Hi people
I've been meaning to put some pics up of my love/hate Bellett GT!
Currently it's in the bad books as I've dropped a thrust bearing and the thing now doesn't work, however we have had some happy times together!
I can trace the history of this car back to the early 1980s when Glenn Percy bought the car. Apparently it had been written off and was then wrecked out for parts. Glenn had to replace the front, using a sedan front bar and front panels, grille and lights. This is why mine has the low bumpers like a sedan, rather than the high bumpers from the regular GTs.
He also fitted a new motor as the 1600cc motor had been pilfered. He mated up an Isuzu 117 DOHC EFI G200 motor with a Rodeo Diesel 5-speed gearbox and that got the car going again pretty nicely!
Glenn apparently owned it for about 13 years, after which he sold it to Dean Beasley who took it to Queensland. He drove it a bit then his wife drove it daily for a while. At some stage, it just got retired to the shed and not looked at, until he dragged it out and stuck in on eBay!
I didn't have any competition on the bidding and grabbed it for $5k, which in hindsight is looking pretty good, given that it's a going and relatively rust-free machine!
At some stage the rear guards have been radiused, which breaks my heart... but here's why! At some stage it had a set of Hurricane alloy wheels with some mega-offset!
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Bellett GT when owned by Glenn Percy - 01.jpg [ 13.51 KiB | Viewed 20365 times ]
Later it was fitted with hotwires, but they lacked dish.... and therefore they lacked awesomeness.
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Bellett GT when owned by Glenn Percy - 02.jpg [ 10.01 KiB | Viewed 20365 times ]
Intiailly I cruised it around on a permit when I was able to. I took it to a couple of Gemini cruises and also did the Bay to Birdwood in it. The Prince Skyline hubcaps don't look too bad, yeah?
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Isuzu Bellett GT - 01.JPG [ 130.67 KiB | Viewed 20378 times ]
To get it through the rego department here, I put my regular Bellett steelies that I use on my white sedan on there. They looked pretty good too.
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Also, while we were organising rego on it, we took it to Mallala for some club sprinting. We only took it twice, as the rear end is as spooky as they come on these Belletts (my ratter handles so well just from having an extra leaf...) and the damned thing tried to kill me... twice! No wonder Bill Tuckey hates them.
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The astute will notice in this action shot that the left rear wheel is different. This is because I did this:
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Bellett GT with busted mag.JPG [ 152.24 KiB | Viewed 20369 times ]
Although my wife did this:
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Bellett at Mallala - 09 - 19 June 2005.jpg [ 20.73 KiB | Viewed 20358 times ]
It's got a few blemishes, radiused guards, handles poorly, complains farts and stutters when idling with crook sensors and makes old ladies shake their fists when I go past their houses at full revs in second gear.
But it does scrub up ok when you need it to!
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It will need a birthday soon... I've got some plans for it. I don't pretend that they will come together as fast as Alistair's little project though!!!!
Cheers,
Dave
Better than flipp'n it though. You should tell me (over an ale) how you managed to bend that "wirey".
The special functions shot got me thinking. We could do goup tours then split the doe. Get 2ldohc into it as well ) I can see them all ribboned up 
Likewise, the olds in the street always stop and stare when I chow down on the accelarator. But you can't denie someone the pleasure of low flying a biplane like that. Oh, and maybe they were never meant to idol 
opposite!