History
The car was purchased new by my grandfather on September 29th, 1967. I have been driving it since 1986 when I was 19 years old after my grandfather (then 83) didn’t pass the annual driving test. The car was sitting around doing nothing, I smashed the TC Cortina I had at the time in the roadworks at Forrest Chase, and he said I could use his car. I’ve had the car longer than he did now, but it will always be his old car to me.
I used to get driven to primary school in it and now I have used it to bring all four of my children home from hospital in it and I usually drop them and pick them up from school in it as well. Bench seats front and rear (and seat belts all round) means we can all fit in and go cruising.
Modifications
Ventilated 11 inch disc brakes
Vacuum assisted master cylinder
Transmission and diff replaced to handle V8 engine swap
AMC 360 V8
Edelbrock aluminium heads
Edelbrock Air-Gap intake manifold
Holley HP Street 750 DP (Yeah... 12mpg around town ain’t great. About 20mph on the open road, though!)
Lunati cam
Scat H-beam rods
Wiseco forged pistons
Free-flow cast exhaust manifolds with twin 2.5in exhaust
