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Why did the car carry the Daily Express logo ?
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I believe it was just a marketing tie up.
I had two 1.6 Crusaders, one with a Daily Express logo and one without.
It was a basic poverty spec Cortina with a few Ghia bits added.
One of mine had a dipping interior mirror, one did not. Neither had a boot light.
A good feature was that when I snapped a cam belt it was just replace it.
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Always baffled me that...sort of suspected it was the case though !
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A lot of Crusaders were nothing of the sort-stickers and stripes were available to the trade to put on ordinary Cortinas.You were lucky with your cambelt-whilst the 2.0 OHC was non-interference,the 1.6 and 1.8 were marginal.The 1.3 OHC(not sold in UK-Kent was used)took the valves out every time.
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I had a cambelt snap on a 1.6 Sierra and got away with it. Engine was idling at the time which may have helped. Timed it back up, new belt on, and off it went.
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>> I had a cambelt snap on a 1.6 Sierra and got away with it. Engine
>> was idling at the time which may have helped. Timed it back up, new belt
>> on, and off it went.
Mrs B's mother had same with an Escort.
1.3 CVH IIRC.
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My first , Y reg version, had its moment of fame on the front page (and inside pages ) of Autocar. It was used as a comparison against the Sierra Sapphire.
It came to an early end when it was stolen, the inside totally stripped overnight. It was recovered 12 hours after it went missing and declared a write off.
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I regularly used to drive to or from Florence to London in a then new Mk IV Cortina 2.0 usually on my own and often in one overnight hit including the dash across the channel on a hovercraft.
Seemed a perfectly acceptable thing to do at the time and indeed it was. No more scary then than setting off to make that journey in a Mondeo would seem to be now.
But, it occurs to me that were I asked to make that trip tomorrow in even the most carefully preserved Cortina that I'd probably be setting off with an amount of trepidation as to whether it was really up to the job.
Funny how your perceptions change.
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Ford - Cortina Crusader. - henry k
