Re: Cox GTM chassis no: 20 Rebuild.
Wow, people have great memories.
I did and still do have another profile, (I hate that word) Burtythepilot, on GTMDrivers, but I thought I would start a fresh, as that was a long time ago. I do have another red GTM on the rebuild, I'll be rebuilding them together.
I would have replied individually, if I knew how to. So be patient while I learn.
AndyB72 wrote:
Fantastic to see another early one on the forum, please post plenty of photos!!
You can follow my restoration under 'Just bought 60s Cox GTM project NDB414G'.
Andy, your GTM is looking great and how I would hope this one will be.
grizzler73 wrote:
Nice! Looks fairly unmolested so should be straight forward to restore
Whats the history?
Mr Grizzler, it is unmolested, but very rotten. Behind the back of the doors is honesly mostly dust. We are talking serious rot and weakened chassis. But its been rebuilt before. Now has 146,000 miles on the clock. I dug out the history once and will find it again and copy and paste.
turbocox wrote:
Hey ”burtythepilot”
Where did you go? Did you ever finish the red coupe rebuild?
Anyway welcome back!
I’m looking forward to see how you get on with your dad’s old car
Mr Turbocox, yep this is my Dad's car. I'll post on my other one then as I've just picked back up the project. I've been abroad for 4 years.
As for now, we are just tearing it apart to get the tub blasted. The doors and windows are off or out, the fibre glass body has been taken off for the first time in 52 years but revealed some horrors. It wasn't that well built in the first place. Front subframe is off and working on the back. Gear linkages and engine plumbing slow that process down as do getting to the rear subframe bolts.
There is a lot of work to put the tub right. Blasting it won't leave a lot...