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[@picklesdad]

The man that re built that cortina took 20 years doing it, he built show a few winning mk3 cortinas he died recently but I am honored to say he was my friend, and he would be humbled by the response on here, RIP crazy Ian,

[@harveyneedleman817]

Picklesdad, your friend Ian did a fantastic rebuild on that car. It looks better than new

[@davidhinkson8856]

He did a fantastic job on this one because it looks factory fresh.

[@Cortinaman63]

I have owned a 1974 Mk.3.for almost 49 years,(bought it in early 1976 with only 250 miles on the clock!) and it was still like brand new.when I found it sitting in the showroom, I was only 12 years old at the time, but had £900 in my bank account, not quite enough to by it, as it was £1,575 , but I fell in love with the Cortina Mk3 when it was launched in 1970,so I really wanted a brand new one, and in 1976 Ford were going to launch the Mk4, My Mum & Dad both liked the car too, so helped out with the cash and we bought it, and it was used every day, all year round for 25 years, and I drove it once I past my test at the first attempt at age 17, The Ford Cortina Mk.3.is a superb car to own, easy to work on and very reliable, if well serviced an OHC pinto can rack up 300.000 miles, mine and a few others I know of have done. This GXL looks to be a superb example, and having spent £47,000 restoring one of my MK.3's (I own three of them) in my classic car collection,back to. to 100% rust free, Concourse condition buying a really good one like this is the next best thing, and will cost a lot less. Having adored the Mk.3 for 54 years, I loved seeing this one, a great video, and a good attempt at the history apart from saying the basic cars had square headlights, (Series 2 cars) September 1973, on wards had rectangular ones introduced, on the Cortina L ( they were offered as an optional extra), but basic and L Decor models originally came with single round 7" ones as standard, as did the 1970-73 (Series 1) Basic, L, and XL models.(Series 2) XL GT & 2000E had rectangular headlamps as standard, and by 1975 so did the Cortina L, in the UK.just to clear that up for anyone interested. and mint condition Aluminium Arch trims are super rare to find now, and so are missing on this beautiful restored GXL,as they are on several surviving Mk.3's that would of had them fitted from new at the Factory, XL GXL and GT, 2000E models.

[@JohnHoganN8]

Had a 2.0 liter in white with a black vinyl roof. Loved it!

[@Philg-z5r]

My first car purchase after I learned to drive was a Silver 2000E Mk3 in the early 80s . Still a great looking car. Would love another one now.

[@ageoftreason]

My dad had a 2000 GXL in Daytona Yellow with a black vinyl roof. Beautiful car.

[@43forlife]

In the late 90s my dad had one of these, same color as this one. I was a kid back then and still have vivid memories of the car.

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

It was a great looking car

[@davidhinkson8856]

This Cortina looks fantastic! Beautifully restored. I remember how much i loved yhat four headlamp grille on the Mark 3 GXL. One of my teachers had one in British Racing Green with a vinyl top that replaced a later Mk 3 that was badly rusted, while one of my bosses later in life said he owned two of these cars in the 1970s. One of my mentors had one he nicknamed Lizzie when i first met him. One car, so many memories!

[@markperry5975]

My dad had 2.0l GXL in white, with a black vinyl roof and a red interior, lovely it was.

[@-DC-]

MK3 Cortina has stood the test of time as being an absolute Gorgeous Design ❤️

[@grayfool]

Still the best looking Cortina. Good to see you doing more Ed. Nice one.

[@levelcrossing150]

My father had a 1600 GXL in Daytona Yellow and later a 2000E in Purple velvet. One of my all time favourite cars, the kind of car that inspired me to go out and buy.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

My Dad's first company car in August 1971 was a dark blue Cortina 2000 GXL, and three years later a signal orange 2000E. Loved both of them. It was so cool to have the best car in the street for 6 years. Was so chuffed to get a 1976 2 litre XL automatic as an eighteen year old in 1984.

[@chrisblay]

Someone has done a lovely job restoring that Cortina.

