Grey Crayford

Welcome to the forum, I used to keep my last capri on the road all year round, same with my cortina( until I started on the latest rebuild!!), its up to you if you want to run it all year round.

Another welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum, good luck with your project.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcom to the OSF forum.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the welcome guys, I've put some photos up in the old schoolford chat area, under the "would like your opinions on" title. Heres a couple of others.........

Thanks for the response, yes I had to use longer studs & spacers to get them to fit. They're no longer on the car though, its now got a set of image split rims on, 9x17 rears 7x16 fronts. The cossie rims were taken off after I decided to go to A V8 instead of a pinto or cosworth conversion. They also looked too wide on the front end & made the steering super heavy!!

As promised, here's a few photos of my cortina project. This is what I started with......... This is how it looked after the first rebuild (the X pack capri in the photo was the last old school ford I rebuilt)............... These are a couple of photos from the current rebuild, got loads more, they're from a couple of years ago, a lot more has been done since they were taken.......................... Like I said, a lot more has been done since these were taken, will put some more up to date photos up when I can. Hope you like the ideas on this car, would apreciate your responces, need a kick up the a*** every once in a while to carry on with it!!!

Thanks for the positive response about this guys,weren't too sure if you'd be in favour of some one messing with a relatively rare car. The car was in a very bad condition when I first got it, brought it back from the dead!! Will definately put some photos up of the project as soon as I can, thanks again.

Fair play, good luck with it mate.

Welcome to the forum, got to agree with you about this being a top site, well happy to be on here.

Thanks for your opinions guys. As Ian has already said, not going with a crossflow.... I've been playing with my '69 crayford for quite some time now, when I bought it back in 1995 it was a basket case, damaged at the front, nearside & at the rear, left in the previous owners garden for a few years, then put in a council lock up where some of the local kids broke in & set it on fire. The owner then hand painted what was left in a few gallons of primer (everything was smothered, including the glass!!) & left it for a few more years. That was the condition I got it in, not exactly minty fresh!! The first build up consisted of a ex RS2000 pinto & 5 speed box, rack conversion, capri 2.8 front legs, godspeed discs with princess calipers, lotus back axle, 7x15 compomotive ML's & a repaint in ford royal blue. Used it for a couple of years like this, then took it off the road while I had a play with a couple of capri's & a granada cos. Started back on it early in 2002, originally going to redo the suspension, fresh paint etc.......... Got a bit carried away since though, the spec so far includes: Leda 21/4 escort front legs with billet eccentric top mounts, rose jointed bottom arms, alloy hubs, Wilwood super light callipers with 310mm rotors, Retroford narrowed atlas axle, 2.8 decambered single leaves, polybushed throughout, seam welded shell, raised floors with subframe connectors, custom multipoint cage, steel rear firewall, recessed font bulkhead, plumbed in fire extinguiser system, split rims, autometer gauges, msd ignition, custom alloy rad, fuel tank etc & 4.6l rangerover/TVR nitrous injected V8 & TVR T5 box.......... will put some photos up as soon as I can.

Stunning cortina, what a car!!!

Cool looking 'tina, very nice.

Very nice looking car, the colour really suits it.

Thats one hell of a nice collection, very, very nice!!!

Asked this question recently on another forum, got a good response from them, so thought I'd ask for your opinions.............. Whats your views on modifying a mk2 cortina crayford convertible?? Just want to see what you think before I put up some photos & spec of the car I'm working on at the moment.

Thanks for the welcome guys, will be putting up some photos of some of my old cars soon, along with some of my current, long term project.

Like the title says, new to this forum, but not new to the ford scene. I am currently working on a LONG TERM project, it's a 1969 Crayford cortina convertible. previous to this I've had several mk2 & mk3 capri's, mk1 & mk2 escorts & a couple of granada's. Been meaning to go on here for quite some time now, FINALLY got round to it !!