In New Light.

It's almost two years now. Come december it will be. Celebrated my grandad's birthday yesterday. Unfortunately i did not have the cortina ready. It's almost done, and i know i've been saying this to a lot of people pre-graduation but the car IS almost done.

the engine is in and running (alternator needs to be replaced though, wrong one was used donkeys years ago), painting is 90% done, needs to be touched up after the windscreens and wiring has been settled.

disappointments have arise in the form of rust. Front passenger door has built up rust beneath the layer of paint thus causing it to crack. oh well, like i said, the paint needs to be touched up in several places. orange peel developed on the surface of the boot lid among other things.

another worrisome issue is the mounting points for the front seats. as previously there were holes with weld nuts on the inner side of the plate to mount the seats which are non existent now since those parts were where new sheet metal was fabricated WITHOUT accounting for those weld nuts. so now i'm getting a headache over engineering a solution for this using non-evasive methods preferably.

anyway, found these seats and will be checking them out tomorrow, what do you think? will they suit the overall look of the car?


if i do get them, i'll probably wrap the rear seats to match the material. looks like it's velvety. at least if i park under the hot sun, it won't burn my girlfriend's butt (she said it, not me).

finally, blogs would be so empty without pictures, so here's some of the cortina with 11-ish a.m. lighting at harvinder's place.



good to see the engine in there eh? all ford/smurf blue and all.





front end needs sorting out still.


looking good here.


the left tail light needs to be binned. asked harvinder to source for a pair of new ones.


logos on and looking good.


free center console thrown in by harvinder. do all cortinas and escorts have a similar center console? seen a few pics of escorts with something similar.

there you have it. the car sitting there waiting for the windscreen rubbers to arrive so that the screens can be fitted and the wiring sorted. all after hari raya obviously.

fingers, toes, cats and dogs crossed that the windscreen rubber arrives on time AND that the wiring chap does a fantastic job.

estimated completion of harvinder's scope of works is end of October 2008. then it's on to me to complete the interior and wheels.