WITH its gorgeous custom widebody, 700rwhp turbo six and manual gearbox, this epic Mk1 Cortina practically screams ‘race car’. But don’t be fooled; it’s a proper street beast.
Darwin bloke Mark stumbled across this Corty about 15 years ago. “I’d always wanted a Mk1 Cortina because I like the shape of them, but the only things I could find back then were Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts,” Mark says. “I was doing a job for a customer and saw there was something under a cover, and I asked, ‘Is that a Mk1 Cortina?’ He couldn’t believe I knew what the silhouette was, and it just went from there.”
That base-model ‘jailbar’ 220 car came home with Mark, becoming his second serious project after his widebody Mk1 Esky. “I got some rough skills from that Escort, but this one was kind of off-again, on-again,”
