I save these videos for later as I don't want to be disturbed when I watch them. It's like my private secret club of older gits who love these barn finds of cars of our era. These are the only videos on TH-cam that never get skipped forward. They're like an old whisky, every drop is to be appreciated! Flippin' love you Jonny for these videos.
I just love how relatable this show is to us commoners. Not a show about some ultra exotic out of reach barn finds, but bringing back life to more common cars that were loved by someone.
I agree with what you say but unfortunately it is us commoners who cannot now afford to buy these barn find cars . Ultra exotic or not most of us would struggle to justify spending a small fortune to buy even this mk3 , even though I for one would absolutely love to.
What a beautiful old thing. I love cars like this. To anyone else it's just an old mass produced car that's been forgotten about. But to the man who owned it, it meant the world, and is a treasure chest of memories. Must have been an emotional decision to let such a special car leave the family after all those years. Hopefully this Cortina will be bought by someone who understands the sentimental value it holds, and brings it back to life in a sympathetic way, so not as to lose it's character. This is such a special car, and a great one too. It deserves to be cherished, just as it's last owner did, and may it bring someone else just as much happiness. Great video Johnny. This one was special.
My dad had one just like that with the square light design spent hundreds of hours driving to France 🇫🇷 and back in it. We loved it. Another great episode Jonny !
Great episode, reminds me of my father's 1974 Purple Velvet metallic Mk3 2000E, absolutely gorgeous car with black vinyl roof, loved that car all the time he owned it, I even remember the time that the cambelt broke, fortunately we were only traveling very slowly so nothing got damaged, new belt and we were back in business, lady luck was with dad that day 😇
I loved my dads 1600GT mk 3. He liked the deep set speedo cluster ( unlike this model )because mum couldn't see how fast he was going from the passenger seat. us kids liked the high back front seats because dad couldn't reach back to clump us when we were playing up lol. I also remember the steering wheel was slightly oval.
I had a 1976 2 litre XL automatic when I was 18, back in the days when a teenager could afford his own car. Me and a mate went on a road trip from leafy Surrey to Loch Ness, back via Glen Coe, Loch Lomond, the Lake District, Blackpool and home in time for the Live Aid gig at Wembley. 1600 miles in a week, joined the ton-up club, took off over a humpback bridge in Northumberland, and the Cortina took it all in its stride. Loved that car and the 1980s!
Wow. I find it so humbling that the love for her Grandfather and then the respect towards her mothers sentimental value meant the family held onto it until she passed and joined Grandad. What a lovely story.
@@CL-vz6ch I was thinking why couldn't they start it up now and again, drive it out the garage and give it a wash. It didn't take much to get it running
@@4Kandlez The masses nowadays don't seem to be interested or emotionally connected to cars period, is that down to PCP plans, disposable outlook on a vehicle in general? My first car were a MK3, at the age of 17 it meant the world to me, independence and freedom. Sadly the masses have been brainwashed over the last 30 years or so, now they want 15 minute cities and everything else that's part of this Great Reset agenda.😡
My parents had an Australian Mk3 (TD) Cortina station wagon for 10 years (1984-1994). Remember the old man working on that old Pinto engine. My first car was a TF (Mk5) Cortina with a 4-speed manual and my brother had a real nice TE Cortina. You just don’t see them anymore!
Love the MK3 Cortina, my grandpa has a bronze GXL with a black vinyl roof as his last ever company car in the early 70s. They gifted it to him when he retired and he sold it and bought a beige Hillman Hunter, I never forgave him.
Here in Australia, the Pinto was the base engine. We also had the 3.3l and 4.1l six cylinder engines from the Falcon in these as well. From memory the model lineup was L, XL, and XLE as the top specification
My Dad inherited a MkIII 2 door 1.6 Cortina in 1975. It was only 2 years old and my Dad had never owned such a new car. Still remember the reg: HON 281L - lots of happy childhood memories going on Sunday drives with a picnic. Loved reading the owners manual as well! I still have the original bill of sale - from Bristol Street Motors in Birmingham- think it was about £800 brand new 👍🏼 Thanks for sharing this memory about the chap that owned that car ♥️
My first car was a Cortina Mk 3 1973. Mine was also a 4-door, but only a 1.6L with the Kent engine. I vaguely remember the resistor on the coil was to prevent the spark becoming weak when the engine was being started: so it was like a 9V coil with, usually, about 3V dropped across the resistor - but when the engine was being cranked over, and the battery voltage collapsing due to the high starting current, the coil resistor would be bypassed to still provide a full strength spark. I fitted one of those Sparkrite ignition kits to mine - they retained the contact breaker points, but the points only passed a low current to the Sparkrite unit, which had a big transistor to amplify that low current and actually drive the coil. With that fitted, it was always a great starter even with a virtually dead battery - if the engine turned over, at all, even on the coldest mornings, it always caught and ran.
close, the resistor did drop the coil to 9V and when cranking the full 12V was supplyed by a 2nd wire from the starter solenoid to boost the coil voltage 👍
I had 2. A J reg then an M reg. Loved them both. About 3 years ago a man who lives in our close brought one home on a trailer, took the fence down and pushed it into his back garden. I think it was a GL. As far as I know he restoring it, I hope so, I would like see it when it’s finished.
Fabulous , brings back great memories of my old 1600xl ! Also Dad had a 2000e and both my brothers had Mk3's . I remember fitting Sparkrite ignition to my brothers Capri ! Just a small point, rear suspension is coil springs not leaf. Brilliant video as usual
I'm 50 and yes I remember neighbours having one also as my eldest brother had a orange one, really bought back a lot of memories, our dad didn't want him to drive he always tried to get the keys off him, funny now but not so much then. Great video Johnny.
Well thats a very very well looked after Cortina. Great to see it running in the end. I believe it is a face lift Mk 3 as its got the square headlights and the dash/clocks which were fitted to the Mk 4. The original Mk 3 had 3 x round binnacles quite low down. And another WOW from me Jonny. You keep on unearthing these little gems. Well done.
@@Terminator-mi1jb P reg for a MK 3 was just before they brought out the Mk4 in R reg. Some MK 4 features were on the Mk 3's square headlights, different dash to name but two items.
Definitely got MK3 memories, my dad had a 2.0l XL same redge, red with black vinyl roof, it was his pride and joy, until someone in a Capri smashed into the back of us while on holiday in Dorset, replaced by a mk4 2.0l Ghia, that's another barn find 👍, great channel, I really enjoy it, cheers for creating it. genuine appreciate it.
