1750 GTV Steering Wheel Restored
Franjo restored the Hellebore steering wheel from the GTV. The quality of lacquer on the wood, and polish on the metal and plastic centre is incredible. Very happy with this result indeed! <– before, after –>...
1750 GTV Reverse Light Housing Restored
Franjo re-chromed and polished this original reverse light housing. I have a NOS lens to match....
1750 GTV Grille Restored
Late last year I sent a package of parts to be restored to Franjo Mokina in Slovenia. I’d heard about Franjo on the AlfaBB and his work looked great and he was obviously proud and passionate for the Alfa marque. I was really pleased to ask him to do some work for our project. Franjo sent some great progress photos, and I received a carefully wrapped package in return, all for a quite reasonable price. I’ll show some of...
New and Old Bits #24
Not much progress on the GTV recently, but I collected a few parts thanks to Pancho at www.ar10537.com. The 1750 boot badge is a very good used example, completely straight and perfect. The reproduction badges available are not correct at all. The windscreen wiper motor is a correct NOS unit, to replace the non-original motor that was in the car – from an Alfetta I think, and the self-parking did not...
1750 GTV – March 2012 #3
Lovely weather here at the moment, so I’m enjoying spending a little time each evening tidying up parts and making small progress. I pulled apart, cleaned up and painted the window wiper mechanism, and greased the pivot points. The motor I have is I think from an Alfetta with a 5-wire plug. Now I know why the wipers didn’t self-park. The original motor is a 3-wire plug, I’m still not sure if it was one-speed or...
1750 GTV – March 2012 #2
The early 1750 GTVs had no adjustment lever built into the outer headlamp units, so there was no cut-out in the stainless headlamp rings. Our car had one of each kind, so I asked around and Rob Panetta provided me with a spare cut-out-less headlamp ring. Apparently he dropped it off for me in a mate’s race car at Phillip Island last weekend, and it made itself known as he was driving out onto the track for the next event!...
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