Look What I Got------>

[Old_Skool71]

Damn i'm happy today, many moons ago, sometime around 1991, when i was very very skint i sold my 87 GT Pro Performer to my mate for £40, he intended to fix it up but never ever got around to it and it's been lying in his parents shed for 17 years, i always regretted selling it and after seeing all the cool bike restorations on here i asked him if i could buy it back, as he will never find time to restore it he agreed to sell it back to me for the same price as i sold it....so today i got my baby back, it's gonna take a whole lot of work and money to get it back looking like new and i'm not even sure where to start, but it's gonna be my labour of love over the next 6 months or so, i'm just soooo delighted to have it back







Maybe someone around here could point me in the direction of somewhere i could get replacement decals, and does anyone know what colour that is...and please don't say Green.....

[Rombloke]

sbd has that colour, he did sombody elses on here......decals...del on here.....

Dave

[etriedes]

Rusty Green  

Speak to del about the decals  

[macky]

Cannot wait to see this when it's restored!!

I loved the GT pro tour's... i snapped the front end clean off mine in 91!! 


look great in chrome.... 

[CD17]

Nice one must be great to get your old bike back 

Look forward to seeing it finished 

[Mattdub]

The history is cool , getting your old bike back  .

Love to see it when done .

[MartyC]

The history is cool , getting your old bike back  .

Love to see it when done .

Just what I was thinking, nice for you to get it back 

[PHIPPSIO]

Great story, great bike.....look forward to seeing that in a few months time

[Swivel]

Couldn't agree more, be great to see it done mate and nice one on getting it back! 

The history is cool , getting your old bike back  .

Love to see it when done .

[Mattdub]

Do you ( or your parents ? ) have any original photos of it from bitd ? .

[Bananaman]

Not many of us have our original bikes so do it justice as am sure you will

GT's are the way forward

[Old_Skool71]

Funny you should ask that, i was at my mums yesterday and asked her if she had anymore old bmx photos, the only ones i have are of my Firebird Freestyler and Haro Sport, she has no idea if she has any but plans to sort through all her photos sometime this year, at the moment they are all boxed up after my folks moved house.
Unfortunately i was never big on taking photos bitd and as far as i can remember there was only one set of photos that had the GT in them and i'm pretty sure they got ruined by damp as they lay in my parents garage for a couple of years, i remember finding them all stuck together but can't remember if i managed to save any 

[Old_Skool71]

Not many of us have our original bikes so do it justice as am sure you will

GT's are the way forward

I'll certainly try, it should actually end up being a much better bike then it was bitd, it wasn't a factory spec bike and some of the parts i put on it were just the best i could afford at the time or came from my 85 Haro Sport that i had snapped, the wheels were just a basic cheap pair of arayas, i'm pretty sure i still have the original GT stem in the loft somewhere.

[oberonspacefruit]

good story, i dont normally like gt's but that model always ctches my eye, theres a corking pink one in the gallery that ive always thought was shit hot.

[thebigdog]

Very nice. SuperbikeDan painted mine.

[2020mad]

I would love to build it up without a resto first. great survivor (well some of it anyway)