Cortina fans help needed....daft old romantic content

[capsuleboy]

Attatched is a period shot of my late fathers 1965 Mark 1 Cortina 1200 delux, DHJ458C, I am the smallest scamp in the back seat aged 4.

 

Where as I am a hopeless horder of classic tin, owning the best part of 200 cars over a 40 year period, dad only ever had 2 cars.

 

This was bought new from Perrys in Southend, with its predecessor,a white 100E Pop traded against it.

 

He lovingly looked after it until his passing 10 years latter, my brother then took it over, selling to a friend after a couple of years.

 

I managed to track it down and buy it back in the 80's, but accepting that restoration was beyond me, sold it to a club member to rescue.

 

Dvla tells me its been painted Orange and is still on the road, taxed but not MOT'd.

 

I now have the resources to restore it and would love more anything to have it back, it feels like a lost family member.

 

Anybody know anybody who might be able to help.

 

Bonus vast French tat sale to fund the resto if I did ever manage to get it back!

[eddyramrod]

I can't be any practical help I'm afraid, but Good Luck!  What a quest, and what a bloody good idea.

[danthecapriman]

It'd be great if you get it back. Nice story!

 

Maybe worth a thread on here, see what turns up. http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/ipb/index.php?/index

If it's now orange something tells me it may not be original anymore, but it's amazing that it's survived at all.

[fordperv]

Try buysellcortina as well,

 

Googling the reg brings you to a post on oldskoolford the guy who had it in 2006 username is Awesome Al might be worth signing up and trying to get in touch with him

 

I've just clicked in I know that reg, it featured in classic ford in the slot car cortina feature

 

What do I win

[egg]

10 years ago it got a mention on an Ace Cafe meet here....(oldskoolford as mentioned above)

 

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/ipb/index.php?/topic/136-ace-cafe-meet-16th-september/page-7

 

was owned by forum user Awesome Al - join and message him?

 

Edit: Fordperv beat me to it by 10 mins - sorry for duplication!

[fordperv]

Here's the cover of the classic ford it was featured in

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Someone was on a mission to get it back on the road in 2006 , from rotten basket case to MOT pass in 9 days.

[capsuleboy]

Done that, thanks for the tip...

[capsuleboy]

Thanks Fordperve, what date is the mag?

[capsuleboy]

Found it and bought off ebay, the magazine that is...

[mercrocker]

A hot lead in less than three hours ...Nobody rubbish the internet again! 

Love stories like this, good luck with your quest.   Much as I appreciate altered stuff it would be great to see this looking like the first pic again.

[fordperv]

Found it and bought off ebay, the magazine that is...

Here's the for sale ad for the car from a few years back

http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=53599

[Isaac Hunt]

Excllent to see it might have survived, albeit a bit 'tweaked'

[carlo]

Excllent to see it might have survived, albeit a bit 'tweaked'

 

Yes I fear the only thing left original may be the reg number!  A lovely challenge though to return it to what it looked like in the first pic.

[Pete-M]

I like it in the orange with the big blag minilites.

[oldcars]

This is great, hope you can track it down.

[derskine]

Asking on the MK1 Cortina owners club Facebook page may prove helpful, if you are on Facebook.

There's a forum on the website but I think you need to be a paid member and barely anyone uses it anyway.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

A lovely challenge though to return it to what it looked like in the first pic.

This. I guess the key thing will be price/value, assuming the current owner is even interested in selling. It's a classic Ford, so I assume worth solid money if in decent nick. Much like Carlo, I reckon it deserves to go back to standard looking, body wise at least, rather than the current, same old, sheep style exterior that every other classic Ford wears. There's a great thread on VZI where a lad tracked down his fathers original 60's bug, completely restored it himself, then used it at his wedding. I love stories like this - good luck with the search.

[AlabamaShrimp]

My dad used to have a blue 120Y. It was a real peach, was a sad day when it got sold.

 

Luckily after a bit of a search I was able to find it again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If only I'd known it was in the cupboard all along!

[Timewaster]

All my dad's cars are Chinese saucepans by now.

 

So if your soup tastes a bit rusty you have probably got his Renner 12

 

Good luck with the search....

[sierraman]

The Talbot Alpine my dad had wouldn't have even been good for bean cans.

[mercrocker]

Sadly, none of my father's or grandfather's stuff has survived so I won't be able to spend my own grandchildren's inheritance in a heartfelt rescue and restoration story....Although, oddly, Grandad's Wolseley 15/60 number plate has survived on a 2005 Nissan 4x4.  Wouldn't mind having that back.....

[Pete-M]

I'm trying to trace my dad's old Silver Shadow LBL60E. The plate has vanished and I don't know the VIN.

[Isaac Hunt]

All my dad's cars are Chinese saucepans by now.

 

So if your soup tastes a bit rusty you have probably got his Renner 12

 

Good luck with the search....

or worse, some of that rusty iron is in your new car, the rest was once a Maurice Morona