Project Cars Update: Simon’s Corsair – In V4 we trust
Simon Woolley | Project cars | 31/01/2010 00:00amIt’s not worth the bother of tuning up an Essex V4, right? After a bit of page-flicking, Simon’s not so sure…
If there’s an old Ford for sale, and it’s 2500 miles away, Bryn will buy it. His latest acquisition is a 1964 Mk1 Cortina found in Finland.
The front end bodywork repairs on Simon’s Corsair project are complete? Are you sure?
The continual discovery of rot where it’s not wanted is not putting off Simon and Jon Hill from ploughing on with the Corsair rebuild.
The Corsair’s been butchered… but for all the right reasons.
It’s new car time at the home of Holmes, and he’s bought a rear-driver! You may recognise it too!
It’s minor update time – with the emphasis definitely on the ‘minor’ part…
It’s not worth the bother of tuning up an Essex V4, right? After a bit of page-flicking, Simon’s not so sure…
Parts-hunting aside, not much happened to the Corsair in the first seven months of 2009. All too soon it was August, and I realised if I didn’t get busy, the show season would be over for another year.
His motto is simple: ‘Once you go Rat, you never go back!’
The wait’s been well worth it – here’s Gareth’s Mk2 Escort on Sanspeed’s rollers, and being given a quick squirt up the road.
The 2.1 Pinto motor is finished and has found a new home. But not where you’d expect.
He’s on a mission to own every 60s Ford produced, and this Corsair is the latest in the line-up.
Here’s Classic Ford snapper, Adrian Brannan in action at Crail Raceway recently, at the wheel of his ‘drift-spec’ Capri 2.0S. Enjoy!
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Here’s Mike ‘Boxxer’ Bradley’s NA YB-powered, Mk2 Escort fitted with a sequential gearbox, performing for the camera at Santa Pod Raceway recently. Full feature in the December 2011 issue of Classic Ford magazine.
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