I love the old MK3 Ford Cortina. I have memories from the 80's. Travelling to Cornwall in my Dad's estate one. Dad and Mum in the front, my Nan, Grandad and sister on the back seat and me in the back with the suitcase's.
Loved this episode, my Dad had a mk3 2000e estate in gold, and the 2ltr pinto was a fast engine back in the 70s. Thats where my love for mk2 escort started, still got the bug❤
Our family car around 1980 was a mk3 cortina GXL brown paint with vinyl roof quad round headlights a great looking car though incredible low back seat which wasn’t ideal to travel in as a young whipper snapper Great episode Jonny
Weird to see you doing this on your own. Weren’t the owners interested in helping resurrect their own car? I’d have been out there with you in a heartbeat. Anyway, I recall these old cortina’s from when I was a boy. My uncle ran several in period. They were ubiquitous but the 2000 E was quite special if I recall. Rarely saw a black one though.
My first car in the '80's was a '72 1600 GT 4 door mk 111 in Daytona yellow with a black vinyl roof. I love the shape of it, and as it was a pre facelift, had the original deep set dials on the dash . I learned how to handle cars with the famed cortina cornering! Pinto, great but basic engine. Was in several of my cars...mk4 & 5 cortinas, sierra and mk3 capri....ah memories 😊
My dad bought a five year old 1976 Cortina 1.6XL from our neighbour whom bought it brand new., It had diamond white paintwork , black vinyl roof, red pin stripes. It was sold from new without a radio or speakers. I still remember the original dash panel in place of the radio. It served us well for 7 years after.
The '75 Cortina was called the 'TD' here in Australia and the E was an XLE for us. I had a '73 TC (with the round gauges) 3 speed manual on the floor with a 200 cubic inch 6 cylinder and that thing flew!! I have also had a '73 TC wagon with the 200 motor and T-bar auto and what you would call a Series 4 but here it is a '78 TE, 200 motor T-bar auto; so I am rather a Cortina fan..... yeh, yeh, I love them!! The styling on the sedan and the wagon was just perfect but the only problem I had was the switches in the TC would break so I got to know my local Ford wrecker really well!!
Great find and still looks in fine fettle for the age. My favourite 70's classic car.... I owned a 2 door MK3 on a P reg back in the early 80's, with the ever reliable, but completely under-powerd 1.3 x-flow under the bonnet..!! I soon swapped out the 1.3 engine for the 1.6 GT xflow from a written off Escort MK2 and together with a 4 branch manifold & 32/36 Weber Twin choke, the transformation in acceleration was mind-bending... it went like stink... Happy memories
Another eminently watchable episode of BF. My dad's 1977 registered mk3 2.8 ghia Granada estate (with black vinyl roof and sunroof from factory) also spotted the same window etching stickers. Funny what you remember from your childhood all these years later. My bro and I slept in the back with the seats flat on many an overnight caravan drive to some obscure European or northern Scottish "caravan holiday park". Cheers for the all the hard work Johnny!!!! A++
A 72 MKIII was my first car, 1.6l auto. I was the 2nd owner in around 1988 and it was in mint condition with only 40,000 miles on it. Fluffy dice, Garfield stuck to the window 😅. Don’t see many around now, but always smile when I do.
Had a 1972 mark 3 2ltr Cortina estate back in the mid 1980's which i saved from being scraped and paid just £50 for, and had it for years. It was still running years after i sold it. Lovely car to work on and so easy.
My first car was a 1972 Cortina Mk3 1.6L but it had a 2000E grille, headlights and boot badge so looked the dogs. Being the earlier Mk3 it had the Kent engine and earlier dash but it did me well. Great vid as usual Jonny, thanks for the memories.
In Australia this model was also available with 2 different in line sixes - the Falcon 200 (3.3L) and the Falcon 250(4.1L). I don’t remember seeing many Pinto engine mark 3 cars here. By the time the ‘80s came, some guys were dropping 302 and 351 V8s in them.
Sure. A factory stock 4.1 six Cortina was quicker than a lot of factory stock V8 engine cars. With a V8 engine swap the Cortina was VERY fast in a straight line, (and sounded awesome). Some guys managed to make them handle reasonably well also.
Owned a mk III early eighties. It’s party trick was the gear stick coming off in your hand when changing gear. This was due to the nylon retaining bush wearing out. It had an electric radio aerial 👌
Back in the day I use to do the timing on these engines with a cigarette paper. Set the timing marks to whatever it is, if I recall correctly 10 degrees BTDC. Remove distributor cap, slacken distributor clamp bolt, rotate distributor until the ciggie paper would just slip in and then tighten clamp bolt. Eventually got a strobe light and compared the two methods and the ciggie paper method was always spot on. The joys of simplicity back then.
In the early 80's I picked up a blue 2000E auto as an mot failure, I rebuilt it as a manual car, resprayed it ford electric blue metallic, and switched the black vinyl roof for a white one, I managed to get hold of some J rim rostyles which I painted out the black inserts white, no mean feat having just passed my test, my mother christened it the pimp mobile, I loved it, and to this day its my most treasured memory of a car, sadly as is often the case I found myself strapped for cash and has to sell it, I'd see it now and again for a few years then never again...
I enjoyed reliving my past in this video. I bought a used one from Ron Headley in the1970s. He played cricket for Worcestershire and also worked as a car salesman in Stourbridge. The 2000E was white with a brown vinyl roof. It seemed to have a skittish rear end and needed a couple of concrete slabs in the boot during Winter. I used it to tow my family caravan. Unfortunately, the dreaded rust disease got into the underside and so it went for scrap for £50. I then had a Austin 2200 for 2 years before buying a Cortina Mk 3 saloon. Happy days.
The camera shot where Jonny is stood by the car quietly cleaning the plugs brought back memories. A man, his car and a pleasant Sunday afternoon trying to get the bl**dy car to start for Monday morning. My dad had a Mk4 and I often saw him stood doing that very same thing. Ah! The joys of owning an old Ford!
My dad had one of these when I was a lad. He used to bomb up and down for work from Derry to Larne in it. Flying machine in Copper with brown vinyl roof.
