1966 Mk1 cortina GT She Drives!

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I managed to get out of work a bit early today so I put myself to use.

The sill was capped off yesterday and bare metalled around the whole area. I ground
the welds on the outside and tidied the inside ones but I didn't go to in-depth on them

It took a while to finish the wing piece as I kept trial fitting then removing the tack welds for the new 90 section and carefully trimming the edge then tack and try again!
It sounds tedious but I was getting into it - the results look great in my opinion.

I got it all clamped and tacked but I've created a gap between the wing pieces so I put some aluminium behind to help with the welds.

After a failed attempt at mowing the lawn I got to go play in the garage.

After welding and dressing i saw some pinholes which were difficult to weld so I used lead which will help seal and allow me to tidy it all up.

A package arrive from Czech - they were going cheap and the plan is to replace the bulb holders with modern ones with the intention of improving the wiring as I'm not 100% that the originals are correct. They need work but ones that aren't fully complete are few and far between.