Post by gitrdun on Apr 17, 2012 20:19:25 GMT -5
Finally got the GT-1 ready and got a nice drive in. It was much more comfortable than i thought it would be. Im 6' tall and 205lbs and i was very comfortable for the 30 minute drive. Ran smooth without a single hickup.
I bought this car about 90% finished. It had the old chocolate brown with gold flake paint on it. That had to go. I dont have a lot of $ to put into this project so i went with Rustoleum safety red gloss paint and applied it with a smooth roller. Not a professional paint job but for less than $50 worth of paint / thinner and supplies it looks pretty good IMO. Next problem was the fact that i cant see out the back window at all because of the roll bar. So i installed a wireless camera and small 4" monitor on the console to be used as a rear view mirror. Works great. One gull wing was broken where the swivel mount should be so i had to add some .062 aluminum plates to the top of the door to mount the gull wings. I also cut them down to be half wings which i think looks better and will give some much needed colling to the interior on a hot summer day. I didnt latch them down and was surprised that the air moving over the car while moving actually pushes down on them and holds them down.
I started with the cheap and easy just to get me on the road and plan to get a real paint job done by a real painter and start fixing it up piece by piece somewhere down the road when funds provide.
I bought this car about 90% finished. It had the old chocolate brown with gold flake paint on it. That had to go. I dont have a lot of $ to put into this project so i went with Rustoleum safety red gloss paint and applied it with a smooth roller. Not a professional paint job but for less than $50 worth of paint / thinner and supplies it looks pretty good IMO. Next problem was the fact that i cant see out the back window at all because of the roll bar. So i installed a wireless camera and small 4" monitor on the console to be used as a rear view mirror. Works great. One gull wing was broken where the swivel mount should be so i had to add some .062 aluminum plates to the top of the door to mount the gull wings. I also cut them down to be half wings which i think looks better and will give some much needed colling to the interior on a hot summer day. I didnt latch them down and was surprised that the air moving over the car while moving actually pushes down on them and holds them down.
I started with the cheap and easy just to get me on the road and plan to get a real paint job done by a real painter and start fixing it up piece by piece somewhere down the road when funds provide.
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