1970 FORD CORTINA 1600E MKII

The four-door 1600E was a higher-spec version of the MkII Cortina, introduced at the Paris Motor Show in October 1967. It combined the lowered suspension of the Cortina Lotus with the high-tune GT 1600 Kent engine and luxury trim featuring a burr walnut woodgrain-trimmed dashboard and door cappings, bucket seating, leather-clad aluminium sports steering wheel, and full instrumentation, with a black grille, tail panel, front fog lights, and plated Rostyle wheels on radial tyres outside. This example was registered in August 1970 and has 18,431 miles showing on its odometer. As an historic vehicle, the Ford no longer requires annual MoT testing. 

The documentation with the car includes the old style V5, which will need to be updated with the DVLA as it still lists the colour as black, which is itself a change from pink (the shade the car was changed from in 1978). There are some notes of work done in 1988 and 1989, plus a selection of invoices from 2020 back to the 1980s - including one for a reconditioned engine fitted in July 1987 at 97,249 miles. There's a copy of the original log book plus a copies of previous information kept by the DVLA. The MoT certificates date from 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006.  

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