you gotta love love an old ford no matter where it's from. this is ... was my father s car 2 days ago now its mine and i should be seeing here in 2 months from now when she comes in at the docks.
incase you never knew that this was fords most selling car in the ealy 60's throught to the 80's where the had the cortina mark 3 & 4. she's and old 4 banger with guts and has an 1198cc crossflow motor . i just thought i'd share this fraction of my childhood. 1962 ford consul cortina go here;
http://www.msnusers.com/thefordtorin...ulcortina.msnw

 

Yup, love the old Cortinas. Saw a lot of them when I was in Sweden in the late '70s, along with the German Ford Taunus. Not so many of them around here, but you do still see them from time to time. I like the 1600cc engine, especially when equipped with the Cosworth twin cam head. 200hp out of 1600 cc's, that's not too bad by '70s-'80s standards. -TD

 

so tru Dan the old 1600cc had lots of hidden power and they made twicking it up easy and i remember racing with audi's and the cheetah bmw leaving them far behind.
theres one more old ford i want so bad, the ford anglia. gonna go throught my pictures and post a link of the anlia i want to get from my sister.U.S $ ARE SO ATRRACTIVE in africa, God bless America!

 

The Anglia is another one that crossed my mind as I typed my previous post. My Auto Shop teacher in Sweden built one as a drag car, using the 1600. I never got to see it run as I had to come home before it was finished, but I bet it was cool! -TD

 

did you get a chance to see the ford prefect panel vans .
you know t'was after i bought my morris minor pickup 2 years ago that i really started to wana spend more and more money on buying these cars of my childhood and lucky me my wife is just as fasinated by the cars as i am so i'm on a hunt.

 

I'm sure I did, but they don't stand out in my memory after all these years. I do recall the Bedford vans, and the Thames, and since I am into Sunbeams and have been since I was 12, the Commer vans. -TD

 

hey Dan check this out https://www.ford-trucks.com/classifi...&cat=23&page=3

 

Nice, Ian! A little out of my price range, though! -TD

 

Looks like Pops took good care of it. Hope you enjoy it.

 

Great looking car I have a 1959 zephyr, kind of a sister car of the consul except that mine is a mkll where yours would be a mklll by the looks of it? and my steering wheel is on the proper side i've been around/looked at a few english fords (a mkl consul and a prefect) aswell as triumphs & mg's and its wierd how some parts of the car seem really advanced for the time while other parts are quite 'old school' like struts on the front with lever shocks on the back also get him to send a trunk full of spare parts, they're pretty scarce around here!

You can have a look at my zephyr here

 

oh the zephyr's rock bro, i liked the zephyr's cause the had the old american classic car look, something like the belair stylin with the two tone separated by the chromes ,then the ford prefect utility van was my very first car when i was 17 years old and we put a 309 in it and my freind Stanley Norris had a black morry pickup that he squashed a v6 from a bmw and had these big tyres on it that filled the fender, bro we used to tease bmw's at the light boy that baby was the coolest car ever when i was young case she'd lift off the ground at take off ,and that was cool then....and now. i have some ideas for the cortina and the prefect just like i did to my white morry pickup with a datsun 1600 and 4 speed gearbox.
parts parts parts, you know as long as the US$ stays up there parts will be easy to get for me, i have family i can trust to hunt stuff down for me without rippin me off then zim$1 = us$0.000181587 and if this is not a deal tell me what is.i got a side oiler big block engine for us$270 in zimbabwe and i have seen bare blocks going for us$9000 here.i think the reason pops cars still look good is because of the weather there, no snow ,just 10 months of sunshine every year . http://www.classic-fords.co.uk/photo...refect_107ehtm just imangine this litlle rat mobile zooming past you ford taurus

 

I had a cortina in the late 70's, it was a great little commuter car, the only problem I had with it was sometimes when you pulled up to a light it would start reving wildly, with no foot on the gas, couldn't figure out why, I evenually sold it to two brothers that weighed about 300 lbs each, they drove it for a long time,they could kill that thing, just flattened the suspension is all

 

i just bought another morris minor pickup last nite.... it'was the price that i could'nt turnaway from... get this USD $181.5871 for the nicest morry i've ever seen and the front end i've never seen b4 http://www.msnusers.com/africanfords...hoto&PhotoID=1 . i gotta stop now .