CORTINA MK4 ESTATE

Ford Heritage: Portugal is probably best known for a certain footballer. It shouldn’t be. It should be hailed for assembling and then preserving Stuart Grant’s truly spectacular Mk4 1.6L Cortina.

Gareth Charlton

I wasn’t even looking for a Cortina,” explains Stuart Grant, the lucky the owner of the incredible 1977 Mk4 Cortina 1.6L that we’re lusting over. They’re our words, not his — Stuart refers to himself as a ‘custodian’, rather than an owner, assuming responsibility for the preservation of a rare, and possibly the most original, Mk4 in existence. “It was a miserable day in Glasgow and I was looking at cars on the internet when I came across this Cortina on a classic car website,” he continues. “It was being sold by a dealer in Portugal, who chanced upon it when out looking for new stock. He passed a house with a lock-up outside, glanced in through an open door and could see the corner of a car visible beneath…

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Classic Ford (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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