Windsheild frame
Now Playing: still watching 2012
Topic: body work

Okay, so the windshield frame needs some work. I have three total, one of which is the original. Unfortunately the original is one of the worst. I took the better of the three to refurbish.

www.angelfire.com/ex2/gt6er/spittogt6conversion11.html

Both lower corners need to have metal cut out and replaced, as you will see in the pictures. Shapiing the curve was the most challenging, but I was able to do so. You will notice that I did not cut the hole out. This is a provision for a support rod. Because the GT6 is a coup it has strength throught the top and the windsheild gets its extra support that way. This hole is not needed for this application, so I elected not to re-cut it, mainly because I did not want to bother with cutting it out, but mostly because its an opening for moisture and therefore rust.

 I have the passenger side completed, complete with new rain channel.

The driver's side is currenlty just tack welded together and I still need to bend the rain channel.

Enjoy the pics and the progress.

Update and new info
Now Playing: the movie 2012
Topic: body work

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

Topic: body work
Not really a lot to report since my last post.
I Purchased some Por 15 and have been prepping and coating parts to my a-pillars.

I also painted my wiper motor gloss black. Looks much better.