Produced in five generations between 1962 and 1982, the Ford Cortina was Britain’s best-selling vehicle during the 1970s. It was almost identical to the German-made Taunus from 1970 onwards as the two shared the same platform. Before that year, it was also imported as a left-hand version to the United States between 1967 and 1970. But it was never really popular on this side of the big pond with just several thousand Cortinas delivered to customers.
But even though the Cortina was never a great sales hit for Ford in the United States, one very rare gem was recently found sitting in a storage unit in Detroit. The latest episode of Hagerty's "Barn Find Hunter" YouTube series shows us a Cortina GT wagon, which was never imported officially into the country. In fact, the LHD variant of this vehicle was reportedly never built for public use and Ford only assembled a handful of cars for the Kenyan police.
