Talk:Ford Corsair

Hi! Lovely article. The link to the mk3 Cortina in the chronology bit of the box on the right leads to the ford Granada, not the Cortina. 78.148.200.174 (talk) 16:39, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Corsair and Cortina
Is it true that the Corsair shared its glass and doors with the Cortina Mk 2 ? RGCorris (talk) 09:13, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


 * True or not, I certainly remember reading something similar.  I wish I could remember where I read it.   The version I (think I) remember has it that the windows were shared with he Cortina Mk I, however.   (Not the Mk II.)   That makes more sense in terms of the timelines.


 * (Corsair announced Oct 1963 as 'Consul Corsair' after 'Consul Cortina' Mk I announced Oct 1962 and facelifted (now losing the 'Consul' bit in its name) Oct 1964.  Cortina Mk II which would have attracted greater investment - enough for reshaped windows?! - launched only in Oct 1966.)


 * Not so sure about the doors.  If they're shared, someone appears to have repositioned the door handles a tad.   But I guess that's just a question of cutting a hole and pressing a hand-sized dimple in a slightly different place.   The door lines do otherwise look curiously alike (between Mk I Cortina and Corsair), so that you ask yourself why they would have bothered to redesign the presses for the (relatively low volume) Corsair.   Pressing sheets steel into shapes was a far less flexible process back then, but making pressings has always been an expensive element in making cars because of the capital cost of the presses (and, I guess, the energy consumption when they're in operation).


 * As an experiment I tried looking at the closest thing I could find to a picture Cortina Mk I in profile, and then covered the car's ends and doors and (importantly) C-pillar as best I could.  I established that my hands aren't really that shape.   But I THINK the shared windows theory remains plausible.   Regards  Charles01 (talk) 10:20, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Current Corsair
There are much more recent Ford Corsair's around. They made them until at least 1991. tactik 12:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Re "curb weight", shouldn't that be "kerb weight"?195.173.13.125 11:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

V4 in 1964
I owned a mid 1964 Corsair with a V4 engine. Alpina green. When it was 10 years old and the engine was worn out, it would regularly clock 95 mph. When I had it re-engined to 2000 cc, it would clock easily 105 mph.MarkRS53 (talk) 09:18, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Brookes Brothers: Tony and Michael were twins
For some reason I started googling round this issue when I spotted an edit conflict going on somewhere round line 34 of the Ford Corsair entry. Clearly I need to get a life. Meanwhile: I found a source for them being twins born in 1938. I found sources for Anthony T Brookes and Michael J Brookes BOTH having had their births registered in the same place in the same quarter of 1938 with the same unusually named mother.

I don't think the probability of any combination of sources ever takes us too far beyond 99%, in terms of converting into the likelihood of something being true. Nevertheless I find this combination powerfully persuasive - probably "above 99.5%".

However, I do not myself believe that the fact of the Brookes boys having been twins really belongs in an entry about the Ford Corsair. It would belong in an entry about Tony Brookes if our anonymous contributor has enough information to produce a wiki-worthy entry on the guy. They - but especially Tony - must have been in the public eye for long enough to have generated a reasonably persuasive collection of sources attesting to notability.

Think of it as a challenge. Success Charles01 (talk) 08:41, 8 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I have been reverting these additions. They are entirely unsourced.  I've outlined my doubts on teh Ford Anglia page - The classiccars.co.uk source appears to be a verbatim duplicate of the Wikipedia, so fails reliability, and indeed all the sources I've googled are essentially Wiki-mirrors.  As you point out, the issue is not whether they were twins, but whether they were both at thsi race course.  In the strictest sense, the entire section is unsourced, so from now on, I'm going to remove that instead of just the twin section.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 19:44, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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