andrew wrote:Yes, I bought it from the Australian guys. Showed up right away, and looks OK, but haven't tried to fit yet. Current headliner does have that pattern, new replacement is more generic with a fine pebbly pattern, which I'm not crazy about, but I've already spent the money, so it's what I'm going to go with. Taking it to my upholstery guy in East Oakland on Monday to install it.
Didn't realize about ebay. What did it get bid to, if anything?
Andrew
So would you say that the new headlining is like a very fine sponge like texture? I'm just asking because I need one for my 1970 Cortina. The 69 and 70 models changed to that type while the 67 and 68 were the stars type.
Did they provide you with enough material to cover the inside C pillar panels? (the ones between the rear side window and the back glass) also may need enough to recover the sun visors
I dont remember what the bidding got up to but I do remember what a nice car it was. It was so nice I had to post some pics of it on Buysellcortina.co.uk where it was well liked as well. They dont have many original rust free cars there (or anywhere else) like you do on the west coast. Your car is very close in production date to my 68 GT (red as well) These ones are kind of transient models, whilst they are classified as Series 1, (Mark 2) they are sort of half series 1 (1967/68) and half series 2 (1969/70) I call them Series 1 1/2. They have the padded dash similar to series 2 had but did not have the glove box in the dash as earlier or later models had.
They have series 2 (rotating) inside door lock on the drivers door and series 1 inside lock on the passenger doors (where you push the handle in the opposite direction to lock the door).
Other Series 2 features on them are the series 2 outside door lock on the driver's door only while series 2 have outside door locks on both front doors (Earlier Series 1 one the otherhand had the outside key lock right in the knob itself on the driver's door)
Your car is also equipped with the series 2 type inside window crank handles, door handles, pull handles and door panels.
The battery is on the LH side like series 2 while the older series 1 had it on the RH side.
Your car has the Series 2 crossflow engine while earlier series 1's were non-crossflow.
Series 2 features that you dont have (other than that mentioned above)are things like fuse panel under the hood, inside hood release, extra defrost ducts in the corners of dash etc etc.
No matter what some experts may try and tell you, your car is definitely date correct. I've sorted this out from studying all the different models of Mark 2's over the last 30+ years. In that time I have stripped down about 12 and had 5 that were driver's and still own two.
