Just For(d) a Change....

geneandbolly · 11-03-12, 10:41 AM

The perfect Mk4 Cortina perhaps? Would look nice alongside mine!!

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classifi...ge/1?logcode=p

Kenquattro · 11-03-12, 10:43 AM

Are they 'Ghia' badges near the bottom of all four doors?

Daveymaclad · 11-03-12, 11:02 AM

Wow

Back when cars came with four seats a steering wheel and an ashtray and NOTHING else!

dgacampbell · 11-03-12, 11:19 AM

Wow! Really Nice, what can i sell...........

. anyone need a kidney????

Minty · 11-03-12, 11:51 AM

That is pretty close to the real meaning of timewarp.

Nice though it is, it seems to me that where some cars, such as G and H plate Audi 100's for eg, are down near the bottom of their price curves - as often occurs around age 20 years - 70's Fords are sky-high & unsustainable. Do others agree or am I missing something?

PeterB · 11-03-12, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Minty

That is pretty close to the real meaning of timewarp.

Nice though it is, it seems to me that where some cars, such as G and H plate Audi 100's for eg, are down near the bottom of their price curves - as often occurs around age 20 years - 70's Fords are sky-high & unsustainable. Do others agree or am I missing something?

That'll be the 'scene tax'. After all, everyone seems to remember Fords looming large in their life at some point.
Before I was born my dad owned a Mk1 Escort (2 door!) and then a Capri XL in '73 as a company car (He wasn't allowed the GT apparently!).

One of my sisters early boyfriends had a sky blue Cortina Mk4, all kitted out inside with Pioneer gear. I thought it was the coolest thing ever at the time!
Hell, I even remember regulary going to primary school in a light metallic green Mk4 Cortina taxi.

Love this white one though, brings back some memories.
Anyone else remember the interior smell of a new Ford of that era? It was fantastic!

geneandbolly · 11-03-12, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by PeterB

Anyone else remember the interior smell of a new Ford of that era? It was fantastic!

yup, i remember that smell as if it were yesterday!

my dad used to get a new company car every 3 years and
remember the excitement (aged 10) of him driving up the gravel
path with his lovely new red 1.6L mk4 cortina and taking us
all out a run down the boulevard in it.

the smell was overwhelming
as was the excitement of the space aged green illuminated dash
with the weird brightly coloured warning lights below the gauges -
still to this day when i'm out in my mk4 i like to put full beams on
just to remind me of those halcyon days in the '70s.

i love ya, dad!!

geneandbolly · 11-03-12, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenquattro

Are they 'Ghia' badges near the bottom of all four doors?

i have no idea what they are. my eye was drawn to that too when i saw the ad.
probably the previous owner's "wee bit o' flash"!!

dgacampbell · 11-03-12, 02:26 PM

Same sort of memories here too, never will forget that smell, my dad too had one as one of his company cars while he worked at Bose Ireland.

Alg · 11-03-12, 02:50 PM

If I just had to savour the MK4 Cortina experience and was feeling flush then I would just about maybe perhaps, at a reluctant push, buy this one instead.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C240396

Seriously though, having owned MK3,4 and 5 Cortinas the experience is nothing to write home about. I can understand the RS Escorts fetching enthusiast prices but the "drive" from a MK4 2 litre Ghia Cortina will have nothing in the way of dynamics going for it what so ever.

The sellers are chancers at that price so it'll either get bought and stuck in storage again to emerge in the 2020s as an even more expensive nostalgic time-warp butterfly or some poor deluded well-off fool will get caught up in the moment and find out the expensive way that just because a car is 30 years old it doesn't make it worth owning.
Even when new they were crap to drive with no redeeming features.

Cynically, I'd lay odds on a rust bubble under one of those Ghia badges.

Jebus, I'm getting old and grumpy.

11-03-12, 11:02 AM	#3
Daveymaclad 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Bursledon - Southampton Posts: 2,575	Wow Back when cars came with four seats a steering wheel and an ashtray and NOTHING else! __________________ 2008 RS6 avant SOLD 1988 UR Quattro

11-03-12, 11:19 AM	#4
dgacampbell Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Co.Armagh, N.Ireland Posts: 1,442	Wow! Really Nice, what can i sell............ anyone need a kidney????

11-03-12, 10:43 AM	#2
Kenquattro 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 6,267	Are they 'Ghia' badges near the bottom of all four doors?

11-03-12, 11:51 AM	#5
Minty Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Wirral Posts: 1,528	That is pretty close to the real meaning of timewarp. Nice though it is, it seems to me that where some cars, such as G and H plate Audi 100's for eg, are down near the bottom of their price curves - as often occurs around age 20 years - 70's Fords are sky-high & unsustainable. Do others agree or am I missing something?

11-03-12, 02:26 PM	#9
dgacampbell Senior Member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Co.Armagh, N.Ireland Posts: 1,442	Same sort of memories here too, never will forget that smell, my dad too had one as one of his company cars while he worked at Bose Ireland.

11-03-12, 02:50 PM	#10
Alg Grown up member Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 135	If I just had to savour the MK4 Cortina experience and was feeling flush then I would just about maybe perhaps, at a reluctant push, buy this one instead. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C240396 Seriously though, having owned MK3,4 and 5 Cortinas the experience is nothing to write home about. I can understand the RS Escorts fetching enthusiast prices but the "drive" from a MK4 2 litre Ghia Cortina will have nothing in the way of dynamics going for it what so ever. The sellers are chancers at that price so it'll either get bought and stuck in storage again to emerge in the 2020s as an even more expensive nostalgic time-warp butterfly or some poor deluded well-off fool will get caught up in the moment and find out the expensive way that just because a car is 30 years old it doesn't make it worth owning. Even when new they were crap to drive with no redeeming features. Cynically, I'd lay odds on a rust bubble under one of those Ghia badges. Jebus, I'm getting old and grumpy.