I will be following this project with a great interest Peter. That windshield frame repair is really complicated and will be happy to learn from you how to approach that area. Thanks for the mention and again, I am really happy you are back on RUclips.
First steps of an interesting journey! You mention the windscreen frame of the GT6, TR6 and TR5 are the same, I'm sure they share the same glass, as well. In fact, I know the TR6, TR5, TR250 TR4A and TR4 all use the same glass and frame. I've long suspected the Spitfire and GT6 use the same glass and somewhat modified versions of the same frame. Likely the Italia did too. Judging from the images of your beautifully restored Vitesse, I wouldn't be surprised if it and some other Triumph models used the same or similar as well. Triumph liked to use off the shelf parts to help keep costs down! (We don''t see many Vitesse here in the US, unfortunately.) It is wonderful that so many of the body panels and other bits are still available for these 50 and 60 year old cars! But it also is very satisfying when original panels and parts can be properly repaired and continue to serve well.
All the triumph cars with removable windscreen frames had the same frame and glass. the other cars with welded windscreen frames were different again and varied.
This video has inspired me to start the resto of mk2 that’s been sitting in my garage for 2 years! I will be following with great interest, as I’m a total novice, but want to do as much as possible myself. Keep up the good work!!
Hi Peter . I've just noticed you only have 881 viewers ........ridiculous !!! I really so look forward to seeing your skills , something we both share . This definitely isn't the one we saw 2 video's ago !!!! But l do remember seeing you repair a lot of poor previous accident repairs on a GT6 . Is this that car ? Thanks Peter .
Wow, I had NO idea that GT's ever had a 'soft-top-ish' retractable roof option, NEVER saw or heard of such a thing here in the States!!! I bought a 1970 GT-6+ very much like this one back in 1979 and had it until about 1982 when my younger brother begged me to sell it to him, which I did. Sadly a few years later he was stopped at a traffic light with a pickup truck in front of him when a woman with her 2 bratty kids fighting in the car distracted her and she rear-ended him and totaled both his GT and her Pontiac Sunbird! Amazingly all 4 occupants survived with relatively minor injuries (although if I had been the father of those 2 boys I would have beat them both half to death afterwards and any further trips in the car would have required them both be in straight-jacketed and gagged from then on!) My brother saw the hit coming in his rearview but had no escape, just time to put his face forward to the wheel and wrap his arms around it. The poor GT's front smashed underneath the pickup and the floor pan and frame buckled upwards in the middle right under the seats and both doors blew open on impact! He was lucky to live, let-alone just scraped, cut and bruised and with no serious injuries! If you think my potential treatment of the 2 guilty boys was a bit 'excessive' then hear 'the rest of the story' as the late Paul Harvey very famously used to say. This same woman driver admitted to my brother afterwards while waiting for the Emergency Responders that she had totaled her husband's fairly new Corvette the week before, the cause of which was exactly the same! Maybe justification for humane euthanization should be extended beyond limitation to animals... My brother kept the remains of that GT ever since in the hopes of one day using bits of it to restore another, he thought that much of it, and so did I. Recently he has found and bought two more similar GT-6's basketcases and is slowly taking all the best bits of the 3 plus a lot of new restoration parts and creating a new one from the floor pan/frame-up. I told him he should name the new car 'Fawkes' when it's done (the name of Prof. Dumbledore's Phoenix from the Harry Potter series), as this 'rebirth' is closing in on 40 years to come to fruition! I have probably owned 60 or more vintage cars in my lifetime since I got my Driver's License in 1976, but to this day that GT-6's VIN# is the only car that I have never forgotten. I found and still have her original Owner's Manual too, Mark can have that when I get my next long-awaited ride...
This project with the Valencia Blue and the work area down the side of the house reminds me of a video series from an old guy (who did a Vitesse also) a couple of years ago but I can't remember his name....
Yes, that was me, I had another channel under the name of Jademuttley which I had to delete because some arsehole hacked it, and started messing about with my videos and other things.
I will be following this project with a great interest Peter. That windshield frame repair is really complicated and will be happy to learn from you how to approach that area. Thanks for the mention and again, I am really happy you are back on RUclips.
It’s not as complicated as you might think Elin, you will be surprised when you see how easy it is.
Peter, thanks for taking the trouble to reload these videos. They are a mine of great info.
you're very welcome
First steps of an interesting journey!
You mention the windscreen frame of the GT6, TR6 and TR5 are the same, I'm sure they share the same glass, as well. In fact, I know the TR6, TR5, TR250 TR4A and TR4 all use the same glass and frame. I've long suspected the Spitfire and GT6 use the same glass and somewhat modified versions of the same frame. Likely the Italia did too.
