Very early 1985 GT Pro Performer resto

[Swivel]

Afternoon lads. Had Rarman (rob) pop over yesterday for a chat and he had a look at this f/f of mine. Picked it up before Xmas off ebay for £175. The guy said it needed rechroming but once i'd seen it, I wasn't convinced it did. Yesterday I done the meter length of kitchen foil (not the shiny side) scrunched into a ball and a small glass of coke again. Once the decals were removed with a hair-dryer and wd40, I went to work on it. You may have seen the Haro Bars I did recently and those came up like new, and this GT has come up really well also. The chrome I'd say is 9/10, nearly perfect, certainly not worth a rechrome. After lots of rubbing and brasso wading cloth and autosol, its come up really well. I intend to build this and take it to MK this year. The blue headset will be sent off and anodised again soon and i've got a couple of bits coming from the states to complete it...

Now i'm after a new Decal set and also plastic hubbed Blue skyways. Everything else I have thanks to a few of you on here. Can't wait until its done!!! What do you reckon?

Matt 

[Flatcap]

Awesome fooking job dude.....and with all my knowledge of detailing cars and rebuilding them I didn't know about the foil and coke thing 

I'll remember that one.

Daz. 

[thebigdog]

those bars i have are made for that dude

[munners]

Stunning mate. Thats gonna be my last build when i eventually get one.  

I just dont understand GT's. I thought the early ones had 3 holes in the rear drop outs?

[Swivel]

Nick hi mate, yes this is EXACTLY what Rob said also, he was also confused about this too. It was made March 85 from the serial, but he reckons GT had bits made prior to this and then it was only welded up in March. Strange? Rob reckons it should have 3 holes due to the date and not 4 and also the way it curves near the seat tube post is early 84 and not 85. Quite unique I reckon and Rob thinks this also... 

Big Dog, can't wait to have those bars off ya mate, they will go superb on this... 

[fLA]

NICE!!!!
very nice job indeed...
I have myself also a chrome GT PP 1985. 

let us know.. the work in progress on that resto.

best regards,
fLAVIO 

[munners]

Great find mate. Thats what i need.

[QUADROPHENIA]

is the serial number on the rear drop out or on the bottom of the bb, also what is the serial number, nice clean up by the way

[Swivel]

Hi mate,

Serial is on the rear dropout and is 3850428, Rob said that relates to March 85.

 

is the serial number on the rear drop out or on the bottom of the bb, also what is the serial number, nice clean up by the way