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HWN
Member Since: 23 Feb 2018
Location: Near Llanybydder (near Puff!)
Posts: 4590
  
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| Cortina Owners & Dick Emery |
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With some very nice vehicles in the background.
It's probably "offensive" these days, but I really can't see why.
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14430
  
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 Brings back memories.  D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner 
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 31st Mar 2019 8:41 am |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
Posts: 15496
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You are awful posting stuff like this. DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
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| 31st Mar 2019 9:20 am |
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Geoff at Drym
Member Since: 18 May 2015
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 584
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Happy days! 2007 Disco3 2.7 tdv6 SE
gvif with reversing camera
V8 brakes with new EPB module and shoes
Later D4 grille
Alive tuning remap
Mazda MX5
Ferguson ted20 tractor
Hyundai Getz 1.4 (wife's )
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| 31st Mar 2019 9:58 am |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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My Father had a yellow Cortina in the early 70’s. Meant to be a step up from my Mothers Austin Cambridge which she’d just got from trading in her old Morris Minor with those sticky up indicators on the side. The Reg. No. was 5JMN, but everyone had that sort of plate back then.
In truth, they were all terrible cars. If they weren’t breaking down, then then suffered from rust. I can never understand why people restore them. Best forgotten.
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| 31st Mar 2019 10:43 am |
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Ted Newman
Member Since: 09 Oct 2010
Location: SE London
Posts: 840
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Had at least 5 Cortinas during the early seventies and before that 2 Camrdidges as well as a Minor -- none of them ever broke down on me BUT I do confess the ''tin worm'' had got at them!
 LR Discovery 4 XS pulling an Airstream 532 Caravan also own (since new) a 1996 MGF
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| 31st Mar 2019 11:00 am |
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Dexter
Member Since: 21 Sep 2007
Location: Aberdeenshire
Posts: 1394
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Dad had several Cortina company cars 70s and 80s, he loved them all and they were very reliable and he did huge mileage in them.
His first BL cars were a different story, a Marina and a Princess that spent more time in the garage than on the road.
The boss at work then had a 2.3 Mk 4 Cortina that we used to hoon about in.
I actually saw a Mk 4 on the road yesterday, a rare sight now.
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| 31st Mar 2019 11:37 am |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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Ted Newman wrote:Had at least 5 Cortinas during the early seventies and before that 2 Camrdidges as well as a Minor -- none of them ever broke down on me BUT I do confess the ''tin worm'' had got at them!
I have vivid recollections when I was a kid of going south to London in the rear of the Morris Minor over the Dava Moor near Nairn. Del will know where that is.
We had only been going an hour and behold the car developed a fire in the engine compartment, smoke everywhere. We stopped, my father got water from a nearby burn and dowsed the fire. We then continued on our way. Nothing was ever said. I then lived in fear of that car. I was quite sure I was going to get burnt to death in it. 
Mind you, you couldn’t do that with the cars if today, I’ll give you that.
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| 31st Mar 2019 4:50 pm |
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HWN
Member Since: 23 Feb 2018
Location: Near Llanybydder (near Puff!)
Posts: 4590
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^^ No wonder you are complaining about them going rusty: chucking buckets of water over the important bits isn't exactly going to help!
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| 31st Mar 2019 5:35 pm |
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garfield2
Member Since: 24 Jul 2008
Location: morley, leeds
Posts: 316
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The Dundonian
We had only been going an hour and behold the car developed a fire in the engine compartment, smoke everywhere.
And years later we drive a Discovery 
Loved our family Morris minor,
Regards
Martin Discovery 4.5 HSE 2015 MY
Discovery 3 SE 2007 MY gone with spinning journals
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| 31st Mar 2019 7:17 pm |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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Oh, that Morris Minor was fated. When we were nearing London at Lakenheath Airbase, I thought my time had come. I didn’t appreciate the terrible noise was the jets! I thought the car engine was going to explode.
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| 31st Mar 2019 7:50 pm |
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