I've only just started watching and I'm already excited to watch the rest of it! My Dad used to have a Mk3 2000E with a 3 speed auto box. I loved it as a kid and always wanted one when I got older. By the time I could get my own car, Mk3's were quite rare but I was able to buy a rusty Mk5 instead, which I loved. I had some nice cars after that but nothing was ever quite the same. EDIT: Ok, finished watching now. Very nostalgic, thanks for this! My Dad's Mk3 was also an N reg, and I remember the wing mirrors being less square and pointy than on this car. I wonder if they were original or is it just my memory? Also when the engine turned over and ran, it didn't sound the same. I remember that pinto sound well, it was unique, and somehow this car didn't sound the same. It could just be me but I couldn't help noticing. Another point is that I don't THINK my Dad's Mk3 had a Weber carb. Oh well, just my thoughts. Great video!
@@marktaylor9678 That's interesting. I think the law changed at some point so they had to be put on doors. Maybe they were changed or it was a later model? My Dad's was an N reg, whatever year that was.
Ha..this video has brought back memories..I had a gold 2000E,in 1989,it was a 76/P Reg..Foolishly, I scrapped it in the summer of 1990..oh,I wish I hadn't now.. This black one looks to be in better condition than my one.. Brilliant video.. 👍👍👍
many people in Dagenham worked many shifts making these cars great memories some good some bad, so many made but all rusted to bits, so sad so much work went into their not rusting too many to mention I worked at various years in the 70s mark 3-4-5 console Grenadas and the first fiesta, I was the last paint sprayer before all done electrostatics thank for sharing
As someone who has had a hell of a lot of experience willing a Pinto engine to start myself, I could really empathise with the frustration of it not firing and then the ecstatic moment when it bursts into life. Massive thumbs up on this particular barn find vid (all the other content too obvs)
Slight correction: Mk3 Cortinas didn't have semi-elliptical leaf springs at the rear, as you stated in the caption at 17:41. They had a live rear axle located by trailing arms, with coil springs. Otherwise great video that brought back a lot of memories. I learned to drive in Daytona Yellow1973 Mk3 1600!
First company car I remember my old man getting, mk3 GOM 770N, Sierra beige! Then he had an S reg mk4 Cosmos(?) blue. We nearly drove out of our local Co-Op supermarket in a near identical model, Dad's key opened their boot, but the assorted detritus inside didn't look familiar... classic Ford key shenanigans. My first car at 18yo was an N reg 3.0 ltr Granada Ghia 🙈. Insurance was £330 per year TPFT (I worked for an insurance company, but it was about still only 1.5 weeks salary at the time). Opposite lock 🤡 on every roundabout commuting to work at 6.00 am. 45p per mile expenses in the early 80s kept me in fuel and tyres. Out of phase dizzy cap/ firing order is a rookie error. You're slacking. Love what you do, and the podcast is spit-a-drink-out funny every episode.👍
Interesting fact here which may explain the leads being wrong. Back in the day we had a ford Sierra with a pinto and the diagram for the plug leads in the Haynes manual had then 90 degrees out. We had a MK4 cortina later on and the diagram in the Haynes manual for that was them same. Fast forward many years later helping my mate with his vw camper and it refused to fire up and out of daftness I checked the position of the leads and found yet again the diagram in the Haynes manual was once again 90 degrees out. Stil good video and a lovely old car
I owned a 1300 mk111 back in 1970s, was a rust bucket when I bought it for £140 and did a lot of work on it, new sills and a lot of welding on the chassis, but got it through an MOT and ran it until I bought my current House, living so close to work and local shops I could not afford a car and mortgage so had to sell it, broke my heart but only until I could start driving again and bought a MK IV Ghia with a 2 litre engine and boy could that fly. I loved the Cortina's.
Hi Johnny yet another top episode of a truly great car my younger brother worked on these at a ford dealership and we all got involved doing an engine swop in a nearby pub car park due to lack of space outside our house happy days!
My first thought when I seen it’s black was that’s a unusual colour. I must not of seen many black ones but didn’t know it was a rare colour. Certainly suits it 👍
Trim rings on Rubery Owen style wheels! I had the four spoke Rostyle wheels on my Mk1 escort before changing to Wolfrace Slots. I forgot those ever existed. I had one of these cortina 2000E’s, in a metallic blue/Green, but it was an earlier version, K reg 73 model with the earlier dash.
Enjoyed that thank you , my dad had a 1972 MK3 in the mid 70s, Daytona Yellow 1.6GT. I even remember the reg number WBD 222K that's the impact old Fords have on just about any petrolhead whatever cars you like
In 1981 my first car at 16 was a red mk3 1600l quickly followed by a much nicer 2000e on a N plate BUT beige with vynel roof. Although beige it was nice looking, 2 ghia capris followed the mk3, s. Loved them all
Started my apprenticeship at a Ford dealer in 1973 so seen lots of cortinas including mk1 ,mk2 &mk4, when you first got that popping i thought plug leads are on wrong, i learn't the hard way during my 25yr stay at that garage.
My mates got an old mk3 Cortina, things bloody rapid and scares the absolute bejesus outta me (because it handles like a pig). It was a 4100cc inline 6 originally but he swapped in a barra that's pumping out 470kw at the rears (700+bhp in british money).. It wasn't exactly slow with the original crossflow 4.1 though.
As soon as you mentioned a box on the coil I thought sparkrite sx2000, had one on my first car, Dad's ex company Mk3 GT and a hidden switch as a form of immobiliser. You had to pump the accelerator twice to set the choke on cold start.
you don't need a timing light on old school just a test lead with a bulb to set the static ignition timing. check the points base plate which is movable by the vacuum advance diaphragm, these diaphragms often split.
Although I’m a VW guy I do love a mk3 Cortina, my uncle had one and I loved that car. Like Jonny it’s the Detroit/coke bottle styling that does it (I wanted a red one with a white Starsky stripe as I felt the styling was fairly similar to the Gran Torino) I don’t remember ever seeing a black one or at least a standard car in black, there was one local to me but it was heavily customised in a very ‘70s style with white letter tyres, big and little Wolfrace slot mags and a 3.0 V6 transplant. The dash on this later one in this video is very like the mk3 and 4 dash, my uncle’s was a ‘71 and had the deep bezels, much more American muscle car like styling.
