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[AMCrebel]

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[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Riiiiiight......

[Hooli]

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[mercrocker]

They're not a big car when it comes to getting Mrs Rocker's weekend luggage in....

[Hooli]

They're not a big car when it comes to getting Mrs Rocker's weekend luggage in....

Is any car big when it comes to a woman's luggage?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

My dad had two Mk1 Cortinas, both were maroon and new. The first was a 1963 1200, I think he was influenced by my uncle buying a lime green Cortina earlier in the year, that was reg 576FLB. My dad's was 803YKO. Both of them traded in their 100E's. Coming home from our holiday at Butlins in 1964 we were sitting in a queue of traffic when some oiks in a beaten up Jowett Javelin for some unknown reason came out of a side road opposite and smashed into my dad's door. They duly incurred the wrath of my mum. Luckily there were plenty of witnesses. The second Cortina was a 1965 1200 Deluxe HLU523C, last seen in Sidcup in the mid-70's. Ironically we were on our way to the coast one day when 803YKO overtook us, think the second Cortina wasn't as lively as the first one. Strangely the Mk1 is the only Cortina that I have never driven.

My Grandad had a maroon ( Black Cherry ?) 2 door 1200 bought new, which he traded his 100e Prefect for. To this day I have a hairline crack in my skull from hitting the dashboard of that Cortina when I was 2, probably not helped by my Dad squashing me against it . I vaguely remember the car if not that incident. He traded it for a new Herald in 1968.
You’ve now made me realise that a MK1 is also the only Cortina I’ve never owned or driven- it’s like the Twighlight Zone or something.
Also I haven’t had a head x-ray for nearly 20 years so it might have healed!

[mercrocker]

For about 25 years, from 18 months old, I had a small dent in my head from nutting the ignition key in my Grandad's Mk VIII Minx. He braked hard, my mum didn't have enough hold of me on her lap in the front seat....The key bent and had to be pliered out!

[Hooli]

Something to make Squire wibble, either in disgust or need at the mopar V8 tucked up inside.

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[59Impala]

I think the '63 Cortina was Imperial Maroon and the 65 Black Cherry, I seem to recall that it was a new colour. Of maroon. My dad was never one for showy colours until he bought a new Mk3 Cortina but then he did actually ask me for my opinion on the order. He was going to go for the 1300 but I managed to persuade him to up it to the 1600, imagine how miserable a 1300 Mk3 would have been! We ended up with a rather spiffy 1600L two door in red with a vinyl roof, radio and sports wheels aka the Tinnilites, it was one of the first cars on those as Ford switched from Rostyles. I've never seen another Mk3 like it, shame that hasn't survived. Poor old KMC328K. He traded it in for a new orange Datsun Sunny 120Y circa 1975, he did take me along to the showroom but I think the salesman didn't like my comments about how it looked like a baked bean can on wheels and that it was tinny, probably also that a Firebird burbled past and I told him that that was a real car I refused to ride in it for quite a while, that said I did have my bubble arched Anglia so had my own wheels.

Also I have never nutted the dashboard, ignition key etc which bearing in mind how we never had seatbelts is a miracle.

[paulplom]

I was in my mothers arms when my dad braked hard when he was cut up on a roundabout. Split my eye open on one of the toggle switches of his dolomite. No scar, sadly.