[@Russpeed301]

I was 9 when we got our GXL. IT was a spaceship

[@manfredspy]

The Cortina Mk III GXL was my dream car when I was an 11 years old boy in Switzerland in 1971. As a boy I had ordered a catalogue and price list from the Ford Motor Comapany in Switzerland; the price of a GXL was 13'660.00 CHF. My father was driving a Mk II Cortina which was also a great car. Unfortunately, I have not been able to convince him to go for a Mk III GXL.... :-))))

[@GrahamPatterson-w4j]

Great video. I remember my dad having a 1300 two door base model from the company he worked for as a rep. It was far removed from the MK2 he had before.

[@johnfox570]

I had every cortina mk1 to mk5 my favorite was the mk3 GXL drove down to Spain in it in 1980 wish i still had it today

[@paulb4uk]

I love the mk3 cortina a great looking car.

[@philtowle4683]

My dad had a green 2l gxl. Wish he had kept it. It had wing mirrors rather than door mirrors. I remember the waffle print vinyl burns like it was yesterday.

[@PhilBurns-oc2vg]

To me in the 70's the coolest car was the 2000 gxl cortina in Daytona yellow with a black vinyl roof

[@terryjacob8169]

Daytona Yellow was probably one of the best Ford-GB colours ever. Imagine what a Sierra Cosworth would've looked like in that yellow; utterly awesome.

[@paulillingworth1242]

Love the Mk3 cortina styling

[@bombardierboerboels]

I had 2 a 2000E. And a 2.0 gt 2 door best roundabout fun every 😂

[@clivefrear1784]

Still got a GXL MkIII. 2dr in Fern Green. Absolutely love it!

[@toucheturtle3840]

My stepdad had a 2.0 GT. He dropped a 3.3 V6 Savage engine in it. It was hilarious. The fuel consumption was appalling, so he put the 2.0 back in. Lovely car.

[@craigwalker4211]

Omg 🤣😂🤣😂 the times I've heard this tale the savage used a 3.0 Essex V6 there's no way to achieve a 3.3 ltr version of this eng. I suppose he bolted it straight in on the original gearbox never needing to update the front springs, radiator clearance the drivers side manifold & did it all in his lunch break. Same as people who bolted flat six Porsche 911 engines into beetles. Sheffield cortina centre maintaining,modifying, restoring cortinas since 1985.

[@toucheturtle3840]

@@craigwalker4211 You absolute cock. The work my Dad had to do on it was ridiculous. He made his own exhaust pipes for it…

[@Rjhs001]

Well Ed, Ford nailed it and so did you mate. Excellent video, as usual. Cheers.

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

Ther were great cars along with tha taunus of the European cortina

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

Which had 1.6 to20 an 2.3 v6

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

I had a few 2000 es in mi time. Apart for the video bushes an rust in the boot there were great. Cars

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

The reason I know this my family had a scrap yard inuk

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

Voide buches in the rear axle

[@Astravan63]

I had about 8 MK3 Cortina back in the day .Great cars . Also had a few Capri ,escort ,sierra , fiesta..I also had a few classic vauxhalls Currently have a Calibra

[@MarkChristy-o5x]

Great cars my first one was a 2.0 GXL face lift square head lights then a 1976 2.0 GT the good old days!

[@craigwalker4211]

The GXL was only every avl with quad headlights ,the rectangular headlights were used on facelift XL, GT & 2000E models.

[@Pat_RickX]

As I was a little boy, there wasn't a street without at least one Taunus Mk1 ( the german Edition of the Cortina Mk3 ). Fitted with Pinto 1.3/1.6 or Cologne V6 2.0/2.3 it was the Soundtrack of the 70s. But Ford never had the Image it has in the UK. So 95 % of these Cars get " driven to exitus " . Surely not the best Car of the 70s - but one of the coolest.

[@Ricketik65]

My parents had a Taunus 1.6 L and that was certainly very cool, especially compared to the VW Beetle and Opel Kadett B (best selling car in NL ten years in a row) that preceded it.

[@terryjacob8169]

The fastback version of the Taunus was probably the best looking member of the Mk.3 Cortina family. Foolishly it was a body style that Ford didn't market in Britain.

[@emma.j.nation]

@@terryjacob8169yes, it was a shame we didn’t get some of the better looking European Fords, but they weren’t foolish; they could sell all the Cortinas they could make, plus they had the Capri for the buyers who wanted a more sporty look.

