The Mini I sort of get, the Cortinas and Escorts I don't.
They remind me of horrible journeys and the older kid who was a right nob but thought he was God's gift with his mullet and tartan trousers!
This was the sort of thing that some of the older lads had and I loved!
I never got the Ford and Vauxhall thing, one of our mates brothers had a GT Turbo too, might have been about 1990??
It was this colour and I always loved that car...