Mk1 Cortina - 4AGZE - Forgotten Princess.

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So..  

When you have too many projects.....

An old mate has had a Mk1 Cortina since 1997.  Started as a run about, turned into a project, then along came life, so it was parked for ??? years. 

The time has come to bring it out of hibernation and see if some life can be breathed into it. 

Disclaimer: This is not my car, this is not my project, but I'm involved and connected and figured some of your might enjoy the thing.  Also disclaimer, the owner and chap who's restoring it are 100% happy for me to share the project here. 

 

Step 1: Unbury 

The light of day for the first time in ????

 

Load 'er up

 

Delivered down to the (Hawkes) Bay and ready for revival. 

 

Since the car was imported pre 19?? it doesn't have a vin.  Annoyingly the rego had lapsed with an address change, so it required a trip to VTNZ for us to tell them how to do their jobs and get the car a VIN. 

Tow vehicle activated. 

As we'd researched the process and let VTNZ know what to do we got through this pretty easily so the car was back to the workshop in good company. 

Some tidy up required.  Throttle body was pretty well stuck, fuel tank has a leak, oil was ??? years old.  Some remedial work and.. 

Gotta love that toyota reliability and a link ECU with an good link base map, albeit a bit rich. 

 

The body looks pretty straight, it's had some repair in the right rear at some point in the distant past. There's some re-work to do on some questionable mounting that was done in it's early mod life but nothing that can't be fixed etc. 

Other projects have been moving in the right direction so there will be some more movement on this coming soon. 

Further disclaimer, Projects are fun but take time and I have little of the latter. I'll try to keep the updates rolling as they come in but don't expect them weekly. 

P.P.P.S. I'll get an engine bay shot next time I'm there. 

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