What Did you do to your English Ford Today??

66gt · Post by **66gt** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:13 am

Hey Paul thanks for posting that for us, what a treat!

66gt · Post by **66gt** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:21 am

joeyramone30 wrote:In Paul's first youtube clip. what is the car at 2:00? Is it a customized Cortina?

If I recall that paticular car was a one off design concept that never made it to production. I'm sure someone else will chime in with more info.

Steve

105epaul · Post by **105epaul** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:56 am

joeyramone30 wrote:In Paul's first youtube clip. what is the car at 2:00? Is it a customized Cortina?

That is a recreation of a concept Cortina coupe called 'Saxon' which Ford commissioned shortly after the Mk1 Cortina was introduced in 1962. The original car has long since disappeared, presumed scrapped, so a guy decided to make a replica from a standard 2-door saloon. An amazing amount of work has gone into it and it really is quite unique.

Post by **peteleo** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:56 am

I was watching a classic car show from Manila, Philippines about 2 weeks ago and one guy there displayed a Saxon that was originally owned by Stirling Moss.
According to him, "Ford made three Saxons intended to be sold in the U.S.
market. One went to the U.S., one to Australia, and the other was kept in England and later given to Moss. The other two were scrapped"
The front seats were not typical Cortina but looked much like the seats from a Hooper Consul Capri GT.
Did anyone else see that show?

Pete

105epaul · Post by **105epaul** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:05 pm

The Cortina in Manila is I believe not the Saxon. Stirling Moss did help design a special version of the Cortina GT with the work done by Ogle Design with a kind of fastback roof. Very few were built, maybe a few as three and it is likely that the one in Manila is one of those. The Saxon was built by Ford as a concept, indeed there only appears to be one photo of it from the right rear and if you see it it even has different windows on each side. The Saxon may have been sent to the US for evaluation but that's not confirmed. It's very very doubtful that it exists.

Paul

Post by **peteleo** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:33 pm

Thanks, Paul for the info and clarifying that. I thought he was talking about the Saxon but now it may have been the fastback version of the MK1 GT.
It had grille cut-outs for driving lights.

Pete

joeyramone30 · Post by **joeyramone30** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:17 pm

Thanks for the info guys. Getting the name of the car helped my find his build thread -
http://passionford.com/forum/restoratio ... saxon.html
All I can say about it is - WOW! what an awesome car.

reggie · Post by **reggie** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 5:46 pm

it was nice today so I took my cluster out and place a oil pressure gauge on it ..

JAN · Post by **JAN** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:44 pm

Took the Prefect for a 245 mile round trip to the British National Classic Car show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birningham

reggie · Post by **reggie** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:21 pm

JAN wrote:Took the Prefect for a 245 mile round trip to the British National Classic Car show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birningham

Am jealous My 105e is sitting in the gargage till next freeking year!!!!!!!!

66gt · Post by **66gt** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:08 pm

JAN wrote:Took the Prefect for a 245 mile round trip to the British National Classic Car show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birningham

You Brits have all the fun! I want to move there!

Post by **IFHP** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 12:46 am

Paul, wow thanks for the Goodwood video. I especially like your car on the truck (and all the trucks in general). I think that a picture of your Anglia turned uo in the American magazine Autoweek earlier this year. I'll go back and scan it.

This long weekend had a break in the weather which allowed me to get two of my old Fords out for a drive. They don't get driven as much as they should.

105epaul · Post by **105epaul** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:30 am

Glad you enjoyed the Goodwood video Michael. It is of course a pretty prestigious event known the world over and it was great that they recognised Ford in Britain's centenary and did the parade on all three days of the event. It was a shame that the weather wasn't as good as it could have been but that's the UK for you.

Wow, my Anglia may have been in Autoweek? I'd love to see that and why they be writing about Anglias. Do you have my email? If not I'll send it on a PM.

Paul

Omnilith · Post by **Omnilith** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:10 pm

Yes, that's Colin Ginn's reproduction of the 1962 Cortina Saxon concept car.

Really nice work that guy does.

Long thread about it on BuySellCortina.

pistorman · Post by **pistorman** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:49 pm

I installed the wing mirrors and seat belts on it

By the way, anyone have an Anglia 105e rear view mirror they are willing to part with?