1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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Wow its been a while!

I haven't done a great deal on the cortina recently but I have had a big dose of mojo as I got engaged whilst in New York last week so in celebration I made a trial inlet flange for when I buy another set of bike carbs (the first had to go back as one was D shaped)

the plan is to keep it 1 piece as the 2 piece webber 40 manifolds can be a pain to setup as they can sit higher on one side to another

4-6-2014

The manifold flange is off to a friends who has all the necessary toys to recreate it in steel which will buy me some time for getting the carbs sorted

Yesterday I had a big trip to south london (I got up at an unnatural time to get there for 9!) to buy some seats for the Cortina. The reason I bought these seats is because these are the one from my Cortina - I stupidly sold the front a few years back to a guy named Steve and when I saw them in his cortina 6 months later I knew I made a mistake....

6 years down the line Steve is breaking his Mk1 as no one wanted to buy it whole and I had to get them back - I even got a back seat which will be turned into a sofa for a friends motorbike shop

When Steve had them he bought some period clip on head rests which is what these seats are missing so I bought those too

As another mojo boost I thought I'd drop the spare rear seat in the car and just sit for a bit and have a cup of tea