My grandad had a 1.3 mk3 but changed it for a 2.0 to pull his caravan from memory they were both pre facelift he then went to the mk4 roll forward to 1984 i started my apprenticeship and the joiner who taught me had a red p reg 2000 e we drove all around to jobs in that car. I personally owned 2 mk5 and 2 mk4 cortinas befor going up to sierra and mondeos today i own a mk3 focus estate 2.0tdci titanium x
Love the old cars you can actually hear me rattle off the part numbers for all the parts 🤭 Hope they get a good price at the auction, deff one to be saved for ever 👍
Hi Jonny I had a mk111 Cortina my first car, yellow colour,put white wella alloys on ,tiny stering wheel ,black plastic slates on rear window ,reg no LHL721P ,1973,I owned it 1984 till 1990 fond memories
That is in such good condition That needs to be resurrected and driven again A bit of polish and amarall on the roof it will look like new 👍👍👍 I remember painting two of them many years ago
Yes, it’s not standard paintwork and it’s the facelift model, square Headlights and what was to become the mark 4 Cortina Dash. I believe that car was also fitted with anti roll bars too. Webber Twin choke Carb with ‘kick down’. Incidentally, Pinto is an overused term it’s the Ford single overhead Cam Engine. The ignition Coil was Ballasted so should only need 2 connections. Firing order is 1342. With the engine standing that long with Petrol in and evaporating over time, I would have cleaned out the Carb jets as they would be blocked before trying to start it.
I used to have 2 of those.. here in Australia, 1 was a 1974 model with a 2.0ltr 4cyl inline engine, with round headlights and sunroof, 4spd manual.. and the other, a 1975 4.1ltr, inline 6cyl.. C4 auto, with square headlights, which was a rocket, and would beat stock V8's.. 🙂🙂
My dad had a MK3 Cortina when I was around 3-4 in the late 70s. I think it was GL and it was a 1600. I don't have any recollection of it myself as I was so little at the time but my brother remembers it as he's 9 years my senior. I do recall my father who's 8 years deceased this year saying he actually wanted a Capri but because it was 3 door he had to get a Cortina.
Watching this brought back so many memories for me. I had a few pinto 2litre motors in my time. One was in a short wheelbase transit!! Great motors. Easy to work on and very reliable. I had a Cortina MK3 2L. I also had a beauty of a Granada Ghia 3itre V6 auto. Absolute brilliant car. Thankyou for bringing back happy memories..just subscribed to your channel. 🏴👍.
Back in the day, when I was born in 1971, my dad had a mauve Ford Corsair 2000E, but he always wanted to buy the MK3 Ford Cortina 2000E but never did and bought instead a MK3 Ford Cortina Estate in mauve colour as well. I remember when I was a kid, I use to play with my matchbox cars in the back of my dads Ford cortina estate, on a beige low pile carpet while he was driving along. And my mum and dad would say to me, what car is that driving pass, and I knew the names of every car on the road. And I remember as well, my dad was smoking a roll up with Golden Virginia Tobacco and somebody would cut him up without indicating and my dad would swear at them and my mum would have a go at my dad about swearing. Fond memories… Also, after watching this video, when it finished, TH-cam played an advert which was about Waitrose which I thought was a coincidence after you finding a Waitrose receipt in the back seat. The prayer card placed inside the front seat, you read out was sentimental. I’m sure the family will be sad to let it go, but it’s a shame they didn’t keep it maintained, or at least clean with the tyres pumped up. That’s the problem storing things, it’s easy to let things go when they start accumulating dust. 9:04
When I was a child, I would only ride in a Cortina, Anglia, Taunus, Escort or Granada. I never really thought of this before, but I must have been 7 or 8 before I even sat in any other car.
In better condition than my grandfather's 1976 MkIII (probably one of the last). It was so badly rustproofed within 18 months the wings were bubbling and the sills were on their way out. This in a car which was brand new and garaged every night. It was his last ever Ford and he made the leap to Datsuns, which in 1976 wasn't something many people did. He had Datsuns/Nissans for the next 30 years. I also remember my dad fitting a 'Sparkrite' to one of his cars, possibly a mid 70s Viva. The car was still hopeless!
Had a mk3 same as that one 2000E in orangely red colour. As far as I can remember the dizzy only fitted one way unless you turned it round 180° but it wouldn't sit correctly. The L/Rh rear box sections that came up under the boot rotted like hell and a a friend had the same sort of car with Automatic transmission..... That it's self had a inherent problem that was easy to fix.........If you knew what it was that is, but car garages didn't. His car was fitted with the FoMoCo auto box (don't see FoMoCo now days do you 😂) another other auto box used at the time was borg-warner.
The black cam cover suggests it's had a later engine fitted from a 1979 onwards car. The velour trim used on these E and Ghia Fords never lasted very long.
I save these videos for later as I don't want to be disturbed when I watch them. It's like my private secret club of older gits who love these barn finds of cars of our era.
These are the only videos on TH-cam that never get skipped forward. They're like an old whisky, every drop is to be appreciated!
Flippin' love you Jonny for these videos.
Agreed!
Sone of these funds are worth more than modern equivalents as well
Me too, I save watching them for a quiet `my time` moment, I love hearing them start up for the first time in years.
We got 4,1 ltr motors down under 🇭🇲
@@timwurr1448 yes we got them in NZ, those 4.1 also graced the transit too, one I got close to was converted to camper van around 1980-81 😀 👍👌💚
I just love how relatable this show is to us commoners. Not a show about some ultra exotic out of reach barn finds, but bringing back life to more common cars that were loved by someone.
Couldn’t agree more the best thing about the late break show
@@mrpuckles8704 brake#
This is what I love about the channel too 👏
Love Barn finds , must do the barn finds revisited as well keep up the great work 👍🏻👍🏻
I agree with what you say but unfortunately it is us commoners who cannot now afford to buy these barn find cars . Ultra exotic or not most of us would struggle to justify spending a small fortune to buy even this mk3 , even though I for one would absolutely love to.
these barn finds are going from strength to strength Jonny.... you need to do a TV series now :)
Somebody call Netflix....
@@TheLateBrakeShowspeed dial?
@@TheLateBrakeShow = Trust me Jonny, they're "losing out" BIG TIME
What a beautiful old thing. I love cars like this. To anyone else it's just an old mass produced car that's been forgotten about. But to the man who owned it, it meant the world, and is a treasure chest of memories. Must have been an emotional decision to let such a special car leave the family after all those years. Hopefully this Cortina will be bought by someone who understands the sentimental value it holds, and brings it back to life in a sympathetic way, so not as to lose it's character. This is such a special car, and a great one too. It deserves to be cherished, just as it's last owner did, and may it bring someone else just as much happiness. Great video Johnny. This one was special.
