Old racers never die, they say. Well, this Cortina is exactly that, an old racer, and it’s still alive and kicking. Though talking of kickings, fate has thrown a few at it along the way.
It was once a 12-second strip weapon. Well, it was once someone’s family saloon, but you knew that. That was then, though, and this is now. Having been sold on out of the race game, it became the property of Paul Pope, a time-served member of the rodding scene round Kent way, who started what turned out to be the slow and unexpectedly painful process of turning it into a street sleeper.
The Mopar 318 once had it running 12s on standard tyres
You wouldn’t look at it and think it’s a standard one, certainly. But you probably would think that if you were pulling away from a roundabout on a fast bike and all of a sudden some character in a
