completed resto

Post by **chickenjohn** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:30 am

This page had me laughing out loud ! http://freespace.virgin.net/tommy.sandham/maketv.htm

spot on!

But seriously the site does have some great info on Cortinas and restoration in general, he talks about lead loading and using 2-pack paint as a home sprayer.

Post by **chickenjohn** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:14 pm

Flying, I realise this may be a controversial request, but I for one would be really interested to see pics of your progress on the Cortina- perhaps it would be acceptable on the "Off Topic" section? Still relevant as its restoration techniques.

Post by **Onne** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:24 pm

Yeah, agreed. Cortina Mk1s happen to be a favourite of mine

Post by **flying** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:38 pm

yes i will if you wish me to......i havnt got a clue when ill be doing it....has i still dont have it

....ive never seen it and its sat in a garage for 30 yrs, it was stolen and written off before it was put in the garage....but you have to love oldskool fords

i have a mk1 escort because ive allways wanted one since i was a kid but you have to admit the cortinas are lush

btw this is not my one

Post by **flying** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:52 pm

well i have good news .....its now been to the mot station & orville passed here is a couple of pictures how it looks at the moment..still needs some bodywork and chrome putting on and some wax and polish to be added

Post by **alex_holden** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:55 pm

Congratulations

Post by **Chris Morley** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:57 am

Excellent news - you've done a great job on this major Minor restoration.

Hurrah!!! Another one back from the dead!!!

What's going to be your next restoration project?

Post by **chickenjohn** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:32 am

Excellent! The car looks great, I like the colour too, it suits it.
Congrats, and well done for doing the job with such high quality and so quickly!

Wish I could work 1/2 as fast, but there allways seems to be other stuff getting in the way.

Post by **flying** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:44 pm

thanks all.......well dont look like ill be posting much from now on unless i need info about parts etc or have problems or leave comments my self that may help people.....thanks to all for your help and ideas and suggestions & encouragement through out the resto, now time to get done my things i put behind before i started it ..& chris my next project will be a mk1 cortina in the near furture...but atm i have to put new front end on my escort has i had some one cut me up on a roundabout and damaged it

....well good luck people with your motors/restro and maybe speak soon

Post by **stag36587** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:18 am

Looks fabulous. I'm about to start my own weldathon so your pictures are a real inspiration (and a good way of showing a Minor novice like me where and how everything is supposed to fit!!)

Post by **flying** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:20 pm

i notice that some pictures links accidentally got deleted.........i will sort out all the pictures of the restro and post the link so you can have a good look, i didn't put all pictures up has their is quite a few and would have been to many pages

Post by **dunketh** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:08 pm

You need to do this for a living! I know one person who'd happily take the misses on holiday to wherever you live and drop the morris off whilst there!
(oh, its me btw, if you couldn't guess)

Post by **flying** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:33 am

dunketh wrote:You need to do this for a living! I know one person who'd happily take the misses on holiday to wherever you live and drop the morris off whilst there!
(oh, its me btw, if you couldn't guess)

please enlighten me....... do i know you or you know me? ...or are you on another forum that im a member of

Post by **chickenjohn** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:31 am

I think he's referring to the speed and quality of your resto work, Flying!

Dunketh, it should not be an inspiration to get Flying to do the work, but should inspire you to learn to do it yourself!

Post by **UIU221** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:37 pm

Can I just add a big THANK YOU to flying. It's been most inspirational & as I've just started on the rebuild, after full strip down I'm using your photos as reference.

Unfortunately I don't have the time you had only a couple of weekends a month, but hopefully towards year end this might change.

Could I suggest, as a nieve newbie, that if you posted the other pictures to photobucket or Flickr, this would help to make you a 'demigod', as whilst what you posted was excellent sometimes I was left saying 'what if he had added some more angles or pictures'.

Best of luck with the Cortina - another excellent motor. Don't forget to show a link here to that forum of blog here.

RichMinor(Limerick)
Must learn how to put in a signature.

Post by **Chadbrook** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:44 am

hmmm dropping off the minor ?.... if I drop off the missus somwhere can you teach me to mig weld like that ? <laffin>

Post by **flying** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:37 pm

chickenjohn wrote:I think he's referring to the speed and quality of your resto work, Flying!

Dunketh, it should not be an inspiration to get Flying to do the work, but should inspire you to learn to do it yourself!

sorry i should have relised that....has it was early morning when i saw it and was tried ....so sorry Dunketh for the mistake on my part

UIU221 wrote:Can I just add a big THANK YOU to flying. It's been most inspirational & as I've just started on the rebuild, after full strip down I'm using your photos as reference.

Unfortunately I don't have the time you had only a couple of weekends a month, but hopefully towards year end this might change.

Could I suggest, as a nieve newbie, that if you posted the other pictures to photobucket or Flickr, this would help to make you a 'demigod', as whilst what you posted was excellent sometimes I was left saying 'what if he had added some more angles or pictures'.

Best of luck with the Cortina - another excellent motor. Don't forget to show a link here to that forum of blog here.

RichMinor(Limerick)
Must learn how to put in a signature.

thank you i hope the picture are of some use to help you to restore your moggy

i will post link when the time come to do the cortina....ive just started to repair my mk1 escort so now all the fun begins

also the link for all the pictures are below also to have a sig you need to upload your picture to photobucket then copy the img link over into your sig box....

Chadbrook wrote:hmmm dropping off the minor ?.... if I drop off the missus somwhere can you teach me to mig weld like that ? <laffin>

it just takes practice to get your welding right....have a look here has there is alot of info that may help you for your project etc http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/

also has promised i have now sorted the pictures out and their maybe a couple of doubles still but they are there...was fun trying to sort them out has i lost alot of pictures has my pc hard drive decided to go bang here is the link

http://s177.photobucket.com/albums/w209/flyingbanana01/

Post by **FlyingScot** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:10 pm

Having watched this thread with interest approaching awe. I now need to put it to good use as my 2 door saloon took and failed it's MOT this week.
Thanks for all the photos and advice flying, I'll be trying to do as good a job as you did. I can only try!

Post by **bentleyresto** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:26 am

I have removed this posting which was an advert.

Rogerrust

Post by **flying** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:09 am

FlyingScot wrote:Having watched this thread with interest approaching awe. I now need to put it to good use as my 2 door saloon took and failed it's MOT this week.
Thanks for all the photos and advice flying, I'll be trying to do as good a job as you did. I can only try!

good luck

some one has hit the car already and then drove off in a van................thank god only smashed a headlight ...but even so im not happy,and it was a new headlight.....

Morris Minor Owners Club

completed resto

My time has come.

Rust

Re: My time has come.