isabell

[gt orphanage]

isabell was painted today and if all goes well bound for coona.Most will remember this car from ebay north qld car.It bellongs to isabella grand tourer.It resides at my place Geoff can fill you in on details/questions.In the back ground you will see ol yella this is the last one to be done this one was a family member that left and returned and waits patiently.

[RobSA]

Very nice a job well done.

Cheers
Rob

[rod]

should look pretty smick when finnished , cheers rod tassie

[BELLQLD]

hi greg could you make my little car look like that ........answer .....yes ..whats your bank details .....yet another successful restore well done kilkoy regards davo

[GerryBellettGT]

Love the colour,what motor going in,wish I could bank roll the pink one,will have to wait for lucky lotto numbers to come out or other half is,nt looking,better to see on big screen than your phone Geoff, Good luck Gerry

[PR95]

Hi Gerry,It has 1800 twin cam fitted and Greg sorting out fuel injection.Colour not true to screen, it is called Breeze and is a Ford colour mainly on XR8 and GT, it is more a teal colour but shows up blue in photos. We started to reassemble today.

[Farmer]

Looking very very nice, and should get up nicely with the twincam. I think the last photo I saw had the exhaust system on the roof! Still a few months to go for Coona. So many new cars to swoon over! It's gunna be good - all you (we) southerners are gunna hafta make the drive - it'll be a Bellettfest!
Great work!
Cheers, Matt.

[PR95]

Hey Matt you havnt got any of those photos with the exhaust on the roof have you??
Geoff

[Farmer]

I usually do save that sort of stuff, but no, I can't find it anywhere. I just looked through heaps of others that I've clicked 'save' on, but it wasn't there.
Sorry, Matt.

[PR95]

Thanks Matt, I think I have asked that question before, I did not not take any photos of it before I started the resto, and have contacted the previous owner,who was going to send some photos that he had but I havn't received them. so will have to rely on my memory.(which is getting very short these days).hope to post some more pics today and we are on track for coona.

[PR91]

was this the rolystone GT from 18 or so months back?
i think i've got the 'save as' pics here.... somewhere if it is.

[PR95]

Sure is, would be greatful if you could post a copy of it here.
Thanks Geoff.

[gt orphanage]

progress update
body wiring is almost done
doner car found for efi

[degruch]

A yellow one in the background!?! How many do you have up there?

The car's looking great...so this was the eBay car with the snorkel?

Cheers,
Duane

[gt orphanage]

The yellow one was a ex new guinea rally car.It became a member of our family in the seventies it was sold to a bloke in north qld when my sister was born.We tried to buy it back for years after but the owner would not part with it.We got a phone call one day to say it was written off and do we want the wreck.It is a rust free body that had been hit in the rear.We have repaired the damage and when we finish the 2 gt's {isabell/patches} it will be stipped and primed.It will stay yellow with a gtr theme.
[might stamp a W in the body no ]

As for how many we have? A few. We have been collecting them for a while. Lets just say the kids get one each when we die.

Yes isabell is the north qld car with the snorkle.

These cars have become a family obsession as my perents still hold a strong interest as isabell is there car as well as others. I inherited the disease from them.We think it can be transmitted between partners also, as Liz my partner sold her project car{2dr ford escort}to find a wasp and restore it Walter.Liz could have had a gt but she preferd a wasp.As for our siblings they also show interest in them.

[degruch]

Ah yes, how could I forget patches...that's an awesome project. I haven't seen so much metalwork since a guy in German sent me pictures of his systematic fabrication and replacement of an entire DB-Panhard chassis!

Cool. You know, there probably hasn't been this many GT's under restoration at one time in the history of the model, and they're almost all in one shed! Almost enough to justify a run of reproduction GT hubcaps, surely?

You could do with Davo's Sydney GT in the shed too...you look like you're running out of work to do.

Too bad my Bond isn't travelling so fast.

Keep up the great work...looking forward to the next pics.

Cheers,
Duane

[gt orphanage]

We have a ring in also as belqld has his sedan here also.We have to do the tower rust its not bad but we still have to pull the motor.

[gt orphanage]

Injection is almost complete. I got it running today still need to clean a few things up ie tidy some wires run a air cleaner ect.The injection is out of a nissan pulsar 90 model and at this stage it still thinks it is a pulsar until it gets remaped if necessary.
Photos show it almost complete. I did not get time to clean the engine bay before the photo so they are a little dusty in the engine bay.

[BELLQLD]

its pretty damn obvious you guys are thru and thru belletters all you do is a credit to you and i know that an email or phone call and you will help and advise anyone keep up the good comradship in our small but growing hobby ....come life ...regards davo ..oh by the way the black sydney gt is now in qld with a new owner i will leave it up to him to advise you ..its a project but he can do it i have seen his work

[dave]

How nice is that car? I'm liking the colour coded engine bay accessories. Radness in extremeness.