The Savages were great cars - nicely converted by Jeff Uren. Large engines in small cars was a good formula. This is a rare car. Should go for a high price.
A lot of home conversions were carried out in the day and were also known as Savages, the GT high back seats more than likely from a Mk3 GT as I don’t recall any Mk2’s having them on any models as head rest’s were mainly fitted on high quality cars.
all savages are JEFF uren cars and badged so any home conversions were copys or buildups but a savage is a jeff uren cortina v6 he also did an eliminator escort with a v6 too as well as v6 transits corsairs etc and all uren cars are listed have tags and numbered and well cataloged by uren himself as i had one and enquired and was gave list of stuff too look for strength points etc and then he listed to me what ways car left him optional extras from when car was built right down to wheels and brakes mines was a harvest gold 1600e 4door version with v6 always wanted a 2door cortina savage was promised one and sold mine for person too change mind and keep then month later sell car to another person for less than he priced me i was gutted but when i found out was a rebadged heap of pop rivetted panels the real car had been crashed he reshelled it then tried to sell quickly to someone that didnt know any better and didnt sell too me as knew too much lol i dodged a bullet there nowadays id settle for any mk1 2 or 3 cortina estate so i can 2 door it and stuff a fast modern engine gearbox etc so reliable love old fords cars u can fix yourself and stand out in crowd more now than ever IF THIS CAR IS JEFF URENS MYTHICAL ESTATE ITS GOING TO GET A RECORD PRICE FOR A CORTINA ESTATE OUT MATHEWSONS AS THATS A HOLY GRAIL CAR OF HISTORIC VALUE LIKE OWNING A LOTUS CORTINA BELONGING TO COLIN CHAPMAN OR COSWORTH BEING OWNED BY KEITH DUCKWORTH WISH ID THE CASH BUT IF RIGHT PPL KNOW CAR COULD GET 6 FIGURES IF ITS SAME CAR I THINK ?????? ANYONE ELSE KNOW IF ITS JEFFS OWN WITH EVERY EXTRA AND MORE ???
I used to have a 3 litre 1600 E. it was converted from new by a company called Crayford. It’s a very rare car. Much rarer then a savage built basically to the same specs. Beautiful car. Looked like a standard 1609 E. except it had the crayford badge on the boot lid. And it had the Dunlop alloys also it had twin headlights and grill from a Vauxhall Ventura
I helped do a few V6 conversions on various small Fords in the day, generally home converted cars were better than the Savages. The genuine ones with the paperwork and provenance command good money. The downside was that even with stiffer suspension the V6 is too heavy and too far forward, with the Capri rear axle and an overdrive gearbox from a Zodiac top speed was great with a modded 3 litre. Front suspension and steering parts had a short life with that weight. Not a conversion you would do nowadays but great fun back in the day...
V6 IN A SAVAGE IS MOUNTED FURTHER BACK FOR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION AND WAS ESSEX 3LITRE ON LATER CARS SERIES2 MK2 CORTINAS ONWARDS ALSO USED MODIFIED CROSSMEMBER FOR V6 TO BE NEARER MIDDDLE FOR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION SO YOU THINK HOME MADE WERE BETTER IM NOT SAYING THERE WASNT BETTER BUILT CARS BY OWNERS AS BUILT FEW MYSELF BUT MAJORITY OF BUILDUPS ARE THROWN TOGETHER USING ANYTHING FOR PARTS SHIT HEAPS THE SAVAAGES CAME WITHOUT THE HEADACHES ALSO IF YOU OWNED A GENUINE SAVAGE YOU COULD SEND CAR BACK FOR ESSEX ENGINE UPGRADES TRIPLE CARBS ETC THERE WAS LOTS DAMN NICE CARS AROUND GROWING UP THRU 70S CUSTOM CAR ERA SAW STUFF THAT AMAZED ME BUT URENS CARS WERE BETTER THAN MOST HOMEMADE CARS FACT PS NOT SHOUTING CAPS STUCK ON LOL YOU KNOW YOUR STUFF TOO AS I SEE SPECS
@@brian3174 thanks for the extra info, we used front crossmembers from the Corsair V4s, and drilled and sleeved the Cortina cross member to take the extra bolts (Cortinas had 4 Corsairs had 6). Where I lived at the time the home converted cars did vary, the quickest way to do a conversion was a Corsair V4 bellhousing on the stock gearbox. You could drill the rivets out of a V6 clutch and put the hub from a Cortina clutch in. Great fun times....