My dad had one just like that with the square light design spent hundreds of hours driving to France 🇫🇷 and back in it. We loved it.
Another great episode Jonny !
I bloomin love these Barn Find episodes. 💯
Such great content 😎 👍🏻
Great episode, reminds me of my father's 1974 Purple Velvet metallic Mk3 2000E, absolutely gorgeous car with black vinyl roof, loved that car all the time he owned it, I even remember the time that the cambelt broke, fortunately we were only traveling very slowly so nothing got damaged, new belt and we were back in business, lady luck was with dad that day 😇
Mine snapped on my 1976 2 litre XL, luckily for me Id only just pulled away when it went.
I loved my dads 1600GT mk 3.
He liked the deep set speedo cluster ( unlike this model )because mum couldn't see how fast he was going from the passenger seat.
us kids liked the high back front seats because dad couldn't reach back to clump us when we were playing up lol.
I also remember the steering wheel was slightly oval.
I had a 1976 2 litre XL automatic when I was 18, back in the days when a teenager could afford his own car.
Me and a mate went on a road trip from leafy Surrey to Loch Ness, back via Glen Coe, Loch Lomond, the Lake District, Blackpool and home in time for the Live Aid gig at Wembley.
1600 miles in a week, joined the ton-up club, took off over a humpback bridge in Northumberland, and the Cortina took it all in its stride.
Loved that car and the 1980s!
Wow. I find it so humbling that the love for her Grandfather and then the respect towards her mothers sentimental value meant the family held onto it until she passed and joined Grandad. What a lovely story.
Not enough to throw a couple of sheets over it.
@@CL-vz6ch I was thinking why couldn't they start it up now and again, drive it out the garage and give it a wash. It didn't take much to get it running
@@4Kandlez The masses nowadays don't seem to be interested or emotionally connected to cars period, is that down to PCP plans, disposable outlook on a vehicle in general? My first car were a MK3, at the age of 17 it meant the world to me, independence and freedom. Sadly the masses have been brainwashed over the last 30 years or so, now they want 15 minute cities and everything else that's part of this Great Reset agenda.😡
My parents had an Australian Mk3 (TD) Cortina station wagon for 10 years (1984-1994). Remember the old man working on that old Pinto engine. My first car was a TF (Mk5) Cortina with a 4-speed manual and my brother had a real nice TE Cortina. You just don’t see them anymore!
Look carefully in NZ, and you will find cherished Mk5's still about.
Love the MK3 Cortina, my grandpa has a bronze GXL with a black vinyl roof as his last ever company car in the early 70s. They gifted it to him when he retired and he sold it and bought a beige Hillman Hunter, I never forgave him.
Here in Australia, the Pinto was the base engine. We also had the 3.3l and 4.1l six cylinder engines from the Falcon in these as well. From memory the model lineup was L, XL, and XLE as the top specification
My Dad inherited a MkIII 2 door 1.6 Cortina in 1975. It was only 2 years old and my Dad had never owned such a new car. Still remember the reg: HON 281L - lots of happy childhood memories going on Sunday drives with a picnic. Loved reading the owners manual as well! I still have the original bill of sale - from Bristol Street Motors in Birmingham- think it was about £800 brand new 👍🏼 Thanks for sharing this memory about the chap that owned that car ♥️
My first car was a Cortina Mk 3 1973. Mine was also a 4-door, but only a 1.6L with the Kent engine. I vaguely remember the resistor on the coil was to prevent the spark becoming weak when the engine was being started: so it was like a 9V coil with, usually, about 3V dropped across the resistor - but when the engine was being cranked over, and the battery voltage collapsing due to the high starting current, the coil resistor would be bypassed to still provide a full strength spark.
I fitted one of those Sparkrite ignition kits to mine - they retained the contact breaker points, but the points only passed a low current to the Sparkrite unit, which had a big transistor to amplify that low current and actually drive the coil. With that fitted, it was always a great starter even with a virtually dead battery - if the engine turned over, at all, even on the coldest mornings, it always caught and ran.
close, the resistor did drop the coil to 9V and when cranking the full 12V was supplyed by a 2nd wire from the starter solenoid to boost the coil voltage 👍
Loved my 2 door mk1 with a 2litre pinto. Pretty quick for what it was . Used to even tow a trailer with a few motorbikes!
I had 2. A J reg then an M reg. Loved them both.
About 3 years ago a man who lives in our close brought one home on a trailer, took the fence down and pushed it into his back garden. I think it was a GL. As far as I know he restoring it, I hope so, I would like see it when it’s finished.
Fabulous , brings back great memories of my old 1600xl ! Also Dad had a 2000e and both my brothers had Mk3's . I remember fitting Sparkrite ignition to my brothers Capri ! Just a small point, rear suspension is coil springs not leaf. Brilliant video as usual
I'm 50 and yes I remember neighbours having one also as my eldest brother had a orange one, really bought back a lot of memories, our dad didn't want him to drive he always tried to get the keys off him, funny now but not so much then. Great video Johnny.
Well thats a very very well looked after Cortina. Great to see it running in the end. I believe it is a face lift Mk 3 as its got the square headlights and the dash/clocks which were fitted to the Mk 4. The original Mk 3 had 3 x round binnacles quite low down. And another WOW from me Jonny. You keep on unearthing these little gems. Well done.
Mine had round headlights and like the MK I Escort with them, looked much better.
yes the 2000E was the facelift top spec as the GXL was its predisasor
My 1976 Cortina 1.6L, NAL 688P, Signal Orange had the square / rectangular headlights.
@@Terminator-mi1jb P reg for a MK 3 was just before they brought out the Mk4 in R reg. Some MK 4 features were on the Mk 3's square headlights, different dash to name but two items.
Definitely got MK3 memories, my dad had a 2.0l XL same redge, red with black vinyl roof, it was his pride and joy, until someone in a Capri smashed into the back of us while on holiday in Dorset, replaced by a mk4 2.0l Ghia, that's another barn find 👍, great channel, I really enjoy it, cheers for creating it. genuine appreciate it.
I love the old MK3 Ford Cortina. I have memories from the 80's. Travelling to Cornwall in my Dad's estate one. Dad and Mum in the front, my Nan, Grandad and sister on the back seat and me in the back with the suitcase's.
