2 litre cortina - ITS ALIVE

[autofive]

stopped raining, so i took a few pics of the Cortina i picked up on Thursday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and, with Scarys help - managed to get it running

 

4 crappy phone videos:

 

first start up of the 2 litre pinto in about 5 years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o_LwgHz-Y0

 

then scaryoldcortina reversed it out the yard, and it ran out of petrol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Ve1f-UoKE

 

bit smokey, but it soon cleared

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpK703Rappk

 

and lastly, returning to the yard - sounds quite nice for a pinto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JplXC9e7NcQ

[Lankytim]

That looks okay to me, is there any grot on it?

[autofive]

yeah - loads of bodged repairs, thick underseal, lumpy welding and not a straight panel on it

 

need to get it on the lift for a proper inspection of the underside and estimate how much its going to cost to MOT

 

hopefully do that tomorrow

 

drives quite well though

[mattblack]

1990 called... it want's it's MK5 back!

 

Looks like an old snotter I bought for £100 'back in the day'. Still got the front plate hanging up in the garage (FOG 57V)

 

Bet you had to pay a bit more than that, EH?

[Lankytim]

Bet you had to pay a bit more than that, EH?

 

Pffft! snigger!!

[autofive]

1990 called... it want's it's MK5 back!

 

Looks like an old snotter I bought for £100 'back in the day'. Still got the front plate hanging up in the garage (FOG 57V)

 

Bet you had to pay a bit more than that, EH?

 

this car was offered for free on retro rides, but i made a cash offer to jump the 6 people in the queue who were quite prepared to have it for nothing. the cash offer and the 400 mile round-trip to pick it up still totals less than 500 quid

[HMC]

Nice! Ive always had a soft spot for these, I just love the styling. The first car I ever "owned" was a Cortina, also a 2 litre, bought it for a tenner in 1997 from a man living on a canal barge in Leeds. No Tax/test, I saw it looking neglected, sitting on wasteland, by a canal, begging to be vandalised. I asked around and got hold of it. As I was a skint student, I couldnt do anything with it, so sold it on for much the same money. I always hoped it somehow survived, but Im pretty doubtfull

Yours looks very straight- Is the sunroof a factory job?

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yes its a factory sunroof - and it doesnt leak

[vivapower]

I always hoped it somehow survived, but Im pretty doubtfull

 

Manufacturer: Ford

Model: Not available

Year: 1982

Colour: Red

Fuel Type: Petrol

Engine Size (CC): 1993

VIN: Not available

V5C Issued: Not available

Tax

Tax Status: Unlicensed

Expiry Date: 01/08/1998

Registration Date: 22/02/1982

[scaryoldcortina]

1990 called... it want's it's MK5 back!

 

Looks like an old snotter I bought for £100 'back in the day'. Still got the front plate hanging up in the garage (FOG 57V)

 

Bet you had to pay a bit more than that, EH?

 

this car was offered for free on retro rides, but i made a cash offer to jump the 6 people in the queue who were quite prepared to have it for nothing. the cash offer and the 400 mile round-trip to pick it up still totals less than 500 quid

 

 

So, allowing for inflation (in 1990 petrol was about 46p per litre and 20 fags was 2 quid something) it's still worth exactly the same as it was. Even in the '90s stoke on trent was 200 miles away

[M'coli]

Good work - I'd forgotten how nice a Cortina can sound, especially when they have the Weber carb.

[scaryoldcortina]

I've just watched the vids... sorry for thrashing the shit out of your new purchace I look like an extra from the sweeney ffs. It's probably smokey cos it hasn't run in 5 years and I just planted it to the floor in first.....

[STUNO]

I've just watched the vids... sorry for thrashing the shit out of your new purchace I look like an extra from the sweeney ffs. It's probably smokey cos it hasn't run in 5 years and I just planted it to the floor in first.....

 

and second and third and fourth, then I even tried the brakes.

[mattblack]

I wasn't trying to be sarky or anything about buying one for £100 years ago, I just thought that with the whole 'OMG RWD FORD' thing the days of cheap Cortinas were long gone...

