dad had a mk3 cortina which got the engine taken out for a few reasons,
austin allegro estate in yellow, crashed into by a truck on a roundabout with my mum driving
mk3 escort in red, replaced by face lifted mk3 in blue that was kept for 15 years or so, it even passed an MOT with the boot lid held on by gaffa tape! and was sold in this state!
about half way through the above my mum got a montego estate, it got stolen and recovered and sold followed by another which got scrapped last year and a subaru forrester bought
my dad bought a mazda demio (now the mazda 2) which i crashed a year after passing my test and then it got re-built.