PART3 dem looks doe

I fell in love with the looks of Cortina while watching historic race Cortinas. Most of them don't have bumpers and they are low etc.
So this one needed some fixin to fit the image in my head.

Installed 2" lowering blocks to rear axle.
Some random image:


We installed shortened, lowering springs from a Sierra at the front. I happened to have an extra set lying on the garage floor so why not.
In retrospect we should have removed just a tad more lenght out of them, but there's no point in doing it again at this point of the driving season.
Especially because the suspension will see a big rework at a later point.
Anyways now I have stiffer and lower springs in front.

Removed the bumpers.
Wing mirrors had to be let go. Installed one bullet mirror to the driver side door.
Some random image:

As you can see removing the bumpers showed an ugly looking front valance. It has been painted with bunch of random stuff in the past. Gladly there was no rot, so it wasn't too much of a job to repaint.
Also did a little bit of tidying up the paint on the rear valance, but a proper fix removing the badly welded fixes will get done at a later date.
It was more important to get the car to a driving condition before the winter comes, so I can at least have few weeks of enjoyment out of this car.

Interior had a distasteful looking miniature sized rally steering wheel. I swapped it to Momo Prototipo with a spacer to bring it closer.
Some fancy pancy picture:


I'm probably forgetting to write a lot of details, but here is a picture taken when we were doing the first test drives:


And then some better pics, after getting the front valance painted:










Then I got some different wheels.
I bought a set of nice Escort RS steelies.
I painted the centres a little darker color than the lips. I ended up choosing a tire size of 175/70r13 which I think fit the car perfectly.













Little more pictures can be found in the album: https://imgur.com/a/JxALB