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Name: Jim Davidson

Age: 62

Job: engineer

Location: Glasgow, UK

Car: 1969 Cortina Savage

Start condition: complete but in need of restoration

Condition now: major bodywork repairs complete

Time taken so far: two years

Estimated date of completion: Summer 2021

It’s fair to say that Jim Davidson likes his fast cars. He’s owned interesting ones since he was 18, including numerous Escort RS2000s, Triumph Stags (latterly building one with an LS V8), and even scratched the Cortina Savage itch with a pair of Mk2s owned in the 1980s and 1990s.

The 3-litre Essex V6-powered Cortina Mk2s, Mk3s and Mk4s created by Jeff Uren’s Race Proved concern in the

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