Guess the old ford! 

"GTI Sprinks" (gtisprinks) 10/31/2015 at 18:22 • Filed to: None

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Old English ford snapshot after a fender bender found in the girlfriend’s. Let’s play identify that old ford for posterity sake?

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > GTI Sprinks 10/31/2015 at 18:26

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MkIV Cortina.

GTI Sprinks > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 10/31/2015 at 18:30

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Spot on! Thanks!

Urambo Tauro > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 10/31/2015 at 18:33

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Not a MkV?

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > GTI Sprinks 10/31/2015 at 18:33

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sorry it’s a Mk V

Cé hé sin > GTI Sprinks 10/31/2015 at 18:56

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It’s a mildly facelifted MkIV - they called it the Cortina 80.

Exactly the same car was sold in mainland Europe as the Taunus. It’s quite possibly a Ghia with the fancy alloys.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Urambo Tauro 10/31/2015 at 19:38

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yeah I realised after posting, and too long after that I can’t edit the original post. oh well.

Urambo Tauro > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 10/31/2015 at 19:50

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I didn’t even recognize it as a Cortina at all! (It can be hard identifying cars you didn’t grow up around.) Your post was extremely helpful. I ran some image searches as I learned more about the car. That’s when I saw the difference.

The MkIV and MkV are very similar. And the damage in the picture above made it real difficult to tell.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > Urambo Tauro 10/31/2015 at 20:38

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yeah, it was easy mode for me ‘cause there’s still a few Cortinas running about in Australia. Never spent any time with one though.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > GTI Sprinks 10/31/2015 at 21:01

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looks like an old Granada ghia to me