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well, Escort has taken a slight side sted while i'm waiting on other prople, so I thought I'd get back on my baby

It did 150 miles since the last time it was restored and mot'd, still had 9 months tax on it when I decided I wasnt happy with it.

to see its previous history have a deco at this build diary

http://www.thetattoostudio.co.uk/mycoupe/green/

So today I put the Escort to one side and surveyed the situation



Didn't take long to uncover her, and shes pretty much as I remember her from when I stopped last time







Bmw e36 compact sunroof going in here, what I might do is weld the granny panel to the bmw panel, that way I can still fit a vinyl, and the granny seal will still work.



Yet another screen needed, this will be its forth, first had delaminated, second was on the roof when the roof of the garage collapsed, this one through bad storage and a cat jumped on it, so hopefully forth time lucky



started making me up some powered by ford rocker covers, need to make it again to make a better base plate



Granada Coupe camper anyone?



Plan it to finnish any body filler, and get it in primer toot sweet, then I just have to source or make some door cards, as I helped someone out and sold them my interior, but I have a black dash, carpet, center consul, Scorpio ultima front leathers, Granada Scorpio back seet need sourced, and I also need to hunt out a black steering wheel.

As with all my efforts, I'll keep the pictures coming.

Well, got the engine out, luckily it looks like just 2 core plugs have popped, the 3 behind the flywheel are all good, as are the 2 at the front/sides of the block.





Just need to grab me a couple of these tomorrow, a set of exhaust gaskets, then I can throw it back in, as the under bonnet still looks fairly fresh from the last resto

seeing as the box worked perfectly adequitly as well, I think I'll finnish off my bell houseing adapter



well, possibly more updates tomorrow

bonnet has a couple flat spots on the corners due to poor storage on my part over the years.






Spotted up






Ground Back





Back to bare metal all over, quite a few dings and dangs





And a Coat of Harpic and Pepsi Max to make sure all the rust is neutralised

Well took me the best part of a weeks worth of evenings, but I finaly got the bonnet smooth.

I've never really been happy with the flanks, as the panels bowed in at the ends, so there is a dip between the quarter and the door, and again at the front of the door to the wing....so with gritted teeth I decided to address the situation

straight edge across the situation





Because the door dipped in at the edge, I hammered the edge out, so that the straight edge toched the panel eather end, and the door edge toched in the middle.



so now the quarter was too far back from where the panel dipped in,



so I cut along the edge to allow it to come out to meet the door.



bringing the panel into line

I admire your work Bubs, great attention to detail! Keep the updates coming!

next update is shrinking the door, as its also had a skin that was fitted badly, and bows out in the middle. between having a quarter, a door skin, and a phoney wing, it looks like a wasp

I would love a Granada Coupe,the UK was lucky to get them,as most were marketed for Europe. I don't know how many exist in the UK.
In Europe,they got the Cortina/Taunus with a similar bodyshell

I have a totally rotten 1972 2.0 consul coupe (coke bottle coupe) on the back burner at the mo, I'm just sourceing panels to modify it into a uk coupe, I'm hopeing to do it and not foul any BIVA regulations, then I can have a tax free one ....

sierra3dr wrote:Cortina/Taunus with a similar bodyshell

I'd love to get one of these butt ugly taunus coupes and make a mk3 cortina coupe....again shouldn't fall foul of BIVA rules, as its only replacement or repair panels, rear arches, door repairs and replacement wings and bonnet.

Great work as usual.