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1979 Ford Escort 1.3 L MkII 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
— Built in: 
00:54:30 ![[*]](/res/star.png){kind=small}
Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2013-03-20 04:00 |
![[Image: 54-30escortmk2.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/54-30escortmk2.jpg) ![[Image: 54-30escortmk2headrestsnotints.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/54-30escortmk2headrestsnotints.jpg) GL trim. Not sure when headrests came in but no tints. A few others scattered through the film eg ![[Image: 40-29holdenrearescortgl.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/40-29holdenrearescortgl.jpg) at 00:40:29 in background - looks a posh version with the unique Aus/NZ pale vinyl roof combinations ![[Image: 41-26escortsontrain.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/41-26escortsontrain.jpg) at 00:41:26 - Picton rail crossing; nzcarnerd wrote "there is a selection of Fords (Falcons and Escorts) on the train. They would be being delivered from the Ford assembly plant at Seaview near Wellington to the South Island." |
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◊ 2014-07-02 07:31 |
That is a 1979 Ford Escort 1.3 L. The giveaways are the square headlamps (the front is shown in the previous shot where the vehicle is being pulled over by the Holden HQ traffic unit), combined with plain bumpers, which were a change introduced at the start of 1979 in New Zealand - GL bumpers had black inserts which the L did not have after 1975 in NZ. The doorcards are further giveaways that this is an L, due to them not reaching the windowline, as per the GL. At the time, Ford had two plants in New Zealand, at Seaview (Lower Hutt) and Wiri (South Auckland) - for Ford's passenger car models in the late 1970s, the Seaview plant focussed on Cortinas, while Falcons and Escorts were assembled at Wiri. |
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