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Before Ford became a fleet car. Before the blue oval meant ordinary. Dagenham in the early 1960s was a different place entirely — a factory with ambitions that stretched well beyond the school run. Ford had watched the Mini rewrite the rules of the small car and decided the answer wasn't to follow, but to leapfrog. The Cortina arrived in 1962 and did exactly that. Light, simple, and fast enough to matter, it was the car that put Ford back in the conversation. The GT took that further — twin-choke Weber carburetor, close-ratio gearbox, front disc brakes, and a specification that made its intentions clear from the factory. Ford didn't build the Cortina GT for the school run. They built it for the stages.
The motorsport record followed immediately. Jim Clark and the Lotus Cortina rewrote the touring car rulebook. The GT was the version the privateer could afford — the one that showed up on Sunday mornings at club events across Britain and rarely came home without a result. It was homologation with a number plate, ambition with a boot, and proof that performance didn't require a sports car budget. The Cortina GT was Ford's argument that the everyday driver deserved something worth driving.
This 1965 example has covered just 21,234 miles from new. Finished in Goodwood Green over a black interior — a combination that wears the era honestly and suits the car like it was always meant to be this way. Largely original, mechanically sorted, and presenting with the kind of quiet correctness that takes decades to arrive at.
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