According to its seller, today's Nice Price or No Dice Cortina GT is "mostly there." As an obvious project car, we'll need to decide if it's worth saving and, if so, at what cost.

And then there was the Mk3 and Mk4 and the ... As Jimmy Rafferty says: "Basically, Ford took a four-door GT Cortina and gave it Lotus suspension, a new plush interior with deep-pile carpet ...

The original range was made up of a vast 35 models, comprising 1.3-litre, 1.6-litre and 2.0-litre engines, two-door, four-door or estate bodyshells and Base, L, XL, GT or GXL trim levels.