terry just asking did you own a ford cortina
Yes.
My second car was a Ford Anglia. Then, I had a Cortina Mark one 1500cc, then a Lotus Cortina. It was supposed to be a Mark Two, but it was a very early one, and it had a lot of Mark One parts in it. There were very few Mark Twos that had the Lotus concersion. It went like a rocket!
Had a Mark Four some years later, then a Ford Escort, Ford Transit Van, Fiesta, Mondeo, Granada and finally a Scorpio.
Ford stopped making Granadas a while ago, and the nearest thing I could find was the E-series Mercedes, which is what I drive nowadays.