What was it?

[MGB Boy]

Got all excited today when I saw parked on the side of the road what I thought was a Mk3 Cortina 4 door.
But it seemed a bit... small.

It had the twin head lamps, vinyl roof and kind of coke bottle shape but I'm not convinced.
What else could it have been?

[Skyedriver]

Viva HB?
Toyota Celica?

[Edmundo2]

Sunbeam Stiletto?
Early Mazda rotary, ( lots in Oz but rare here )

[MGB Boy]

It seemed to have more of the Mk3 'tinas coke bottle shape than any that have been recomended.
I remember looking at the back of it and thinking it didn't look right for a 'tina but I was so shattered I can't remember why!
Maybe it was one and it just seemed small as I rode past.

[aeropilot]

Vauxhall Victor FD...??



Mind you, there are very few of these left.

Always liked them though, and they responded well to having a small block Chevy dropped into them

[perdu]

aeropilot said:

Vauxhall Victor FD...??



Mind you, there are very few of these left.

Always liked them though, and they responded well to having a small block Chevy dropped into them

They weren't too dusty with the slanty block engine that God... Vauxhall gave them either



Nice car, I always liked them

[MarkwG]

I love the old FDs - an uncle of mine had a red estate & a college lecturer a yellow VX4/90 - but I'd say they would be much biger than a mk3 'tina: maybe what you saw was a Taunus, the German equivalent; looks like a mk3 but not quite? Very few left here, I imagine, although I did see one, not so long back. That era doesn't have the coke bottle line, though, whereas an HB Viva would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Taunus