Gilbern GT 1800 (1963)

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flying dragon

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Stripped and repainted, replaced where needed

flying dragon

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All repainted, new negative camber arms, as fitting a slightly stronger ARB to match.
Just waiting on new replacement Shocks

flying dragon

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Stainless backing plates. Covered until fitment to car

flying dragon

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flying dragon

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elanfan said:
Are you OK fabricating fibreglass stuff or have your own contact? If not I know someone who can probably help. He makes Lotus body shells.

Edited by elanfan on Sunday 7th November 11:06
Hi there, never worked on fibreglass myself, I’ll have a go at small areas inside the car that need work that cannot be seen, but the fella who will be sorting out the chassis will be hopefully repairing the front end, I can see it probably having a new front nose section, as it’s in quite poor condition really.

flying dragon

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Recent find, collected a 3 bearing overdrive box for the car, washed it through, teeth look ok, from what I can see, so scrubbed the outside of it today, gave it a nice coat of paint too.

flying dragon

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flying dragon

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Came up well.

Nick_MSM

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Wednesday 9th February 2022
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Fun project, like the look of these.

TX GT

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Wednesday 23rd February 2022
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Great project! Keep up the good work - and the reports 👍

MKII Invader is on my ‘list’… one day.

flying dragon

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Hi all. Winter now been and gone, so work starts back up the garage.
The car is off to have the chassis work done next Sunday, body’s coming off to get at it all correctly.

I collected the rear back plates on Friday, so making a start in rebuilding those, sadly one of the wheel cylinders is wrong Iv been given, so has to be returned.
Iv also fitted new front suspension shocks, so front end is temporary “done” but all has to be taken off anyway, but for now the car usable too roll.

More pics will follow soon

Keep it stiff

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Thursday 2nd June 2022
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My GT from collection as a pile of bits in Sept 2019 to racing 12 months later. These pictures from Mallory Park a few weeks ago.












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