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yeah it is getting a few bits toughed up coz some tw@ has hit the rear door handle with another car door when its been parked and cracked the paint above the handle and a little bit of filler has lifted on the rear scuttle and one or two other littles marks are getting re done on it
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alright mate it has been a while since this was updated

 

since the last one it has been lowered on coilovers on the front and 2 inche blocks on the rear but it has been like that for around 18 months and it has had new wheels in the form of turbo vecs andit also had an engine re-build after the rings let go on it on the way home from classic ford show where it was smoking really badly all the way home

 

oh yeas its also been on two film shoots one in march and one in september this year

 

this is it on the rolling road getting a set up after the rebuild where it made 93 bhp at the rear wheels, the software was bust so he couldn't show me a read out or work out the drag lost through the drivetrain

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0688.jpg

 

and on the film shoot for Northern Soul the movie

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0665.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0660.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0659.jpg

 

the engine was stripped cleaned bored out to plus 90" painted and rebuilt with new pistons with rings and all new shells

 

broken engine being stripped

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0492.jpg

 

the culprit

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0495.jpg

 

new pistons

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0509.jpg

 

giving it a lick of paint

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0513.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0514.jpg

 

and all back together and in the car

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0532.jpg

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this is a pic of my wheels when i picked them up

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0347.jpg

 

and after a rubbing them down and polishing them and a lick of paint

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0456.jpg

 

one half done and one almost done so you can see the comparison

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0458.jpg

 

and finally a few pics from the film shoot Spike Island

 

these pics are from salford uni where they made it look like a hospital

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0392.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0394.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0396.jpg

 

and some random pics where from the film shoot around St Helens and Widnes

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0417.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0418.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0416.jpg

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/Photo0433.jpg

 

and i think that is pretty much what has happened over the past 12 months although in the reverse order to what its posted on here

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The film work varies for spike island it was £100 per day and for the northern soul it was only £75 a day but you get fed and watered and i met some top people on the sets and had a good laugh but it can get cold when your stood around doing not alot.

 

For the northern soul film they wanted my car to be the main car of the movie where in the film itwas goint to be stolen and in a car chase where they were going to find another car the same as mine to smash up, unfortunatly they couldn't find another mk1 4 door within budget so they bought a vauxhall victor and my car was only used in the back ground.

 

at the moment she is layed up at my dads work indoors under a cover to keep it off the salty roads

 

and as for whats next i am unsure, it still needs a headlining putting in it and then maybe get the few rust bubbles that are coming back through sorted out

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FANTASTIC ! :drool:

 

 

Thanks for the update matey, its sitting nice now, love the newer wheels, they realy suit it.

 

 

I recon your onto a good thing with it being used in TV and Film, get it registerd EVERYWHERE, the extra coin will help with the

running costs or extra work you want to do to it, love the engine, was the +90 worth it ? Feel the difference ?

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cheers guys

 

the film work is good fun and it has probably paid for the insurance and the engine rebuild that was done so its finaly earning me money rather than costing me my hard earned

 

with the engine it was plus 60' overbored before and it isn't really that noticable i think maybe a change of cam and some headwork will be next on the list to get some more go out of her

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bloody hell nearly a year since this was updated yet it was only on the 5th page :rolleyes:

 

so this year started with it comeing out of storage for a bit more film work for the series Crimes That Shook Britain about the Yorkshire ripper

 

it was filmed localy and i was only there for 2 hours and it was used for the scene when the Yorkshire Ripper was caught with a prostitute and when he had his brothers girlfriend in the car

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-03-21213047.jpg

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-03-21204254.jpg

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-03-21204919.jpg

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-03-21204739.jpg

 

which was used on the TV a few weeks ago

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-10-06220234.jpg

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-10-06220300.jpg

 

then i got it ready for its trip to classic ford show with a good clean

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/970750_10151659543753738_755086039_n.jpg

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/10157_10151659543363738_1050709668_n.jpg

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/379645_10151659543543738_145758611_n.jpg

 

the car ran a 16.5 up the drag strip which was my first time up the pod and it had a boot full of tools and some spares :nutter:

 

then it was used and enjoyed

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/1239492_10201302880068074_1606867435_n.jpg

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-06-19130625.jpg

 

and off to a local car show with the girlfriend and little un got to ride up front

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/537219_10153099679315214_1657798733_n.jpg

 

then before ford fair it was treated to new set of uprated brakes

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-08-07185440.jpg

 

and on the campsite at ford fair

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/2013-08-10172212.jpg

 

again no pics from ford fair but a pic from performance ford mag

 

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w267/bronze4door/1376516_601544136568946_444659199_n.jpg

 

when photobucket works i will rotate it the right way round

 

thats about it for this year, i did go to blackpool ford day with it too but its now tucked up for winter

 

it does need few bits still but this year money has been tight but things will be better next year

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