Easter yellow, just like in the folder
With Easter just around the corner, we couldn’t help but give this crackling yellow Ford Taunus the attention it deserves. It suits this period because of its bright yellow paint, but of course also because it contains a lot of Easter eggs.
What a wonderful appearance, this yellow Ford Taunus StationWagon. Built in 1977, it is a so-called TC2, so with the nose introduced in 1976, but without the ‘around the corner’ direction indicators. This year of construction also has the advantage that the owner was eligible for a classic license plate upon import in 2022, with the associated – and of course much more beautiful – dark blue license plates. Judging by the photos, the car is in a reasonable condition, although the rust under the rear bumper proves that it is not a museum piece.
The Ford Taunus StationWagon, as Ford called it in the Netherlands (elsewhere it was Turnier), was also exactly like this in the brochure (photo 3). In bright yellow, that is, and, just like the spotted car, designed as an ‘L’. In the same folder we read that the L distinguished itself from the basic version with opulent things such as an illuminated glove compartment, padded armrests, a trip meter and a clock. The first owner also left it hanging wide on the motor level, because the two-liter V6 with 90 hp was chosen. That may not sound impressive, but it certainly is compared to the 55 hp base engine. By the way, with the back seat flat, 1,810 liters of stuff went into such a Taunus. That is 276 liters more than in the current Kuga, which has been somewhat of the spiritual successor to this Taunus since the disappearance of the Mondeo.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl