cort16's Cortina Crap - Suspicious Sill

[cort16]

I'm going to pickup this Mk4 2 dr Cortina tomorrow. I've not got far to go (about 70 miles) but I thought I'd try using this computer wizzyness that I wrote ages ago and should be gold for live shite collection updates. You'll be right with me as I sitting waiting 3 hours for the AA lorry.

 

It lets you send pictures from your phone by sending a picture to an email address, which through a series of 1's and 0's gets converted into a PICTUR, which will update the picture below LIVE (ish) . It also allows me to include a message. I've no idea if it'll work.

 

[cort16]

Here's the cortina on cwestoion

 

cortina by cort16, on Flickr

[messerschmitt owner]

oooooohhhh 

[tooSavvy]

oooooohhhh 

 

Ahhhhhh !!!!

 

 

TS

[cort16]

Ahhhhhh !!!!

 

 

TS

 

Just a little bit

[messerschmitt owner]

just a little bit more!

[messerschmitt owner]

seriously, a two door looks cool. This was my favourite shape of Cortina.

[derek9213]

very cool....... i like that a lot

[cort16]

derek9213 it's in dunfermline. Givus a toot if you see me conked out

[derek9213]

derek9213 it's in dunfermline. Givus a toot if you see me conked out

 will do, i look forward to seeing it around, there arent enough old fordies running about the town

[EssDeeWon]

Looks cool that good luck with the collection

[outlaw118]

13mm spanner, flat headed screw driver (for use both as intended, and as a chisel) a phillips, and a club hammer.

ESHENSHALL TOOLAGE.

[cort16]

The image will change as I go along but the thread won't bump itself when I post. You may also have to press ctrl F5 on your browser to see the updates,

[CortinaDave]

looks good! welcome back to cortina stewardship

[fordperv]

Excellent that's a nice looking tincorner

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Loving the ultra lightweight towing dolly.

 

Seems a shame that when the pictures update the old one disappears .

[cort16]

Got back one if the calipers is seized open though which made for an interesting journey

[Spiny Norman]

Nice looking car, what engine size is it?

[derskine]

I like it!

And I spotted it in Rosyth once

 

[trigger]

Great stuff! When i collected my Cortina i only had one working caliper, when i braked the car steered right, 150 miles of that was great fun!

[cort16]

Great stuff! When i collected my Cortina i only had one working caliper, when i braked the car steered right, 150 miles of that was great fun!

 

Yes it's a great laugh isn't it. Just keep your gap to the car in front to a distance of about 1.3 miles and it's okay.

 

The car was originally a 1.3 base but now has a 2.0 pinto and 5 speed type 9 in it. It was supposed to be a ready to use car but I've already found about 5 things wrong with it some of them I knew about some of them I didn't. I'm going to get the caliper free'd off tomorrow but it's going to need rebuilt or replaced I recon.

 

Also I know brake flexi pipes are meant to be flexi but this doesn't look right!

 

Also found 1 suspect bit of grot that wasn't there before

Speedo, rev counter and temp gauge don't work

Door is sticky

Needs replacement arb bushes

No heater

 

Good points are

Looks great

it's a flippin 2 door!

Not many clunks for a cortina.

engine goes great

gearbox great

drives really nice so with a bit of tinkering it should be fun. Pity I'm skint after buying it.

Mi

[Bren]

I don't suppose this car has links to St Helens does it?

 

My mate had one very similar - his was UEC 893R - a two door in green.

[solid61]

from memory im sure the brake caliper bolts had a bracket wih a steel pipe from the caliper to the flexy hose about 4 inches long,looks like your flexys  have been put straight into the caliper.

[cort16]

When you turn full lock the flexi is actually stretched. Not very safe!

 

It should look more like this

 

[barefoot]

.....gearbox great....

 

Surely that was, and still is the best thing about any Cortina.

And the only real reason folk used to buy them in the old days.

[greengartside]

I don't suppose this car has links to St Helens does it?

 

My mate had one very similar - his was UEC 893R - a two door in green.

Looks like it's the very same one..!

 

 

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[cort16]

I don't suppose this car has links to St Helens does it?

 

My mate had one very similar - his was UEC 893R - a two door in green.

 

It is the same car that's the reg. Are you going to tell me it was last seen doing 70mph on it's roof going over the humber bridge?

[CortinaDave]

Whitevanman had a brown mk4 2 door on an R reg a couple of years back.. Can't be more than single figure survivors surely?

 

 

EDIT: not this one.. Just found a pic of yours from 2003 on Flickr and it was green even then.

 

If the heaters not working it's usually a blocked matrix. Give it a good reverse flush problem solved

[Bren]

It passed through my mates hands a couple of years ago.

 

I thought I recognised it - you tend to remember mk IV Tina's in Modena green.

[Ghosty]

Nice! Are the wheels (and plates) staying black or being, er, corrected?