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[red5]

Have a picture of my second car (on the road) just because.

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[CLINT]

The road runs through your garden?

[LynehamHerc]

That looks proper 60s/70s with those auxiliary lights.

[cros]

I was looking at a Corsair estate a while back. I can't remember all the details (can't remember fuck all these days) but I that and the 2 door always struck me as very niche models. I borrowed a 2000E long ago and thought it went very well.

[mercrocker]

I can't remember fuck all these days either, but I do still remember the first time I clapped eyes on a Corsair. It was before I started school - there was a dark blue (Ambassador?) one outside the local butcher's shop and I got my Grandad to read the badge on the front because I didn't know what it was. (I could read but not joined up script!).

The following year, having started school, my class-mate's dad bought a brand new one (Ermine White like Red5's here) and promptly traded it in less than a year later for a new Amazon, vowing never to ever drive another "Dagenham Dustbin". I never did know what upset him about it but I do remember painting most of my matchbox toys in Holts Dupli-Color Ermine White after we found the aerosol in the garage a few years later. We got a right bollocking for doing that, mainly because the overspray went all over his Dad's pink and yellow paved patio.

I loved growing up in the Sixties and these were everywhere despite being categorised as an "unpopular" model. An absolute arse of a secondary school teacher had an Anchor Blue 2000E which was about the only redeeming feature of an otherwise unnecessary human being. When he traded that for a poverty spec Arrow Minx it confirmed everything I ever feverishly signalled behind his back.

Nice car, Mr Red and I am particularly taken with the Corsair-specific mirrors which are so much a part of the car's looks. Sorry to have rambled on, as well!

[LynehamHerc]

A mate of mine at school had one in the sixth form.

Compared to the moggy 1000s the few other kids who had cars had it went like a rocket.

[red5]

The road runs through your garden?

You'd have though so, the amount of cars I had...

[red5]

I bought it out of a back garden - no floors both side at the front - and no drivers drop glass which I discovered when I attempted to wind it up....

Rare beast even then - a 1500 pre-crossflow , floor change 1964 model - no seatbelts either.
Shameful end as well - abandoned by a subsequent owner in Redditch town centre car park.

CUY410B - 'sold by Kidderminster Motors, your local Ford and Fordson dealer'...

[AlabamaShrimp]

So from such a start how did you turn into a serial Frontera botherer?

[fried onions]

What a lovely car. I've always liked their styling. They don't seem to have been a common car, they rarely turn up at shows, probably the styling was too much for the conservatively-minded buying public at the time.