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Classic Car choices
« on: May 25, 2017, 12:55:10 pm »
1..2..3 or 4 & more in some models

Gonna start with one of the most popular.

Which model/mk is better than the rest?

Cortina Mk's 1-4..the Mk5 is too similar to the previous & is swerved.

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Lots of different makes & models out there to continue the thread.
Personally i love the Cortina Mk1.
I dŕove a Mk5 crusader for about 18 months after i passed my test which pulled me a bit but the Mk1 is so stylish.
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Re: Classic choices
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2017, 03:11:43 pm »
Saw this one last year

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Re: Classic choices
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2017, 03:23:06 pm »
Exercise is to the body what reading is to the mind.

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Re: Classic choices
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2017, 05:26:48 pm »
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Re: Classic choices
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2017, 06:25:55 pm »
Not quite sure how a Jaguar gets to be a choice when deciding which was the best ever version of the Ford Cortina but hey.

The Mk3 Cortina wins hands down for sure. 

Oh and The Sweeney screamed around chasing villains in the Mk3 Cortina whereas Inspector Morse tootled around drinking real ale with Neville from 'Au Wiedersehen Pet' in that Jag.

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Re: Classic choices
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2017, 06:29:35 pm »
Oh and The Sweeney screamed around chasing villains in the Mk3 Cortina

Err, one of these most of the time...Ford Consul GT3000

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Re: Classic choices
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2017, 06:30:13 pm »
Err, one of these most of the time...Ford Consul GT3000



Depends which series you watched Gully you auld b*stard :)

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2017, 08:02:21 pm »
Round 2..

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More difficult..the Mk2 was pap but for me they certainly upped their game with the 2.8i Mk3.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2017, 08:11:26 pm »
I'm waiting for Halewood's finest before voting

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Re: Classic choices
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2017, 08:17:54 pm »
Not quite sure how a Jaguar gets to be a choice when deciding which was the best ever version of the Ford Cortina but hey.

The Mk3 Cortina wins hands down for sure. 

Oh and The Sweeney screamed around chasing villains in the Mk3 Cortina whereas Inspector Morse tootled around drinking real ale with Neville from 'Au Wiedersehen Pet' in that Jag.
Coz I like it..reason enough. ;D And it was a Consul, a 3000, iirc.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2017, 08:44:03 pm »
Coz I like it..reason enough. ;D And it was a Consul, a 3000, iirc.

Err, one of these most of the time...Ford Consul GT3000

Depends which series you watched Gully & Dave you auld b*stards :)

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Yes lads you are correct but occasionally they used the Mk3



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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2017, 08:47:49 pm »
Round 2..

More difficult..the Mk2 was pap but for me they certainly upped their game with the 2.8i Mk3.

How about the Laser.?

Was the leather gear knob that did it for me. :)

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2017, 08:56:32 pm »
:)

Yes lads you are correct but occasionally they used the Mk3
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It was the only show that got me  in the house without being dragged in. I loved The Sweeney..and I like that Jag as it was in a car chase sequence in 1967 film The Robbery...it was also the sequence that got the director Peter Yates the directing gig on Bullit.




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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2017, 09:08:56 pm »
There's only one car with the Capri badge that I'd ever consider...The Consul Capri



Stick a 3L V6 or an even bigger US block in them and they fly...

Other than that, like most cars of that era, absolute total rot boxes.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2017, 07:48:44 am »
The Laser was a 1.6 wasn't it Pete?
The thing that reminds me of that was its funky badge.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2017, 08:24:36 am »





In the mid to late 70's, the Merseyside Police used to have a couple of them, unmarked and in plain green, and if I remember rightly, often driven by WPC's.

Not sure if they were simply for the Chief/Senior officers to be ferried around in as the few times I saw them around Brownlow Hill/London Road, they seemed to have a couple of what looked like senior officers sitting in them.

I have an old mate who was CID/SB back then, I must ask him if he remembers.

There were also at least a couple of dark blue mk1 RS2000's used by plainclothes. I had a ride in one of those (not the Police ones) back in the early 80's, and for their day, they were a seriously poky car. A nice unstressed engine for that bodyshell.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #16 on: May 26, 2017, 10:37:17 am »
Nice one G..

The escort mk1 was my first car & i loved it,very similar to this one & if memory serves me right this is the colour the bizzies had too.



A mate of mine had the mexico & he proper souped it up,roll cage & bored out too,sounded like tge exhaust had fell off..fast as fuck.
I still preferred mine!  :D
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2017, 12:21:44 pm »
|My first car, not sure if it counts as a classic, mind...
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #18 on: May 26, 2017, 02:32:08 pm »
My first car will not be classified as a classic, yet. But picking one up now is still cheap and it can do the rally circuit still.



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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #19 on: May 26, 2017, 05:06:44 pm »
Other than a Mk1 Lotus Cortina, the nicest I ever saw was a Mk3 2ltr GXL, Orange with a black vinyl roof. Neighbour had one on *Tower Hill when I was a kid, loved that car.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2017, 05:13:02 pm »
I used to own this.



