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Tony's Ford's
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:12 am
by morspeed
This was one of the car I did in Germany with my dad, it took about one year to do as we always had a few project going at the same time. Plus customer cars had to be done Monday - Friday, it was really nice when finished and it really hurt when I sold it to move to the States.
A 1966 Lotus Cortina which had been raced in England, the body was shot from many years of racing. After seaching for about six months I found someone in Austria that said he would try and find a good body for me. Three month later I was on my way to pick up a near perfect body with almost no rust.
Back to the bare metal
The Cortina was set up as a Road Racer
I never got to run the car around the track or on the road, it did end up going to a German Lotus colletor
Tony
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:22 am
by morspeed
Here are some more picture's of the Lotus Cortina.
As you can see this was a very nice body shell.
This was the original car and as you can see it was done, every panel on the car was bent even the roof.

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 9:41 pm
by morspeed
I forgot my dad Roy Morris, did run the original car at Hockenheim at there first drag race in 1986 which was 1/8 mile, they needed to fill the stock class so we entered it. I also rememeber takening the new one (body) to Nurnburgring to a historic race car event just before I moved to the states, to see if we could sell it, at least I got to drive it around the pits there.
My dad ran another one way back in the early 70's in England at Santa Pod Raceway, which is also a Drag strip in England that still runs today.
This is the only picture I have of this Escort we used back in 1982 as a workshop car, plus we used it at the race track as you can see.
It was a 1300cc
Next is a RS2000 with factory metal wheel arch extension as they were called in England. I purchased it from a friend who ran it for about a year then wanted something different. I repainted it bright red, put new tires on it and drove it on weekend.
I used this 1980 Transit in 1990 and 91 to tow my race car car, it had a 3litre V6 essex motor with overdrive.
Tony
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:47 pm
by beast02
These pictures are AWESOME, I love the period stuff!!
Lucky you to own those cars!
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:23 pm
by Dave A
Are you seeing any English Fords down around Florida??
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:08 pm
by morspeed
Hi Dave A, we don't see any here in Florida. In the 17 years I've been here, I've seen a MK1 Cortina, MK2 Cortina and a Carpi (1970). I'm thinking about buuying a 100E but need to go and look at it.
Tony
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:51 pm
by angliagt
Tony,
We were in Florida in 2007,visiting our Son in
Jacksonville.While there I was fortunate to be able to
see Ross Bremer's fantastic collection of vintage cars.
He vintage races,& has an Anglia,MKI Cortina,MKI Escort,
& a MKI Cortina that he raced at the Speedweek in the
Bahamas,back in '65 or '66.
I also went to see a friend in Brandon,near Tampa.
He's a former Lotus mechanic,& had a Lotus Cortina.
- Doug
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:07 pm
by morspeed
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 8:11 am
by 105epaul
Great photos especially of Brands. I started going to Brands in 1968 as a 13yo schoolboy, used to catch the Green Line bus from Eltham and have a great day at the track. I must have seen your dad racing as I used to go virtually every weekend from 1968 until the mid 70s. I even used to get a season ticket as a Christmas present. Still go there especially if historic racing is on.
Paul