1750 GTV – How will this go back together?
Dec20

1750 GTV – How will this go back together?

Time passes.  May 2007.  A flurry of activity carefully stripping, labelling, bagging and taking photos of the...

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1750 GTV – Starting to strip it down
Dec20

1750 GTV – Starting to strip it down

December 2006 – post-Christmas.  Started to pull bits off the car.  I keep getting distracted by other projects though, so progress kinda stalled for a while...

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Collecting the ‘barn find’

In November 2006, we collected the 1750 from the farm.  Under a good tarp and on a very dry farm during a drought, it looked pretty much exactly as it was left.  It was guarded by a nasty brown...

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Introducing the 1750 GTV
Dec20

Introducing the 1750 GTV

In 1999 Fiona and I bought a 1969 1750 GTV.  We’d always had a fascination with the 1750 coupes, and weakened when this one came up in Unique Cars.  We knew the car had a little rust in the sills and the boot lid and we’d give her a tidy up before driving her properly.  We did do one great weekend away down the Mornington Peninsula – what a fabulous car for touring.  We started to strip the car a bit in 1999, with...

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