Car nostalgia. Options

[Dave Grieve]

Just as an aside on the Cortinas, like the people in the UK will make jokes about the Irish, over here its about the people from the Orange Free State this is a big farming province where just about every second car in that era was a 3.0 liter Cortina.

Having a camera in the car does come in handy after all, saw this old Cortina parked at the warehouse next door.
And no the GP part of the Licence plate does not mean Gangsters Paradise

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[wee davy]

The 'Essex (3.0 OHV) V6 was only for the South African market.

However, bigger, doesn't necessarily mean 'better' where the Cortina was concerned.

I think my 1980 2.0 OHC Mk IV (love of my life haha) would've given 'the beast' more than a run for its money LOL It certainly blew away any Capris Sports owners!

[wombat]

had a wee GT cortina wee davey ,went like the clappers,collectors items now,but as any self respectin revhead will tell yie V is the best shape for engine torque then theres the sound (nothin else like it) right dave grieve?ah used to take my kids to be picked up by bush schoolbus in a car same as in the movie "mad max" 351 ci cleveland V8"and they loved every minute of it

[wombat]

ah've still got the engine in the shed it cost heaps to build,balanced/ blueprinted,LP gas heads ,holley 750 double pump carby,hi volume oil pump the works

[TeeHeeHee]

I hope all you lady drivers are payin' attention here.

[Dave Grieve]

had a wee GT cortina wee davey ,went like the clappers,collectors items now,but as any self respectin revhead will tell yie V is the best shape for engine torque then theres the sound (nothin else like it) right dave grieve?ah used to take my kids to be picked up by bush schoolbus in a car same as in the movie "mad max" 351 ci cleveland V8"and they loved every minute of it

Aye Wombat you dont hear so many of them now but theres no head turner like a V8 in full throttle flying along the road.
Even today as soon as I hear one I look for it.

[Dave Grieve]

The 'Essex (3.0 OHV) V6 was only for the South African market.

However, bigger, doesn't necessarily mean 'better' where the Cortina was concerned.

I think my 1980 2.0 OHC Mk IV (love of my life haha) would've given 'the beast' more than a run for its money LOL It certainly blew away any Capris Sports owners!

Hi Wee Davy at the time the 3l Cortina in the photos was on the go I was driving a Triumph Chicane 2.5 and your 2.0 Cortina used to leave me on the open road also

[wee davy]

Virtually identical (in USA green livery) to my first ever car - a 1000cc Simca (rear engine)

Bought it with 20k on the clock, and a crack in the cylinder head - araldited it - thrashed around for another 60k, and blew it up, going over the Shap, one dark and windy night. VFM 3yrs of fun.

[Dave Grieve]

Many years ago on Christmas morning I was driving a Chevrolet Commando straight six to a pleasure resort where we had all agreed to meet for a Christmas BBQ.

At the time that stretch of highway was just being built and towards the end of it there where warning signs and drums letting you know the highway was ending and funneling everyone into one lane.

Seeing that I started braking but the drums were getting too close too fast so the second time I braked I really pressed the pedal and at the same time had a look at the speedometer I was sitting at 93 MPH and that car was so smooth it was as if I was doing 40 or 50.

I dont know what speed I was doing the first time I braked.
And luckily for me my wife never realised the speed we were doing.

[wombat]

wee davy sez:Bought it with 20k on the clock, and a crack in the cylinder head - araldited it

"what the"

[TeeHeeHee]

Aye Wombat, Davy knows y' know.
I once filled a hole in a stress-skin panel on a Phantom (minutes before flight) wi' Araldite before the jockey saw it and went intae a panic.
(Put a quick wipe wi' paint on it)
When he brought the bird back it had a big, hard, solid lump aft of the hole.
"What's this?"
"Looks like some bugger tried tae fill a hole wi' Araldite, sir!"

[Rab-oldname]

THATS NOTHING!!

good name that - 'MIX'

[wombat]

plumbers van OZ

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