68 Lotus Cortina Series 1

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Sep 21, 11 10:42 am

Yep, I know of Mexico's with history hit £30k plus. Absolutely amazing, but well worth the money in my view. Good looking, good fun, relatively cheap to run AND they fit in a normal garage. Stick yer mopar up yer chuffer

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Wed Sep 21, 11 8:33 pm

Clivey wrote:Yep, I know of Mexico's with history hit £30k plus. Absolutely amazing, but well worth the money in my view. Good looking, good fun, relatively cheap to run AND they fit in a normal garage. Stick yer mopar up yer chuffer

Now now son ..........this is a MoPar site after all ...........

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu Sep 22, 11 8:26 am

SIR BUDGIE OBE wrote:
Clivey wrote:Yep, I know of Mexico's with history hit £30k plus. Absolutely amazing, but well worth the money in my view. Good looking, good fun, relatively cheap to run AND they fit in a normal garage. Stick yer mopar up yer chuffer

Now now son ..........this is a MoPar site after all ...........

Dont let that stop you son - this is the alternative muscle area - your stuff qualifies.

Its funny, a few years ago no one gave a thought to this old stuff. Used to see it every day and no one gave a toss. Hell, our parish priest had a 3 door MkI escort as his runabout. But now, they are the biz. Seeing the fast ford boys at the Chelsea Cruise is a real treat. Some of those cars really hustle. I'll have one one day.

Mick · Post by **Mick** » Fri Sep 30, 11 2:06 pm

I had one of these with the big valve sprint head and frankly i was dissapointed, i had a Alfa GTV after with twin dell ortos on and it was a much quicker car.
Cheap as chips at the time, but unnafforadable now, that is, unless of course your sir Budgie.
A friend of mine has just bought a metro 6r4, did the paris dakar twice, driven by a guy named Tollman.
Mick

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Oct 03, 11 8:35 am

Mick wrote: just bought a metro 6r4

Now THOSE I like. Propper, serious piece of white knuckle car.

Mick · Post by **Mick** » Mon Oct 03, 11 6:04 pm

410 hp, 6'-6" wide and about as heavy as a fag packet.
I had a lot of those cars when i was young but none of them can hold a candle to a decent running muscle car.
Mick

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Mon Oct 03, 11 7:37 pm

Mick wrote:410 hp, 6'-6" wide and about as heavy as a fag packet.
I had a lot of those cars when i was young but none of them can hold a candle to a decent running muscle car.
Mick

I'm surprised your talking Bollux there Mick, you know "muscle cars" just don't handle son

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Mon Oct 03, 11 7:46 pm

Now finished ............

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Oct 04, 11 8:23 am

Superb mate. What a lovely finish. Its great to see these old British cars being looked after.

Silver must be a rare colour?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Oct 04, 11 8:27 am

Mick wrote:410 hp, 6'-6" wide and about as heavy as a fag packet.
I had a lot of those cars when i was young but none of them can hold a candle to a decent running muscle car.
Mick

Will Gollop's one had more than twice that BHP, and it hit 60 in less than 4 on gravel! and I bet you any money you like, you put a sorted 6R4 at the end of the fire up lane next to ANY muscle car and it could get down it, do the tight U turn to the strip and back up the quarter before the muscle car got to the Christmas tree. I kid you not!

Mick · Post by **Mick** » Tue Oct 04, 11 5:23 pm

I wasn't refering to the 6R4, I was on about Cortinas and Escorts, good round bends but slugs in a straight line at that time, pre turbo of course.
Comparing a full blown rallycross car to an off the street muscle car is hardly an apples to apples comparison.
Allright Malc

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Tue Oct 04, 11 10:39 pm

Mick wrote:I wasn't refering to the 6R4, I was on about Cortinas and Escorts, good round bends but slugs in a straight line at that time, pre turbo of course.
Comparing a full blown rallycross car to an off the street muscle car is hardly an apples to apples comparison.
Allright Malc

Alright Mick, how you doin son

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Tue Oct 04, 11 10:50 pm

Clivey wrote:Superb mate. What a lovely finish. Its great to see these old British cars being looked after.

Silver must be a rare colour?

Yes Clivey, it was unusual to tick this colour box for a Lotus, but spose the guy wanted to be different to the crowd. I also have one in Monaco Red and another in Goodwood Green, the green being very rare.

Ford had a load of trouble with the silver at the time with the lacquer coming off so this colour was soon dropped making surviving silver cars rare, I thick this is the only Lotus example surviving. today.

And thanks son

BUDGIE · Post by **BUDGIE** » Wed Nov 09, 11 7:28 pm

The next one is coming along nice for Chrimbo ........

sublimemike · Post by **sublimemike** » Wed Nov 09, 11 10:41 pm

Another looking good Budge - correct speedo and rev counter - what's the story with the Holbay Lotus cam covers??