[@chrisblay]

Life on Mars Cortina

[@craigwalker4211]

That was a facelift 2000E that was fitted with a GXL grille setup before kudos bought the car for the show.

[@chrisblay]

Yeah, it looks very similar though.

[@craignodder7973]

I had a mk3 Cortina 2000e love it

[@davidwardle5]

Lovely car - just needs the missing chrome wheel arch trims to finish it off.👍

[@craigwalker4211]

The trims were phased out during the 72 revamp.

[@davidwardle5]

@@craigwalker4211hi, where did you get this info please? Cheers.

[@craigwalker4211]

@@davidwardle5 hi 40 years of maintaining, breaking, restoring, collecting MK3 cortinas , I currently own 5 1/2 mk3's & 2 mk5's. I've lost count at circa 40 . Originally they were fitted to all except base models my early 72 ( April build) L EST had them when I bought it in circa 2000, but my mates same month 4dr GT ( which I'm currently restoring)& my yellow 2dr GT also April didn't have them & neither did the 72 4 Dr L my dad bought in 73. Of the first b3 the 4dr GT is earliest with full vents , vertical glove box knob , followed by my EST which has same vents but twist knob, then my 2 Dr with split vents & twist knob. All 3 have the dash handbrake blanking plt. Both GT s have the smaller centre clocks. Mid 72 the GT/GXL gain the bigger centre clocks gauges & lost the blanking plt as the dash handbrake was discontinued along with the bench seat option (base /L 1.3/1.6) the arch trims remained on gxls until late 73:when stocks ran out I presume, they reappeared when the 2000E was introduced. I m rubbish with computers so I'm not sure if you can send pms on KZbin. I don't do social media ( can't be doing with all the bs from keyboard experts but you can contact me through buysellcortina web site were I can bore for England on MK3/4/5 cortinas from around the world.

[@escapetheratracenow9883]

​@@craigwalker4211They definitely were not, and they carried on to the face-lift models till September 1976

[@craigwalker4211]

@escapetheratracenow9883 actually I stand corrected they continued on the 2000E

[@reeco355]

What a beauty!

[@Alan-lv9rw]

Looks a little like the Ford Maverick and its sister, the Mercury Comet. They were available with a 302 ci (5.0 liter in the U.S.).

[@markgatland977]

We had an 'M'-reg in light metallic green with black vinyl roof. Coolest car my family ever owned, although the series of Volvo estates we then went through are now sort of cool as well. (Those seats used to burn your legs in the summer if you were wearing shorts, though 😂)

[@Markinlondon]

Yeah my dad had a dark blue one And on a hot summers day you would stick to the vinyl seats

[@WS-1]

Simply one of the best British Fords of all time . A great looking car that had the ride of a Rolls Royce .

[@volt8684]

I had every cortina mk1 1500gt ( looked do fast) was sooo slow, mk2 1600e ( best ever with webasto sunroof), mk3 1600 xl ( gorgeous did 150k still going strong) mk4 1.6gl sooo smooth. Take one any day over modern crap. The gearboxes on these cars were incredible. Remember the song 2468 motorway? My 1600e was used in a pop video, going down the motorway M5 and filming out the sunroof.😂. On an aside my dad had a repair/recovery garage business. He was Ford through and through. The reason I mention this is he had a 1.3gl mk3 cortina as a courtesy car. He bought it smashed up with 60k on. It had the 1300 ohv engine was gutless but once up to speed would waft along but needed revving. He sold it to a prison officer who commuted several times a month from the midlands to the maze prison in NI. It did 300 k being maintained by my father before the dreaded rust got it. It had woeful performance but shows its pedigree. I think the ohc engines made them so much better

[@craigwalker4211]

No such thing as a GL in the MK3 range he may of had a 1.3XL my first cortina was a 72 4dr 1.3XL fazed out during 73.

[@1sostatic]

I only remember that the Anglia (The Angular) being popular with hippies and Vivian (Young Ones) ... my only want from the arsenal of Euro-shit-box Ford was the 3.0 Fastback Granada

[@antonmealy168]

Love their style. Especially with the pre-facelift dash. Always wondered how much of the front subframe & suspension was adapted straight from the Pinto (or vice-versa) & glad they still had different styling from their German cousins. Dramatically wider & lower than Mk2, & much of their competition, for a sporty driving position despite sometimes soft springs & dampers & especially suspension bushes as they aged.

