recently two publications have given me greater confidence that the 'tina can be fixed up to a good and shiny finish. (i still doubt our local panel beater skills, sorry)
they are classic ford and car care(1985).
Classic Ford
Car Care (1985)
classic ford mag is good as you can get inspiration from what overseas ford owners have done on their rides. pretty amazing people. by chance, i managed to get a hold of december 2006 issue which featured cortinas from mk1 to mk5. pitted them against silly drag races among other things. but what made me buy it was because of the red 'tina that was fully restored to a fricking good condition. you wouldn't believe it was a junk car. it took a father and son team 5 years to fix it up. where 3 years was spent waiting and hunting for donor cars for replacement parts. the cool thing is that the father is a metal fabricator by trade and the son works at a auto restoration workshop! and his boss was nice enough to allow them full access to the workshop+tools on sundays. how bloody cool is that! i doubt we'll ever get to see something like that here. anyway, these guys gave me inspiration to be patient with the mk3 and to understand that restoration WILL TAKE TIME (and money :P) enjoy some of the pics courtesy of calssic ford.
good stuff i tell you. :)
on to Car Care. i've noticed this collection at my grandpas place but never really cared much for it. until today when my dad came back from visiting his dad, he told me he brought back 7 binders of car mags. again i didn't really care for it until i came downstairs and saw the stack and like WTF! i eagerly flipped through the pages only to realize that i've stumbled upon the holy grail of restoring and maintaining older cars! but some stuff can still be applied to current cars too.
it's got everything! from panel beating, electrical, mechanical, engine systems, diagnosis, workshop tooling, etc. sorry guys, but no 'pinjam here pinjam there' business ok?
here's the collection sitting snugly in my modest bookshelf:
anyone else has seen or owned this set? pretty old la, 1985...and it's not missing any of the 160 issues that came with it. which brings the sum (in 1985) to RM 720.00! with inflation to present day value (inflation of 8% p.a.) of RM 3000+!!! madness i tell you.
ahhh, another week and a half and i can start on the mk3 with peace of mind (or will it smash my mind to pieces?)
5 comments:
I hate to say but i can no longer resist.
Reading your site is neat and its real neat you're one of the few that wants to restore anything. All that said and done....
Fix
Or
Repair
Daily
>:D
Better yet -
Found
On
Roadside
Dead
Sorry i had to do it. My apologies
jonn,
thanks for the er, feedback. hahah. well, it's my first experience with a ford and already it's giving me headaches just planning the repairs and tooling costs.
we'll see how things go.
Good luck dude. Rebuilds of that age require time effort and budget, even more so than the putra ;)
jonn,
tell me about it. haha. it's always like that...when you play with cars.
hey that set of books look familiar...oh yeah, it was in grandpa's cupboard. I showed him how much you valued it and he was like "Eh, still can use meh? I thought everything is electronically linked to a computer?" (yeah, he DID say that)
haha!
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