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Published: 2019-03-06 21:54:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 696; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 2
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An abandoned Ford Taunus 20m (P5) Turnier estate (1965-1967), somewhere in Belgium.First introduced in September of 1964 to replace the Ford Taunus 17m P3, the Ford Taunus 20m was the first of the Taunus series to incorporate a 6-cylinder engine instead of the 4-cylinder of previous models; even so, the Taunus P5 was also available with the 4-cylinder as the Taunus 17m P5. Initially produced as saloons and sedans, the range was expanded with an estate model in January of 1965, which came as a 3-door and 5-door model.
The model was reasonably succesful with 710059 produced between 1964 and 1967 at Ford Germany in Cologne-Niehl, Ford-Belgium in Genk, and Ford-Portugal in Azambuja; additionally, a number of right-hand drive models were built at the Ford plants in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present-day Harare in Zimbabwe) and Silverton in South Africa. Nevertheless, the model was outsold by Opel's Record B (1965-1966, 296627 built) and Record C (1967-1971, 1276681 built), and of course both were outsold by the ubiquitous Volkswagen Type 1; this competition led to Ford replacing the Taunus P5 with the 1967 P7, which ultimately proved to be less commercially succesful than the P5. The Taunus P5 was the penultimate 'German' Ford; from the Taunus TC onwards, the model was basically identical to Ford UK's Cortina.
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Awesome pic! I love to see old European cars created by the auto-makers I know, but never sold in the US!
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Too bad you can't rebuild it! It looks pretty cute!
I want my Eurotrash Car.
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There's an old saying about FORD cars:
Fabrication Ordinaire, Reparation Difficile
(Ordinary fabrication, difficult reparation)
Although the fact it still exists after 52 years is somewhat encouraging, but it would take a lot of work to rebuild this one.
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That's interesting. Well. Fords are not my favorite vehicle to be sure. every one I ever owned succumbing to various overheating issues.
In this country. a similar acronym exists for FIAT - Fix It Again, Tony.
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Over here, Fords used to be omnipresent; I remember my neighbour having two identical Ford Taunus 20M P7s, however his widow had them sold soon after he died.
However, Fords were generally known to be not that great builds, and as a result it is hard to find a Ford built in the 1990s, very hard to find one built in the 1980s, and pre-1980 examples are rare as hen's teeth. Even first-generation Ford Focus' (1998-2005) or Ford Ka's (1995-2008) have become increasingly rare spots, and it's been ages since I last saw the once omni-present Ford Galaxy (1996-2007)...
Oddly, the VW Bug, Citroen's DS or the Citroen CV on the other hand...
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Citroen DS for the win! As the OAS found out!
I love the Citroen CV! (You mean the corrugated body thing, right?) So what's the average price for a beat-up but running example there in the land of the Belges? ("The bravest of these are the Belges" - Julius Caesar)
Pumori needs a CV! for, you know, werewolf stuff. Maybe she would need a phone book to sit on so she could peer above the dashboard, eyes gleaming, as she roars through the streets of Rocassone, scattering enemies! (Apologies to lil' kitten Walt Masters)
Pumori howls with glee as she stomps on the accelerator and as at that moment her own personal prearranged Hellburner explodes, raining ploughshares , body parts, flaming tires, entire rear axles and crankshafts on the heads of the fleeing knights!
(Amphy the Amphibian Girl, in some dark alleyway helpfully slitting throats, looks up to see a beautiful blossoming orange flower of flaming death, a giant fireball mount into the night sky and hisses approvingly: "Nice goin', lil' werewolf chile!" )
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Sorry - meant 2CV (that's the French equivalent of the Beetle, albeit more rudimentary); the corrugated van would have been the Citroen HY (can you believe its production run was uninterrupted from 1947 to 1981?)
Depending on their state (I just checked), you can get a 2CV from anything between €5000 (to be restored) to €17000 (restored), with an average €10000 for a decent example; and more or less the same for the HY.
The HY isn't a particularly common spot in traffic anymore, although it's still commonly used as food truck and such.
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Adding onto what jssabotta said, the Ford acronym is similar to the American's Fix Or Repair Daily.
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As long as this exists in the world, there is still hope.
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Yes indeed. There was often one parked near our local shops where we lived in Kent. Must be a firm that turns them out.
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That would be Salisbury in Rhodesia - or what's today known as Harare in Zimbabwe. It was a very short-lived affair for Ford: the manufacturing plant was set up in 1961, but after its unilateral declaration of independence in November of 1965 (that is, by a white minority ruling party intent on preserving its rule), severe sanctions were placed on Rhodesia that saw its access to foreign markets curtailed. As a result, Ford was forced to withdraw its support and effectively close it in 1967.
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Over the recent years I become aware of the sad history of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Part of me would not like to judge, but another me goes with everybody screwed it
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There aren't many countries that suffered colonial rule that can say they came any better out of it, certainly not those who endured it in the 20th century...
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