Cortina Saxon

As part of the many celebrations this year for the Ford Cortina's 50th anniversary, the Goodwood Revival lined up a selection of unusual examples of the mkI 'Tina at the front of their Earls Court Motor Show building. There was a Lotus, a woody estate and a convertible, but what really caught SuckSqueezeBangBlow's eye was this, the Saxon.
It's a recreation of a prototype built by Ford in the early sixties - they only built one example for show purposes, which is believed to have been exported to Australia and broken up. The flawless replica on display at Goodwood was hand-crafted by one diligent enthusiast using the one existing press photograph of the car - a phenomenal achievement. You can see that the original Cortina concept was rather shorter than the production model, with obvious American influences around the roofline. And it was bloody gorgeous, of course.