Loved this episode, my Dad had a mk3 2000e estate in gold, and the 2ltr pinto was a fast engine back in the 70s. Thats where my love for mk2 escort started, still got the bug❤
Our family car around 1980 was a mk3 cortina GXL brown paint with vinyl roof quad round headlights a great looking car though incredible low back seat which wasn’t ideal to travel in as a young whipper snapper
Great episode Jonny
Weird to see you doing this on your own. Weren’t the owners interested in helping resurrect their own car? I’d have been out there with you in a heartbeat. Anyway, I recall these old cortina’s from when I was a boy. My uncle ran several in period. They were ubiquitous but the 2000 E was quite special if I recall. Rarely saw a black one though.
My first car in the '80's was a '72 1600 GT 4 door mk 111 in Daytona yellow with a black vinyl roof. I love the shape of it, and as it was a pre facelift, had the original deep set dials on the dash . I learned how to handle cars with the famed cortina cornering! Pinto, great but basic engine. Was in several of my cars...mk4 & 5 cortinas, sierra and mk3 capri....ah memories 😊
My dad bought a five year old 1976 Cortina 1.6XL from our neighbour whom bought it brand new., It had diamond white paintwork , black vinyl roof, red pin stripes. It was sold from new without a radio or speakers. I still remember the original dash panel in place of the radio. It served us well for 7 years after.
The '75 Cortina was called the 'TD' here in Australia and the E was an XLE for us. I had a '73 TC (with the round gauges) 3 speed manual on the floor with a 200 cubic inch 6 cylinder and that thing flew!! I have also had a '73 TC wagon with the 200 motor and T-bar auto and what you would call a Series 4 but here it is a '78 TE, 200 motor T-bar auto; so I am rather a Cortina fan..... yeh, yeh, I love them!!
The styling on the sedan and the wagon was just perfect but the only problem I had was the switches in the TC would break so I got to know my local Ford wrecker really well!!
Great find and still looks in fine fettle for the age. My favourite 70's classic car.... I owned a 2 door MK3 on a P reg back in the early 80's, with the ever reliable, but completely under-powerd 1.3 x-flow under the bonnet..!! I soon swapped out the 1.3 engine for the 1.6 GT xflow from a written off Escort MK2 and together with a 4 branch manifold & 32/36 Weber Twin choke, the transformation in acceleration was mind-bending... it went like stink... Happy memories
Another eminently watchable episode of BF. My dad's 1977 registered mk3 2.8 ghia Granada estate (with black vinyl roof and sunroof from factory) also spotted the same window etching stickers. Funny what you remember from your childhood all these years later. My bro and I slept in the back with the seats flat on many an overnight caravan drive to some obscure European or northern Scottish "caravan holiday park". Cheers for the all the hard work Johnny!!!! A++
I'm just amazed at all that space in the engine compartments! Wow! How times have changed!
A 72 MKIII was my first car, 1.6l auto. I was the 2nd owner in around 1988 and it was in mint condition with only 40,000 miles on it. Fluffy dice, Garfield stuck to the window 😅. Don’t see many around now, but always smile when I do.
Had a 1972 mark 3 2ltr Cortina estate back in the mid 1980's which i saved from being scraped and paid just £50 for, and had it for years. It was still running years after i sold it. Lovely car to work on and so easy.
My first car was a 1972 Cortina Mk3 1.6L but it had a 2000E grille, headlights and boot badge so looked the dogs. Being the earlier Mk3 it had the Kent engine and earlier dash but it did me well. Great vid as usual Jonny, thanks for the memories.
In Australia this model was also available with 2 different in line sixes - the Falcon 200 (3.3L) and the Falcon 250(4.1L). I don’t remember seeing many Pinto engine mark 3 cars here. By the time the ‘80s came, some guys were dropping 302 and 351 V8s in them.
Sure. A factory stock 4.1 six Cortina was quicker than a lot of factory stock V8 engine cars. With a V8 engine swap the Cortina was VERY fast in a straight line, (and sounded awesome). Some guys managed to make them handle reasonably well also.
Owned a mk III early eighties. It’s party trick was the gear stick coming off in your hand when changing gear. This was due to the nylon retaining bush wearing out. It had an electric radio aerial 👌
Also remember changing the radiator as it was leaking. Dead proud I was!
The Mk III and Mk I Cortinas are such beautifully styled cars! I would love to own either, but that's just a dream. Thanks, Jonny!
Back in the day I use to do the timing on these engines with a cigarette paper. Set the timing marks to whatever it is, if I recall correctly 10 degrees BTDC. Remove distributor cap, slacken distributor clamp bolt, rotate distributor until the ciggie paper would just slip in and then tighten clamp bolt. Eventually got a strobe light and compared the two methods and the ciggie paper method was always spot on. The joys of simplicity back then.
In the early 80's I picked up a blue 2000E auto as an mot failure, I rebuilt it as a manual car, resprayed it ford electric blue metallic, and switched the black vinyl roof for a white one, I managed to get hold of some J rim rostyles which I painted out the black inserts white, no mean feat having just passed my test, my mother christened it the pimp mobile, I loved it, and to this day its my most treasured memory of a car, sadly as is often the case I found myself strapped for cash and has to sell it, I'd see it now and again for a few years then never again...
I enjoyed reliving my past in this video. I bought a used one from Ron Headley in the1970s. He played cricket for Worcestershire and also worked as a car salesman in Stourbridge. The 2000E was white with a brown vinyl roof. It seemed to have a skittish rear end and needed a couple of concrete slabs in the boot during Winter. I used it to tow my family caravan. Unfortunately, the dreaded rust disease got into the underside and so it went for scrap for £50. I then had a Austin 2200 for 2 years before buying a Cortina Mk 3 saloon. Happy days.
The camera shot where Jonny is stood by the car quietly cleaning the plugs brought back memories. A man, his car and a pleasant Sunday afternoon trying to get the bl**dy car to start for Monday morning. My dad had a Mk4 and I often saw him stood doing that very same thing. Ah! The joys of owning an old Ford!
My dad had one of these when I was a lad. He used to bomb up and down for work from Derry to Larne in it. Flying machine in Copper with brown vinyl roof.
