Our very own "barn find"...

[Evan Bottcher]

Pretty much destroyed the 'budget' for the first half of this year, but I've got the bulk of the non-mechanical parts now.  Time to collect the engine from where it's been resting for 10+ years and strip it down.

[Evan Bottcher]

I put an update on my website with some graphic photos of rusty sills...

http://alfa.bottch.com/2011/02/1750-gtv-%E2%80%93-february-2011-3/

[Evan Bottcher]

I renewed a part for the GTV.  In other news, sand blasters are awesome.  A chocolate fish to the first person to identify the part.

[Evan Bottcher]

Where the heck do all these go?  I think they are a rough approximation of the correct stickers, probably some only on US delivered cars.  The bottom right white sticker I think is a 'running in guide' that would have been on the windscreen.  The paint code sticker looks v. nice.

[branko.gt]

I renewed a part for the GTV.  In other news, sand blasters are awesome.  A chocolate fish to the first person to identify the part.

a chocolate fish ?!?!?!
you should find something harder, that is a rego light bracket that sits inside a read bumper bar.

[Barry Edmunds]

Bracket that holds the number plate lights and is attached to the body, just below the bumper bar.
Now can I claim the chocolate fish?
Barry

[Evan Bottcher]

Nope. Branko beat you by 10 hours.   

It bolts to the rear bumper.

[Evan Bottcher]

LH inner sills and A/B pillar bottoms are now looking pretty good.

http://alfa.bottch.com/2011/02/1750-gtv-february-2011-5/

[cjheath]

Getting there! I dropped in to see Sam's work on your car a week ago, and to show him the finished result of his early work in repairing my car.

[Evan Bottcher]

Nice ad.  You wouldn't see a car ad these days depicting so much body roll...

[Evan Bottcher]

Getting there! I dropped in to see Sam's work on your car a week ago, and to show him the finished result of his early work in repairing my car.

Cheers Clifford.  I noted from this post on alfabb that our cars were only 101 numbers apart.

[Evan Bottcher]

Not a lot of action at the moment, Sam is busy working on a mobile home (!) so no action this week on the body repairs.  I blasted and painted the trunnion arm, and it's put aside ready for new bushes and reassembly.  It's satisfyingly clean.  I'm now looking forward to getting the rest of the suspension and steering gear off the car and cleaning and painting it.

I also received a NOS number plate mount.  Why did I buy that?  This stuff is addictive.

[cjheath]

I also received a NOS number plate mount.  Why did I buy that?

I can't easily answer that, nor why I put up with one on my car for years. They're damn ugly on cars with Australian number plates - more the correct size for those huge UK plates. In fact I wonder how many Australian-delivered cars even had them? Anyhow, I finally ditched it, and bent a small aluminium bracket to refit it, just two bolts to the body and two to the bottom of the plate. Nothing more is needed.

[pep105]

Mine had one as well it was black with the Alfa Romeo script, should've got the panel beater to weld up the four holes in rear panel so I could fit a small bracket as it cleans up the rear end a bit.

[Evan Bottcher]

Visited Sam's workshop, and he's finished repairing the right-hand inner sills and A and B pillars.  The B-pillar repair section from Classic Alfa looks very good.