Ford Cortina Mk3 estate.
Classic estate cars appeal to me, in the main due to their usefulness, but also because of their comparative rarity when compared to their four-door saloon cousins.Clive dropped me a line with details of a rare, largely original, survivor that he's purchased, following a career involved in the motor trade, including a factory apprenticeship in the 1970s. Over to Clive now to introduce his Mk3 Cortina 2000XL estate:
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"Having recently retired after 25 years working for the Department of Transport I decided it was time for a new toy and bought a Cortina Mark 3 2000cc XL estate. I served my apprenticeship in the early 1970’s at a Ford main dealer, working on Cortinas, Capris, etc and the Cortina seemed a logical choice.
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The car is un-restored and much of it is original, having covered only 69,000 miles. It is roadworthy and in regular use, and has been shown once in a
local show where it was the only Cortina present. It attracted quite a bit of interest and comments such as ‘my dad had one of those when I was
little!’, I think being the estate version makes it a little more unusual. I have all the MOTs, tax discs, original bill of sale, brochures etc and have concluded the mileage as correct.
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It cost £1439.87 when new including extras such as a sunroof and 6 gallons
of petrol for £2.16. That’s about 8 pence a litre!
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It was registered in the London/Kent area where it spent its working life,
and I have plaques which indicate it appeared at the Bromley Motor Pageant
during the nineties.
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It is work-in-progress and I hope continue to improve it, use it and show
it regularly around East Yorkshire where it now lives."
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Read more classic car owners' stories in the Your Cars section of oldclassiccar. Thanks to Clive for contributing this article on his Cortina.
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