Help me choose

[Bren]

The 'tina is much more desirable - if you get fed up you could probably sell it all day long (my mate has a GT 2 door - he could'nt go anywhere in it without somebody offering ££££££), you could also move the shovit on, but I doubt it would get the same interest.

 

For me, it's got to be the ford.

[MK5 Escort]

A very difficult choice given the rarity of both models. Like others, I’d happily take either.

 

I’ve certainly don’t recall seeing a Chevanne in the metal on open roads since the turn of the century.Providing it’s serviced on the dot, the 1256cc is a very reliable old lump, although noisy once up to typical dual carriageway speeds. A unit which served my grandad for over two decades with little trouble anyway...

 

As for the Cortina, well as already stated, it would certainly be worth more and apeal to a wider audience, but if you aren't interested in selling either, does that really matter?

 

For me, I'd probably take the Chevanne - just.

[HillmanImp]

I reckon Cortina. If you are wanting to use the van as a van, then i suppose van but if its just to use as an old car i would want to drive the Cortina.

[seth]

Either, because whichever you do first just means that the other one will come afterwards.

[Station]

Do the one that needs bodywork first, and then the other one second, though I like that Chevanne.

[In The Pit]

Decide which one you like the best and want to drive the most.

 

My choice would be the Cortina but I wouldn't bother with a Zetec put the original 2000 Pinto in they are a reliable and good engine as long as they have regular oil changes (im sure you know this). Atleast then it'll drive like a Cortina and not a strange Mondeo.

 

Which ever one you leave outside spend some time holding back the rust and maybe get a car cover for it.

[scaryoldcortina]

My choice would be the Cortina but I wouldn't bother with a Zetec put the original 2000 Pinto in they are a reliable and good engine as long as they have regular oil changes (im sure you know this). Atleast then it'll drive like a Cortina and not a strange Mondeo.

 

Trouble is, I can't put the pinto back. I kinda borrowed it for a capri which got driven towards mongolia a couple of years back and haven't seen it since.

 

Also, my other zetec tina doesn't drive like a strangee mondeo, it's more like a lotus tina that had 3 weetabix but unfortunatly the suspension is all rather tired and it handles like Oliver Reed after a heavy night on the town. I have brand new uprated springs and shocks waiting to go on the mk3, and a homebrewed granada/sierra vented disk conversion for the front as well. Oh, and the megasquirt I built a couple of years ago... I reaaallly should get this car together. But I like the chevanne, and I miss it's ability to carry lots of shite. I had to cram loads of hardwood flooring into a sierra sapphire this morning*, it was a pain in the arse! If I had my van, it would have been easy, not to mention more kosher looking. I was wearing a hi-viz though.

 

*look, when you have a log stove and live on a flipping mountain, any skip with wood in it is free heat.

[AnthonyG]

If you asked this question on any other forum (except perhaps RR or the Chevette owners club) the answer would be the Cortina, but since this is Autoshite, the home of the unloved, it has to be the Chevanne.

 

I think you are a lucky man to own both!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I vote Chevanne as my dad used to drive round in one when i was younger. Also when i went through a phase of digging traps I dug a nice big one at the bottom of our drive and he drove the chevanne straight into it one night! the tw@.

[Vin]

I vote Chevanne first, as it's the more interesting of the two. To me anyway.

 

Also when i went through a phase of digging traps I dug a nice big one at the bottom of our drive and he drove the chevanne straight into it one night! the tw@.

 

What on earth where you trying to catch with your Chevanne size 'traps' Bol ...Livestock