1982 Caribbean Blue Cortina
 

Hello And Welcome To Our Project

Project Details

Caribbean Blue Cortina 2.0 Pinto First Registered 1st August 1982 We Are The Only Private Owners First Owners Where Ford And The Original Dealership Hanger Ford Birmingham.

We Collected Her On The 10 October 1984 Mileages Showing Was 32.800.

During My Youth I Had Many Things Changed From Interior Work To Engine Work But Always Sticking To An Understated OE Look.

She Was Stored Away From 1988 To 1990 She Was Daily Driven Till 1997 Stored Till 1999 Daily Used Till 2000 Then She Was Stored From 2000 Till The Present Day.

The Garage Roof Developed A Leak At Some Point We Don't Notice Till The Plaster Was All Over The Show ( Life's Struggles And Games No Time Always Something ) Anyway The Roof Has Been Sorted And The Mission Is To Get Her In Road Going Condition For Next Year So We Can Attend Some Local Ford Meet And Some Shows

Doing This All Via My Phone Just Downloaded The Garage Take App Much Easier Now

tina
 

looks a great project:DD:
great color:top:

Cool project matey.

Great project and a nice colour

Maybe it's just me but I can't get the pics to load. Sounds like a great story, you being the original owners - shame you didn't put a cover on it as well at the time.

Loved the lates '70's/early 80's Ford blue metallics. I had my first MkII resprayed Hawaiian Blue back in 1977 when my dream car was a H/blue Mk4 Ghia S

Can't beat a cortina😎

70/80s hues
 

one of my fathers friends used to buy new fords-70/80s
he had a cortina dark metallic brown with a tan vinyl roof-and before or after it a fiesta which was metallic beige with a brown vinyl roof-the total opposite,cortina looked good,fiesta horrid with the vinyl roof

Thanks For All The Comments And Kind Words

Day 1 : Obviously She Needed A Wash Down But Not Wanting To Move Her Outside Till She's 100% We Hand Picked All The Bigger Pieces Vacuumed All The Little Pieces And Used Loads And Loads Of Show Room Shine Waterless Car Wash The Front End Along With A Few Other Parts Needs Painting So That Was The Best Plan Of Action.

We Just Wanted Her Clean So We Could Work On Her In All Fairness The Paint Seems Hard Compared To Newer Paints.

We Are Looking To Change The Water Hoses For The Radiator Oil Cap And Viscous Fan Can You Still Buy These From A Local Ford Dealer ?

We Are Going From Front To Back Changing And Replacing Anything That Needs Changing.

Comments Welcome

Day 2 : Today We Have Changed The Cam Belt Never Messing With Cam Belt Ourself We Noticed A Technic In Witch You Cut Half The Belt Push The New Belt On Without Upsetting The Timing This Didn't Work For Us As (When The New Belt Was On The Old Belt Got Stuck Behind The Lower Pulley) We Ended Up Doing It The Proper Way And Got To Grips With Timings.

We Have Also Changed The Rotary Arm Coil Pack Spark Plugs We Think The Fuel Pump Has Broken Due To A Non Starting Issue Upon First Start Up New Fuel Has Been Added But It Doesn't Seem To Be Reaching The Carburettor

All For Today We Will Be Removing Fuel Pump Tomorrow Along With Checking The Fuel Lines.

Day 3 : She's Alivvvee She's Alive ! :beer: We Had To Remove The Carburettor Unstick All The Butterfly's Remove Fuel Pump And Clean That Out With Petrol And Penetrating Fluid Once We Got Fuel To The Carburettor We Then Noticed We Had No Spark We Played Around Swapping Leads And Cleaning Lead Ends We Then We Took The King Lead And Placed It By The Block And Moved The Points With A Screw Driver Spark ! Then We Took A HT Lead An Old Spark Plug Turned Her Over And You Could Tell She Wanted To Start I Was So Happy I Dropped The Spark Plug Tried To Catch It And Electrocuted Myself ( :angry: Really:angry: ) I Don't Know Why I Wanted To Catch It ... Reflex ... Put The Lead Back On The Engine.. And She Fired Into Life... Well Happy !

