Sold with the V5C, keys, various receipts and old MOTs.

Ford’s Corsair is one of those cars that has somehow managed to move under the radar, not garnering the huge sales success of the Cortina or the Escort yet not attracting the imagination of those after the larger Ford product either.

Back in the day Ford didn’t know this though and it was very keen to plug a gap in its range.

The Cortina was the mainstream model and the Zodiac/Zephyr was the higher end model, yet there was nothing in between.

Enter the Corsair.

It was unashamedly based on the best-selling Cortina but with a longer wheelbase and a bigger boot along with some futuristic styling cues.

However, unlike the Cortina it struggled in the marketplace, not offering quite enough pizzazz to tempt buyers out of their Cortinas.

Initially it didn’t offer much in the way of additional performance and while it was certainly commodious the equivalent Cortina was both cheaper and not much smaller, either.

Moves were made to t...