Saturday 15th February - Some action at last!

 What with the weather being as cold as it has been, (The next person who mentions global warming to me is getting kicked squarely in the nuts!) I've been in hibernation mode and have done absolutely nothing to the cars.

However, there was a breakfast meet on this morning at Billericay, so Gavin and I decided to venture along. I took the Zetec Cortina to see if the recent attempts to fix the fuel gauge have been successful. 
I'm glad I did take the Zetec, because I had been considering buying my old Cortina Mk1 estate back and was about 90% certain that I was going to own it again and was ready to pay a deposit on Monday morning. However, once I'd started driving the Zetec I decided that it's such a great car, that I should be spending money on that rather than buying another car that I haven't really got room for. 

The meet was fairly well attended considering the cold, although the cafe there needs to up its game before the really big crowds arrive in the summer. (£6.45 and a 20 minute wait for two drinks-and they got one of those wrong!)

Around lunch time I made my way home and put the Zetec into the garage ready to do more work on it. The current job list includes finding out what ratio differential it has, replacing the seals in the clutch master cylinder and replacing the nylon bushes on the gear selector. Ideally it needs a five speed gearbox, but I'm going to investigate different differential ratios before I get into that, because it's such a massive job. The transmission tunnel has to be cut, adapted and welded, plus the clutch and propshaft needs to be altered and a new gearbox crossmember needs to be made. I'm not ready to do all that yet, so I'll try other options first.