Judging from the images of your beautifully restored Vitesse, I wouldn't be surprised if it and some other Triumph models used the same or similar as well. Triumph liked to use off the shelf parts to help keep costs down! (We don''t see many Vitesse here in the US, unfortunately.)
It is wonderful that so many of the body panels and other bits are still available for these 50 and 60 year old cars! But it also is very satisfying when original panels and parts can be properly repaired and continue to serve well.
All the triumph cars with removable windscreen frames had the same frame and glass. the other cars with welded windscreen frames were different again and varied.
big thank you, on re uploading this gt6 restoration.
No problem Enjoy it
Very excited to see you take on another Gt6! Especially looking forward to the boot pan repair/replacement.
Coming soon!
This video has inspired me to start the resto of mk2 that’s been sitting in my garage for 2 years! I will be following with great interest, as I’m a total novice, but want to do as much as possible myself.
Keep up the good work!!
Go for it!
Hi Peter excellent walkround on your gt6. I'm doing a ml 3 and the roof was gone as you said. Looking forward to the next installment
Thanks
Thanks, you too!
Like seeing old bits of kit being given another go!. Nice one. Nuff said.🙂
Glad you enjoyed it
@@peterdunne8107 Love restoration clips like this. My brain knows what needs to be done, but! sadly my hands are useless at skilled work!. 🤣
Hi Peter, I’m so happy i stumbled across this video, liked & subscribed. Really looking forward to seeing you progress with this project.
Welcome aboard! Thanks for subbing
Looking forward to more videos from you.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks More to come!
Hi Peter . I've just noticed you only have 881 viewers ........ridiculous !!! I really so look forward to seeing your skills , something we both share . This definitely isn't the one we saw 2 video's ago !!!! But l do remember seeing you repair a lot of poor previous accident repairs on a GT6 . Is this that car ? Thanks Peter .
Yes, it is the one from about four or five years ago. Lots of people have been asking me to re-upload it so here we go again.
You have your work cut out there Peter , looking forward to the next video
Thanks More to come!
Wow, I had NO idea that GT's ever had a 'soft-top-ish' retractable roof option, NEVER saw or heard of such a thing here in the States!!!
I bought a 1970 GT-6+ very much like this one back in 1979 and had it until about 1982 when my younger brother begged me to sell it to him, which I did. Sadly a few years later he was stopped at a traffic light with a pickup truck in front of him when a woman with her 2 bratty kids fighting in the car distracted her and she rear-ended him and totaled both his GT and her Pontiac Sunbird! Amazingly all 4 occupants survived with relatively minor injuries (although if I had been the father of those 2 boys I would have beat them both half to death afterwards and any further trips in the car would have required them both be in straight-jacketed and gagged from then on!) My brother saw the hit coming in his rearview but had no escape, just time to put his face forward to the wheel and wrap his arms around it. The poor GT's front smashed underneath the pickup and the floor pan and frame buckled upwards in the middle right under the seats and both doors blew open on impact! He was lucky to live, let-alone just scraped, cut and bruised and with no serious injuries!
If you think my potential treatment of the 2 guilty boys was a bit 'excessive' then hear 'the rest of the story' as the late Paul Harvey very famously used to say. This same woman driver admitted to my brother afterwards while waiting for the Emergency Responders that she had totaled her husband's fairly new Corvette the week before, the cause of which was exactly the same! Maybe justification for humane euthanization should be extended beyond limitation to animals...
My brother kept the remains of that GT ever since in the hopes of one day using bits of it to restore another, he thought that much of it, and so did I. Recently he has found and bought two more similar GT-6's basketcases and is slowly taking all the best bits of the 3 plus a lot of new restoration parts and creating a new one from the floor pan/frame-up.
I told him he should name the new car 'Fawkes' when it's done (the name of Prof. Dumbledore's Phoenix from the Harry Potter series), as this 'rebirth' is closing in on 40 years to come to fruition!
I have probably owned 60 or more vintage cars in my lifetime since I got my Driver's License in 1976, but to this day that GT-6's VIN# is the only car that I have never forgotten.
I found and still have her original Owner's Manual too, Mark can have that when I get my next long-awaited ride...
Many of the GT sixes had a sunroof and rear seats. They were not as standard. They were optional extras.
This project with the Valencia Blue and the work area down the side of the house reminds me of a video series from an old guy (who did a Vitesse also) a couple of years ago but I can't remember his name....
Yes, that was me, I had another channel under the name of Jademuttley which I had to delete because some arsehole hacked it, and started messing about with my videos and other things.
Very interesting, mine is ina much worse state
Oh, I do have some others, just a bit worse than this look
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