1969 ford cortina crayford

The classics you love, drive and restore

The proof of this car being something special is actually at the back, in the boot. The AC’s roof has been stowed here for decades, and the bars for it are in a homemade protective wrap made from news

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

Losing Fisher & Ludlow (which had made monocoque bodies for the Standard 8 and 10) to the British Motor Corporation led Standard-Triumph to choose separate-chassis construction for its next small car.

If anyone had suggested 20 years ago that a Mk2 Ford Escort would sell for more than a quarter of a million pounds, they would have been laughed out of court. Times have changed and the RS1800 has bec

(1962-1969)