Nice. I always liked the look of those when I was a kid.I had the misfortune to own one of these, the V4 2 litre model
It had the handling of a fast jelly, and the final insult (apart from the speedo suddenly deciding to read 70mph when doing thirty, was when I went out one winter morning turned the ignition key and there was a strange high pitched shriek from the engine bay
We stripped it down at the weekend to find that the starter ring had fallen off the flywheel and the starter gear pinion chewed some teeth off when it got trapped against the casing.
Ah well another visit to the scrap yard initially to get spared, and then to let them pick the car up and scrap it as things were even worse than we though when we got the engine out.
My dad had a Mk2 Cortina 1600E. That was a great car. I can still remember the image of him driving along the driveway up to the house when he’d been to pick it up. It was his first new car.
After owning it for a couple of years, he put a Lotus 1.6 twin cam engine in it from a Lotus Elan that his friend had written off. I remember him upgrading the suspension & brakes too. It was never as reliable after that, but it sounded great and went like a rocket. I wish I had it now.