Okay, so by now you have hopefully read the bits on my website stating that I have gone from continuing the full restoration on the GT6 as it was in my last post (yeah yeah, sorry for not updating more often, any of you out there following. I'll try and do better.)

The thing is, I realized a number of things. First of all, my own workmanship when I started the process was not the great, due to lack of experience and a poor welder-I didn't know how to weld very much anyway.

I tried to build a few critical body components, and there again, due to my lack of experience I think I failed in the attempt. I could not get the door to fit right, and the more I worked at it, worse it got. At one point I had it straigt, but when I started working on the drivers side it went screwy again. Additionally, more parts were rusty than I could get, and removing the rust would leave the metal too pitted and thin. Although my skills have improved in the past year, I am still unable to fabricate complex pieces.

That said I bought a spitfire for parts I thought I could salvage critical body parts from but as it turns out the body was in such excellent shape I decided to strip the convertible bits from it and use the base car. I then removed the top from the GT6 and transfered it over to the spitfire body. Everything now is just making sure the top fits squarely with the body. Gas tank mounts and trunk floor mounting brackets needed to be build and installed. The dash and instrument panel also needed to be removed from both cars and the GT6 on installed.

You can follow all of my progess on my main build website. https://www.angelfire.com/ex2/gt6er