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◊ 2012-07-28 02:11 |
Taunus or Cortina? (movie takes place in Turkey) |
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◊ 2012-07-28 02:43 |
I think Turkey had moved from UK Ford links in the 60s to German in early 70s, so Taunus more likely - 77+ TC2. We've had similar discussions before, but I'm not sure how far we got to in resolving local assembly for TC2. -- Last edit: 2012-07-28 02:51:17 |
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◊ 2012-07-28 14:49 |
Wasn't there even a local assembling? Anyways, as the Ford P7, Granada I and II and the Transit, also the Taunus was extremely popular st the Turkish immigrant workers in Germany in the 70ies and 80ies. Many of them were taken back to Turkey. Sometimes the nickname "Ford Ankara" came up, too. "Orient Express" was more used for the Transit. |
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◊ 2012-07-28 15:10 |
Hey, just see this article: Link to "einestages.spiegel.de" "The legendary guest worker's route", "On the death's row into the vacations" "A Ford 17 M, which was seen as the typical foreign worker's car, in a museum-exhibition about immigrant workers in 1998 in the Ruhrlandmuseum Essen" Link to "einestages.spiegel.de" Very typical, too: Link to "einestages.spiegel.de" |
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◊ 2012-07-28 16:20 |
Also very typical: Link to "www.google.de" |
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◊ 2012-07-28 16:20 |
Turkish Taunus production started in 85 until 93 - http://www.anadolturkey.com/web/en/models/a8.html - I guess probably as TC3 using tooling which Ford D (and UK) had stopped using 3 years earlier. Seems unlikely that Turkey would have accepted even older TC2 when Ford had no use for TC3, therefore I think this TC2 is not Turkish made. |
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◊ 2012-07-28 16:28 |
Yes, the toolings were shipped to Turkey (and Argentina BTW) after prodution in Cologne and Genk had ceased. |
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◊ 2012-07-29 00:05 |
As cl82 has implied, more terrible than the route in Austria (where the pics in the article are from), was the "Autoput" in Yugoslavia. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvR8zFlMR6A - http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/autoput_ford.jpg - http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/goekhan_unfall_1976_autoput.jpg - http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/autoput_oe_lkw.html - http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/massenunfall.html - http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/autoput_r4.html - http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/unfall_taunus_2.html - http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/autoput_1.html Complete gallery: http://www.rundfunkmuseum.at/unfallgalerie/gallery.html |
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