Restoring my 1988 R4 GTL in BiH

[John Doe]

I am well into restoration of my 1988 slovenian made GTL but I haven't been talking about it on this forum. I think it is time to let you know what have I been doing for the past few months. I do hope I am not exaggerating when I say restoration. So here we go...

This is what I started with, the car was in bad shape, rotten all over, the chain snapped so the engine was not working etc.

 

[John Doe]

Tin worm got it really good:

 

[John Doe]

The engine is out and the body is being separated from the chassis...

 

[John Doe]

My spare R4... the body of this car will be used for the project. The chassis is rusted in all the usual places.

 

[John Doe]

More photos of the chassis...

 

[reggie]

Mmm, not too bad really :eek:

 

[John Doe]

It is not that easy to get parts over here, it took me over a year to plan, find and transport everything. I've got parts all over the Europe, franzose.de, melun-retro-passion.com, from our forum member petak etc.

These are brand new chassis parts made by petak, after I got them I've send to be galvanized and this is what they look like.

 

[John Doe]

Brand new floor from France... and some chassis parts from Germany. Not to happy with those sills, at the end I haven't used them. Found one NOS and the other was OK. All the wings and bumpers are new.

 

[John Doe]

In the last photo you can see the floor from 3 pieces, didn't use it because I got a floor in one piece from France.

 

[John Doe]

This is what happend to the engine... We got it out and started to work on it.

 

[John Doe]

More photos and new parts for the engine. The head and the block were machined.

 

[John Doe]

All the parts and the car are of to the car body shop

 

[John Doe]

Chassis with the new parts.

 

[John Doe]

The rust and the old paint has been sand blasted. Then it was painted with wash primer.

 

[allez-y]

Yet another excellent work and the story in progress. Go ahead and if you are missing some parts just ask your neighbor, maybe we can help

 

[Snoopy1974]

Waouhh, awesome job, the work on the chassis is superb

 

[John Doe]

Thank you It will not be detailed as your but I will do my best.

 

[John Doe]

The chassis is sealed and the work on the spare body has started...

 

[John Doe]

Suspension parts sand blasted and with the new outer mountings.

 

[John Doe]

The right door sill is new, the left one was sand blasted and it was ok.