Debonair corsair

From: The Scotsman | Date: October 10, 2003| Author: JIM DUNN | Copyright information

IT'S exactly 40 years ago today that the Ford Corsair - the first all-new car range to be built at the then newly-opened Ford Halewood plant on Merseyside - went on sale at apparently mouth-watering prices from GBP 653 for the basic two-door to GBP 840 for the all singing, all dancing four-door GT.

It is a car which retains a particularly important place in my memory because I graphically remember taking the wheel of a nearly new example my best mate borrowed from his Dad on a particu...

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