Looking good Drew, yeah give it a few weeks before cut n buffing...I still haven't done my van and it was painted over a year ago lol

Thanks for the positive comments guys. Probably a good thing the paint needs a bit more time and work. Stops me going at it like a bull in a china shop and making mistakes. Going to sit on it for a couple of weeks and get a plan together.
Cheers Drew

I should have thought to do that with mine, mind you mine is a very heavy spring loaded one that we used on mine 4WD vehicles, might not have worked with a cable pull!  Len

Its been a while but I'm back into the Cortina.
Life got in the way, I was helping my nephew out with his karting when I noticed the motorkhana titles being run behind the kart track. It sparked my interest and then this happened...

 
I picked up a retired rally car to have a go. Its actually quite a piece of kit with a lot of local history including a couple of rally Australia's. Quick run down, Charade GTti, 750kg, 993cc on 12 psi with a close ratio box. We've named it Little Angry Man, its a bit of an animal and staggering how rapid it is.
 
Anyway back to the Cortina, the painter had a stroke during the process and while theres no hard feelings it was becoming apparent that no amount of polishing was going to fix that turd. He's given me my money back on the labour so I'm only out of pocket for the materials, no biggie.
I stripped it back down again and sent it out to the guy that did my Escort.
Now that's better...


 
So its full steam ahead at the moment, I've run out of trim rivets so that final bit of chrome will be on soon, lol. Engine and box should be back in on Monday and the trimmer will be here soon to do the hood lining then the windows and interior will go back in.
Happy days!
 

How good are those GTtis! A mates brother had one and it was one of the rortyest fastest little things I've been in. Hard to find one now too.
 
But the mk1 Corty is looking cracking! Loving seeing some more progress on it.

The old girls really starting to come together now.
Exterior trim is back on, windows in and I'm making a start on the interior.
Having headaches with the front windscreen though. I wasn't happy putting the old toughened one back in so went looking for a new laminated one. I could only find one supplier but his prices weren't bad so went with it. Tried to fit the first one only to find it was bowed and sat up on the passenger side by 20mm. All good though he swapped it over for one from a different batch. No luck with that one so either, now its about 15mm wider than the original so after Christmas I need to take it to a glazier and have it shaved down. Just another hurdle to jump but I'm not deterred, can't wait to drive it down the coast with the quarter windows open and some golden oldies playing on the AM radio.
Cheers Drew

 
 

Hi Drew,
That is looking pretty dam sweet, judging by the earlier pictures of the interior trim it's going to look just as good inside.
Cheers,
Len