Andeh
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- Joined
- Oct 23, 2007
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- Cumbria, UK
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- Fiestas, Mondeos, Anglia, Austin 7, Corsair, Chrys
Corsair =/ Coarse Hair =/ Pube.
So on Saturday I went to get the latest round of winter tyres fitted on the blue Mondeo. While there I got wind that a friend was thinking of selling his Corsair. This is the same chap who back in 2012 sold us a NOS Anglia front badge, as well as a few other goodies when work on the Anglia first started.
He bought the Corsair to tinker with, and rebuilt the engine. These Mk2 Corsairs (or 'Airflow Corsairs' due to the new ventilation system) were fitted with the then brand new Ford V4 engine. It gained something of a reputation for both reliability (lack of) and refinement (lack of). This car has had it removed at some point in the past, and replaced with a 1600 Kent Crossflow, a development of the 1500 Pre-Crossflow I have in the Anglia. (Which ironically, was pulled out of a Mk1 Corsair!)
The previous owner never even finished running the new engine in properly, having only done a couple of hundred miles in it. He likes to work on cars more than driving them, and thus it sat outside for a couple of years rarely being used. Fast forward to this weekend, and I agreed to buy it. It's had a couple of winters outside which has flattened the paint a fair bit, and there's a few bits of surface rust emerging. There's a more serious bubble on the bottom of the driver's door, but otherwise the car is in really nice shape.
For those not familiar, the Corsair came out in 1963 after the Cortina, and was intended as a more upmarket car. It's based on Cortina underpinnings but with an extra 3 inches in the wheelbase, and a more spacious boot. The interior has plusher reclining seats, a wood dash (on the Mk2), soft closing doors and lots of other things to make it that bit more refined than the Cortina.
This car is to relieve some of the pressure on the Anglia, which gets, sometimes unfairly, driven hard keeping up with other classic Ford friends on summer runs. The Anglia can now go back to shiny show car (still driven everywhere I hasten to add), and this can pick up the fast road driving.
Feel free to ask any questions on this oddball...
Also I love these gauges.
So on Saturday I went to get the latest round of winter tyres fitted on the blue Mondeo. While there I got wind that a friend was thinking of selling his Corsair. This is the same chap who back in 2012 sold us a NOS Anglia front badge, as well as a few other goodies when work on the Anglia first started.
He bought the Corsair to tinker with, and rebuilt the engine. These Mk2 Corsairs (or 'Airflow Corsairs' due to the new ventilation system) were fitted with the then brand new Ford V4 engine. It gained something of a reputation for both reliability (lack of) and refinement (lack of). This car has had it removed at some point in the past, and replaced with a 1600 Kent Crossflow, a development of the 1500 Pre-Crossflow I have in the Anglia. (Which ironically, was pulled out of a Mk1 Corsair!)
The previous owner never even finished running the new engine in properly, having only done a couple of hundred miles in it. He likes to work on cars more than driving them, and thus it sat outside for a couple of years rarely being used. Fast forward to this weekend, and I agreed to buy it. It's had a couple of winters outside which has flattened the paint a fair bit, and there's a few bits of surface rust emerging. There's a more serious bubble on the bottom of the driver's door, but otherwise the car is in really nice shape.
For those not familiar, the Corsair came out in 1963 after the Cortina, and was intended as a more upmarket car. It's based on Cortina underpinnings but with an extra 3 inches in the wheelbase, and a more spacious boot. The interior has plusher reclining seats, a wood dash (on the Mk2), soft closing doors and lots of other things to make it that bit more refined than the Cortina.
This car is to relieve some of the pressure on the Anglia, which gets, sometimes unfairly, driven hard keeping up with other classic Ford friends on summer runs. The Anglia can now go back to shiny show car (still driven everywhere I hasten to add), and this can pick up the fast road driving.
Feel free to ask any questions on this oddball...
Also I love these gauges.
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