kkritsilas
Well-Known Member
Hi,
To start getting my Mirada into shape, I am looking at picking up a Cordoba LS. The car is a 1981 model, and my Mirada is a 1982. Both are Nightwatch Blue, and both have blue interiors. The Cordoba has bucket seats and a console, my Mirada has a split bench seat and a column shift.
Questions are:
1. How hard would it be to replace the split bench seat with the bucket seats? I would like a console, and I don't think the split bench/console combination would fit together. My split bench seat is power operated, so I would end up losing that, but that is fairly minor, as I would like the bucket seats and console better.
2. Another consideration is my Mirada has had its steering column replaced by what I am told is an M body steering column, and is brown. If I use the steering column from the Cordoba LS, it doesn't have the shifter or the gear indicator. How hard is that swap, and would it be easier to try to repaint the steering column blue vs. replacing the front seats/console/steering column with the Cordoba LS pieces? I think the M body steering column was put in to get a tilt steering wheel which wasn't on my Mirada in the first place.
3. I have the option of getting the Cordoba with or without the 5 on 5 alloy wheels; my Mirada has the 10 spoke alloy wheels right now. I like the 5 on 5 alloy wheels a lot, but the current owner of the Cordoba LS will really discount the price if I don't take the wheels or the front end/grill assembly. What is the value of the 5 on 5 spoke wheels?
4. Did Cordoba LS's have anything mechanical that differs from the base Mirada? Did it for exmaple, come with a rear sway bar, or a different dash layout, or did the LS's all come with 318/4BBL vs. 318/2BBLs, or better/bigger disk brakes? I have started to investigate the Mirada, but don't know much about the various Cordoba models, and how they compare to the Miradas.
Kostas
To start getting my Mirada into shape, I am looking at picking up a Cordoba LS. The car is a 1981 model, and my Mirada is a 1982. Both are Nightwatch Blue, and both have blue interiors. The Cordoba has bucket seats and a console, my Mirada has a split bench seat and a column shift.
Questions are:
1. How hard would it be to replace the split bench seat with the bucket seats? I would like a console, and I don't think the split bench/console combination would fit together. My split bench seat is power operated, so I would end up losing that, but that is fairly minor, as I would like the bucket seats and console better.
2. Another consideration is my Mirada has had its steering column replaced by what I am told is an M body steering column, and is brown. If I use the steering column from the Cordoba LS, it doesn't have the shifter or the gear indicator. How hard is that swap, and would it be easier to try to repaint the steering column blue vs. replacing the front seats/console/steering column with the Cordoba LS pieces? I think the M body steering column was put in to get a tilt steering wheel which wasn't on my Mirada in the first place.
3. I have the option of getting the Cordoba with or without the 5 on 5 alloy wheels; my Mirada has the 10 spoke alloy wheels right now. I like the 5 on 5 alloy wheels a lot, but the current owner of the Cordoba LS will really discount the price if I don't take the wheels or the front end/grill assembly. What is the value of the 5 on 5 spoke wheels?
4. Did Cordoba LS's have anything mechanical that differs from the base Mirada? Did it for exmaple, come with a rear sway bar, or a different dash layout, or did the LS's all come with 318/4BBL vs. 318/2BBLs, or better/bigger disk brakes? I have started to investigate the Mirada, but don't know much about the various Cordoba models, and how they compare to the Miradas.
Kostas