Yep, it's summer right now, and it's indeed very temperate! And it looks to be for some time yet, which is good, I don't mind the warm weather, shorts and t shirts are much more comfortable, and it's great weather to be out cruising and going to car shows but it's not so good for the farmers!

Yeah, the Cortina is a fairly small, lightweight, rear wheel drive car, and fairly simple to work on too, so it would have made a pretty good rally car. They were quite a popular car during their day too, the cool car to have. That's pretty much why I chose one. One of the older students at school drove around in one, and I'd see it parked outside school every day, thought it was cool, and had to have one! But of course, it had to be V8 powered!