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I enjoyed reading your story and the "adventures" you have experienced with the car so soon after purchase. No doubt, there will be more to come.

Those first days are ones you can/will not forget.
All the best for your plans with the car.

Nice looking car, please post some more photos when you have the time.

I think where Rob is coming from (Hi Rob) may be not to modify it in any serious way if it is in mostly stock condition. Here's and example:

Great posts, Bubba and Neil.

Happy New Year to all.
Steve

That is a very nice looking example.

Nice find.

Just curious, but where is the outlet from the oil catch can plumbed to?

I marvel about how you guys can just find/locate 'abandoned' 1st gen GT's like these.
Opportunities like this just are simply not possible here.
Man, I'm jealous!

All the best with the restore, certainly looks like you have a great base to start from.

Steve

Thank you Neil. I called in to the workshop today. Good progress being made given that the new restoration shop wanted to block the whole car, just to make sure that previous repairs done weren't hiding anything. Nothing major discovered, thankfully. The lower sills were being removed and I'm glad I...

Hey Steve, welcome to the forum! Glad you made it!! :cheers: Thank you Fred. I tried to find you in the Members list but I see you use a different sign-in name. I've had a quick look around the posts and came across one where a member removed the console, and dash wood-grain and did a black finish....

Hello all, I'm Steve and my first car (back in '74) was a second-hand LT '72 flat light TA22. Here, the ST and GT were special orders, or private imports. It was painted Scandanavian Sky and had a full Ivory colour vinyl roof. I was a little confused by this later as it seems the Scanda colour was o...