1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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I hope everyone is well and keeping safe in these strange, I have been working at home and doing jobs on the Cortina. With spending so much time at home on the computer I've been spending less time on the web. My wife's still at working at the hospital so our evenings have generally been spent in the garden to get away from the outside world.

I have removed the loom I was getting some weird results and without being able to fix it in situ without damaging anything I've pulled it out to get it sorted on the bench.

An example of this is your brake lights shouldn't turn your dash lights on - don't ask i can't explain it!


I had a meeting worksop i borrowed our printer and printed off a colourised loom i made o paint in A1

The egg is for scale

I had started to give nickel plating a go and made my own nickel electrolyte- it did a great job of the original key.

I'm waiting on loom bits for rerouting wires and replacing the rear bulbs because they do work but they're so worn the contacts have worn! So I'm looking at sorting the gearbox out.

Its an original 1500/GT box with the less than ideal ratios, its missing a few bits like the 3 springs that keep the selector rods locked in place and the plate that goes under the selector Bush

If anyone can help me out with photos and dimensions or has a spare please get in touch. I'm also missing the clutch lever assembly if anyone has a spare please message me.

I'm not using these ratios as I have a 2000e/ mk1 lotus set to go in - it looks dirty but it is in a good condition looking at it as it is.

Anyway stay safe and keep washing your hands.