I need to come see this in person as the photos are too small!  I tried calling you a couple of weeks back, but couldn't get through.

It's been a wet few weekends here in Perth so I've been hiding in the shed working on a head, that's been a whole other project in itself....
Finally found a decent radiator/ fan shround that I've been hunting for one for a couple of years now, carefully gave it a going over with the acrylic buff and it looks like new....
The suns been out this weekend though so I managed to get some work done on the car itself. The door windows have gone in after a bit of messing around with rare spares over the bailey channel rubbers. The factory green tint looks good against the yellow but probably not visible in the photo's.
I got up under the front guards and got rid of the overspray with a fresh coat of por15, haha it's tight under there and I'm still scrubbing the stuff off face and hair  Mounted up the splash guards with my home made rubber skirts, fitted a treat....


 
 
 
 

Work on the cars been a bit slow of late, I took a break for a couple of months after the Mk1 GT Cortina I drove when I built the car the first time came up for sale, I'd always regrated selling it and had been looking for it for 16 years, I found it after an hour of listing on gumtree, but missed out by a few minutes....
I needed a break from the cars after that and now works taken off with the festival season.....
Anyway, underside has been painted, there was a couple of 'bald' spots from the floor repairs, rather that set up the spraygun and mask it all off I managed to texture the areas by hand, came up a treat you'd have to look pretty hard to spot it, haha that stint as a plasterer many years ago still comes in handy.....

 
Decals have gone on aswell, what a job that was!!!!! lots of measuring, checking and measuring again.... They were never straight on the car when I got it but they're as good as I can get them, the small sections were the worst, it took a fair bit of tweaking of the rear bumper to get them to fit straight.
After all that fitting I stood back with a beer to admire my work and noticed a small pin dent in the bumper that myself and the painter missed so it was off with the bumper for the tenth time, lol, it was only small but it bothered me.....

Hopefully get to spend some more time on it over the Christmas break....
Cheers Drew.....

"give all those drivers of boring coloured cars"
 
Can someone explain why the popular choice of colour of new cars is silver (or a greyish derivative), black or white?
All the new cars look the same to me because they are all nearly the same colour.
 
 

Hi Drew,
 
Car's looking good, now I know what mine would have  looked like if I had left it as it's original colour instead of diamond white.  Glad to see your belts came out good, I had to replace mine as the webbing was frayed and used after market ones instead.
 
Cheers,
 
Len

Hi Drew,
 
Nice looking Cory, not surprised that you like to get out and cruise it as often as you can.
Len

coming along nicely,Drew. Peter M pointed out that I don't have the little yellow bush in the bellhousing for the clutch cable which is shown in your pics. If you are going to fit the cover for the clutch fork to keep water and crap out of the bell housing I would recommend buying one from Peter, quality item and a good fit. Only thing, you may have to heat wrap your headers like I did to protect it.
With your seal kit for the box did you replace the front seal as well as the extension housing one? I didn't replace the front one because it looked OK but I think it has a small weep. Might be able to put an additive in the oil to help seal it up. Cheers,
Len

Hey ...
 
Great effort ...  Very informative. 
 
One thing though.
Seat belt re-webbing ??
 
Does this mean you have had someone dismantle your original belts ( After seeing you had the original ones dyed ? )
and then obtained webbing and resewn ?
 
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