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[algot1901]

When watching British car shows I have noticed some strange simalaritys to certain Ford cars, there is one that looks like a early 60's Tbird some look like a Falcon but I never hear much about these cars
Thanks

 

[equiprx]

When watching British car shows I have noticed some strange simalaritys to certain Ford cars, there is one that looks like a early 60's Tbird some look like a Falcon but I never hear much about these cars
Thanks

What little I know about English Fords is that some of the models were junky.
Others were fantastic like the Cortina and Escorts.
Many members here can give you more correct info.

 

[JPSmit]

What little I know about English Fords is that some of the models were junky.
Others were fantastic like the Cortina and Escorts.
Many members here can give you more correct info.

Not sure that they were any junkier than the rest of what was being produced in North America (Pinto/ Vega/ 70's rust/ Malaise era) However, most were underpowered and undersized for American roads and American tastes and hardly any came over.

My Vauxhall for instance - the HB came to Canada (not the USA) and the GT (mine) only ever came to Canada for one year - so, 200, 300 cars? A few years ago we had a guy locally who had moved to Canada with a number of containers of NOS British car parts. Aside from the fact that he was dishonest and a bit of a jerk most of the parts were for cars that never came here: Wolesley, Riley etc. Add to that a poor dealer/ service network for all of them and the woes of British Leyland over many of those years and you have a recipe for disaster.

My mother and her sister crossed the USA in the laste 50's in a Morris Minor - somewhere they had a flat tire and had to wait 3 days for the proper sized tire to arrive.

And, of course there were the cars (including the ones Steve mentioned) that were built to what they thought Americans wanted (Austin Atlantic)

Next weekend is British Car Day and while I don't attend these days, when I did, I was in charge of the 'orphans' parking area: Corsair, Austin America, Prefect, Anglia etc. While not to everyone's taste they all run well and are proudly owned and frankly a heck of a lot more interesting than 60 mostly similar Midgets or 100 nearly identical Bs or Minis (no disrespect - I just like goofy cars)

Finally, yesterday I was chatting with a guy who had a lovely 1978 Porsche 924. In terms of design it was light years ahead of the Midget in spite of only being two years newer. Fuel Injection. sharp design, great seats, dry in the rain. By comparison Ms Triss has a shape and gubbins dating to at least 1961.

always an interesting conversation for sure

 

[AngliaGT]

When watching British car shows I have noticed some strange simalaritys to certain Ford cars, there is one that looks like a early 60's Tbird some look like a Falcon but I never hear much about these cars
Thanks

You're probably referring to the Corsair & the Cortina MKII.

 

[algot1901]

yup that is it

 

[AngliaGT]

I've owned both of those.

 

[billspohn]

We got Fords in Canada that never made it to the US - Mk 3 Cortinas and such. We also had lots of older British Fords - Ford Defects were plentiful and there were lots of early Cortinas, Anglias, Consuls etc.

 

[AngliaGT]

Here's the MKIII that I picked up near Butchart Gardens years ago.
I had a MKI,II & III all at the same time.