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Re: GT restoration

Postby Mytimenow » Mon Apr 21, 2014 8:19 pm

Guess what I've been doing this bank holiday- I think I'm getting addicted to shiny metal!!!
Here are a few more pics for anyone who may be following my progress.

http://s1064.photobucket.com/user/Mytimenow2/library/

http://s1064.photobucket.com/user/Mytimenow2/slideshow/
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Re: GT restoration

Postby MagnumJohn » Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:13 pm

Put that camera down and keep sanding :lol:
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Re: GT restoration

Postby rizzo » Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:21 pm

Nice work, looking at the rear arches i guess there not the original pattern they look a bit big, are you going to tackle them?

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Re: GT restoration

Postby Mytimenow » Tue Apr 22, 2014 7:55 pm

MagnumJohn wrote:Put that camera down and keep sanding :lol:

That's the only reason there are so many pics- to give my bloody arm a rest!! Haha :)
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Re: GT restoration

Postby Mytimenow » Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:07 pm

rizzo wrote:Nice work, looking at the rear arches i guess there not the original pattern they look a bit big, are you going to tackle them?

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If you look in the for sale section on this car you will see that they looked so wrong, but now I've taken it back to bare metal & taken all the filler out,which was applied with a shovel, I can see that it has been welded in really good. It really did lose the shape of the rear wing. So now I think they look more like what I'm trying to achieve. I think it makes the back end look meaner. And once I've dropped it to the floor I think it's gonna look so right. I think I'm doing too much thinking at the moment!!!
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Re: GT restoration

Postby rizzo » Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:36 pm

They did look a bit bulky in the pics your right, :)
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Re: GT restoration

Postby hbr341 » Sun Apr 27, 2014 6:45 pm

HI
NICE TO SEE COLINS GT HAS GONE TO A GOOD HOME KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK YOU ARE DOING, IVE BEEN THERE AND DONE ALL THAT WITH MY 1968 GT VMV748G I FOUND THE RED OXIDE PRIMMER A REAL PAIN TO REMOVE I HAD A LOT OF WELDING TO DO AS MINE WAS A LOT WORSE THAN YOURS, IT WAS DEFFINATLY WORTH ALL THE EFFORT IN THE END IVE JUST FININISHED THE INTERIOR ITS LOOKING GOOD NOW.
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Re: GT restoration

Postby Mytimenow » Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:54 pm

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Re: GT restoration

Postby Mytimenow » Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:04 pm

hbr341 wrote:HI
NICE TO SEE COLINS GT HAS GONE TO A GOOD HOME KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK YOU ARE DOING, IVE BEEN THERE AND DONE ALL THAT WITH MY 1968 GT VMV748G I FOUND THE RED OXIDE PRIMMER A REAL PAIN TO REMOVE I HAD A LOT OF WELDING TO DO AS MINE WAS A LOT WORSE THAN YOURS, IT WAS DEFFINATLY WORTH ALL THE EFFORT IN THE END IVE JUST FININISHED THE INTERIOR ITS LOOKING GOOD NOW.


Thanks for the support!! I really am happy & surprised how good she is. The boot is beyond repair & the door cards I know I am going to have trouble trying to get them to look anything. But the body is just going to be my time, so I know that will be spot on.
Would be good to see some pics of yours to drool over!! :lol:
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Re: GT restoration

Postby Colin » Fri May 02, 2014 9:53 am

hbr341's GT VMV748G is a fanstastic car...

I hope he won't mind me adding this pic found on the internet... :respekt:
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