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CORSAIR V4

W ind back the clock to 1967. This was the year that the Ford Motor Company presented Loughborough Technical College with a two-year-old Corsair. The V4 automatic model, which was worth around £600 at the time, was not to be driven on public roads, but was to be used as a learning tool for practical instruction in the College’s automobile engineering course. It would spend its days being disassembled and then reassembled by the lucky students learning their trade.

This rather unusual set of circumstances lead to the Corsair surviving the next 20

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