After having more than my fair share of messers, chancers and time wasters, I finally had contact from someone who seemed genuine with regard to buying my Zetec Cortina. Since buying the Lotus Cortina, I couldn't really justify owning three Mk1 Cortina's, so decided that the Zetec had to go. The Zetec, like the Lotus is a 2 door, aeroflow model and I couldn't see a need to have two of the same model.
After a few emails back and forth, the potential buyer decided that he liked the car enough to make the long 230 mile journey from his house in Oldham, Lancashire to my place near Southend. He liked the look of the car when he arrived and must have also enjoyed the test drive as on return to my house he made an acceptable offer and wanted to take the car home there and then. This made such a nice change as ebay and facebook market place seems to be full up with total dickheads that just want to piss you about! Anyway, the paperwork was completed and I watched my Zetec drive off to it's new home. 😌
So, I am now down to just two Cortina Mk1's. (A few months ago, I had four!) I have my 1964 Pre-aeroflow, four door model and my aeroflow two door Lotus Cortina. (Ex rally car)
These are both great cars and I have to confess to liking the idea that neither of them have any modern electronics and ECU's etc. (I haven't got the patience to learn about map sensors and throttle sensors etc!) The sale of the Zetec car will also help fund the restoration of the Lotus. 😏
