Cortina Mk5 Crusader

[frankie28]

Dec 31, 2011 0:00:12 GMT danburger28 said:

Awesome looking car this.That burnout pic is brilliant!You have to make sure its fixed by classic ford show so I can race ya!Spec Ive got a spare h/lamp if is any good?Glad you guys are all ok though.

Oh yes it shall be done by then!
It's one of the shows I have earmarked for it.
I accept your challenge sir! And shall look forward to it!

Frankie

[thetattoostudio]

I had a quick look today, found the sill, and the windows, but i can't see the rails, but gimmie a few hours with the step ladder, and ill holler you up tomorow. Bout a fiver i reckon

[scottyy]

doesnt look too bad damagewize will be good to see it all up together again soon =]

[thetattoostudio]

Brand new wing on egay £80 bin, also a brand new inner wing £160 bin or best offer, checked with my panel guy, front valence is available and its around £40, mk5 bonnet just sold on ebay for £40, headlight on there at thw mo for like £5 all in, id say about £400 all in with paint

[dazcapri]

you could try Autofive for bits he posted 3 Cortina's that he was breaking for spares in another thread a couple of weeks back

[frankie28]

Been to have a look at the crusader today to see what damage has occurred following the crash the other week.
Managed to get the bonnet open by going in through the grille. Got the remains of the head lamp out to let me see what was what.
Going to need some work on the inner wing. Like head lamp bowl, some straightening of the inner wing as the washer bottle in quite horizontal. New wing rail ( bent and rusted by bonnet hinge) the chassis rail shows no sign of being twisted, and there are no tell tales round the crossmember mounting points.
Going buy the video I took of the last one I fixed years ago, this one is not as bad as that one, my old mk5 had hit a truck, and I got that one back on the road.
It also needs front valence, upper front section, slam panel, wing, bonnet, bonnet cable. Have taken some pics and will post when I have transferred them from my phone.

Frankie

[frankie28]

Well, attacked the front of the car today,
Removed damaged valance, upper centre section and front wing, after carefull investigation of the chassis and lots of measuring and comparing to the big ford manual I have, found the chassis is not bent!
So the beating commenced! Managed to bring the bent inner wing round to where it should be and forward to where it should be. Straightening out nicely and now gives me access to cut the damage out.
New slam panel and rad supports turned up today aswell, next stage is to drill out old spot weld and remove the slam panel. Hunt down passenger side wing rail, and weld to the front. This should give me nice datum to finish off the inner wing and sort out the wing rail.
Have taken some pictures which I shall up load later on when I get home.

I was wondering of anyone with a mk5 could do some measurements for me, I would like to know the distance between the Wing rails up by the bonnet hinges and from the wing rails up front by the slam panel.
Just so I can be sure that the distance had not changed.

Frankie

[frankie28]

Attacked the Cortina again on saturday,
Got the slam panel removed and picked up a new bonnet and front wing.
Dummy fitted the new panels to check. Got some plates to make and weld in where some grot was, fit a new wing rail, do some work round passenger bonnet hinge due to grot, collect front valance on payday, the find front centre section (bit under the lights) and weld it all together.

Have some piccies

Frankie

[Adz]

nice work glad you got the all clear from the docs

[danburger28]

Great to see this coming along mate.Did you get the measurements you needed?

[frankie28]

Jan 17, 2012 22:03:41 GMT danburger28 said:

Great to see this coming along mate.Did you get the measurements you needed?

No Dan, not yet. just using judgement at the moment, and the marks where the old panels used to sit.

[frankie28]

Little update and a few piccies,
Picked up a wingrail yesterday and a new front valance from a nice banger racer chap in the new forest.
Dummied every thing up, measured 4 or 5 times before welding the wing on.
Front valance just clamped on to double check
Still waiting on replies regarding the Upper front panel then hopefully crack on with the rest of it.
Excuse the dodgey phone pics!!

Frankie

[MK2VR6]

Great to see this old girl coming back together. Will look better than ever in no time!

[mk2polobloke]

Yeah, good work going on here Frankie.
Glad to hear you are ok and that the Cortina will be back on the road soon.
Keep us posted with the progress.
Cheers,
Richard.

[maxkia]

Nice to see the old girl coming together again so nicely and really chuffed no one was hurt, good thing cortinas are built solid. Personally owned an 3.0l triple carb XR6 interceptor same colour and year as the stander gang owned. I sat and cried on the roadside when i parked it and a run away 18 wheeler doing +/- 120 km/h used it as a launching pad before ploughing through 3 stores. when i arrived on scene the car measured a breathtaking 16 inches high. Couldnt ever look at an interceptor again without a tear in the eye. So smile it could have been worse.

[frankie28]

Feb 2, 2012 18:59:58 GMT maxkia said:

Nice to see the old girl coming together again so nicely and really chuffed no one was hurt, good thing cortinas are built solid. Personally owned an 3.0l triple carb XR6 interceptor same colour and year as the stander gang owned. I sat and cried on the roadside when I parked it and a run away 18 wheeler doing +/- 120 km/h used it as a launching pad before ploughing through 3 stores. when I arrived on scene the car measured a breathtaking 16 inches high. Couldnt ever look at an interceptor again without a tear in the eye. So smile it could have been worse.

You must have some pictures of that!
I would love to own a xr6!!!!!

Frankie

[maxkia]

I do have some pics lying around somewhere on the old photo paper if I could just figure out why my scanner wont work, without using a hammer. The last one met an untimely death as well for the same reason.

[frankie28]

Few more piccies,
Decided to have a go and give the upper front panel a good sort out!
Nothing to loose so I went for it!
still needs some work as you can see under the head lamp and it does still have a twist in it.
But it does loose the twist when pushed up to the headlight backing plates. going to give it another go on Friday when its my day off and hopefully finish off the welding.
Then it the checks for the MOT as it runs out begining of March, then the paint prep type thingy!!
Still looking for a front bumper that is not hundreds of miles up country (thats proving to be a curse word)
Then I can play with engine stuff!! like cams and fitting the twin DHLA's etc!!

Frankie

[bortaf]

Looking good mate
soon be back in action
the odd bump here and there are what they were made for !!

[danburger28]

This is brilliant mate.Although I'm not keen on the sound of the cams and carbs business.Thats not going to help my race chances! ;D