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Old Jan 18, 2016 | 01:43 AM
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Default MK2 lotus cortina series 1

This isn't really a restorion project, more or less just gona get the car back to useable condition. I think the car is an original Lotus, but the lotus engine has went missing over the year's. I bought the car summer time last year and pushed it from the barn it'd been sitting in since 1997 with potatoe boxes piled all over it, freed up the brakes winched it on the trailer and got it home, as said the lotus engine isn't in the car but it has a pinto with some twin 40s when I got it home me and my dad cleaned the points put the fuel line in a can of petrol filled the carbs and after a bit of churning over it fired, but it wasnt running nice at all as you'd expect, I got the Webbers recond and a new inlet gasket on and now it takes over fine, so after knowing that I had a healthy enough engine I started stripping it to make a start on the bodywork, the car is all complete and at this stage the shell doesn't look to bad.
il update as I go along with as many pics as possible, cheers

As the car sits atm

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