt but regrettably I didn’t accept

 

[BeeEmm]

Sat my driving test in my Dad's Mk1 Consul Cortina 1500 (as they were badged at the time). Column change, one long seat in the front, you pulled the parking brake towards you from under the dash. All designed so you could have a shag without the need to climb into the back seat.

 

[blunderthumbs]

My first car. Mk1 Cortina.1500GT engine. Twin Webbers. Rostyle wheels and wait for it.........A chrome side pipe

 

[Nick177]

Sat my driving test in my Dad's Mk1 Consul Cortina 1500 (as they were badged at the time). Column change, one long seat in the front, you pulled the parking brake towards you from under the dash. All designed so you could have a shag without the need to climb into the back seat.

Lol my dad had a Vauxhall Victor FC Estate, that also had 3 speed column change and a handbrake under the steering wheel. The front bench seat really did save you from having to use the back seats,although of course you could put the back seats down to make plenty of space!

 

[Smartbear]

1977 1.6l mk4 here, amazingly the Oem battery lasted longer than the car did, rusted like crazy!
Rob

 

[ronk]

I had a ‘66 1500 GT in full rally spec -I used it as my daily transport

 

[Stevo1987]

Sat my driving test in my Dad's Mk1 Consul Cortina 1500 (as they were badged at the time). Column change, one long seat in the front, you pulled the parking brake towards you from under the dash. All designed so you could have a shag without the need to climb into the back seat.

My dad's Ford Corsair was like that. Sometimes I used to ride up front between mum and dad.

 

[wspohn]

Over here in Canada, I owned a Mk 2 and a couple of Mk 3 Cortinas (the latter weren't imported to the US, just Canada, and for only one year IIRC).

Drove one of the Mk 3 s to a cabin where my wife-to-be was to type my master's thesis. We were going to stop on the way to pick up groceries but the car burned an exhaust valve on the way and we just managed to limp to the cabin where we found a mixed blessing - there was food, and lots of it, but it was in the form of Kraft Dinner (do you have that rather horrid product in the UK?) and very little else. Had it in every variant form possible (tuna KD, cornflake KD, Spam KD etc.) for a week while she typed and I tried to stay out of her way, before we headed back for the international border (the cabin was over the line in the US) smoking all the way.

I have mixed feeling about Cortinas.....

 

[Roberltd2]

Passed my test in an Austin 1100. My driving instructor, Alfie Boot was a miserable old cuss and he reckoned that I would fail the test.
Those were his parting words at the end of my final lesson.
Whether he said those words to all of his students I don't know, but I passed anyway. This was in the 70's by the way.