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I was looking at some old Fords on e-bay and trying to remember some of the colours that were current around the time of the Cortina 1600E in the late sixties. Silver Fox, Blue Mink , Saluki Bronze come to mind. Then there was that metallic pink, was it Oyster ? Anyone help out?
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My 1600E was white with an Everfex? black vinyl roof.
The metallic pink was Orchid or as some bumf had it Orchard.
I remember it well as I never found out the official colour although I guess it was Orchid.
The colour plates I have of various version sadly have no mention of the colours.
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My 1600E was a dreadful mix of canary yellow and rust inhibitor. Seemed quick at the time, but had brick-like aerodynamics. Stolen and recovered minus the engine.
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My MKII 1974 escort saloon 4 door was a mustard yellow, same as the Allegro of that time URGH!
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Ford Daytona yellow?
Will look up the offical color codes tonight
Ian
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Don't think 1600E was available in Daytona Yellow. that was, IIRC MK3 Cortina & Capri, so 1971 on.
VB
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olympic blue was my fav
quite what it had to do with the olympics?
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My '74 Capri was Le Mans green. Don't know where the Le Mans connection came in, but it looked quite fetching with it's black vinyl roof.
I used to hate those BL "Public Building Waiting Room" colours of brown and biege.
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Don't think 1600E was available in Daytona Yellow.
Would it have been Amber Gold?
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I had a 1600E bought new in 1969. It was Amber Gold I think, the same colour as in the brochure.
What a fantastic car it was, it would thrash a MGB from the traffic lights. I was very upset when it crashed into a telegraph pole and was written off. ( I was much younger then)
I bought a Mk3 GXL after, but it was not a patch on the 1600E.
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OK for the anoraks out there
Paint codes for Mk2 Cortina
Solid
BA/AB Ermine white
BZ Spruce green
CN Velvet blue
CH Purbeck grey
CJ Lagoon
CL Black cherry
CM Alpine green
CP Seafoam blue
CU Dragoon red
AQ Aubergine
BJ Anchor blue
BN Red II 65
BV Beige 67
CG Light blue
CR Light green 67
Metallic
A5 Aquatic Jade
A2 Silver fox
A3 Blue mink
A6 Saluki Bronze
A8 Light orchid
B4 Amber gold
B5 Fern Green
Ever wish you hadnt mentioned it?
StarGazer
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Excellent response folks, especially Stargazer.
When I was at college in the 'sixties, two of the other students (sons of poor farmers) used to arrive each day driving a Cortina 1600E in Amber Gold and a Corsair 2000E in Saluki Bronze. It's fair to say I was a little bit envious. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
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My father had one of the very last MKII Cortinas, 1970 J reg, bought from a buyer at Fords, which was painted (from new)in the MKIII metallic blue (a darker light blue than Blue Mink). We never saw another in that colour; it lasted much longer before beginning to flake than Blue Mink or Silver Fox...
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Given that the only grey cars i've ever seen were those covered in grey primer, pray enlighten me as to what 'purbeck grey' actually looked like ?
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It looked like shiny primer!!
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It looked like shiny primer!!
he's right you know, it did and we thought it was lovely .
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I think Ford resurrected that shiny primer colour for its Mustang GT in the late 80's/early 90's. I don't know what the colour was called on the mustang, but I suspect that car colour tastes had changed quite a bit since the 60s as I didn't see too many Mustangs in that colour.
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>> It looked like shiny primer!! >> he's right you know, it did and we thought it was lovely .
see below. It is therein all its glory.
freespace.virgin.net/tommy.sandham/paintandtrim.htm
Feast yourself on trim, seat and floor colours / descriptions.
henry k
Non anorak
Just a Google search on the colour produced this extensive list
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Various models for sale. Choose from 234.
www.buysellcortina.co.uk/magazine/memorylane.php
So many Savage versions still around.
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I had a MKIII Cortina in saluki bronze, or poo brown as everyone else called it.
Most reliable car I ever owned, seemed to have been constructed from bridge supports by superman.
Drove 100 miles down the motorway once with a strange banging noise coming from somewhere. Parked on my parents drive and the bonnet could be seem to be moving up and down. Turned out it was the heat from the engine, the radiator had holed outside my student digs and I had driven it all that way with no water in the radiator.
Happy days.
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