I love this, in a shite old car kind of way/

Just noticed in the listing, yes it has.

I like it. Over here they came out with a 4.1 crossflow 6. I had a friend with one. Used to hammer.

Fraser

Standard was upto 2 litres, or maybe a 2.3. Never went bigger than that.

You guys were ripped off.

This is kind of what my friends was like. In South Africa you could get them with a V8.

Fraser

Welcome to ripoff britain ;)

Man, I want an old Cortina again..

I put a 2.8i Capri engine and box in a Mk4 years ago, that went like f*ck...

I reckon that could be real fun. And would park up nice next to the company ferraris and porsches. Oh and as it is RWD you could probably get bargainicious insurance through one of the National hotrod club membership schemes.

That's fantastic!!! Buy it!!

i want it!:)

That is lovely.. prefer the 4 front light Mk3's (which I think the 2000GTs had) but that wouldn't fit with the General Lee thing.. shitty ebay image server is playing up and can't see the other images in full though :(

Bigus

tax exempt too, at '75, innit?

Bigus

In news:dvrfa3$8mp$ snipped-for-privacy@blackmamba.itd.rl.ac.uk, Bigus wrote something quite bizarre, possibly in an effort to confuddle the world. It went like so;

Nope, manufactured before 73 is the cut off.

"Pete M" wrote in message news:4421495b$ snipped-for-privacy@usenet.zapto.org...

Ahhh, I thought it was 30 years.. wonder why 73?

Bigus

It was 25 years when it came out IIRC. They just haven't moved it since.

cheers, clive

Yup, spotted after I posted.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Fraser Johnston" saying something like:

Must've handled like a bag of shit with that long lump of CI in there. Kerist, they were bad enough with the smaller engines.

Heh. The SAs fitted that Ford V8 into quite a few things.

The only reason I can see for Aussie and SA Ford fitting the bigger engines is the different roads to here. Big lazy engines being more suited to long straight stretches for miles and hours on end.

It handled ok for an old Ford. Easy to get sideways. Funny thing about Australia is most of our driving is in the city and the suburbs. Maybe once a year will I do a 900km drive.

Fraser