[@rx6180]

That’s a stunning example of a GXL. In period, once a Cortina had reached five or six years of age, it was perfectly normal to see bubbling paint, streaks of rust behind trim, patches of red oxide primer, or they’d had a cheap flashed over respray to make them look good on the used car forecourt. I’ve had two. Both 1600Ls. One a 1972, when I was17 in 1979 with ‘L’ plates, which I spent my spare time filling holes in and touching up with aerosols, and in 1981 a 1976 model, which once bought, I found had been in an accident and the frame was a bit out at the front. After six months I changed it for a 1.8 Marina. That GXL looks so good but cars did not last long then. Re. Ford’s history, there were the ‘Three Graces’ in the 50s which put Ford on the map to some extent, the Consul, Zephyr and Zodiac.

[@KKTR3]

Just look at that visibility around the A pillow

[@neilmustow368]

The 70's family car the coke bottle Mk 3 Cortina lovely example this GXL 😎

[@tamannamishra2279]

Please consider doing a round up of the Vauxhall Victor as well. In India, it was launched as the Contessa Classic

[@Lar308]

The american MD of the first US multinational company I worked in had a red GXL Mk III - that was a stunning car. He replaced it with a Austin princess HLS after a few years

[@DstroyThaMsheen]

I am pretty sure I just saw a datsun video and had a bit of a moment, now the TC (Australia) I owned one of these and the next model. in Aus we had the 6 cylinder versions, 3.3 litre and 4.1 litre crossflow and pre crossflow falcon engines with different sumps and pickups, the falcon 6 gearbox was used with shortened housing and selector rail. my TC had 160hp 4speed with 2.72 diff ratio (if you put a 3.23 in it you would wheel spin on dirt corners) I could spin the wheels pretty well at idle once it started, it could hit 80mph in 3rd and broke the speedo at 130mph.

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

An winner in the 70s an 80s un till the consul &granada mk1 came out in the 7os an 90s

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

Some south Africans cortinas had the v6 a3.0 and 302 v8 they still ßome left over there

[@user-ih7gc7dt9l]

I was 8 years old in 1973!

[@23gps]

Me too; loved the detailing on the GXL, quad lights & the 4 dials in the centre console. Happy days.

[@paulrussell-f2m]

The first of the mk3's your sat in the dash was a copy of the 69/70 mustang before the facelift flat dash. Also the base early version had single round lights not square, all the facelifts had square. The rear axle suspension arrangement was very similar to mustangs from the eighties right up to 04. Where they failed was when the subframe bushes at the front and the void at rear became soft they drove crap. Pinto engine again American motor, people put wrong oil in then the oil feed to the camshaft would block. Had loads and loved them all, down side was you could watch them rust away in front of you. Get a south Africa import with their v6 fitted best car you'll ever have.

[@craigwalker4211]

The single headlight was used on prefacelift base,/L,XL, & all facelift base models the runout L models gain the rectangular lights that were std on XL, GT & 2000E facelifts. As long as your SA import isn't from a coastal area then it can be nearly as bad as a UK version.

[@craigwalker4211]

The prefacelift sloping dash was designed by the same person as the 69/70 mustang

[@gazpacholulu]

I was 8 years old in '73 and we had a brand new L reg GXL...what a pile of pants it was....if you stopped with the engine was hot and tried to start it, the carb would stick and you had to take the air filter out and manually adjust the flaps on the carbs. Then within 12 months, both wings started rotting...last Ford my dad bought after mark 2's and corsairs

[@Russpeed301]

The steeringbhad a leather wrap making it thick and grippy

[@stephenhowell5611]

Make the boot a tad longer and the side profile looks like an FD Victor, The FD VX4/90 was nice car too.

