Retro Ford also recommends you use a more substantial ... A 255bhp 2-litre Zetec is more engine than a Mk1 Cortina needs: the smallest of throttle openings at low revs sparks rampant acceleration.

And there were never, ever very many of those, because it was a convertible Ford Cortina. After demand very much outstripped supply for the company’s original go with the Mk1 - with just 50 ...

The Ford Cortina Mk3 was a massive gamble for Ford. Both the Mk1 and Mk2 Cortinas were compact cars with their upper models anchored to the one-and-a-half litre class, but what Ford decided to do ...