Thread: Terry Sanger's Cortina V8 Mk1 (and others!)
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Old 7 Dec 2006, 17:01 (Ref:1784260)   #27
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Originally Posted by jonners
I was going to suggest V6 Cortinas too but even though a V6 conversion for the Mk 1 was fairly popular even before Jeff Uren's 'Savage' Cortinas, I'm not sure any were raced in a meaningful way.

The only one I can think of is the ex Team Lotus/ex Alan Mann Mk 2 CTC 24E that was raced in [?] Northern Saloons at Croft by Martin Sledmore with a V6 with chopped bulkhead and so forth - early 70's I think

Anyone know any more about that particular car during that period??
I don't know about the car in period, but there is an ex Alan Mann Mk 2 Cortina around now with a highly tuned Cosworth YB engine in it...
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