1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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Thanks Quickrack! It was worth a go as its so cheap!

So I'm currently on gardening leave which means I am technically getting paid to work on my car - Living the Dream!!!!

I thought that the engine was slow at turning over so I stripped it down and found that only 3 of the brushes were working as a sring had broken - so I borrowed one from the dynamo as it is going to be changed for an alternator and to celebrate I made it look like I wanted to keep it!

I have taken on board what guys have said about the carbs and as a precaution I managed to acquire and original weber 28/36 DCD and manifold but there's a catch!

It looks was buried in a very deep hole for 50 years and because of that the throttle shaft was siezed which turned out to be twisted - so I needed to order another simple!

The problem was no-one in the UK has any - even weber! So I'm currently waiting for some to come from the USA! in the meantime I figured I'd pull my finger out and clean up the manifold

I painted the exhaust with High temp black paint and it looks pretty good and dropped it on and it got my motivated

I ordered a distributor that is non vacuum advance which will work with both carbs, and to celebrate I put the bike carbs on!

I need some HT leads, a top hose and some fuel I think to get it running now!