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I live in the Netherlands and therefore am a countryman of the Ford Transcontinental. I have been interested in Ford cars for almost all my life, as my dad worked for a few years at a Ford dealership. When he bought his first car it simply had to be a Ford. I remember very well our first Ford Taunus TC 1 1600 GT from 1973, which was followed by a Taunus TC 2 2000 V6 GL and several Sierras and Mondeos. My own first car was a Ford Taunus 1300XL Coupe — fast looking but terribly slow! Next came a Taunus 2300 GT Coupe which I fully restored and which I still own. Later it was joined by a Sierra Cosworth and a Ford Cougar.
“My first ride in a Transcontinental”
“Taunus 2300 GT Coupe 1973”
After my studies I started working in the automotive truck industry, and very soon vintage passenger cars began to bore me. It is no wonder that I became interested in Ford trucks. For the first years my interest was limited to collecting miniatures, pictures and brochures. Through an ad in our Ford Taunus Club magazine I came into contact with a company that was still operating a few Transcontinentals, driving vegetables from Holland to Poland. They gave me the first opportunity to drive a Ford Transcontinental myself. This encouraged my wish to own a Transcontinental and intensified my search.
Finally I found in Germany a Mark 1 Ford Transcontinental HA 4231, built in 1977 and first registered in 1978. I bought it from Kissling Motorsport, a German Opel tuner who had used the big Ford to tow their race transporter. Although technically in good condition, the cab was in terrible shape: very rotten and missing a lot of interior trim. If I had known at that time how easy it is to fit a Renault cab, I would never have started to restore the cab the way I did. In the “my truck” section you will find more pictures and information about the progress of the restoration works.
In April 2006 I finally found a solid example of a Mark 2 Transcontinental. See the my trucks section to find pictures of my latest Transcontinental, HA4435 from 1981.