My childhood´s Ford Taunus XL

This 1971 Ford Taunus XL first was my grandfather´s car and he had it from just before I was born. The picture shows my grandmother, my late uncle and a friend with the car, while my grandfather took the picture. 

In the late 1970s the car was handed down to my dad and when he got his BMW to my mum. I remember being taken to and from primary school in it, the hot faux leather emitting a smell and me burning my thighs on the upholstery in mid summer. I further remember giving it TLC later trying to remove rust from its chrome grille and bumper.

After my mum sadly died in 1987, my father got fed up with the car for it failing to start repeatedly and angily swapped it for a Talbot Simca. It is easy to see why the car holds fond memories for me.

The model is a modification of a KK Scale that luckily came in the correct exterior and interior colour, but in the basic Taunus L spec with round headlights, the smallest engine and a rather plain rear, when the real car was the XL spec with rectangular headlights, the bigger engine, a wide chrome strip on the rear and chromed wheel arches.