Greengo GTX

yabadaba · Post by **yabadaba** » Sun Jan 10, 16 8:03 pm

Hi Folks
Getting there slowly and surely, 17 years and counting...
Yabacca, old and tired OUT!!!

steveo · Post by **steveo** » Sun Jan 10, 16 8:16 pm

love the 71 /2 roadrunner / GTX shape

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Sun Jan 10, 16 8:36 pm

.......great colour!

Is this a stock rebuild or are you going restomod?

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Mon Jan 11, 16 1:50 am

Looking forward to seeing some progress & reports on this, Bacca - love a 71 GTX

yabadaba · Post by **yabadaba** » Mon Jan 11, 16 2:26 pm

Thanx for the nice comments guys.

Factory originalish, as its such a rare car, but will hope to run on the track too!
Greengo/Sassy-grass was slightly better option for 1971 than the browny/green metallic she came with.(as per piccy)
Original engine was rebuilt in Canada before she was shipped over.
Budget resto was done in the 80's but body and frame was badly rotted by many years of Canadian-SALT!
Up until recently there were very few body panels made for 71's.
So I had to use alot of Califorinian metal from donor cars.
I think six different cars gave up their metally bits to save one GTX!!!

Hope I can get her done before Shakey closes...
Yabacca

ps air grabber and hemi are long gone...

Elastomeric front bumpers are super-rare!
Totally different to the standard chrome/painted ones.

yabadaba · Post by **yabadaba** » Mon Jan 11, 16 2:40 pm

Maybe this would look better?

yabadaba · Post by **yabadaba** » Mon Jan 11, 16 2:48 pm

Tried to buy this GTX too!
Greengo with Six-Pack!!!

Its really sad what happens to some cars...

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Mon Jan 11, 16 2:52 pm

I really like that yukky green/brown!

yabadaba · Post by **yabadaba** » Mon Jan 11, 16 3:05 pm

Hi Twins, I bet you like this green too lol!!!

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Mon Jan 11, 16 6:13 pm

RobTwin wrote:I really like that yukky green/brown!

Too right, that looks cool in that colour and something a little different.

RobTwin · Post by **RobTwin** » Tue Jan 12, 16 1:42 am

yabadaba wrote:Hi Twins, I bet you like this green too lol!!!

Nowt wrong with the colour but...... raised white letters

How very dare you!!

Dom66 · Post by **Dom66** » Tue Jan 12, 16 9:41 am

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Jan 12, 16 9:54 am

Bryan wrote:
RobTwin wrote:I really like that yukky green/brown!
Too right, that looks cool in that colour and something a little different.

GY9 Dark gold mettalic, my Dart was originally that colour, I like it a lot.

Raised white letter tyres have come full circle they are retro cool these days.

yabadaba · Post by **yabadaba** » Tue Jan 12, 16 10:40 am

Hi Folks,

The more I look at the GY9 cars, the more I think mmmaybe I'm liking it too now!
My good friend Leon had the exact same Gtx as mine in LA.
It was a massive feature car in the 90's-00's...
Then another LA friend got an original Grengo Gtx and my mind was swayed!

My Gtx was Yellow when I got her and Black before that, with many many layers of paint and bad-repairs.( Thats how it was done in the 80's I suppose)?
She was a true Basket-Case and was destined for the great scrap-pile of Canadian TIN!
After several crazy repair and repaint prices for the resto I decided to rent a Unit and do it all myself.
That meant no metallic diy repaint, so it was a solid colour only.
So just before the Two pack AIRDRY paints were Outlawed I went and bought 5 litres of Lechler super smelly TOXIC Greengo.
Its a custom mix and not Kawasaki green as most peeps think.
What its cost in rent and time and grief, I should have given the Gtx to JC!
I think it would have worked out cheaper LOL...

Its only paint and it can be done again, just not by me...

Yabs

yabadaba · Post by **yabadaba** » Tue Jan 12, 16 10:52 am

Nice RIMS!!!