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[BenHar]

Fun with a Cortina Canary Wharf 1986 by Danny McL, on Flickr

I bet that passed the cameraman on his left.

Ben

[Warren t claim]

That Astravan was probably quicker than the XR3 too.

You're getting mixed up with the astraMAX.
They were the fastest thing on four wheels.

Potatocam footage.

[mercrocker]

Before the Astramax took the throne, there was the lowly 1.6L Cortina Estate. Not only the fastest vehicle on the motorway, it was also capable of night-vision mode - able to do a ton in thick fog whilst loaded to window height with photocopier supplies and with the fag lighter permanently pressed in....You could only do this, mind, in "Coat-Hook" spec. No coat-hook, no dice.

[Hooli]

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[Jerzy Woking]

Before the Astramax took the throne, there was the lowly 1.6L Cortina Estate. Not only the fastest vehicle on the motorway, it was also capable of night-vision mode - able to do a ton in thick fog whilst loaded to window height with photocopier supplies and with the fag lighter permanently pressed in....You could only do this, mind, in "Coat-Hook" spec. No coat-hook, no dice.

I can fully endorse this. I had two 1.6L estates, a MkIV and a MkV as my company car when I was a medical rep. Both fast as fuck in the fog (both outside fog and interior smoke fog).

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