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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:30 am
by chickenjohn
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:14 pm
by chickenjohn
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.
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:24 pm
by Onne
Yeah, agreed. Cortina Mk1s happen to be a favourite of mine
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:38 pm
by flying
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
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:52 pm
by flying
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:55 pm
by alex_holden
Congratulations
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:57 am
by Chris Morley
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?
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:32 am
by chickenjohn
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.
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 9:44 pm
by flying
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
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:18 am
by stag36587
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!!)
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:20 pm
by flying
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
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:08 pm
by dunketh
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)
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:33 am
by flying
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
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:31 am
by chickenjohn
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!
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:37 pm
by UIU221
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:44 am
by Chadbrook
hmmm dropping off the minor ?.... if I drop off the missus somwhere can you teach me to mig weld like that ? <laffin>
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:37 pm
by flying
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/
My time has come.
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:10 pm
by FlyingScot
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!
Rust
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:26 am
by bentleyresto
I have removed this posting which was an advert.
Rogerrust
Re: My time has come.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:09 am
by flying
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.....
