"History" of Ford Cortina on BBC 4!

mike65

Just a heads up for those with digital access to BBC4, they are showing an old Arena documentary about the life and times of the Ford Cortina.

ARTS: Arena
Channel: BBC 4 (Digital Terrestrial)
Date: Monday 5th September 2005
Time: 21:35 to 22:20 (starting in 3 days)
Duration: 45 minutes.
Private Life of the Ford Cortina.
This quirky Arena, made in 1982, looks back to a time when the humble Ford Cortina was the most popular, and the most stolen, car in Britain.
(Stereo)

Should be good as its part of the Best of Arena season.

Mike.

corktina

mike65 wrote:

Just a heads up for those with digital access to BBC4, they are showing an old Arena documentary about the life and times of the Ford Cortina.




Should be good as its part of the Best of Arena season.

Mike.

this is the Alexi Sayle one....i cant get it....

Any other Cortina fans on this forum? or Ford fans even?

camarobill

have had ford cortinas and mark 1,and two escorts.u driveing a lotus cortina great cars,welcome to the forum

corktina

good for you! do you know about the Cortina Weekend in Co Cork next weekend? over 60 booked in plus locals.....

corktina

ps...dont have a Lotus, but this is my daily driver[IMG][/img]

ds20prefecture

That's a lovely looking car, fair play for driving it daily. Have you done many mods to it to have it "usable"?

This is my daily driver - note the obligatory 70s cushion.


PS: Would you not be tempted to put original wheels on it?

camarobill

corktina wrote:

ps...dont have a Lotus, but this is my daily driver[IMG][/img]

dont know about that show :rolleyes: whats ur motor 1600e like the mag wheels,met the guy in the club with the lotus cortina,at a few shows,what a car and a nice bloke too :rolleyes:

camarobill

ds20prefecture wrote:

That's a lovely looking car, fair play for driving it daily. Have you done many mods to it to have it "usable"?

This is my daily driver - note the obligatory 70s cushion.


PS: Would you not be tempted to put original wheels on it?

ds u drive that car every day,hats off :eek: how do u keep here so clean,the camaro is black what a b.st..d to show ever spot of durt

corktina

ds20prefecture wrote:

That's a lovely looking car, fair play for driving it daily. Have you done many mods to it to have it "usable"?

This is my daily driver - note the obligatory 70s cushion.


PS: Would you not be tempted to put original wheels on it?

think ive seen your "deesee" (godesds i think it means) on the quatys in Dublin early morning.......


wheels have now been swapped back to Lotus Cortina steels...minilites may appear at some satge.....car is a 1300 deluxe but is on all GT spec running gear and vewry soon a 1600GT engine will be going in...(whwn i get a Rown Twit)...
.Alloys are for sale...€150 if anyone wants them (good tyres on them)

corktina

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this is my reserve daily driver....(1973 Ford Taunus 1600GXL Coupé)

corktina

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and this is my fun car.....1977 Ford Cortina 3.0S.....(south African car...)

mike65

You must have the only examples of both the Taunus and 3.0 cortina in the country. Also the it ws the Alexis Sayle programme.

Mike.

ds20prefecture

camarobill wrote:

ds u drive that car every day,hats off :eek: how do u keep here so clean,the camaro is black what a b.st..d to show ever spot of durt

Thanks Bill. That photo was 2 years ago - she's picked up some dings and scrapes since. She generally looks like someone just wiped their arse with her. Black is the worst colour for a car in Ireland.

But she cleans up well.

@Corktina - the DS on the quays is either me or my friend Antonio. His car is practically identical - my Mrs. mistook his for mine one day, freaked her out to see someone else driving it. She rang me to tell me it was stolen

Is the Taunus German? The Mk3 was always my favourite shape cortina. The Mk2 is very cool - so east london gangster - but mk3 had the curves. The Mk5 my least favourite.

corktina

mike65 wrote:

You must have the only examples of both the Taunus and 3.0 cortina in the country. Also the it ws the Alexis Sayle programme.

Mike.

i think that there may be another Taunus coupé but i have not seen it.....may only be a rumour....(she was first reg'd in France,but Ford of Germany ,although Taunuses (taunii?) were mostly built in Belgium i think...))

def the only 3.0S..i think there is maybe 1 more in the UK (ex-South AFrica...)

corktina

ds20prefecture wrote:

Thanks Bill. That photo was 2 years ago - she's picked up some dings and scrapes since. She generally looks like someone just wiped their arse with her. Black is the worst colour for a car in Ireland.

But she cleans up well.

@Corktina - the DS on the quays is either me or my friend Antonio. His car is practically identical - my Mrs. mistook his for mine one day, freaked her out to see someone else driving it. She rang me to tell me it was stolen

Is the Taunus German? The Mk3 was always my favourite shape cortina. The Mk2 is very cool - so east london gangster - but mk3 had the curves. The Mk5 my least favourite.

The DS i saw a couple of times parked up near to O'Connell Bridge on the south side about 8 am or before.....

ds20prefecture

corktina wrote:

The DS i saw a couple of times parked up near to O'Connell Bridge on the south side about 8 am or before.....

That's Antonio's.

PaulK_CCI

That's a lovely example of a continental Taunus Coupe GXL, absolutely unique to find in Ireland. Being Dutch I would ofcourse know these cars as you would all know your Cortina's: your dad, uncle, neighbour had one... Can still remember sitting in my uncles XL saloon on the front seat, too small to be able to see out over that massive, and I mean massive slab of a plastic dashboard!!!

Bear in mind though, they are frightfully difficult to find in pristine condition nowadays here on the continent! Loads of garbage ofcourse, but genuinely good cars are very hard to find...

Look after it well, you have a great collection. Had a Mint Lhd Cortina MK1 for a while, but it's sold now...

MercMad

Nice cars indeed !

There used to be a Taunus Coupe like that up my way. I used to see it every day, havent done so for about 6/7 months now !

That 3.0S Cortina look to sit very high. Do you know if it had the "springs for greater ground clearance " that could be fitted to a lot of South African cars !

corktina

i always claim it has to sit high to clear the termites nests and elephant dung...I have no intention of lowering it as it is perfect for Cork roads.....