I've only just started watching and I'm already excited to watch the rest of it! My Dad used to have a Mk3 2000E with a 3 speed auto box. I loved it as a kid and always wanted one when I got older. By the time I could get my own car, Mk3's were quite rare but I was able to buy a rusty Mk5 instead, which I loved. I had some nice cars after that but nothing was ever quite the same. EDIT: Ok, finished watching now. Very nostalgic, thanks for this! My Dad's Mk3 was also an N reg, and I remember the wing mirrors being less square and pointy than on this car. I wonder if they were original or is it just my memory? Also when the engine turned over and ran, it didn't sound the same. I remember that pinto sound well, it was unique, and somehow this car didn't sound the same. It could just be me but I couldn't help noticing. Another point is that I don't THINK my Dad's Mk3 had a Weber carb. Oh well, just my thoughts. Great video!
My mirrors on my cotina 2000E were actually on the doors and not the wings
@@marktaylor9678 That's interesting. I think the law changed at some point so they had to be put on doors. Maybe they were changed or it was a later model? My Dad's was an N reg, whatever year that was.
Ha..this video has brought back memories..I had a gold 2000E,in 1989,it was a 76/P Reg..Foolishly, I scrapped it in the summer of 1990..oh,I wish I hadn't now..
This black one looks to be in better condition than my one..
Brilliant video.. 👍👍👍
many people in Dagenham worked many shifts making these cars great memories some good some bad, so many made but all rusted to bits, so sad so much work went into their not rusting too many to mention I worked at various years in the 70s mark 3-4-5 console Grenadas and the first fiesta, I was the last paint sprayer before all done electrostatics thank for sharing
As someone who has had a hell of a lot of experience willing a Pinto engine to start myself, I could really empathise with the frustration of it not firing and then the ecstatic moment when it bursts into life.
Massive thumbs up on this particular barn find vid (all the other content too obvs)
I used to work in a Ford main dealer from 1971 till 1992. Worked on loads of Cortinas
Slight correction: Mk3 Cortinas didn't have semi-elliptical leaf springs at the rear, as you stated in the caption at 17:41. They had a live rear axle located by trailing arms, with coil springs. Otherwise great video that brought back a lot of memories. I learned to drive in Daytona Yellow1973 Mk3 1600!
First company car I remember my old man getting, mk3 GOM 770N, Sierra beige! Then he had an S reg mk4 Cosmos(?) blue. We nearly drove out of our local Co-Op supermarket in a near identical model, Dad's key opened their boot, but the assorted detritus inside didn't look familiar... classic Ford key shenanigans.
My first car at 18yo was an N reg 3.0 ltr Granada Ghia 🙈. Insurance was £330 per year TPFT (I worked for an insurance company, but it was about still only 1.5 weeks salary at the time). Opposite lock 🤡 on every roundabout commuting to work at 6.00 am. 45p per mile expenses in the early 80s kept me in fuel and tyres.
Out of phase dizzy cap/ firing order is a rookie error. You're slacking.
Love what you do, and the podcast is spit-a-drink-out funny every episode.👍
Interesting fact here which may explain the leads being wrong. Back in the day we had a ford Sierra with a pinto and the diagram for the plug leads in the Haynes manual had then 90 degrees out. We had a MK4 cortina later on and the diagram in the Haynes manual for that was them same. Fast forward many years later helping my mate with his vw camper and it refused to fire up and out of daftness I checked the position of the leads and found yet again the diagram in the Haynes manual was once again 90 degrees out. Stil good video and a lovely old car
I owned a 1300 mk111 back in 1970s, was a rust bucket when I bought it for £140 and did a lot of work on it, new sills and a lot of welding on the chassis, but got it through an MOT and ran it until I bought my current House, living so close to work and local shops I could not afford a car and mortgage so had to sell it, broke my heart but only until I could start driving again and bought a MK IV Ghia with a 2 litre engine and boy could that fly. I loved the Cortina's.
Hi Johnny yet another top episode of a truly great car my younger brother worked on these at a ford dealership and we all got involved doing an engine swop in a nearby pub car park due to lack of space outside our house happy days!
Great car remember my dad having a mk3 gl estate loving the barn finds
My first thought when I seen it’s black was that’s a unusual colour. I must not of seen many black ones but didn’t know it was a rare colour. Certainly suits it 👍
Trim rings on Rubery Owen style wheels!
I had the four spoke Rostyle wheels on my Mk1 escort before changing to Wolfrace Slots.
I forgot those ever existed.
I had one of these cortina 2000E’s, in a metallic blue/Green, but it was an earlier version, K reg 73 model with the earlier dash.
So glad it got started in the end ,
I was in the REME in 1977 with a guy who owned a 3000E, a crazy car.
Enjoyed that thank you , my dad had a 1972 MK3 in the mid 70s, Daytona Yellow 1.6GT. I even remember the reg number WBD 222K that's the impact old Fords have on just about any petrolhead whatever cars you like
In 1981 my first car at 16 was a red mk3 1600l quickly followed by a much nicer 2000e on a N plate BUT beige with vynel roof. Although beige it was nice looking, 2 ghia capris followed the mk3, s. Loved them all
Started my apprenticeship at a Ford dealer in 1973 so seen lots of cortinas including mk1 ,mk2 &mk4, when you first got that popping i thought plug leads are on wrong, i learn't the hard way during my 25yr stay at that garage.
Such a well-presented program. thanks for another great upload.
My mates got an old mk3 Cortina, things bloody rapid and scares the absolute bejesus outta me (because it handles like a pig). It was a 4100cc inline 6 originally but he swapped in a barra that's pumping out 470kw at the rears (700+bhp in british money).. It wasn't exactly slow with the original crossflow 4.1 though.
As soon as you mentioned a box on the coil I thought sparkrite sx2000, had one on my first car, Dad's ex company Mk3 GT and a hidden switch as a form of immobiliser. You had to pump the accelerator twice to set the choke on cold start.
you don't need a timing light on old school just a test lead with a bulb to set the static ignition timing. check the points base plate which is movable by the vacuum advance diaphragm, these diaphragms often split.
My dad had a mk3 cortina 1.6l KVK 129P silver loved it
Hi Nice program . i had one in my younger days. 1,3 from 1974, my first car .
Brilliant videos old cars with fantastic stories keep it up very watchable cheers.
Pete C @ cortina city channel is the man to find this one a new home what he dosent know cortina isnt to be known lol another great show!
Although I’m a VW guy I do love a mk3 Cortina, my uncle had one and I loved that car. Like Jonny it’s the Detroit/coke bottle styling that does it (I wanted a red one with a white Starsky stripe as I felt the styling was fairly similar to the Gran Torino)
I don’t remember ever seeing a black one or at least a standard car in black, there was one local to me but it was heavily customised in a very ‘70s style with white letter tyres, big and little Wolfrace slot mags and a 3.0 V6 transplant. The dash on this later one in this video is very like the mk3 and 4 dash, my uncle’s was a ‘71 and had the deep bezels, much more American muscle car like styling.
