Mint69

man my cortina looks like its a high rise bulding compared to everyone elses cars. Major work needs to be done soon, got 6 of us in it last night and didnt even get round corner before I could feel the front tyres getting chewed up so went back and ended up takin 2 cars to where we were goin. I do have better tyres for the front of it for those who commented on my high class Kelly performance tyres on the front ahaha. When I get some more coin I'll get a full set of directionals for it with maybe some new mags. duno what to get tho. nothing bigger than 15x7.

was a dam good day all round yesterday. good to meet those who could make it. keen as for the next one and yea there needs to be a bbq or somethin for the next meet up. Here's some photo's for those are keen to see what was there

sounds like a good turn out then. better give the car a tidy up as its not too flash at the mo. C you guys at 1 ish.

yea I remeber that. didnt realise it was you sorry mate. tryin ta make sure I didnt run up the ass of the more expensive cars

yea its real good. lookin at it from the photography side of it I could get some cool stuff and muck with it on photoshop. yep 1 at the carpark. spose to be good weather wise.

sounds good ta me. lookin foward to it

oh tru. no good. I was dam lucky not to break or bend anything ae. not very often you get away with it. Didnt realy wana trailer it back to gore. Has been donetho, last time when the dam bearing in the gear box chewed itself to bits and loocked it all up. Yea sounds sweet az, dont really know the back way as im still gettin used to all the roads n shit but got no worries followin someone who does know the way and yea that sounds like a good plan to me. just need to get a few more cars by the looks of it

Thought it was going to be one less in numbers after this afternoons trouble with my car. Left repco to hear my car sounding like a heap of crap and the ticking noise it was making was not good. took it to a mate of mine at truckstops to get him to have a look at it and he sai the same and it wasnt sounding the best. took the tappet cover off and the leads out, on the street and mucked round for a bit to find that one of my valves were stuck down causing the problem. Stuck a small bar in to get it to pop back up and was fortunate enough to get it back up with no major drama's. just had to hope once I fired it up again that there was no chuffing noise or smoke. Checked that and all good so no bent valve just a case of something real weird happening and some bloody good luck. Was not guna be happy if I couldn't join in with the cruise. Was thinking we could all meet at the carpark down andy bay road beside the honda car sales ready to head into town for a cruise then off to mosgiel. all keen for that or nah?

yea 12's good for me, gives me time to polish it and the rims . im in town so meetin up anywehre is fine with me

sounds like a plan, cruise and a meet up would be good. will take my camera anywa to get a few pics.

guessin most aren't too keen on the morning idea. thats cool. quite keen to get some shots at the old mill at mosgiel as it would look wicked but if not everyone wants to go there no worries can find somewhere else thats still good. what time roughly would be a good one to aim for.

good as. will try for satday morning then if the weather is good. anyone else who is keen to join in do so, would be a cool photo opp. what's a good place to meet up.

was out for a cruise for conrodders yesterday as im an associate member and found a mint as place to get some cars parked up in mosgiel. Its at the old mill and real easy to get to, straight down the main st and turn right at the intersection that's got the milk bar on it and about a 1km down the road make another right and your there. Got nothing pland for this satday morning so could take some photo's of all the cars who are keen and can do a cool dunedin oldschool shot of them all together. Need to get something together, itd be good az. Im heading home over summer and comin back up for weekends but wont have the go tina as its getting a respray and another g-box put in and a general tidy up. leave a post for all that are keen to do sumthing this wekend, could meet up at a servo and go from there.

in gore they are common as mud and most are all dinted and sound like crap so im sure you wouldnt be thinking it if you saw them. there is the odd one or two that are quite nice and tidy tho. I am studying photography at polytech mon-fri and after taht just beein a bum as i've given up applying for jobs as no one bothers to get back to these days. Have seen "the 20" out about round town and it looks real nice.

yea its a gorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre car, spent 2 years doin up on the drive way at home so most people in the neighborhood know exactly whats done to it and just about every weekend people would come over and see what the progress was. get alot of older guys reminising of their younger days having one etc and just about everywhere i go i end up talkin to someone about it for half n hour. cant even do the groceries in peace its all good tho. had a few people follow me and get in front of me to take photo's on their phone too. thats amusing. makes the time and effort worthwhile tho. if any of you guys see me out and about feel free to come have a look at the car ae. got no worries with it.

ahah cheers mate, good old bp southern would be my local. real keen to get a cruise organised or something ae. keen for some photo's of the oldschool rides too never have enough photo's of mint rides. Dont really know many people up here to go out crusin with as i moved up from Gore at the start of the year, couldnt wait to leave bogan central ae. sick of seeing xf falcons and beat up holdens etc. some dam nice rides up here and full credit goes to all the guys with mint rides and to all the work and money put into them. Im only up to 11g spent on mine but by lookin at other people's cars can tell alot more has been spent.

cheers. yea still a work in progress but gets the looks. dropping a 105 e anglia 4 speed floor change in it as christmas time and getting the boot all smoothed out and panels made up to cover the sides and floor in the boot. have to replace all my door rubbers and bits and peices but aint got the funds for it at the mo.

Im in Dunners and im crusin in my Metallic green 69 mk2 cortina, probably would recognise your cars if out and about. Im a photographer by trade so keen as to get a group of oldschool rides together with mine for a photoshoot. can also do individuals if you guys are keen.

may as well post one of the better photo's i took of my car parked up. Have changed the tyres on the front since that photo. Didnt handle very nice at all with 175 70's on the front so went for some 185's but would ideally like to go even bigger something like a 205 of even a 215. Have also removed ugly ford badge off boot and replcead it with a ford oval sticker as it looks much better. Have also installed hella green led's in the grill which I have already been pulled over for but luckily for me their hooked upto a switch so got out of a compliance notice.Carby has been tuned to suit the 1600 seeing as it was off a 2ltr. Also put some new chrome headers on as the old ones were warped and made a nice tickin noise when i put a good load on them goin up hills.Still a work in progress as at the end of the year im hopefully guna strip it again and re paint it as there's a few small areas that could be better and looking to deck out the boot with new a new floor above the fuel tank and deck it out with some perspex and carpet with a ford logo and led's in there somewhere and a few other bits and peices. Looking at eventaully putting it on some 15x7's with some dish to make it handle that much better and in between times want to replace all the door rubbers and front windscreen seal and other rubber items. Anyone who's got any ohter thoughts or ideas towards makin it look or go better feel free to leave any comments.

not every ones thing but the oval badge was the only one i had that wasnt too big and filled in the 2 holes where the automatic badge used to be. exhuast wise, it pays not too go too big as it makes it sound shit. general rule is to go with watever size pipe comes out the extractors or only a fraction bigger to make it look better. Not expecting everyone to like it but its different and its tidy so im happy.

here it is with the new exhaust. hopefully this is a first for a mk2 but then its not that complicated so it might have been done before.

the repco price i got was around the $250 to $280 but i had a good deal offered to me by a friend at vaughn performance which blew the other quotes out of the question.

the filter on the tappet cover is from repco and the one on the carb is from Vaughn performance in Timaru.

updates on the car. engine is in just getting wiring done etc a few bits a pieces to do before its done. exhaust gets finished tommorow all going well.

Having a few troubles with my mk2 cortina with getting the gearbox mount to fit into the bolt holes under the car. the situation is that the car body shell is automatic that has been changed to a manual but the mounting brackets for the automatic box are too far foward for a manual box. Any tips on what gearbox mounts would fix this without having to weld something in. dont wana have to get it certed thats all.