Topic: SOLVED: Djetset #95 - Bodycraft Ford Cortina Fastback

[Djetset]

Tell me as much as you can about this car, and I shall reward you with a point!

[gilescooperuk]

Ford cortina mk1 fastback prototype...

[Djetset]

You're on the right road, but can you be more specfic please with some more details?

[gilescooperuk]

Well if is the one I did some research for then it was built in Austrailia by a company called Bodycraft Pty Ltd.

Designed by Allan Cumming and Ford looked at it but decided not to take it into production.

[Djetset]

That works for me.  Well done.  Four of these were built by Bodycraft for appraisal by Ford Australia before the project got canned.

[Arthur Dent]

Neat car - would look a little sportier with two doors ...

[Djetset]

Aha, one of the four built was a 2-door, the other three all being 4-door models.  Can't lay my hands on an image of the 2-door version, but here's another shot of the 4-door.

[barrett]

Period shot

[Otto Puzzell]

Here's a video of the 2-door car, shot by none other than Darth Vader (before his voice changed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPIhkgvcwGc

[THE TRUTH]

  During the production of the mk1 in the early to mid sixties a team of designers and engineers from a company based in Geelong Victoria Australia called bodycraft...This is where the ambulance bodies and chassis extensions works took place....The fastback was a project of which was not continued,(rather than canned) as for one of the chief designer Mr Arduino Carlini passed away , My grandfather....

There you have it...THE TRUTH....