[@MrRetro-]

Better than anything from BL, and Britains best selling car for a reason, because they did everything you needed but with style, comfort, coolness, reliability, simplicity that worked beautiful, nothing from BL or Vauxhall could ever hold a light to coming close to the Cortina, especially the Mk3, if the UK was A communist country, BL would be our Lada, 😂😂😂

[@edwardarmsworth9463]

That was definitely not an Anglia 105e,it was a hillman Avengee

[@minimaxi802]

Replaced the Mk2 Cortina and also the Corsair.The top spec GT and GXL models with twin headlamps were cool, but a base two door Mk3 Cortina in brown or beige was dull and boring. The coke bottle styling was copied from the Vauxhall Victor FD.

[@Lasercapri]

Henry Ford JNR declared the pinto engine is the best engine in the world 😂👍

[@levelcrossing150]

I agree, I wonder what his views would be on their latest engines.

[@terryjacob8169]

............just a shame about the high camshaft lobe wear rate

[@levelcrossing150]

@@terryjacob8169 ...which was eventually rectified.

[@craigwalker4211]

Mainly caused by owners scrimping on oil changes causing the cam spray bar to become blocked starving the cam of oil, a far worse problem on the 2.3/2.6 Rover straight six engines which would seize/snap it's camshafts.

[@terryjacob8169]

Fast-fit companies used to butcher the front cross-members of both Mk3 and Mk4 Cortina when changing the shock-absorbers. If the upper mounting bolt of the shock was seized in the cross-member, the average fast-fit cowboy would burn the bolt out with oxy-acetylene, damaging the cross-member so that a new bolt would never sit properly through it.

[@cwsmarco]

When it first came out the Pinto engine was not reliable at all. It had a design fault in the oil feed to the camshaft. A familiar sound in the 70s, was indeed the tapping cam of a Cortina; especially when they also slotted the 1.6 Pinto in the facelift MK3. The engine was otherwise very smooth indeed !

[@user-lq2zl1ks8x]

Good cars but bad for rear 3:53 voide busches an rust in rear boot anfront. Inner wings but fantastic engine s. 1.6 &2.o ohc an 2.3 s ii mk 4 cars

[@PatriciaStorey-v9u]

[@iankey2340]

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[@fredknoch]

Ok, this is the second video in a row (TR7) where I’ve been confused by your monologue and video editing not matching up. You start talking about a different car and at the same time change the angle on the feature car. Makes me think you’re cutting to the car you’re talking about. I thought maybe you were doing o by design in the TR7 video because your theme on that one was a story of confusion (typical BL). Maybe put in stock photos of the car you’re talking about?

[@stevenmoran4060]

So obvious you weren’t alive in the seventies. You only ever got the quad round headlights on a GXL, base models had a single round light, later on rectangular lights were fitted. Best of all, you fell right into the Life on Mars trap, their car was never a GXL, it was a 2000E with a GXL grill and headlights as the dashboard gave it away having g the rectangular instrument panel. Better still, they left the 2000E badge on the C pillar! I had a 2000E in the 1970’s and, a 3.0 litre Capri ll Ghia auto. Also while you were slagging off the Anglia for having vacuum wipers, the mark 2 Cortina continued with them u less you got the 1600E. As for rear wheel drive being old fashioned every one made cars that way including British Leyland, only Austin/Morris were front wheel drive. For 1970’s car knowledge you need to speak to people who were teenagers in the 1970’s because we know that decade very very well.

[@craigwalker4211]

& so do you the prefacelift GT also had quad lights ( I should know I own 2 plus a replica, along with an estate,bakkie,a Mk5 since new & number 9 of the 28 mk5 crayfords built)I've owned my Daytona yellow one since 1989. The last ford to have vacuum wipers was the MK3 zephyr/zodiac range, all cortinas had electric wipers. Sheffield cortina centre maintaining,modding & restoring cortinas since 1985

[@gordtulk]

Essentially non-existent in North America. Too small. Too rusty. Too unreliable. Too expensive for what you got.

[@2011metalmaniac]

Did they have mk3s in the US?

[@gordtulk]

@@2011metalmaniac in Canada yes - at least I’m pretty sure. Certainly earlier versions. As I stated - very rare.

[@2011metalmaniac]

@gordtulk ah yeah if your in Canada yeah that makes sense.

[@andrewwmacfadyen6958]

A monument to bad taste

[@iankey2340]

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