Mk 2 Cortina

November 1981
Cost : 120 quid
1300 cc engine. Red/light blue bonnet. Cream interior. No touch up.

I don't think the bonnet was a different color when I first bought it, I think the original bonnet had a deek in it so I went to a Southport breakers yard and got a straight one for 10 quid. The car was an excellent drive and had six months MOT and tax on it so for 120 quid it was quite a deal.

It was the first Ford I'd had (if you don't count the 100E which is a bit of a silly thing to say) Ok, it was the second Ford I'd had, but the first one that drove well and steered in the direction it was going, a very different "feel" to the Austin, felt like steering a go-kart really.