Progress on the Cortina has been quite slow as I have -once again- taken on some side projects for friends, however, even slowly working on the car gets it closer to some day being finished:
The car is back in it's "stable" and has received some additional paintwork behind the front grille and on the dashboard and interior a-pillars. They are exposed metal, so they needed to be paintedin the correct color before fitting anything to the car:
A lot of time was spent on making every single part I'm putting on the car perfect. This is some of the front suspension, and misc. stuff like battery mount, bumper brackets, etc. Some of them powdercoated and some of them painted with 2-component paints:
Also the car might just be getting some split wheels..
And after finishing the separate parts, I could finally start bolting some complete stuff on the car, hopefully for good this time:
The only thing now missing from the front suspension being complete are the brake caliper brackets. The discs I've chosen are 266mm off a Peugeot 405 Mi16, and calipers are Wilwood Dynalite, mounts will be machined from aluminium sometime in the next few weeks, after which everything can be fitted. The 266mm discs are a bit of a squeeze under 13" wheels..
Also, Even though the car is getting Fiberglass front wings now, I found a really rusty front wing, which I sectioned and will try to use it's parts to fix up the passenger front wing that was damaged in the crash, looks promising initially, but will be a huge amount of work to actually repair:
Will post more when there is progress..