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robo0121
Joined: 11 Nov 2013 Posts: 49 Location: Birmingham West Midlands
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:23 am Post subject: ford corsair |
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Hi.just a query really.what is it about the corsair that the majority of classic car owners do not like.?i know back in the day even to me they were like the relative of the cortina that nobody wanted to talk about.but im amazed at the lack of like ability this many years down the line.just been on oldskoolford where they class mk5 escorts as classic cars.not sure if that site would even know what a corsair was.to me the daddy of the fords was the mk1 tina but that is my opinion.not everybody will agree.im just interested to hear what you have to say about the corsair |
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V8 Nutter
Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 587
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Back in the 70's Corsairs were very popular, we used to rebuild a lot of engines usually it was the 2000 V4 very few people ever bothered spending money on the smaller engined ones. I guess the very early 1500 pre cross flows must be thin on the ground nowadays. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7118 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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I would agree the that MkI Cortina in GT and Lotus forms was a real advance on anything in the that sector at the time.
The Corsair was very obviously a styling exercise based on the Thunderbird but a lot less sexy. I couldn't understand why Ford UK produced it.
Peter _________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
1939 SS Jaguar 2 1/2 litre saloon |
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BigJohn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire
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Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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There was some Corsair discussion here;
http://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/forum/phpbb/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14805&highlight=
My Old Man had a highly tuned, new, Corsair 2000, Ford wouldn't sell him a 2000e without a vinyl roof so he spat the dummy and gave his final year apprentices a £500 parts budget to build him a flyer from a 2000 deluxe.(this was 1968). It came back lowered on Lotus rims with Pirelli Cinturatos and it went like a scalded cat. Sadly when he blew it to bits one night travelling back from London on the M1, speed limits didn't apply to HIM back then! It was a little over a year old and had about 50k miles on the clock. It was never the same but was still quick.
I drove my first 100 mph on an old airfield in the Corsair, I was 12. It was sold to one of his welders and still going at 180k miles. SWMBO states if I find a mint Corsair auto the Rover P6b V8 has to go....
I'd have a 2000e auto in a heartbeat, but it is a as likely as finding a unicorn nest. |
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PAUL BEAUMONT
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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V8 Nutter wrote: | Back in the 70's Corsairs were very popular, we used to rebuild a lot of engines usually it was the 2000 V4 very few people ever bothered spending money on the smaller engined ones. I guess the very early 1500 pre cross flows must be thin on the ground nowadays. |
Again, in the mid '70's a girlfriend of my family had completed her training as some sort of artist and could get no work so she and her then boyfriend set up a car parts shop and did well for several years selling V4 gasket sets!
Like others I have no idea why Ford made it or equipped it with a lunatic engine. It was wide enough to take a technically much sounder boxer! |
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