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Ok I see some problems with new and old. I like to get a bit of mileage out of my cars but living in the north east area of the U.S. we have something called winter and as such they tend to pour cheap salt on the roads to try and keep folks from running into each other. Our auto industry seams to kn...

Ny Grandfather worked at Ford Motor Company for quite a few years in Dearborn. I'm thinking 1925 to 1929 and again from 1931 to 1964. They had a cottage and while there were a few Ford Times at the Detroit home, the cottage had most of the early stuff. I was looking at them in 1961 and they were qui...

This probably belongs in the for sale topic but, Isn't this the same Cortina deluxe with the dent in the right hand door and a bunch of other work done? Gary http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/1318411336.html 1965 FORD CORTINA DELUXE 1500 - LOTUS RACING PARTS - $3800 (Folsom) Very rare in US, repo...

Ken

The Cortina looks great, just as it should. I like the fact that you have gone to the extra effort to re-install the pre-crossflow so it has all of its oniginal parts. what is your guess on the power output? 95hp? 100?

Gary

Every thing about this swap says factory all over it, but much better.

Great car, I love it.
Gary

I saw this one has sold for

MK1 CORTINA GT (1965) £7,200



http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/877558.htm

I found a couple photos today while looking for something else. They are of the 67 Gortina GT I had bought in New York. One photo is in the back of my pickup, Tight fit but it made it. The other is just unloaded and I don't see any trim on the arch. I had to get the magnifing glass out to make sure....

I have always liked the Escort Estate and thought it would be kool to put the 107e crossmember in so that it would except the later 1500 pre-crossflow as a bolt in. That along with a decent 4 speed out of a Cortina GT. But these wagons are so rare now I think that I would leave the flathead four and...

Hi Michael Intreresting that the advertizing show it both ways, I saved almost every thing off off the June 67 mk2 GT and I didn't have the arch trim when I sold last of the parts left a couple years ago. Its a bit easier to remember what was sold than what was removed. I don't know if I need a mk2 ...

Thanks, I can't remember to many of the details. I guess I'll just have to keep my eyes open and look for a base model, there used to be a lot of mk2's in the area 25 to 30 years ago but all have since been recycled. At least I haven't seen any since then.

Gary

Hi Paul

I had an June 67 built 1500 GT (high top gauge dash) a long time ago. It was a parts car but I don't remember it having the trim details around the arches and sills. This was a U.S. delivered GT, I guess its just that every mk2 that I see now that comes up for sale all have the trim.

Gary

I have a question on mk2 Cortina trim and wondered if any of you can help. I have seen the brite trim around the wheel archs with an inter-connecting trim along the sills. Was this standard on all mk2's, I have noticed the mk2 Cortina-lotus do not have this trim and being from the land of rotted For...

Hi Doug

I am around 2 hours east of where your are heading in Scituate which is 25 miles south of Boston. If you get out this far east, give me a call.
781-545-3699
Gary

Welcome Chris. Do you have any pics of your car that you can share with us? What is the current state of your car? I remember seeing a pic of a Cortina in Medicine Hat on a site somewhere...it was one taken from the left hand front side pulled into a driveway. Could that have been yours by chance? ...

all of the above are reasons why an uninterrupted history and provenance are so important.especially with a car that can be so easily,and cheaply,faked At one time they could be done as you say. At the moment the cost to "fake" a Lotus Cortina would most likely cost more than to buy one. ...