SLIGHTLY SILLY, But sympathetic
Seeing This Neat Red 1984 Ford Orion, With All The Chrome Trim In Place and the Red Paint Gleaming As If It Were Just Delivered, We can only conclude One Thing: This Escort with a Trunk Has Always Been Kept Indoors. And it rarely left that warm, sheltered garage in its 41 years of existence: the odometer reads 77,000 kilometers!
The Ford Orion, what was that again? You should see the orion as the counterpart to the Volkswagen Jetta, the Golf with a Trunk. In 1980, Ford launched a new escort following the then-modern hatchback trend in the compact mid-size class. A Car with a Large Tailgate, or Course with Front-Wheel Drive, which was Meant To Make People Forget the Escort MK1 and 2, Sedans with Rear-Wheel Drive. That was naturally a bit tough for the more traditional motorist. The Fifty-Somethings of Those Days? They Saw the Type of Car They Knew Disappear Across All Brands. At Opel, for Example, The C Kadett was Succeded in 1979 by the Modern, Angular, Front-Wheel-Drive D Kadett. The Older Ford Driver Who Didn’t Like Innovation Must Have Been Completely Shocked In Late 1982 When the Brand Launched the Sierra. A super streamlined hatchback that looked like the year 2000 had Already Begun. A huge shockwave for the taunus driver. That was still a mid-size car as children threw cars until the end of the last millennium: long nose-cabin-long trunk.
More Than Ten Years of Orion
To Retain All Those Shocked Ford Customers, Ford Hastily Developed the Orion, An Escort with a Huge ‘Trunk’ Attached to It. That resulted in a spacious luggage compartment: 383 liters! The escort with a trunk was called orion. The variant with this name lasted for ten years. There was still an orion in the nineties, but in the last year (1995-1998) Ford scrapped the name for the escort four-through and it was simply called escort.
Aftermarket Tachometer
Back to the advertisement that brought us to this story. The Orion Dates from 1984 and Still looks like new inside. It is a 1.3 gl and it had a large clock in the instrument panel, very common in those days. Yet the Owner Wanted to Know How Many Revolutions The 69 HP 1.3-liter Petrol Engine Made. He mounted a tachometer to the left of the cowling. On the right is a voltmeter for the battery voltage. The Original, Old-Fashioned Radio Completes The Picture. This is truly a time capsule.
Keeps Up Well with Traffic
This orion will not make many Enthusiast’s Hearts Beat Faster, But Suppose Your Grandpa or Neighbor Used to Have Such A Car and You Get Into A Nostalgic Mood With This Classic, Then You Can Pick Up The Brave Ford For € 4.900.