My grandad had a 1.3 mk3 but changed it for a 2.0 to pull his caravan from memory they were both pre facelift he then went to the mk4 roll forward to 1984 i started my apprenticeship and the joiner who taught me had a red p reg 2000 e we drove all around to jobs in that car. I personally owned 2 mk5 and 2 mk4 cortinas befor going up to sierra and mondeos today i own a mk3 focus estate 2.0tdci titanium x
Love the old cars you can actually hear me rattle off the part numbers for all the parts 🤭
Hope they get a good price at the auction, deff one to be saved for ever 👍
Hi Jonny I had a mk111 Cortina my first car, yellow colour,put white wella alloys on ,tiny stering wheel ,black plastic slates on rear window ,reg no LHL721P ,1973,I owned it 1984 till 1990 fond memories
A great engine, snapped the timing belt on mine and fitted a new one by the side of the road and away to go.
I had a metalic green mark III GLX, black vinyl roof, green plastic seats, always covered in a towel in summer😂
I had a Mk3 2000E estate, wonderful car.
That is in such good condition
That needs to be resurrected and driven again
A bit of polish and amarall on the roof it will look like new 👍👍👍
I remember painting two of them many years ago
That sounded lovely ticking over...
I was given a mk3 Cortina by my Dad when I was 16. If only I could go back in time and tell myself not to get rid of it. Nor my mk1 1973 3ltr Capri.
Yes, it’s not standard paintwork and it’s the facelift model, square Headlights and what was to become the mark 4 Cortina Dash. I believe that car was also fitted with anti roll bars too. Webber Twin choke Carb with ‘kick down’. Incidentally, Pinto is an overused term it’s the Ford single overhead Cam Engine. The ignition Coil was Ballasted so should only need 2 connections. Firing order is 1342. With the engine standing that long with Petrol in and evaporating over time, I would have cleaned out the Carb jets as they would be blocked before trying to start it.
I used to have 2 of those.. here in Australia, 1 was a 1974 model with a 2.0ltr 4cyl inline engine, with round headlights and sunroof, 4spd manual.. and the other, a 1975 4.1ltr, inline 6cyl.. C4 auto, with square headlights, which was a rocket, and would beat stock V8's.. 🙂🙂
Beautiful car.. My dad had a N reg cortina 1.6 XL which he bought new in 1975.
That ending though 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nice to see... I had a mark 2 , 1300 in 1985
My dad had a MK3 Cortina when I was around 3-4 in the late 70s. I think it was GL and it was a 1600. I don't have any recollection of it myself as I was so little at the time but my brother remembers it as he's 9 years my senior. I do recall my father who's 8 years deceased this year saying he actually wanted a Capri but because it was 3 door he had to get a Cortina.
Watching this brought back so many memories for me. I had a few pinto 2litre motors in my time. One was in a short wheelbase transit!! Great motors. Easy to work on and very reliable. I had a Cortina MK3 2L. I also had a beauty of a Granada Ghia 3itre V6 auto. Absolute brilliant car. Thankyou for bringing back happy memories..just subscribed to your channel. 🏴👍.
Back in the day, when I was born in 1971, my dad had a mauve Ford Corsair 2000E, but he always wanted to buy the MK3 Ford Cortina 2000E but never did and bought instead a MK3 Ford Cortina Estate in mauve colour as well. I remember when I was a kid, I use to play with my matchbox cars in the back of my dads Ford cortina estate, on a beige low pile carpet while he was driving along. And my mum and dad would say to me, what car is that driving pass, and I knew the names of every car on the road. And I remember as well, my dad was smoking a roll up with Golden Virginia Tobacco and somebody would cut him up without indicating and my dad would swear at them and my mum would have a go at my dad about swearing. Fond memories…
Also, after watching this video, when it finished, TH-cam played an advert which was about Waitrose which I thought was a coincidence after you finding a Waitrose receipt in the back seat. The prayer card placed inside the front seat, you read out was sentimental. I’m sure the family will be sad to let it go, but it’s a shame they didn’t keep it maintained, or at least clean with the tyres pumped up. That’s the problem storing things, it’s easy to let things go when they start accumulating dust. 9:04
When I was a child, I would only ride in a Cortina, Anglia, Taunus, Escort or Granada. I never really thought of this before, but I must have been 7 or 8 before I even sat in any other car.
In better condition than my grandfather's 1976 MkIII (probably one of the last). It was so badly rustproofed within 18 months the wings were bubbling and the sills were on their way out. This in a car which was brand new and garaged every night.
It was his last ever Ford and he made the leap to Datsuns, which in 1976 wasn't something many people did. He had Datsuns/Nissans for the next 30 years.
I also remember my dad fitting a 'Sparkrite' to one of his cars, possibly a mid 70s Viva. The car was still hopeless!
if its like some other older cars that thing on the side of the coil you spoke about is only to stop interference with the radio when it's running
Had a mk3 same as that one 2000E in orangely red colour. As far as I can remember the dizzy only fitted one way unless you turned it round 180° but it wouldn't sit correctly. The L/Rh rear box sections that came up under the boot rotted like hell and a a friend had the same sort of car with Automatic transmission.....
That it's self had a inherent problem that was easy to fix.........If you knew what it was that is, but car garages didn't. His car was fitted with the FoMoCo auto box (don't see FoMoCo now days do you 😂) another other auto box used at the time was borg-warner.
My dad had a silver Mk3 2 door and a Mk3 estate when I was a kid.
I had a green M reg 200E and mine had a black vinyl roof and a beige interior. The Capri 3.0 Ghia I had came with a blue vinyl roof.
Best channel on TH-cam right now. Thank you.
In Australia this was a TC Cortina, Which had a 4.1 litre six cylinder option, From the Falcon
Johnny you need to send this to Pete at Cortina City he'd love it. .
Great vid bud.
I did wonder if the HT leads had been put on out of order.
What a honey!
The black cam cover suggests it's had a later engine fitted from a 1979 onwards car. The velour trim used on these E and Ghia Fords never lasted very long.
This is a proper car show!
I remember my dad had one exactly the same 2000E (P reg I believe) except in like a honeysuckle yellow with brown vinyl roof and trim. Great car.