AROCA Phillip Island July 2011
Some photos from today’s Sprint at the Island. Windy and cold but dry at least? Above photos are courtesy of Marisa Gangemi...
1750 GTV – June 2011 #2
Photo progress report from today. The front panel is in place, with the RH front guard, and radiator upper panel. Lots of detail in this work – gaps around the doors, bonnet, headlights, grille and heart. When I arrived Sam was working on the headlight frames using my headlights and rims to fit. The new repro front guard is good, but as expected it needs a lot of work to fit properly and gap to the bonnet. Lots of finishing...
1750 GTV – June 2011
Sam is back to work on the GTV with gusto. Finished the RH sill panel, B-pillar, and primed the rear guard. Also fixed a couple of low spots on the roof (which I couldn’t even see!). Working on fitment and gapping of the doors. The door hinges are re-bushed, and a few minor bumps smoothed out in both door skins. I brought around the new door handles for trial fitting, and the mirror to pick the correct location. Derek has...
New Bits #14
More small parts shipped from Highwood, OKP, and Alfa-Service. My favourite bits are the Carello number plate lights. Surprised that Alfa-Service sent me two different coloured front sway-bar links, would look kind of odd this way. Will see if they can fix this. Edit: Gabi at Alfa-Service apologised and is sending a matching black sway-bar link free of charge. Much...
1750 GTV – May 2011 #2
Received all the bits and pieces back from the platers. One batch in clear passivated zinc, another batch in black. I’ve spent a couple of hours tonight trying to sort things out and find some key things. As expected, I think I’m missing a couple of bits that have probably fallen out in the tumbler but I’ve gone a bit cross eyed looking so they might be hiding behind themselves in the boxes somewhere. I put...