whats this???

[JRT]

Hi All,

I recently bought a house, and found most of an old car in the garage... trouble is there isn't enough of it for me to identify it - can you help?

embossed logo on seat headrest


front wing


best pic i could get of the badge after climbing over piles o' stuff

Cheers!

[J111]

Ford Crown Victoria

[JRT]

thanks for the quick response, but having googled it, i'm not convinced...

Looks more like a 70's British Leyland of some sort.

However, there is a small (1.3l or something) 4 cyl engine with FMCo stamped on it - Ford Motor Co?

[J111]

Are you sure it's all from one car ? The crest in the third pic is from a Crown Vic:



http://www.giftsrr.com/cgi-bin/Shopper.exe?preadd=...

[JRT]

hmmm, after much more googling it might be a mkII or mkIII ford Cortina

[JRT]

J111 said:

Are you sure it's all from one car ? The crest in the third pic is from a Crown Vic:



http://www.giftsrr.com/cgi-bin/Shopper.exe?preadd=...

it certainly looks that way... now i'm puzzled!

It seems very unlikely that bits of an old american car would end up in england tho!

[John.T.]

Nearside front wing is Mk3 Cortina.

[v8ian]

crest on seat also looks Toyota crown victoria, and the front wing is deffo Mk3 cortina

[sniff petrol]

John.T. said:

Nearside front wing is Mk3 Cortina.

Comments like that are why I love Pistonheads! Hats off to you John!

[JRT]

Yeah - thanks for the replies - I have a "dead" couple of hours this weekend, so I might have a proper sort out and ebay session...

[v8 jago]

John.T. said:

Nearside front wing is Mk3 Cortina.

I was thinking that too.
The headrests might be part of an upgrade it had done on interior or just from another car.