Its been a while The Cortina has been made good for the winter and covered up in the new year I plan on getting it running but as these old Fords of this era had no fuses I dont want to take any chances :roll: The car has been converted to Negative Earth but no fuses :x I asked for advice on a one m...

Sorry for the long AWOL guys Ive had the Flu :cry: After that blistering hot summer heatwave like many I was out carefree in the torrential downpours and got drenched so now I am paying for it :roll: Nearly out the other side though now ;) Luckily just before I come down with I managed to get all th...

IMG_8435.JPG My brother in law owned one of those in about 82-83 on a J plate it was like a Moss Green Metalic with a crushed green velour interior. He got it for free from a neighbour whose husband has passed away after helping them over the years the wife said I cant drive would you like this and...

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So I would like to put an alternator on the Cortina which originally came with a Dynamo I have read all the stuff about linking the regulator wires to bypass them etc but it seems after that its just fit and go? The one thing I cant help but wonder though is will it fry the original wiring? The outp...

I dont have a daily any more we just share, apart from the van we have a three year old Polo I like it as its just about the right level of modern and still a bit analogue. The Polo that replaced it though we had one when ours was in for service and I dont like it now they have gone way too far with...

I had a brand new Fiesta Zetec back in 98 I( think that was one of the first cars to start feeling bigger than it should be? ) Think that was the first car id had with an Airbag? It always felt wider than the earlier generation :roll: It was actually delivered to the dealership with sod all oil in i...

So back in reality here in Dystopian 2022 Huston we have a problem :shock: I knew I had some surface rust under the dash but dont like what I found when I started to investigate it :cry: It appears way back in its past the windscreen rubber had shrunk dried and cracked and let water in which then fo...

So I had rubbed down the obvious scabs of rust bubbling through to investigate on the passengers side doors and much like the drivers side they had gone in pretty much the same places so like the drivers side now I had the drill and wire brush cup I decided to measure the same distance and take of t...

So sat at home today everybody is out I am waiting in for the postman to deliver a parcel for Mum so thought I would make my notes of what I have been up to on the Cortina and let you see the photos ;) So back on Dads drill and wire brush I decided to strip more paint off I ventured over to the pass...