Guaranteed Irish - RIP

Armadillo

May she Rust In Peace

corktina

any more pics or details of the year and model?

ronaneire

She sure is funked.

Armadillo

It's been used as a cat house\hen house on a farm in tipperary. I've no more pics, but it's not a pretty site for the eyes anyway.

corktina

ronaneire wrote: »

She sure is funked.

fix or repair doubtful

trevorbrady

Armadillo wrote: »

It's been used as a cat house\hen house

not ideal flatmates...

carchaeologist

corktina wrote: »

fix or repair doubtful

Fails Often Repair Daily.

carchaeologist

Armadillo wrote: »

Thanks for that, iv been looking for a picture of this logo/sticker for years.:) It used to be on loads of late Cortinas but you never ever see one anymore.

mamakevf

Remember those stickers on the back of Fiat 128's, without the Ford logo of course.:D

road_high

Wasn't the Sierra built in Cork as well until the mid 80s. It's mad to think Ireland had a car making industry at one stage

mb1725

I'm reliably informed that tons of body panels for Cortinas ended up at the bottom of the Lee behind the factory. Story goes that Ford intended to move production out of Ireland when Cortina stopped but the government of the time stepped in with funding /grants to keep the place going. As they were changing over from Cortina production to Sierra the stocks of surplus body panels had to be disposed of. Apparently they were taken out the back to the wharf area, a fork lift driven over them and then pushed in to the water!

coylemj

mfitzy wrote: »

Wasn't the Sierra built in Cork as well until the mid 80s. It's mad to think Ireland had a car making industry at one stage

Practically every car sold in Ireland was assembled in Ireland, at least the popular models anyway. The unions made exceptions for certain models, the Cortina Mk IV GT for example was imported fully assembled.

I'm not sure if you could call what went on on Ireland a motor 'industry', it was protectionism and you can be sure that it cost the consumer big time because by definition it was inefficient. All of the components were imported into Ireland and (in the case of Ford) assembled in Cork. When you consider the size of the Ford factory in Dagenham, the additional labour costs for the Irish operation probably added a hundred quid or so to the price of the cars sold in Ireland. They all had to close when we joined the EU or EEC as it was back then.

ikb

Anything imported was hammered for tax.Britons in Rathmines (Dublin) Austin, Morris, Mini etc... and Ford at the Marina plant (cork) were major players.. some other manufacturers supplied kit in complete knock down (CKD) here and there but only smalltime.
A very interesting and well written book about the Marina plant is "Are ye still below"... well worth a look, plenty of photos.

corktina

coylemj wrote: »

Practically every car sold in Ireland was assembled in Ireland, at least the popular models anyway. The unions made exceptions for certain models, the Cortina Mk IV GT for example was imported fully assembled.

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there was no mkIV GT ... equivalent was 2.0S and 2.3S ,possibly the rarest "standard" Cortina now with less than 10 2.0S and only 2 2.3S OTR in the UK and even fewer this side of the water...theres two near Belfast and mine (which is the rarst of all in the British Isles as its a 3 litre.