We started Searching for a Ford Cortina 1600e about February this year, we have been having discussions every Friday night in the pub about a project that we all fancied doing.

The three of us all had different ideas as to what we wanted to do  , I wanted a mk2 ford escort , but found these are as rare as hens teeth nowadays , mike wanted a jag of any kind and Simon was happy with anything interesting., and we had decided on a ford cortina 1600e After lots of beers we returned home to look on the internet.

There are so many internet sites now, classic cars , car refurbishment , ford classics Cortina owners club , eBay . We spent hours trawling through , a lot of the time the advert was an old one from long time ago , we found the most up to date was eBay , and you get the added bonus of maybe getting a bargain .  Anyway we found the perfect advert a 1969 ford Cortina mk2 1600e the car had been striped and the owner had started to rebuild it and had resprayed parts of the car, the car came with all the contents of a second car ie spare engine back axle gearbox etc , got to be worth a bid it was at £900 … how long to go?? We asked 1 hour 15mins … time for some more beers as we decided on a ceiling for our bid .. . After lots of beer fueled discussions we decided to top the bid at £1500 . So  we entered our bid and waited 45 mins to go , it stayed like this until the last minute and a bidding war started I have never typed a bid in so fast  £1200,£1300, £1400, and with 4 seconds to go our final bid £1500  ……WE WON , we erupted into crazy celebrations last seen when England won at football… that was the easy bit now for the hard bit… the refurb begins.

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