The more I thought about all the things I wanted to do to the car, the more I decided that the best plan of attack would be to go all in on a full ground up nut and bolt restoration. The goal being to end up with basically a brand new Mk1 Cortina GT, just like it rolled off the showroom 50 years ago. I want to keep it mostly original with just some period correct upgrades plus a few changes to make it more reliable. With that in mind I set about pulling the car down.