I've known this car over thirty years, owned by a titled gentleman when new. I quite fancied being its new custodian (this time round) I'll pass on the opportunity ... Sadly time hasn't been kind to her. A rebuild is looming in my humble opinion. And why, oh why, do folk seem to think red lining a high performance engine is an aid to selling any car ?
@@ralphmillais5237 Yes Ralph, I believe it is. Its a small world sometimes. I also believe its now been bought by a chap who's sister and her husband used to live next door to me about thirty years ago
I've seen three or four of these all reportedly being Jeff's private car for at least 20 year's, all I can say he must have had a fine collection of these at one point, 😂😂😂
🤫 As you said very rare car 🚗. In face here in my country New Zealand 🇳🇿, I have only ever seen two examples in my whole life. This one looks pretty good, for its age....
Its also claimed elsewhere on the internet Jeff Uren owned the green Cortina mk 2 estate Savage OBM 307H as his own vehicle for 21 years , which is thought to be the last one he built ..........👍
The venerable Essex lump.You could swap an alternator in 20 minutes.Try that on a Ztec! Fun fact the Cologne v6 which was 2.8 was a slightly shorter stroke and picked up a bit more quickly.The Essex was quite lazy for a v6 but sounded great.
Don't rev cold engine with no load V6 needs to warm up..remember it was in a day when enjoyed driving no twenty plenty no ulez no congestion charge Police who nicked you who could drive a car rather than sit the office looking at screens life was different pace shops didnt open all day Sunday In fact it sounds such a wonderful place i wish i could book my holiday there !!!!
My Dad had a two door very rare built by Jeff Uren at Race Proved of Uxbridge road Hanwell built a few other ,like the easypower 3000 V6 transit ,Stampede V8 Capri
Comanche, Stampede (Capris) Navaho (Anglia I think) Cheetah (Cortina with the Essex 2.5) also the Transit Easy power, with the Diesel "nose" to accommodate the V6.
These Cortina Savage Estates claimed to be owned by Jeff Uren as his daily driver are coming out of the woodwork, a Silver Estate reg no BYC 831J is also claimed to have been driven by him for 20 years .......Surely all three of them cant have been his daily driver for 20 years or over ?
Nice car, some of the Jeff Uren mk2 cars had a Weslake pack making 190 bhp, ive never seen one with electric windows, or the driving lights fitted in the grille. The seats look like mk3 tombstone, as the seat belt bits. The paint code on the plate is Dragoon red, and it probably left factory as a 1600gte spec around 68-69,the dash is early type, last one I saw did 30k,they were fabulous cars.
Well well. If verification of Jeff Uren ownership is true then extremely rare. Value? Difficult to say. But deserves to be worth at least £30,000 as is. Find another!
My dad about 68 bought a just under a year old 1600e which I guess this other than the Engine and body shell is all 1600e he couldn't find a brand new 1 as Ford was on strike LoL within a year or so the Capri came out he put an order in and Ford were on strike again or still and it took nearly 6 month before he collected his 1600GT he didn't like it within a year he ordered a brand new Datsun 180sss he had multiple Datsuns Dad had his own business for 40years or so changed his cars every 2 years unless he didn't like the car.
@@brianclaridge7695 that's the only one I've ever seen on the end of an extension arm as per Escorts of the era ? Export Cortina's has the same set up with a Servo as standard. Did you see the ex Cyprus car in the last Auction ?
automatic transmission, probably not Jeff's personal car, verynice survivor car, series 1 with the high mount gauge pack. please stop revving a cold engine.
@@FK-zr9fn I don't really think Jeff Uren actually ever wielded a spanner. A very clever entrepreneur with enthusiasm, even in his much later years (I had the great privilege of meeting him several times). He was the marketing, his wife was accounts, all the team in the back room created all the magic from his dream. Originally they were going to build three cars and have them red white and blue (sound familiar) ship them to the states via the Queen Mary and sell them like hot cakes to the North American market. If my memory serves me.
@@Raceproved Thank you very much for the information .I can remember seeing only 2 of the Cortina Savages, one was in Launceston in Cornwall, a light green in colour. The other when i was an apprentice Mechanic for Fords at Temple Meads Motors a main Ford agent in Bristol. I can remember a gentleman bringing a Jeff Uren Capri into the workshop one day, and he would not leave the car , he sat in the reception and didn't let it out of his sight.He wouldn't let anybody take it out on road test, needless to say i didn't blame him . Yes those were the days i used to earn £6 a week take home pay and earned more in a week on a Saturday afternoon doing my so called Foreigners. Happy Days !!!!
@@FK-zr9fn There's a light green (Fern Green) Savage still on the road not too far from where you describe. Maybe the same one ? And yes, I too, can recall those heady days back then (if only eh ?)
