My First Restoration!

[Messcort mk2]

Hey, I'm Max, I'm 19 and this is my first restoration and my first thread thing. I am doing a motorsport engineering course at college and my teacher has kindly let me use the workshops so I can do my car. This is the only 2 door non sunroof mk2 I could afford so I bought it not knowing how bad it was. As you will see from the photos I have to replace pretty much everything as this one looks like it spent all 28 years in the sea! My intentions with this car are to restore it with the grp4 mods and stick a vauxhall xe or a 2.0 zetec in and then hill climb/sprint it. Hope you like these photos, any advice or critisisms (constructive ones) are appreciated so maybe I can learn from them.

[Banishit]

Hi Max

welcome, and well done looks like your doing a great job there, only critique is get a decent camera LOL those camera phone pics are crap

Cheers
Brian

PS look forward to the next installments

nice to see all the bracing prior to removing most of the floor ! lots missing too

[dasadrew]

That's some very professional and neat looking welding going on there.

[ian parker]

Hi Max, looks superb work up to now, keep going, have you considered a colour yet ??

[GAZ W]

Well my first bit of advice is never to let a car with a sunroof let you be put off with buying it , surely it would be easier to replace a roof than it would to replace every panel on the car

Oh and that is somme very good work you have done up to now..keep going

[roths]

looks good..and VERY familiar!!

[graham John]

Hi Max, welcome and good luck with the restro, if you get stuck, this is the place for the answers,


cheeRS

[Dave1800BDA]

Hi Max looks good, its nice to see the younger generation having an interest in the old cars, keep the good work up.

cheers Dave.

[Frosticles]

Hi and welcome, You're certainly a brave young man!!!! The best of luck with it.

[RS2000&MEXICO]

hi and welcome mate..

the car looks well and by the looks of it will be a nice mk2 at the end...

cheeRS

[lathamescortmk2]

where you doing motorsport engineering? i start on the 29th at cov

[dasadrew]

just looking at those (awful ) pics again and am even more impressed. I've only just twigged that you're 4-linking and towering it etc.

There are some very nice box sections going in there.

Doing all that work, why not keep the powertrain Ford and try to set a specific target - I'm sure there are some historic car classes in UK, non?

Dig out the rule book and try to go the original route (I don't mean bufty and NOS stuff!)

Then a nice tasty British Airways livery ...........

[Billy Xpack]

Hi Max
looking good best of luck with your project

[Messcort mk2]

Hey lathamescortmk2, i'm doing motorsport engineering at Lackham College in Wiltshire. I've just finished my first year and start college again on the 11th. Yea its a bit of a project, i'm just looking forward to going back to college and get back to work! I was thinking of the black and white shell colours or just a flat white, not set in stone though. Any ideas? Cheers Max

[mullrallying]

Hey lathamescortmk2, i'm doing motorsport engineering at Lackham College in Wiltshire. I've just finished my first year and start college again on the 11th. Yea its a bit of a project, i'm just looking forward to going back to college and get back to work! I was thinking of the black and white shell colours or just a flat white, not set in stone though. Any ideas? Cheers Max

Max you should just take my suggestion and paint it black and white as it will look good in shell replica colours. Good luck with the car and hopefully see you on mull for the Tour of Mull rally in october.