Old old cortinas (taken on film not a disc)

[bortaf]

back in the late 80's early 90

twin head lights and 0rion back lights, pearl paint and gas cut springs ah those where the days when all me mate had hair like me

 

Getting ready for chelsea cruise in the local quick fit me amtes all wored at

 

Me mate Scott in "cooltina" blue and white pearl paint job, 2.1 running a 38DGAS, full janspeed, home flowed head (my old engine i used to minicab with )

 

 

 

Capri lights

 

 

the middle one is an R51600i

 

 

My 2 door

 

Me mate Danny's 4 door i built for him for his 18th birthday cos a month before he wrote his Mk5 off on a lampost

 

 

And here is the corty he wrote off

 

 

and finaly the wifes car for carting the kids about, notice, i liked square front plate back then

 

[lotusless]

great pics m8

[YOUNGY]

nice pics

[sarkie83]

"i liked square front plate back then"

 

you couldn't tell

 

liking the old skool pics! gotta admit i do love that red one - looks spot on

[qwerty]

Sweet pics!! Gunna go on the look out for Cossie Wheels now haha

[bortaf]

"i liked square front plate back then"

 

you couldn't tell

 

liking the old skool pics! gotta admit i do love that red one - looks spot on

 

I threw it together with bits out me garage (appart from the wheels, they came off an RS500 another mate stuffed into a fence the day after he finished rebuilding it)

Then he ran it into the ground and we scrapped it, i still have bits off it

 

A few years later i built this for his younger brother from a bare shell when he turned 18.

 

 

Ok i know it aint OSF but it's still the best car i've ever built

 

I wrote the 2.3 GhiaS estate off on the M2 towing my GLS cortina back from Kent after i wrote that off on a diesel spill the week before on the same road

I had a wee brake from cortinas after that

 

The blue and white one got sold around a few mates then the shell started to crack around the B pillar and then finally he hit a new bit of extended curb on the Holloway road and wrote that off as well

 

I still have the C/L from that car it origionaly came from a Mk2 granny that we stripped in a flooded breakers yard next to the river Lea the whole yard was under 2 foot of water so we did all the work from the roof

Ah those were the days.

 

After the cortinas i had a break with a granada 2.8 GhiaX exec

 

 

And a Mk2 camper van

 

 

Started out as an ex scouts minibus

 

 

Then i had this, Mk2 autosleeper, TC webber, tubular ex man, 5 speed conversion and a fridge

 

 

Then started back into cortinas again, mind you i've missed out the 20 other non old fords i had along the way

[sarkie83]

I threw it together with bits out me garage

 

I can believe easily believe that!!

 

what have you got a the moment? I've lost track a bit to be honest! last I remember you still had the autosleeper, beige mobile, and p100 with mk3 front end...

[bortaf]

At the mo 2 K reg Mk3s, the moose (EFi Mk5), 2.3 GhiaS estate, Mk4 escort 2Dr estate (wifes company car), a smashed to fook Mk3 transit recovery truck and a LR discovery tow motor in leu of the smashed up recovery

 

I sold the autosleeper when i got the first Mk3 recovery truck, a few years back but then it's been a while since we caught up mate

 

Don't forget that update on the rust removal on your website

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

great pics

 

whjat are the head lights on the red one and white one

[bortaf]

great pics

 

whjat are the head lights on the red one and white one

 

Capri Mk3 mate

[wolf666]

nice 1

[DAZZA]

I remember all the cortina's running round like that just when we passed our tests.

[ray1609]

top notch pics! but wtf he smash that in to?

[bortaf]

A lampost

He hit it in just the right (or wronge) place, just on the indicator where the least amount of metal is

shame cos we'd just finished that car as well, if iremember correctly we had fitted leccy windows in the front, those boxes you screwed over the winder spline, mind you it was painted in a montego colour so we didn't mind too much

He got charged £150 to repair the lamp post as well quite a lot back then

[fjk]

Nice pics mate, victoria rd if im not mistaken, Frank.

[bortaf]

Nice pics mate, victoria rd if im not mistaken, Frank.

Na mate the sister estate in BHP

dam close though

[fjk]

Ok i gotcha that will teach me to try and be clever . This is a bit of a long shot but is your mate scott a freind of Gary Bartlett of Hazelbury rd Edmonton, he looks familiar, im an edmonton old boy myself, Frank.

[bortaf]

The name rings a bell but but TBH honst i don't see scott that much nowdays he used to work for an RS breakers in ponders end (then Hertford), lived behind the boundry pub in that estate

[mk2cortinadan]

great pics wish i could upload mine dunno how got loads of old photos