GhiaMk4/5

One of my favourites, I have a 2.8i Ghia X Estate, there's a post in another site that covers your requirements, I'll see if I can find it. You've got to post pics, mine is in need of a lot of work, pretty sure it's done 34,000 miles.

VV's were unfortunately just poor carbs, but with a service kit can be good again , I had one on a CVH Escort and the first thing I did was fit a twin choke, purchased for about £100.00 in the late 80's, which was a lot of money to spend on a part that should have not required swopping.

There's an old proper MOT tester near me, it's compulsory for him to take the car around the block, if it steers and stops ok, then the rest unless it is really rotten is a just a formality.

That's him, also responsible for final inspection of paint and panel fit.

That's original then, perhaps ours are both Friday afternoon cars.

Best theft deterrent I have ever seen and I wish I took a picture was a Land rover Swb, and the owner had parked it near to a lamp post and fed a really heavy duty chain through his front wheel, then around the lamp post then through his rear wheel and then padlocked it with a big padlock, obviously a grinder would sort it out, but the visual impact on most car thieves would make them move on to the next target.

Never had a bad autochoke, 2 pumps and away you go, did have one that corroded internally but that was due to poor storage.

No, you've got me wrong, sorry, to make a Mklll Capri look different a lot of owners put Mkll Capri bumpers on. So along those lines possibly Mklll Cortina bumpers will fit, same sort of mounting points etc, but the wings and rear 1/4s are recessed a fair bit, so the bumpers possibly would need widening. My favourite trick was to turn ordinary bumpers into 1/4 bumpers, just by hacksawing and hammering the ends over and welding them up, then flap disc the chrome off and paint matt black.

I'd sort it with a dye, I did a carpet with black dye and it came up like new, better if you can remove carpet completely to dye it. I have also sprayed small areas of black carpet with Matt black paint and got very good results. Your hard bit will be getting a good dye to match.

People put MK2 Capri bumpers on Mklll's, give it a go, or will they need widening and be a pita.

Yes, got them off a seller on eGay, the car is way too light for polybushes, hence my preference for rubber. For a Cortina I'd probably polybush it.

Doing it on a Cobretti kit car with MK4 running gear, I'm not poly bushing as it's lighter than a standard car, so rubber will be sufficient.

Bugger, it's not too much welding though, at least you are getting yours MOT'd and it doesn't need one, the exemption was the most stupidist thing to ever be passed.

If anything isn't clear give us a shout. You are going to have to start a members car thread now you've told me that information!!!

Set it to 10.10, it's a cowboys favourite time