Private Life of the Ford Cortina

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I've just uploaded a number of adverts for the MK3 Cortina and part of a promotional video which i think is great, 6 children on the back seat, they didn't care about children's safety so much back then!

 

 

Jackie Stewart wasn't into kids safety much either! 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5shcLdKkFe4

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[sheffcortinacentre]

shame the sunroof was only avl on export versions.

[BorniteIdentity]

Holy thread etc blah.

This is now on iPlayer under the Arena@50 thread. What a lovely piece of tv and a great strand of documentaries.

I’ve spent the last hour contemplating:

1- How can someone as eloquent as the chap with the blue Cortina actually be @tooSavvy

2- Was his wife wearing a bra? It’s touch and go.

3- Did anyone find Alexei Sayle funny? I know it’s easy to apply modern standards to old material, but it’s neither clever or silly. Just strikes me as someone trying hard to be counter-culture and edgy. Many of his contemporaries (Young Ones etc) were very funny. He just leaves me stone cold.

[cort1977]

Cheers for that, must have seen it in the 90s at some point but will love to watch it again.

Just advised the wife that I had got something great for us to watch.

She's delighted*.

[tooSavvy]

26 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Holy thread etc blah.

This is now on iPlayer under the Arena@50 thread. What a lovely piece of tv and a great strand of documentaries.

I’ve spent the last hour contemplating:

1- How can someone as eloquent as the chap with the blue Cortina actually be @tooSavvy

2- Was his wife wearing a bra? It’s touch and go.

Ahh.... Was that boy cute 🫣. I'm still standing 👍

Go?... gone these 40yr TF.......

🚙💨

[Matty]

2 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Holy thread etc blah.

This is now on iPlayer under the Arena@50 thread. What a lovely piece of tv and a great strand of documentaries.

I’ve spent the last hour contemplating:

1- How can someone as eloquent as the chap with the blue Cortina actually be @tooSavvy

2- Was his wife wearing a bra? It’s touch and go.

3- Did anyone find Alexei Sayle funny? I know it’s easy to apply modern standards to old material, but it’s neither clever or silly. Just strikes me as someone trying hard to be counter-culture and edgy. Many of his contemporaries (Young Ones etc) were very funny. He just leaves me stone cold.

I heard him on radio 4 recently. Id have agreed with you before but after that yes he is funny.

Edit

Bornite can you make give easy pointers for a luddite to find it? Id really like to give it a watch.

[Billy - Medhurst]

10 minutes ago, Matty said:

I heard him on radio 4 recently. Id have agreed with you before but after that yes he is funny.

Edit

Bornite can you make give easy pointers for a luddite to find it? Id really like to give it a watch.

Arena - The Private Life of the Ford Cortina - BBC iPlayer

[sheffcortinacentre]

7 hours ago, cort1977 said:

Cheers for that, must have seen it in the 90s at some point but will love to watch it again.

Just advised the wife that I had got something great for us to watch.

She's delighted*.

83ish I think, remember watching it at the time I managed to get hold of a gen BBC copy in the early 90s from them. Which is in my archive.

[cort1977]

Yeah, made 83 but I was only 5 years old so can't have watched it at the time. It must have been repeated at some point in the 90s because I definitely remember watching it at home as a teenager. 

 

[lesapandre]

17 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Holy thread etc blah.

This is now on iPlayer under the Arena@50 thread. What a lovely piece of tv and a great strand of documentaries.

I’ve spent the last hour contemplating:

1- How can someone as eloquent as the chap with the blue Cortina actually be @tooSavvy

2- Was his wife wearing a bra? It’s touch and go.

3- Did anyone find Alexei Sayle funny? I know it’s easy to apply modern standards to old material, but it’s neither clever or silly. Just strikes me as someone trying hard to be counter-culture and edgy. Many of his contemporaries (Young Ones etc) were very funny. He just leaves me stone cold.

He's briefly in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 

Quite a car enthusiast - used to do motoring reviews for the papers.

[Matty]

On 15/06/2013 at 10:09, tooSavvy said:

....Ahhhh!

 

GR8....

 

I'm the one with the Bloo Mklll Cort [&Ex wife too].... I'd have another Cort  .

 

...oh & yes:- I really did split the diff and "shim up for wear!"

 

tooSavvy

Ive just met young @tooSavvy!!!!!

Absolutely blown my mind that 😁

[Wibble]

I watched it again today too, can’t believe that’s @tooSavvy😆

[Matty]

1 minute ago, Wibble said:

I watched it again today too, can’t believe that’s @tooSavvy😆

Whats really freaked me out is that, in real life, Savv talks proper english. I mean like a shit load better than me!

[grogee]

Me too m8

[sheffcortinacentre]

Pickup is now white & sorn ,but no details for the std EST.

[cort1977]

I'm pretty sure that Alan Lambert had a V8 Sierra in the 90s, seem to recall reading about it in Street Machine.

[Somerset Suffolk]

On 25/01/2026 at 17:31, BorniteIdentity said:

Holy thread etc blah.

This is now on iPlayer under the Arena@50 thread. What a lovely piece of tv and a great strand of documentaries.

I’ve spent the last hour contemplating:

1- How can someone as eloquent as the chap with the blue Cortina actually be @tooSavvy

2- Was his wife wearing a bra? It’s touch and go.

3- Did anyone find Alexei Sayle funny? I know it’s easy to apply modern standards to old material, but it’s neither clever or silly. Just strikes me as someone trying hard to be counter-culture and edgy. Many of his contemporaries (Young Ones etc) were very funny. He just leaves me stone cold.

4- Jon Pertwee voice over ? (1970's Ford Cortina Mk3 advert) 

[Scott Chegg]

Watched this last night thanks to this thread and very much enjoyed it. I'm slightly too young to remember Cortinas so this helped explain some of the mystique.