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  1. Hi Cortinaman, I'm not sure whether you still own NBF369D, but I just rediscovered my original post after nine years..! DriveArchive - Vehicle History and Fate - Search Results
  2. A few (used) Cortina Mk.V parts which I have available: O/S/F indicator lamp unit £10 N/S/F indicator lamp unit (small crack, internal within plastic lens) £8 N/S tail lamp unit £15 O/S door mirror c/w remote £10 N/S door mirror £10 Rear bumper corners (pair) £10 All parts are available for collection from me in Ross on Wye - which is 10 miles east of Monmouth. I can e mail you pictures of parts if required. Otherwise postage available at cost. Regards, John. 07833 456450 sundaydriver@gmx.com
  3. Ha! I remember fitting an aftermarket Astrali wheel like that on my very first car ('65 1500GT) - the smaller diameter wheel and thicker rim somehow made the whole car feel more sporty! Halogen headlamps on ELJ were correct - but the white labels don't show up in this picture... I replaced the number plates soon after purchase because, after 17 years, the original pressed aluminium items were looking a little shabby. Replacement (holes type) steering wheel centre just visible in this rear end picture!
  4. Cheers Captain! Always a possibility I suppose, but I think that car was pucker - virtually one owner and never been messed with! There were still a few around like that in those days. ;)
  5. Interesting thread! As a kid back in the early '70s I was very much into Mk.III Cortinas. Our nextdoor neighbours (both sides) each ran 2000 GXLs, whilst my Dad had a boring 1600L estate... This would have been 1972, and all three of those cars would have been new that year! I myself would have been eight years old at the time. For me, the essence of a GXL was always the dashboard / centre console instruments and that 'sports' steering wheel with the holes pattern centre (shared with the GT). I always assumed that it was part of the GXL trim pack. Move on to 1990 and I acquired a pristine original '73 2000 GXL (long before Mk.IIIs became collectable I recognised - even back then - that they were disappearing fast!). That car had been virtually one owner from new, and I bought it from the deceased owner's widow. Strangely this GXL was fitted with the woodgrain steering wheel centre (a' la XL) which came as something of a disappointment to me at the time! Fortunately I already had a 'holes pattern' steering wheel centre in my garage - removed from a 1600GT which I'd scrapped a couple of years before. Curiously my GXL still had the correct sports gear knob, but the woodgrain steering wheel centre just seemed wrong... But I wonder now, was it something to do with interior trim colour? Every GXL I can remember seeing as a kid had a black interior (and steering wheel), whilst my GXL had tan seats and dashboard with a brown steering wheel. Could that be it perhaps?
  6. Yep. I bought it in Gloucester which is where I was living at the time and, yes, it was a local car (in Olympic Blue). DVLA database is not always a reliable indicator though. Just because they have lost trace of a car doesn't necessarily mean it no longer exists!
  7. Having a clearout at home yesterday came across some old photos of JDG903N, a 1975 1.3L 4 door which I owned for a while in the early nineties. It was a low mileage car, and still totally original at that time, having previously spent a number of years in long-term storage. Strange thing is that whilst I can remember buying this car from a friend who was a classic car collector, c.1991, I can't actually remember selling it... :unsure: All I know for sure is that I only kept it for about a year. DVLA shows it disappeared from their database, May '99, but does anyone know what happened to it?
  8. Wow! Thanks littlenewt2067. Three out of four ain't bad at all! :) And you're right, the 2.3GLS was already 'tax expired' when I bought it. Interestingly NBF is described as being green in colour... but it was definitely all white when I owned it back in the early nineties.
  9. Looking through a few old photographs of cars I once owned, I wondered if any of the following Cortinas are still out there? NBF369D '65 Mk.1 1500GT 2 door, which I sold to a chap from Tunbridge Wells in June 1991 KDD467E '67 Mk.1 1500GT 4 door, which I sold to a buyer from Burton on Trent, again June 1991 ELJ964L '73 Mk.3 2000 GXL 4 door, with which I won the MTOC Pat Barnes Cup in 1993(?), sold to a chap from Yorkshire (Halifax?) c.1994 VAD197X '82 Mk.5 2.3 GLS, the last Cortina that I owned, sold summer 2006 (I think..!) I imagine that the two Mk.1 GTs will have survived because they are... Mk.1 1500GTs! The 2000 GXL was in excellent condition when I sold it; the 2.3 GLS went incredibly well, but really needed a full resto. These are just a few of the Cortinas which I have owned in the past but are, I imagine, the only ones likely to have survived to this day.
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