Mike D
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Club RR Member Number: 57
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Of the mk4/5 variety please  I've found a fairly tidy looker in a driveway and am off later to enquire about it, is there anything i need to specifically look out for? Anyone got any inspiring pics? its a 4 door... Cheers, Mike |
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All I know is that you shouldn't look for a mkIII 'cos Nightmares' got all of them.
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Last Edit: Nov 9, 2006 10:41:41 GMT by penski
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Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated
Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Look out for kit car builders trying to nick the front uprights!  |
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1997 TVR Chimaera
2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Someone just shot the elephant in the room. |
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sills, rear lower arm mounts, boot floors, usual places for Mk3/4/5. Also the stuff you can see like the rear arches and lower rear corners.
Tough old cars. Can't go wrong with one.
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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DutyFreeSaviour
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mostly powered by the ubiquitous PINTO...... Rear trailing arm bushes have a hard life - so poly bush them or do it every year / 18months with standard rubber! Diff's can be noisy too - but keep trundling along anyway. Really are god old tanks......... |
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Back from the dead..... kind of
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Unless you are spectacularily unfortunate and buy a truly terrible example without realising it there is no way a Cortina can be an unwise investment, rare, rarer than Capris I reckon, loads of people want them so as long as it isnt a mass of rust and filler you can always turn it into good money if you decide its not for you later.
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Smiler
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I no longer own anything FWD! Or with less than 6 cylinders, or 2.5ltrs! :)
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If the front wings look a bit dog eared by the bacl bottom edge of the wheel arch then you can bet your granny that the front jacking points have gone. This is because as the car is jacked up on it's correct car jack the points puch up into the 'A' post and the wing starts to take some of the weight.
Easy enough to fix thoug, I mnanged it and removed mine whilst I was at it. I now have a scissor jack in the boot to use on the sill.
Oh, and there's a Cortina section on my website aswell.
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Last Edit: Nov 9, 2006 16:23:10 GMT by Smiler
www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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What I want to know is, where have all the Mk4's gone?! Not seen one for donkeys. I see a fair few Mk5's, Mk1, 2, and 3's... they just seem to have disappeared. I prefer the triangular rear lights of the 4.
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rot is the biggest problem on them really a post front wing mounting rails behind headlights and under the front screen on the scuttle are the most popular places fro rot aswell as the bits already mentioned mechanicals are pretty bullet proof 2.0 being the best standard setup 2.3v6 is smooth and sounds nice but heavier on fuel and no quicker than a good 2.0 1.6 is a little under powered gearboes ar strong but only 4 speed as standard or 3 speed auto but swap to 5 speed is very easy . door hinges ware allot so don't be surprized if the drivers door drops on a higher milage car thats about it really not much else i can think of .
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What I want to know is, where have all the Mk4's gone?! Not seen one for donkeys. I see a fair few Mk5's, Mk1, 2, and 3's... they just seem to have disappeared. I prefer the triangular rear lights of the 4. I think they possibly rusted worse than the Mk3 or Mk5's - possibly down to paint or steel quality I don't know. Genk - built cars were thought to last better than Dagenham cars but whether this was due to build or paint quality, or the fact that the Genk built cars were the top spec models and were looked after better by private owners, is not clear . Mk4s were overshadowed a bit by the Mk5 - by the time that Cortinas started to disappear from the roads and people thought they were a classic and possibly worth doing up it was a case of do a lot of work on a 14-15 yr old Mk4 or a lot less work on a 10-11 yr old Mk5. Plus quite a lot of magazines started saying that the Mk5 was a potential 'classic' in the mid nineties, so people started looking after the really good ones that were left even then. This might be why 'dry-stored' cars and elderly owner giving up driving Mk5s pop up on Ebay regularly. |
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Mk4s probably went right out of favour as soon as Mk5s became cheap - Its the same with Mk1 Mondeos now, no-one will pay good money for a P-reg Mk1 when theres an ovally grille Mk2 Mondeo on the P up for £500, a Mk2 with 120k in white is worth about the same as a Mk1 in a lovely metallic with 80k, round about now Mk1 Mondys will be vanishing without anyone noticing.
Another reason for some Mk4s vanishing is possibly banger racing - this isnt meant to be a dig and the banger boys seemed to have moved on from them now but the Mk4 was a banger racing favourite.
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just buy one, cortinas rule.
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^ Seconded. Old Fords are as good as bricks and mortar you`ve got nothing to lose.
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Smiler
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I no longer own anything FWD! Or with less than 6 cylinders, or 2.5ltrs! :)
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oh yeah, don't be put of ny sloppy handling. It'll be the bushes. A full car set from deflex are just over £100 and despite being budget really do work well. I managed to out turn a Saxo at a junction I didn't bother to slow down for much to his suprise (it was a friends car) and much to the alarm and disgust of the police car I had failed to notice behind him. Needless to say the friendly copper followed us and gave us a well desevred ticking off. Especialy me as he didn't know "how that old car stayed on the road going round that junction at that speed".  |
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www.Auto-tat.co.uk'96 Range Rover P38 DSE (daily driver) '71 Reliant Scimitar SE5 GTE 3.0ltr Jag V6 Conversion '79 Reliant Scimitar SE6A 3.0ltr 24valve Omega Conversion '85 Escort Cabrio 2.0 Zetec - Sold '91 BMW 525i - Sold '82 Cortina 2.9i Ghia Cosworth - Sold '72 VW Campervan - Sold '65 LandRover 88" - Sold
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Mike D
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 57
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Nov 22, 2006 10:49:27 GMT
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Right, I went and enquired the other day, it's a 1.6 Crusader on a Y plate, incredibly clean looking, the only rust i could find was a tiny couple of bubbles on the n/s rear door below the bit of body trim. It's showing 78 K on the clock, or there abouts, and is a 4 speeder. No tax or MOT. I'm off to have a better look soon, anyone got a ballpark figure of what it's worth? Thanks, Mike |
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Nov 22, 2006 11:44:55 GMT
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Sounds like ours (hers). Its very clean and tidy, sills look mint, arches fine etc. biggest prob is foot well, screen surround front and rear and wings. handling (at 20mph on a rope! LOL) does feel feel high and wobbly but nowt to worry about I see! sommat to do with back axle bushes goes on em apparently too. actually; void bush?  quote from another thread I read on a Cortina forum, Deflex/Spectra Dynamics ltd has gone into administration there a few irate cortina owners owed money / bushes You'd think anyone who supplies Sierra owners with TCA bushes, and Cortina owners with void bushes, would NEVER go bankrupt, eh... Its an un MOT'd old car, pay slightly more than a Sierra in same nick. £0-250, up to you really!     |
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