[autofive]

in the late 80s and early 90s i was buying at least 1 cortina a month, never paying more than 50 quid, and sometimes (when scrap was 20 quid a ton) a lot less. i soon build a reputation of buying any cortina, as long as the pinto was running, and my neighbours loved me so much, they got together and collectively complained to my landlord, but as i kept him in spares for his mk4 cortina, he didnt care.

 

but, those days are gone and cortina sellers seem to think, after media hype, thats theres only 2000 cortinas left and so they must be worth silly money

[Pete-M]

I'm also a serial Cortina purchaser circa the early 90s.

 

Here are a few of the ones I had.

 

[Guest]

What happened to the second one Pete? Were you prototyping rat look, or was it nicked?

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looks like an engine fire

[RedSparrow]

Nice! Starting to like these lately...

So is that your yard in the pictures then? Quite a collection you have there!

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scaryoldcortinas yard not mine

 

i just help to make it look full

[Pete-M]

looks like an engine fire

 

Indeed it was. A reminder never to drive a car with a load of underbonnet soundproofing, a tendency to pop back through the carb, and no air filter..

[Negative Creep]

Great stuff, the 2 litre goes surprisingly well although handling is somewhat questionable. Nice colour as well

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I managed to clear some space and get the Cortina on the lift this afternoon

 

pleasantly surprised at the condition

 

boot floor bodged, but holding

 

other side looks okay, repaired in the past ( i have a receipt for this, the owner was charged 120 quid for this plate and primer)

 

spare wheel well (containing an unused steel wheel & new avon tyre)

 

back edge very good

 

back seat needs a clean

 

O/S/R arch looks scabby and step badly repaired

 

N/S/R arch much the same

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lower rear quarters are a bit scabby

 

 

 

 

more bodged repairs

 

rear valance not too bad

 

O/S jacking point rotten, and was held on with stickaflex. N/S one okay

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front valance okay, just a spot of rot in the O/S corner

 

 

floor pan looks good, lots of oil, but no leaks, i think the owner sprayed it before laying-up for 5 years

 

couple of voidbushes past their best, some have been replaced with poly

 

type 9

 

O/S wing bottom needs a spot of weld

 

couple of front bushes are dead, both sides, new monroe shocks up front

 

 

[whitevanman]

that gearbox looks as if it's hanging a bi9t low at the back.....

[scaryoldcortina]

that gearbox looks as if it's hanging a bi9t low at the back.....

 

 

not as low as the exhaust though

[autofive]

that gearbox looks as if it's hanging a bi9t low at the back.....

 

yes the bracket is angled - not sure why

 

probably another bodge

[ashmicro]

Ace Tina. And SOC, your yard looks quite like my idea of heaven!!

[scaryoldcortina]

Ace Tina. And SOC, your yard looks quite like my idea of heaven!!

 

Mine too. Thats why it's like it is I could scrape a living buying, selling and repairing modern toss but I chose not to. I chose Autoshite (and MoT'ing on the side to make ends meet).

 

Current yard-shite rundown...

 

5 cortinas (my mk2 and mk3, A5 has a pair of Mk5's and qwewrty (who keeps promising to join here) owns the other mk5

2 capris (one is mine, one is conors. Mine is the mk1, his is a II)

2 granadas (both my wifes... '72 mk1 which is so early its actually a consul, and '98 ultima which is so late it's a scorpio. To me they are both granadas, and they are also both broken..)

1 Zephyr 6 mk4. Autofive again....

1 p4 rover 80, Mine. It was cheap....

Dead sierra. 2.0 twink, moss over white in colour. dead when I got it, deader now. can't quite bring myself to weigh it up yet.

Mk1 Bedford Chevanne (mine) anyone got a chevette gearbox? I'd be driving this if I did...

'61 Morris Minor. Not mine... for sale... ffs someone? Its pretty shite.....

'66 Austin 1100, stored. Someone on RR bought this from me in june '07 when it still had T&T. Now has weeds growing round it (but I get paid to store it)

There are more, but not whole. I looked round the back of the garage the other day and found about 2 1/2 more cars.

 

edit.. whoops.. forgot one. I haz ginetta G26 as well. GR8 4 FIESTA DOORS