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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2017, 09:36:02 pm »
Brilliant thread, a lad in work used to buy and sell classic cars and there was always a particular apprentice that handed cash to him willingly. To be fair they were beautiful cars, Lotus Cortinas, Escorts and a stunning yellow Avenger Tiger. A pretty rare and roaring car.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2017, 03:59:41 pm »


I knew where you were coming from Kavah but this one is for you..google image result for halewoods finest!

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I love the essies la.

We had a Cortina mk I in the early 70s and my brother had a mk II Capri but it was always the essies I loved. Particularly that rare Mexico.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2017, 04:08:43 pm »
My dad had a ford Capri mk1 can still remember the reg ( MFF 366J ) was brown and he had it sprayed lime green because one of his mates had a mustang he brought back from the US in about 75 in that colour . His next car was another Capri ( AMS157R ) which was White but had it sprayed black , looked on the .gov site and its still there as reg attached to a black Ford . When I passed my test in 81 he put me on the insurance and used to drive it as my first car .

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2017, 05:27:41 pm »
Cheers John.

I'll do another round soon.
Something i have just stumbled upon & will appeal to most in here..



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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #25 on: May 27, 2017, 05:30:24 pm »
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #26 on: May 27, 2017, 05:58:22 pm »
Not quite sure how a Jaguar gets to be a choice when deciding which was the best ever version of the Ford Cortina but hey.

The Mk3 Cortina wins hands down for sure. 

Oh and The Sweeney screamed around chasing villains in the Mk3 Cortina whereas Inspector Morse tootled around drinking real ale with Neville from 'Au Wiedersehen Pet' in that Jag.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #27 on: May 27, 2017, 06:06:37 pm »
Just remembered about that second Capri he had , they had a really long bonnet , anyhow we lived in an end terrace off anfield road and my dad knocked some of the yard wall down put a garage door on and a covered roof .it just about fitted in with an inch to spare but was really hard to judge . The old fella puts a tennis ball on a piece of string fixed into the roof and it's perfectly positioned fir when he comes in after a few pints so when it touched the windscreen he's in and able to shut the garage door .

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #28 on: May 27, 2017, 07:09:41 pm »
For the Cortina the MK3 does it for me. Saying that, my father always enjoys telling people that he could easily out drag an MGB in my grandfathers (non Lotus) Mk1
As for Capri's, I used to get taken to school in a black 2.8 injection.

I do like a classic car, hopefully my Celica GT4 will be considered one soon.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #29 on: May 27, 2017, 08:18:03 pm »
Just remembered about that second Capri he had , they had a really long bonnet , anyhow

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #30 on: May 27, 2017, 08:27:35 pm »
MkV11 Jaguar.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #31 on: May 27, 2017, 08:30:26 pm »
I used to own this.



That's a cracking looking car, what model is it?
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« Reply #32 on: May 27, 2017, 08:54:44 pm »
560 SEC 1990 5.6 V8

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« Reply #33 on: May 27, 2017, 11:02:47 pm »

I always lusted after one of these...
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #34 on: May 27, 2017, 11:31:14 pm »

I always lusted after one of these...

Me too, I nearly brought one years ago but the insurance on one of these or a Sierra Cosworth was too much for my pocket.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #35 on: May 27, 2017, 11:48:46 pm »

I always lusted after one of these...

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #36 on: May 28, 2017, 01:00:18 am »
560 SEC 1990 5.6 V8

Nice looking jalopy, although our experience with a 190 back in the late 90's put us off ever having a Merc ever again.

I still have my XJS-V12 though it's been sorn'd for around 10 years now. Got it out of my system now and since prices are starting to creep up again will probably MOT it and sell it soon.

And I still have my little gocart, a highly strung and screaming late '70 mkIII S, sorn'd off the road for 20 years now and stuck under blankets at the back of the garage, but it will return to the road soon (not for sale, ever)... though I'll probably terrify myself driving it again after all these years pootering around in assorted Volvos.



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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #37 on: May 28, 2017, 10:38:36 am »
It's amazing when you look back how shit-looking most cars were back then.

I used to love the look of Cortinas, Audi Quattros, Mark one Escorts but to me they really don't seem to have aged that well - they look largely minging (Although I understand lots of people love their cardboard-boxy lines)

There were some real beauties back then though that still look amazing today








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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #38 on: May 28, 2017, 11:07:06 am »
Although the Quattro still does it for me....

And Gulley's XJS harbours very fond memories.  I used to clean cars for a bit of money as a kid, and the XJS I used to clean was a dream.  The length of the bonnet and the boot, and the two wings running down onto the boot..

It's still beautiful (apart from the headlamps which I have never been a huge fan of).
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #39 on: May 28, 2017, 11:17:40 am »
...It's still beautiful (apart from the headlamps which I have never been a huge fan of).

I'd agree about the headlamps, they just don't look right.

I did investigate the twin headlamp conversion but last I looked it was seriously expensive despite it being a standard fitment on the US variants.
The most common I've seen for sale are those for the earlier xj-s which unfortunately don't fit my 93 facelift without faffing around a lot.
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