Dad ran Humber Supersnipes as company cars from the middle '50's to '67[apart from one month with a MkI Van den Plas 3 litre]and I had a '64 MkI Sceptre.Neither of us nor my siblings had a Marina :'(
If they'd stuck a Ford badge on it it'd have fetched at least twice as much! The prices of practically any Ford these days is frankly stupid.Most were rubbish when new and I can't see them having improved with age.
Once read a book about the bloke who was the test "dummy" for the Martin Baker ejector seat.To begin with they capped the tower that the seat shot up so it got to the top,stopped and then slowly came back to the bottom.Many tests were carried out in this manner until eventually they removed the cap.First test without the cap man and seat shot skyward and returned to earth on a parachute whereupon he suffered severe injuries[broken bones etc]because they'd forgotten to tell him that he was supposed to separate himself from the seat so each would come down on their own 'chutes so he'd come down still strapped in the seat and the one 'chute wasn't enough to slow things down enough before hitting the floor!
Ordered rear springs for the V70 last Monday notified that they'd been despatched on Tuesday and according to tracker[they're coming by Hermes]they're still showing as despatched,not even to "in Transit" let alone out for delivery! Well they are coming from London