We Have Removed Both Wings Bottom Valance Grill Headlights We Are Happy To Report That The Dreaded Rust Isn't As Bad As We Was Expecting The Floor Looks Solid Too.. It Has Been Painted With Roof Sealant When She Was Younger So No Doubt That's Helped To Keep The Elements Away The Top Of The Inter Wings Will Need Repairing Thought We Also Need A Replacement Bottom Valance Any Suspicious Areas Will Be Grinned Down Repaired And Retreated

All For Now :bigtop:

Day 4 : Won A Master Cylinder On eBay Last Week :thumbup: Arrived Today And Put Away Till We Can Work Out What's Happening With The Brake System ( Might Get 4 Piston Goodridge Calipers From Burton ) I Also Won A Clutch Cable Too :thumbup: I'm Still Debating On Getting Silicone Radiator Hoses But I Can Only Find A Four Item Set I Cant Seem To Find The Carburettor Pipe ( You Get That Pipe In The Capri 2.0s Kit ) So I'm Going To See If I Can Buy That Pipe On Its Own We Also Want Braided Fuel Pipes Too.

We Have Also Got A Rust Free Drivers Door :thumbup:

Comments Welcome :DD:

Day 4 : Photos -

Day : 5 Contacted Burton I Spoke With A Very Friendly Fella We Have Ordered The Pipes Along With The Carburettor Pipe :thumbup: So All That's On Order We Also Picked Up A Rust Free Passenger Door That's Naturally Rust Free From The Same People The Drivers Door Come From We Have Just Ordered A Welder Bad News We Have Found A Little Rust On The Drivers Side Inner Wing But It's Easily Fixed We Have Also Purchases A New Indicator Due To Old One Breaking On Removal :mad:

Comments Welcome :bigtop:

Day : 5 Photos

great project

Day : 6 Welder Has Arrived And Fully Set Up Now We Can Really Get Going We Have Ground Out The Rust From The Top Of The Wing Edges Of Bonnet By The Bonnet Hinge Haven't Got Photos But Have Got Photos Of Zinc Primer That's Been Applied We Also Painted Rust Killer On I Do Have A Photo Of The Rust That We Found On The Drivers Side Inner Wing I'm Terrible For Taking Progress Photos Always Get Some End Shots Thought (LOL)

Thank For All The Comments And Once Again Comments Welcome

Looking forward to seeing this progress

Thanks For The Comments :DD:

Day : 7

Samco Hoses Have Arrived From Burton Still Waiting On Carburettor Pipe.. Still Learning With The Welder :bigtop:

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Day : 8

We Have Purchased A Drivers Side Wing And She's Booked In For A Full Respray Over Christmas Which We Are Very Happy And Excited How Hard Are The Drain Trims And Window Seal Inserts To Come By ?

Comments Welcome :bigtop:

Day : 9

Started To Clean The Inside Inside of the front wings seem to becoming up a treat :beer:

Comments welcome 👍🏻

Good luck with the resto, looking good so far.


Will start mine one day lol


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Steve

Day : 10

Thanks Mate Red Oxide Has Been Applied

Comments Welcome :beer:

Day : 11

Removed Battery Tray.. Definitely Need A New One:lolclown: .. Under The Battery Tray Will Need Welding Also 😬

Comments Welcome :top:

P/s Two Doors Are Look How Long You Had Yours Mate ?

I have had it since the end of December start of January.
Not done a thing to it yet just buying parts. I now have all the repair panels, Cosworth engine + gearbox. I need a 2.0 or 2.3 axle.
Build wont start until 2018.
This is the 2nd 2dr Mk5 I have had, last one died of serious rust about 14 years ago.
I think only around 700 came into the UK.


Steve

Only 700 that's a very small number isn't it mate and I'll look forward to your progress mate I'm sure it will make a great read and a great cortina at the end :beer:

Day : 12

We have found more rust but nothing major under the battery tray and by tie rod... best to get all the rust under control know before she's back on the road and being enjoyed :thumbup:

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Day : 13

We have purchased a lower front valance and we have started welding in the drivers side.. All the cooling pipes are with us now including the carburettor front pipe and are waiting to be fitted once all the welding on the front has been finished.

Comments welcome :top:

Day : 14

Stainless Steel Exhaust Back Section From Down Pipe Back Has Been Purchased The Original System Has Seem Better Days The Manifold Is Still In Good Condition A Stainless Steel Down Pipe Will Be Custom Made When Exhaust Is Fitted.

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Day : 15

Purchased One Of These.

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