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Old 6th November 2020, 10:34   #21
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My first car was a 1976 MK3 Cortina. My dad taught me to drive in it. Replaced the bus size steering wheel with a sporty mountny one and swapped out the seats, door cards and wooden dash from a 2000E courtesy of the scrap yard for £60. Happy days.
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Old 6th November 2020, 10:58   #22
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Comparative sizes of Minis

mini-and-mini-at-the-rally-monte-carlo-historique_100339540_l_zpsnao8cfbh by Rod Thrower, on Flickr

My third car was a 1200 Cortina - had to have the strut mounting areas reinforced, as they rotted like crazy in those days. It was a cracking car, complete with Peco big bore exhaust which made it sound a heck of a lot hairier than it was. It met an untimely death when a lorry turned right whilst I was overtaking it
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Old 6th November 2020, 13:46   #23
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Further to my post earlier in the thread I've dug out an old photo of me sitting on the back of my first car.


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Old 6th November 2020, 14:11   #24
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Further to my post earlier in the thread I've dug out an old photo of me sitting on the back of my first car.


Seeing your pic reminded me of an old one we had so, I dug it out. A very young me next to Dad's green Cortina Every family must've had one
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Old 6th November 2020, 14:22   #25
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OK It's not a Mk1 but got to love that uncluttered engine bay..
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Old 6th November 2020, 19:18   #26
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My first car was a 1968 Mk1 2-door Escort (OHW 232F).

Always loved the Cortina & almost bought a 1970 1600E in Aubergine (best colour for the Mk2 E in my opinion).

torque2me - the Vauxhall Viscount & Ventora were the 'big' Vauxhalls & lovely they are too.....rare now of course!
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Old 6th November 2020, 20:25   #27
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My first car was a Cortina MK 3 in Daytona Yellow and I loved it............. Until I bought a Granada 3.0 Coupe that is
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Old 7th November 2020, 17:03   #28
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My first car was a MK1 Cortina 4dr deluxe saloon in Imperial Maroon 1200cc.

They were family sized cars in their day, it's modern successor the Mondeo will dwarf it without actually being any roomier.
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