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Say'Ford'and several names and images spring to mind: mass production; the'Model T '; the name'Henry'and the iconic signature style Logo. For my generation, growing up in the Seventies,'Capri'and'Escort ', are names that stay with us, as are windy words like Zephyr and Cortina for the Sixties folk. oriental escorts Brisbane
Ford cars are ubiquitous, and their images sustained, and several have popped up within my life. The initial that I could remember is just a beigey/goldey/ rusty coloured Mark IV Cortina.
The Mark IV was assembled in Dagenham, Essex, and was the United Kingdom's most popular car of the seventies, in production from 1976 - 79, and the successor to three previous generations / incarnations first released in 1962. That one was squarer and somehow chunkier than its forebears, and came as either as saloon or estate. You could get anything from a 1.3 litre to a 4.1 litre version somewhere in the world, with models being assembled in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in Taiwan and Korea. Brisbane Escorts
There were at the very least six previous owners listed for ours once we purchased it from a buddy with whom we Orienteered at weekends in the first eighties. It'd a brown vinyl roof, went like the clappers, and had a 2.0 litre engine fitted where once a humble 1.6 had rested. To begin, it included a screwdriver - no key - whilst the ignition bits had been removed at any given time when someone somewhere had nicked the thing. We were young, it was inexpensive: I recall that one of my cars as being fun. It followed a nasty, ill-judged, Mini which tried to kill us on the A37 south of Bristol, and our second car, a secure, dull, ordinary (except for the clever suspension system which caused the vehicle to sit up and take notice when the important thing was turned and engine started) Citroen GS in'Beige Opale '. Click here
Aside from a period owing an orange Orion (which you can open with just about any Ford key at the time (or so it seemed)), another significant Ford moment for me was witnessing a little corruption in industry in the Nineties, when a'Probe'was'gifted'to a parts buyer inturn for a favourable outcome on a contract. The person had expressed a pastime in the automobile to a Sales Director, whose company car it was, and it became part of an incentive package that included foreign travel, a samurai sword and a female of the night. But enough of the, jobs were lost, contracts renegotiated, and the entire world moved on - and now we find eleven million VW cars under scrutiny for some extremely questionable cheating business practices.