1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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It feels like a lifetime since I last posted on here, I have been busy with work and trying to get all the pieces together to make the cortina run under it's own power but I ran into a few issues.

The owners club website had been down for 5-6 weeks so I couldn't order certain parts so I had to scramble around to find alternatives that weren't back breakingly expensive!

The other was the fuel tank - I had discussed this in an earlier post that the original tank and one I refurbd using POR15 weren't good for anything and would try to fabricate a new base for the original tank - problem was the steel would blow through and burn. Hardly a surprise but annoying all the same.

A brand new replacement would require a new sender as they only make tanks and senders for the earlier model and as luck would have it a used tank was for sale with a brand new sender for £150 (its £90 for the sender)

I figured as the original tank was done for I chopped it up but kept the top for a potential rainy day project

I'm rather happy with the end result - I just need to get the last few bits finished.